Techie with a faible for founding banks | Entrepreneur | Co-Founder/CTO at Unstoppable Finance | ex CTO at Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange | ex Co-Founder/CTO at Solarisbank

Peter Grosskopf is CTO/COO at AllUnity, a joint venture of DWS, Flow Traders and Galaxy Digital that is building an E-Money institute in Germany to issue a MiCAR-compliant EUR-denominated stablecoin in the future to enhance liquidity and efficiency in tokenized markets. He is responsible for technology and for setting up the organization. 

Before, he was co-founder and CTO of Unstoppable Finance GmbH, a Berlin-based company with the mission of bringing decentralized finance applications (DeFi) to the masses. With Iron they planned building the first on-chain bank, which is based on a proprietary blockchain technology called "Iron Chain." Iron Chain addresses the three key issues that regulated companies, in particular, face with public, permissionless blockchains: privacy of account data, compliance, and governance. Previously, Unstoppable developed the self-hosted wallet app Ultimate (https://ultimate.app), which was acquired by the decentralized exchange Jupiter in April 2024. Before that, Peter was CTO and Managing Director of Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange, the first regulated exchange for digital assets (MTF) in Germany. Prior to that, he was CTO and co-founder of Solarisbank, a fullbank with technology platform to enable Fintechs to go to market. Peter has a background in technology and entrepreneurship. In 2008, he founded a software engineering consulting company focused on digitization projects and grew it to 30 employees profitably. In 2014, he moved to Berlin to join the company builder Hitfoxgroup and Finleap as CTO, with a focus on fintech. He has been fascinated by blockchain and decentralization since the end of 2016, and since then, he has pursued the vision of making decentralized banking a reality.

In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Peter is a speaker at various industry events, a member of the Digital Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Finance ("Digital Finance Forum"), a contributor in shaping regulation (Crypto Taxation in Germany, TFR, MiCAR, MiCAR Level 2, AMLR, BCBS Standards) in Germany (via Ministry of Finance, Bitkom, private initiatives) and EU (via Blockchain for Europe), a lecturer at IKF Lucerne on Blockchain Technology (CAS), and was a lecturer for two years at FH Münster, teaching subjects such as web engineering, as well as at the Data Science Summer School at Saarland University. As a supervisory board member of 21x, he supports the development of the first marketplace for digital assets under the European DLT Pilot Regime.

Peter Grosskopf

Backed Finance AG

Head of Legal & AML for leading tokenisation project : focus on EU financial & crypto law (issuance of tokenised securities under EU & Jersey Prospectus law; MiFID2, MiCA, AML/CTF, Swiss DLT Act)), Privacy (GDPR), Corporate & Commercial law 

Lead Managing Counsel for contacts between C-level and internal stakeholders and regulators (e.g. licensing processes)

General Counsel & Head of AML

avroytech

Senior Legal & Compliance Counsel "as a Service" for Tech Startups & Scaleups (Payments / Finance / Crypto / Web3 / AI). 

Services include: strategy consulting, management of license applications and interactions between C-level and regulators, management of EU public policy initiatives and campaigns, collaborations with product teams to build "Compliance by Design", Data Protection Officer (DPO) services etc

Founder & Senior Legal Executive 

Gomson Global

Acting Chief Legal Officer / General Counsel, Compliance & EU Public Affairs Expert for Fintech clients - EU Payments, Financial & Crypto law (PSD2, MiFID2, MiCA, AML/CTF, DeFi/Web3), Privacy (GDPR), Corporate & Commercial, IP, Employment, Consumer law, Litigation

Lead Managing Counsel for contacts between C-level and internal stakeholders and regulators (e.g. licensing processes)

Senior In-House Legal Executive / Consultant in Fintech Space (Payments / Finance / Crypto / Web3)

Blockchain for Europe

Board Member of one of the largest EU blockchain industry associations, involving close contacts with with crypto industry peers and key EU policy-makers on elaboration of position papers, responses to consultations, relevant regulations (MiCA, AML Package, TFR, DeFi etc)

At EU-level, Blockchain for Europe aims to contribute to the debate by supporting European decision-makers in their goal to make Blockchain a success. Blockchain for Europe collaborates with national, regional and global players to support the promotion of and education about blockchain technology.

