The global annual DMI symposium
10-11 May 2023
On 10-11 May 2023, the symposium returned to examine the distribution and use cases of both retail and wholesale central bank digital currencies, tokenised assets, deposits and capital markets, cross-border payments and domestic interoperability. Speakers explored regulatory framework harmonisation, cybersecurity considerations and the future of money in the metaverse.
This hybrid event was held in London, convening a global network of key policy-makers, regulators and public and private sector stakeholders. The symposium included public sessions attended by digital finance experts from across our community, and off-record, high-level roundtables to examine critical questions of technology applications, including cybersecurity and digital IDs. The agenda enabled participants to have their voices heard on important issues and move the industry beyond words into action.
Day one
Opening keynote and Q&A
Speakers:
Andrew Griffith MP, Economic Secretary, HM Treasury
Moderator:
John Orchard, CEO, OMFIF
Session I: Implementing and designing a retail CBDC: lessons and key insights
Building cross-border interoperability into retail CBDC• Balancing the trade-off between privacy and preventing financial crime
• Methods of tackling financial inclusion
• CBDC distribution and issuance models
• Incentivising commercial banks and merchants
Speakers:
Norhana Endut, Assistant Governor, Bank Negara Malaysia
Renato Gomes, Deputy Governor, Banco Central do Brasil
Tanja Heßdörfer, Director/Head of Sales, Business Development CBDC, Giesecke+Devrient
Moderator:
John Orchard, CEO, OMFIF
Session II: Stablecoins, CBDCs and tokens and the role of public and private money - the European perspective
• The growing role of fintech and the unbundling of financial services
• How to balance innovation and competition with stability and efficiency
• Assessing the impact of new technologies, stablecoins and tokens on retail and
wholesale payments
• The digital euro and EU’s technological competitiveness
Speakers:
– Piero Cipollone, Deputy Governor, Banca d’Italia
– Doris Dietze, Head of Digital Finance, Payments and Cybersecurity, Federal Ministry of
Finance, Germany
– Anikó Szombati, Chief Digital Officer, Magyar Nemzeti Bank
– Basak Toprak, EMEA Head of Coin Systems and Global Product Owner Deposit Tokens, Onyx
by J.P. Morgan
Moderator:
Philip Middleton, Chairman, Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF
In conversation and Q&A: Project Icebreaker - a new architecture for cross-border retail CBDCs
Speaker:
– Andrew Abir, Deputy Governor, Bank of Israel
Moderator:
– Katie-Ann Wilson, Managing Director, Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF
Presentation and Q&A: Bridging economies through a common multi-CBDC infrastructure
Speaker:
Mu Changchun, Director-General, Digital Currency Institute, People’s Bank of China (virtual)
Moderator:
John Orchard, CEO, OMFIF
Session III: Can blockchain revolutionise payments?
• Does blockchain offer superior efficiency, finality and security in the settlement process when compared to centralised architectures?
• Is programmability deliverable only in the context of a blockchain-based payments system?
• Does the removal of the single point of failure enabled by blockchain substantially contribute to systemic resilience?
• Does the transparency of blockchain holdings and payment records represent a challenge to privacy?
Speakers:
– Christian Catalini, Founder, MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab, Research Associate, MIT (virtual)
– David Creer, Global Digital Assets and CBDC Lead, GFT Group
– Scott Hendry, Senior Special Director, Financial Technology, Bank of Canada
– Knut Sandal, Director, Payments Analysis and Innovation, Norges Bank
Moderator:
Lewis McLellan, Editor, Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF
Presentation and Q&A: Unlocking the potential of tokenised deposits
Speaker:
– Basak Toprak, EMEA Head of Coin Systems and Global Product Owner Deposit Tokens, Onyx
by J.P. Morgan
Moderator:
– Lewis McLellan, Editor, Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF
Session IV: Next steps for cross-border payments: CBDCs, instant payments and upgrading existing infrastructure
• Are the efforts of the BIS, CPMI and principal actors in payments helping to improve
cross-border payments? Are we making progress?
• Is connecting CBDCs a viable means of improving cross-border payments? Is it likely
to produce a better result than connecting instant payments systems?
• Harmonising international standards and the next phase of the G20 roadmap – how
to achieve the FSB’s priority themes?
Speakers:
– Victoria Cumings, Chief Legal & Regulatory Officer, RTGS Global Limited
– Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, Deputy Division Chief Monetary and Capital Markets, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
– Harvesh Seegolam, Governor, Bank of Mauritius
– James Wallis, Vice President, Ripple
Keynote address and Q&A: Money: A Question of Purpose and Trust
Speaker:
– Carolyn Wilkins, External member of the Financial Policy Committee, Bank of England
Moderator:
– Philip Middleton, Chairman, Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF
Day two
Opening keynote and Q&A: Digital currencies: Identifying the guard rails for responsible innovation in payments
Speaker:
