George Schmit, Consul General of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in San Francisco, invites you to Lunch and Learn (food provided) at Capital Factory. He will inform the group about that small EU Member State’s outsized Fintech footprint: Luxembourg’s financial center, recently confirmed as the Number 1 in the Eurozone by the Global Financial Center Index, can itself boast a strong FinTech industry because of the market available in Luxembourg with all the financial players located there, but also because it is a platform in the EU’s single market from where other national markets can easily and efficiently be covered. The Luxembourg financial markets regulator was the first in the EU to take a cryptocurrency-friendly attitude and has recently licensed, again as a first in the EU, a “Blockchain-based financial service provider” with more applications in the pipeline. These licenses carry passport rights throughout the EU-member states. Luxembourg is the second largest investment fund centre in the world after the United States, the premier captive reinsurance market in the European Union and the premier private banking centre in the Eurozone. Space is limited, so please RSVP!