Blockchain for Europe is also the organiser of the annual Blockchain for Europe Summit in the EU Parliament. The aim is to bring together stakeholders from across Europe and beyond to discuss the future of Blockchain technology across European sectors. Blockchain for Europe invites leaders from the industry, the European Commission and the MEPs to participate in this dialogue.

Board Member

OSOM

Head of Legal / Compliance / EU Public Affairs & Data Protection Officer : focus on EU Payments, Financial & Crypto law (PSD2, MiFID2, MiCA, AML/CTF, DeFi/Web3), Privacy (GDPR), Corporate & Commercial, IP, Employment, Consumer law, Litigation

Lead Managing Counsel for contacts between C-level and internal stakeholders and regulators (e.g. licensing processes)

Chief Legal Counsel

MoneyGram International

In-house Legal Counsel Europe in the payments industry covering the wider European region. Areas of  focus primarily around EU Payments Regulation (PSD2), Anti-Money Laundering & Compliance law (AMLD4, AMLD5, FTR2), Data Protection & Privacy law (GDPR), Anti-Bribery & Corruption law, EU Competition law, Consumer law.

Legal Counsel Europe

White & Case LLP

Associate specialised in EU & competition law. Regularly involved the broad spectrum of general EU internal market law and competition work (antitrust, cartels, abuse of dominance, merger control, IP & licensing, state aid etc). This includes advice on EU ex ante Regulations in relation to several industries (high-tech, pharma, energy, finance), as well as antitrust proceedings and merger notifications at EU and national level. 

He was also seconded at the White & Case Paris and London offices where he worked on EU & competition and white collar crime matters. Other projects relate to the firm's pro bono practice, notably to train competition law authorities in developing countries.

Associate

Van Bael & Bellis, EU & Competition Law Practice

Associate specialised in EU & competition law: antitrust, cartels, abuse of dominance, merger control, state aid, IP & licensing. Focus on a wide range of sectors including energy, aviation, telecoms, ICT, media, automotive, pharmaceutical, and food retail sectors. 

On EU regulatory law front: EU environmental law (REACH, WEEE, ROHS), EU consumer law, EU life sciences, EU data protection

Linklaters LLP, EU & Competition Law Practice, Brussels, Belgium

Trainee lawyer specialised in EU & competition law: antitrust, cartels, abuse of dominance, merger control, EU Regulatory (data protection). Focus on energy, ICT, telecoms, media, pharmaceuticals and food retail sectors.

Trainee Lawyer

European Commission, Cabinet of European Commissioner Michel Barnier, Internal Market and Services

Blue book trainee in the Cabinet of European Commissioner Michel Barnier, in charge of the Internal Market & Services. Firsthand involvement in the EU legislative process and exposure to a wide range of issues related to financial services, including capital requirements, deposit guarantee schemes, derivatives and credit rating agencies. Other portfolio issues relating to IP such as the Digital Single Market, online music licensing, e-commerce, EU Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court.

Trainee

Senior Legal Executive (UK / US qualified) active in the Fintech space (Payments / Finance / Crypto / Web 3 / AI) with over 11 years Post-Qualified Experience working for international law firms and in-house (large multinationals and startups and scale ups).

I am particularly passionate about blockchain technology and its positive use cases across many sectors of the economy likely to be disrupted by these (and other) technological innovations. As a lawyer, these raise many interesting legal questions, and continuously prompt me to get very creative to: (i) respect the spirit of regulations on a day-to-day basis, and / or (ii) help policy-makers and supervisors make sense of such changes during the legislative elaboration stage, and subsequent implementation. 

My areas of focus include the following: EU Payments, Financial & Crypto Regulation (PSD2, MiFID2, MiCA, AML/CTF, TFR), Decentralised Finance ("DeFi"), Web3, Artificial Intelligence (AI Act), Privacy (GDPR), Corporate & Commercial law, IP, Employment law, Consumer law, Litigation

Finally, as Lead Managing Counsel, I routinely manage contacts between the C-level and both internal and external stakeholders (e.g. team members across functions, regulators during licensing processes)

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