José Manuel Campa, Chairman, European Banking Authority
Moderator:
Guy Johnson, Anchor, Bloomberg
Session V: Asset tokenisation and wholesale CBDC: new plumbing in capital markets
• What benefits does representing ownership of securities using distributed ledger technology and blockchain bring and what new functionality can blockchain-based securities offer?
• Are regulators confident that blockchain can offer sufficient privacy, scalability and robustness for institutional capital markets?
• Is wholesale CBDC the appropriate method of settling the cash leg of securities transactions? Could a private sector solution fulfil the same role?
Speakers:
– Amar Amlani, Executive Director, Head of EMEA Digital Assets, Goldman Sachs
– Claudine Hurman, Director of Infrastructures, Innovation and Payments, Banque De France
– Benjamin Müller, Banking Operations, Swiss National Bank
– Monica Sah, Financial Regulation Partner, Clifford Chance
Moderator:
Lewis McLellan, Editor, Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF
In conversation with Hester Peirce, Commissioner, US Securities and Exchange Commission
Session VI: Regulating risks and opportunities: a global crypto landscape
• What is the regulatory challenge posed by the borderless nature of digital asset transactions?
• Would current regulatory models have prevented the collapse of FTX?
• What new business models might be enabled by a new ‘token economy’ infrastructure?
• What is the appropriate way to treat cryptocurrencies on balance sheets when used as reserves or collateral?
Speakers:
– Moad Fahmi, Senior Adviser, Fintech, The Bermuda Monetary Authority
– Susan Friedman, Senior Director, Global Policy, Ripple
– Hester Peirce, Commissioner, US Securities and Exchange Commission
– Archie Ravishankar, Founder and CEO, Cogni
Moderator:
Philip Middleton, Chairman, Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF
In conversation and Q&A: Getting ready for regulatory change -- MiCA and what’s next?
Speakers:
– Ivan Keller, Policy Officer, European Commission
– Brian Whitehurst, Head of Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory Counsel, Lukka
Moderator:
Julian Jacobs, Senior Economist, OMFIF
Session VII: How to ensure cybersecurity and privacy when developing a CBDC
Session VII: How to ensure cybersecurity and privacy when developing a CBDC
• Managing cybersecurity safeguards to ensure operational resiliency
• Frameworks and technical tools for different privacy models
• Infrastructure risk analysis for data protection and secure offline transactions
Speakers:
– David Birch, author, adviser, commentator on digital financial services and member of OMFIF’s DMI Advisory Board
– Jan Evangelista, Payments Policy and Development, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
– Majid Malaika, Senior Adviser to H.E. The Vice Governor, Saudi Central Bank (virtual)
– David Schatzman, Principal GTM Mgr, Amazon Web Services*
Moderator:
– Nikhil Sanghani, Managing Director, Research, OMFIF
Presentation and Q&A: Behind the London CBDC scene: What is being tested?
Speaker:
Francesca Hopwood Road, Head of the BIS Innovation Centre London, Bank for International Settlements
Moderator:
Taylor Pearce, Senior Economist, OMFIF
Presentation and Q&A: Project mBridge – observing a common multi-CBDC platform
Speaker:
Thammarak Moenjak, Senior Adviser for CBDC Projects, Bank of Thailand
Moderator:
Taylor Pearce, Senior Economist, OMFIF
In conversation and Q&A: Does artificial intelligence and deep learning technologies stand to disrupt existing markets?
• What applications does AI present for central banking, including forecasting and supervising their economies?
• What are the potential risks posed by AI proliferation?
• How can public and private collaboration mitigate these risks, both economic and otherwise?
Speaker:
Maury Shenk, Founder and CEO, LearnerShape
Moderator:
Julian Jacobs, Senior Economist, OMFIF
Session VIII: DeFi: Navigating a new ecosystem
• DeFi has become a well-known term but the boundaries are not well established. How do we define this new space?
• For what use cases does DeFi add value and where will centralisation remain preferable?
• How can decentralised autonomous organisation platforms be made sufficiently accountable to regulators?
• What is missing from the DeFi ecosystem to make it adequately robust for widespread retail and institutional adoption?
Speakers:
– Martin Diehl, Head, Section Payment Systems Analysis, Deutsche Bundesbank (virtual)
– Charles Kerrigan, Partner, CMS
– Laura Loh, Director of Blockchain, Temasek (virtual)
– Timothy Massad, Director of the Digital Assets Policy Project, Harvard Kennedy School, Former Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Moderator:
Lewis McLellan, Editor, Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF
Report: European Crypto Regulation: A Summary of Law by Country
EVENT AT A GLANCE
- Two-day symposium – join in-person in London, or virtually from around the world
- 40+ speakers from OMFIF’s global community of public and private sector representatives
- 150 in-person attendees, 2000+ virtual attendees drawn from central banks, institutional investors, banks and technology providers
- Public panels and presentations
- Exhibition stand area; open forums; bilateral meetings
- Private dinner 9 May in London with policy-makers for superior DMI members
SPEAKERS

