The Chairman of the Board of Directors of FINMA talks with Dr Katja Gentinetta about the Swiss Financial Center in a Global Context
Tuesday, 28. June 2022, 18:30 – 20:00 h
From the Studio
More digital, more sustainable, more Asian: these are the three attributes that will shape the banking system in the future, according to FINMA President Marlene Amstad. For the proven finance and Asia expert, new technologies, considerations of sustainability in the financial market and the growing influence of Asian financial markets are also a high priority for the Swiss financial center. What developments are on the horizon?
Professor Marlene Amstad has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of FINMA since 2021, where she has been a member for six years. With a PhD in economics, she is a professor at the University of Bern and a senior fellow at Harvard University specializing in international finance and quantitative economics. Previously, she was a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and co-director of the FinTech Center there, as well as an advisor to Asian central banks at the Bank for International Settlements in Hong Kong. She also headed investment strategy and financial market analysis as Deputy Director of the Swiss National Bank, and worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Credit Suisse, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology's Economic Research Center in Zurich.