FNA Broadcasts

| Matei Dohotaru, Senior Financial Sector Specialist (World Bank Group) | Julapa Jagtiani, Senior Economic Advisor Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Session #9 of the Suptech Broadcast brought together Matei Dohotaru, Senior Financial Sector Specialist at World Bank Group and Julapa Jagtiani, Senior Economic Advisor and Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Together,...

With: | Sharmyn Powell, Chairperson, Fintech Working Group, East Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) Sharmyn Powell (ECCB) joined session #20 of The CBDC Broadcast to discuss the promise and perils of emerging digital currencies. Drawing upon her deep expertise, Sharmyn shared her perspective on how digital currencies, from rCBDCs to stablecoins and tokenized deposits, are changing the payment ecosystem...

With: | Ramunas Baravykas, Director of Data and Statistics Department, CDC, Bank of Lithuania | Jermy Prenio, Principal Advisor, Financial Stability Institution, Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Technology innovation is rapidly transforming financial supervision. Session #8 of the Suptech Broadcast brought together suptech specialists Jermy Prenio (Bank for International Settlements) and R...

| Kimmo Soramäki (FNA) | Martin Kyle (Payments Canada) Martin Kyle, Chief Information Security Officer at Payments Canada, joined FNA’s Kimmo Soramäki to discuss the value of Digital Twins and how digital replicas of payment systems are accelerating the ability to design better systems, reduce developmental costs, increase the speed of deployment and enable smoother regulatory approvals. Kimmo wil...

| Aniko Szombati, Chief Digital Officer, Magyar Nemzeti Bank | Chris Ostrowski, Co-Founder and CEO, SODA Guests Aniko Szombati, Chief Digital Officer Magyar Nemzeti Bank and Chris Ostrowski, Co-founder and CEO of SODA, joined FNA for Session #19 of the CBDC Broadcast, Testing DLT-based Central Bank Solutions. In this session, we delved into the Central Bank of Hungary and SODA’s joint project on t...

With: | Samuel Eddie Mogensen, Digitalization Task Force Lead, Innovation & Secretariat Financial Stability, Danmarks Nationalbank | Michal Vodrážka, Director of the Financial Market Regulation Division III, Czech National Bank While some consider retail CBDCs as necessary instruments in a rapidly evolving financial landscape, capable of enhancing the retail payment ecosystem and the economy,...

| Manit Sahib, Director of Global Intelligence & Offensive Operations, Picnic Corporation | Wiebe Ruttenberg, Director of Strategy, SecAlliance In an era of rapidly evolving technology and ever-increasing cyber threats, the need to strengthen our defences and ensure the resilience of financial institutions has never been more pressing. These initiatives require regulatory authorities, supervis...

With: | Neil Thomas, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs | Alan James Anderson, Head of Liquidity Technolgy, Standard Chartered It is imperative to remain ahead of the curve by embracing cutting-edge technological advancements and leveraging them to their full potential. In this session of the Treasury Broadcast, guests Neil Thomas (Goldman Sachs) and Alan James Anderson (Standard Chartered Bank) joi...

With: | Dr Tony Richards, Chair CBDC Committee, Digital Finance CRC | Sonja Davidovic, CBDC Lead, BIS Innovation Hub Singapore In session #17 of the CBDC Broadcast, guests Dr Tony Richards and Sonja Davidovic offered valuable insight into their work exploring digital currencies and how they contribute to shaping the future of money. We gained insight into the RBA’s collaboration with DFCRC explori...

| Carmen Barandela, CBDC Solution Architect, Bank of England | Johannes Turner, Director of the Department of Statistics, Austrian National Bank The regulatory landscape is rapidly evolving, but what benefits does innovation offer, and how can organisations achieve the right balance between embracing innovation and ensuring consistency with relevant regulatory frameworks? In this session of the Su...

With: | Richard Dzina (The Clearing House) | Stephen Wojciechowicz (Bank of New York Mellon) In Session #11 of the Payment Systems Broadcast, guests Richard Dzina and Stephen Wojciechowicz join FNA as we examine whether CBDCs have the potential to transform liquidity management. The webinar will explore how retail and wholesale CBDCs could change how liquidity is exchanged and managed and evaluate...

With: | Beju Shah, Head of Nordic Centre, BIS Innovation Hub | Dr Lars Hupel, CBDC Evangelist, Giesecke+Devrient CBDC’s Offline capabilities is a crucial topic that holds significant implications for the future of digital payments and financial systems worldwide. As digital transformation rapidly reshapes the way we conduct transactions, it is imperative that we ensure inclusivity, accessibility,...

