Roman Goldstein
Klaros Group
Roman Goldstein joined Klaros from the staff of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, where, as Lead Innovation Policy Analyst, he reviewed banks’ plans to engage in novel activities and developed supervisory policy for BaaS, open banking, and crypto. Before that, he served as an associate general counsel for Coinbase, where he advised the cryptocurrency company on compliance with banking and securities laws. In that capacity, he secured regulatory approvals worth $275M in revenue per year, including first-of-their-kind product approvals, and was lead counsel for Coinbase Custody Trust Company. Roman has also been a banking lawyer in private practice with Sullivan & Cromwell and spent twelve years at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, where he was a banking lawyer, a bank examiner specializing in treasury and market risk, and special assistant to the chief counsel. Roman holds a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and a JD from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
All Sessions by Roman Goldstein
Panel: To Stablecoin or Not to Stablecoin: Use Cases and Concerns
Klaros Group Participants: Roman Goldstein, Senior Director, Doug Landy, Partner, Seth Ross, Partner, Sepideh Rowland, Partner, Valerie Song, Senior Director (moderator) After years as a theoretical possibility, stablecoins are looking very real. But the fact that banks are likely to be able to implement them doesn’t mean they should. In this session, leaders from Klaros Group - widely recognized as the premier advisory team for financial innovators and recently featured in Bloomberg as THE team to call about a bank charter - will take you through the why and how of developing a stablecoin program, including how to build a business use case for it and risk management concerns to consider.
