The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially announced that a forum on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and digital assets is to be held in Washington DC by its Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (Finhub) at the end of May.

Dubbed the Fintech Forum, the event will welcome industry experts and academics as panelists, and is open to the public. It will revolve around issues related to initial coin offerings (ICOs), cryptocurrency platforms, DLT advancements, and the influence of these technologies on investors and the markets.

The event will be held at SEC’s headquarters in Washington DC on May 31, 2019, with live webcasts made available on the SEC website.

The Fintech Forum is the second of its series – the first took place in Q4 2016. Less than a week earlier, The CryptoSight reported that Finhub will be organizing a series of local peer-to-peer (P2P) meetings aimed at tightening the bond within US crypto and fintech communities beginning later this month on March 26 in San Francisco.

Finhub was created by SEC in October last year to actively engage with market participants on new financial technologies. It also serves as a resource for public engagement on SEC’s fintech-related issues and initiatives.