Corporate Finance

CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz, Columbia's own R.A. Farrokhnia, and lawyers Gary DeWaal and Lee Schneider tackled the major regulatory questions surrounding cryptocurrencies.

Private Equity funds, specifically their operating partners on the ground, need to  get more engaged on how their portfolio companies’ leaders evaluate the merits and approach to moving to the cloud – both their backbone technologies and the those that create competitive advantage.

Tax experts Mihir Desai, Michael Graetz, and Alex Raskolnikov discuss the likely impact of a new corporate tax rate.

Although advanced technology is key to countering the threat, it is insufficient on its own. Just as important are the building of trust and the sharing of information between regulators and businesses.

Network congestion is driving user paid fees in Bitcoin and other blockchain based systems Adequate network congestion is critical for sustainable long-run operation of the system Simple design modifications to the current Bitcoin protocol such as smaller but more frequent blocks and dynamically adjusting throughput to control congestion would increase the overall efficiency of the system.

The conference will explore emerging issues in global digital finance with a broad range of high-level thought leaders

At corporate gathering, dean shares updates on faculty research, academic initiatives, and the successful capital campaign for the new Manhattanville campus.  

NEW YORK— Columbia Business School’s 6th Annual Digital Finance Summit on June 8 and 9 will provide an opportunity to engage with and hear from over 70 experts in fintech, mobile payments, blockchain, investing, regulation, and startups. Organized by the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), the two-day summit will examine disruptive effects and implementation of mobile payments, digital financial services, and cryptocurrencies in emerging and developed markets. Speakers will include:

The Private Equity Program recently launched a two-part video lecture with Valerie Purdie-Vaughns who came to speak at Deal Camp in 2015 and 2016. Speaking on the subject of diverse teams, and providing an experiential exercise for the students, Professor Purdie-Vaughns shows the academic research and ideas that make diverse teams an important value-proposition for PE Firms. These sessions were sponsored by KKR.

Alfonso Yuchengco '50 served on the School's Board of Overseers for two decades.