With: | David Birch, (15mb Ltd) | John Kiff, (Satoshi Capital Advisors) As the world becomes increasingly digital, there is growing interest in the potential of digital currencies and CBDCs to reshape the financial landscape. These new forms of money have the potential to facilitate faster, cheaper, and more secure transactions, while also promoting innovation in payments, financial inclusion and...

With: | David Minch-Dixon, Deutsche Bank | Peter Left, Lloyds Banking Group Guests David Minch-Dixon and Peter Left joined FNA for the first session of our new webinar series, the Treasury Broadcast, exploring the key liquidity challenges and risks facing the banking industry today. As two experienced bank treasurers, David and Peter offered an insight into their risk management strategies and how...

| Arthur Yuen, Deputy Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority | Kimmo Soramäki, Founder & CEO, FNA As technology continues to transform the financial landscape, regulatory authorities are working to keep pace with the rapidly evolving ecosystem. Many are also seeking to provide leadership in the innovation agenda for the financial communities in their countries and in harnessing technolo...

As the financial industry continues to evolve, the adoption of suptech has become increasingly important for Central Banks as well as financial authority bodies globally. Successfully implementing suptech requires careful consideration of key components such as regulatory efficiency and effectiveness, talent and technology investment, and collaboration with industry stakeholders. In Session #4 of...

Nowadays, it seems everything can be tokenized, from securities to real estate, commodities to equity. More recently, in response to retail CBDCs and stablecoins, tokenising bank deposits has emerged as a new form of money based on commercial bank money. In Session #9 of the FMI Broadcast, guests Keith Bear (University of Cambridge) and Philip Enness (JP Morgan) joined FNA to explore the motivatio...

Cross-border payments are traditionally slow, expensive and opaque. So, how is the Bank for International Settlements proposing to overcome these challenges through a multi-CBDC platform based on DLT technology? In session 14 of FNA’s monthly webinar series, The CBDC Broadcast, guests Daniel Eidan (Bank for International Settlements) and Ousmène Jacques Mandeng (Accenture) join FNA to discuss Proj...

How are new regulations contributing to the operational resilience of decentralized payment systems in wholesale banking? Patrick Papsdorf (Head of Payments Oversight, European Central Bank) and Claudine Hurman (Director of Infrastructures, Innovation and Payments, Banque de France) joined the Payment Systems Broadcast to discuss. * The session covered: * The distinction between oversight and supe...

| Saskia Devolder, (SWIFT) | John Jackson, (Bank of England) ISO 20022 is expected to create a global and open message standard across all business lines of the financial industry. Several long-lived financial communication standards, such as ISO 15022 (cross-border securities settlement), ISO 8583 (credit and debit transactions), and MT messages (SWIFT propriety for correspondent banking and FX t...

With: | Catherine Gu, Visa | Carmelle Cadet, Emtech Digital money is not a new thing. It’s been around for decades in the form of reserves at the central bank and commercial bank money. But today, we have additional forms of digital money, such as rCBDCs. We also have what we call challenger forms of money with stablecoins as the main example. With the new entrants to the money ecosystem, we must...

Guests Patrica C Mosser (School of International Public Affairs, Columbia University) and Jason Healey (School of International Public Affairs, Columbia University and National Management Centre, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) joined FNA to provide insights into the various types of cyber risks as we discussed the new responsibilities mitigating cyber risks creates and how it...

With: | Simon Chantry, Bitt | John Kiff, Satoshi Capital Advisors Many central banks are studying, designing, prototyping, or rolling out retail CBDCs. Motivations differ significantly across jurisdictions, but there is one potential advantage that could be common to all cases. If central banks agree on some basic technological foundations, retail CBDCs could interoperate and become a solution to...

With: | Commissioner Hester M. Pierce, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | Professor Patrick McCarty, Georgetown University Law Center We are in the midst of studying and discussing the potential effects of a digital dollar, a digital liability issued by the Federal Reserve, available to everyone in the United States-in other words, a retail CBDC for the United States of America. Theoretical...

With | Perttu Korhonen, Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority) | Clara Machado, Banco de la República Session #2 of The Suptech Broadcast featured guests Perrtu Korhonen (Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority) and Clara Machado (Banco de la República), who joined FNA to explore how payments data analytics and anomaly detection have evolved over recent years, focusing on the integration...