Andrew Abir
Deputy Governor
Bank of Israel

Dr. Ernest Addison
H.E. Governor
Bank of Ghana

Amar Amlani
Executive Director
Head of EMEA Digital Assets
Goldman Sachs

David Birch
Author, adviser, commentator on digital financial services
and member of OMFIF’s DMI Advisory Board

Christian Catalini
Founder
MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab
Research Associate
MIT

Jose Manuel Campa
Chairman
European Banking Authority

Mu Changchun
Director-General
People’s Bank of China

Piero Cipollone
Deputy Governor
Banca d’Italia

David Creer
Global Digital Assets and CBDC Lead
GFT Group

Victoria Cumings
Chief Legal & Regulatory Officer
RTGS Global Limited

Martin Diehl
Head of Section Payment Systems Analysis
Deutsche Bundesbank

Doris Dietze
Head of Digital Finance
Payments and Cybersecurity
Federal Ministry of Finance
Germany

Norhana Endut
Assistant Governor
Bank Negara Malaysia

Jan Evangelista
Payments Policy and Development
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

Moad Fahmi
Senior Advisor Fintech
The Bermuda Monetary Authority

Susan Friedman
Senior Director
Global Policy
Ripple

Andrew Griffith MP
Economic Secretary
HM Treasury

Renato Gomes
Deputy Governor
Banco Central do Brasil

Tanja Heßdörfer
Director/ Head of Sales
Business Development CBDC
Giesecke+Devrient

Scott Hendry
Senior Special Director
Financial Technology
Bank of Canada

Francesca Hopwood Road
Head of the BIS Innovation Centre London
Bank for International Settlements

Claudine Hurman
Director of Infrastructures
Innovation and Payments
Banque de France

Ivan Keller
Policy Officer
European Commission

Charles Kerrigan
Partner
CMS

Laura Loh
Director of Blockchain
Temasek

Majid Malaika
Senior Advisor to H.E. The Vice Governor
Saudi Central Bank

Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli
Deputy Division Chief Monetary and Capital Markets
International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Timothy Massad
Director of the Digital Assets Policy Project
Harvard Kennedy School
Former Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Thammarak Moenjak
Senior Advisor for CBDC Projects
Bank of Thailand

Benjamin Müller
Banking Operations
Swiss National Bank

Hester Peirce
Commissioner
US Securities and Exchange Commission

Anastasia Raissis
Director, International Financials
Worldwide Public Sector
Amazon Web Services

Archie Ravishankar
Founder and CEO
Cogni

Monica Sah
Partner
Clifford Chance

Knut Sandal
Director
Payments analysis and innovation
Norges Bank

Harvesh Kumar Seegolam
Governor
Bank of Mauritius

Maury Shenk
Founder and CEO
LearnerShape

Anikó Szombati
Chief Digital Officer
Magyar Nemzeti Bank

Basak Toprak
EMEA Head of Coin Systems, and
Global Product Owner Deposit Tokens
Onyx by J.P. Morgan

James Wallis
Vice President
Central Bank Engagements
Ripple

Carolyn Wilkins
External member of the Financial Policy Committee
Bank of England

Brian Whitehurst
Head of Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory Counsel
Lukka
THEMES

Central bank digital currencies

Crypto assets and stable coins

Cross-border payments

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) and banking

Tokenisation of capital markets
BECOME A PARTNER IN 2024
OMFIF’s DMI symposium returns on 15016 May 2024 as the Digital Money Summit, providing an excellent platform for sponsors, to showcase expertise and display leadership in their field, speaking to a global audience of public and private sector representatives. Sponsors of the Digital Money Summit can engage with attendees in bespoke virtual exhibition stands, and interact directly with speakers in private roundtables held during the conference.
Reasons to partner with the symposium:
- Receive insights into retail and wholesale central bank digital currency learnings from trailblazers including the People’s Bank of China, Banque de France, US Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of Thailand
- Showcase innovative concepts, technologies and research to help the industry tackle challenges
- Enhance your organisation’s profile as a leader in the research and development of CBDCs
- Build business relationships and expand your network with world’s foremost members of the digital money community
If you would like to discuss Digital Money Summit 2024 partnership opportunities, please contact Folusho Olutosin at partnerships@omfif.org
Folusho Olutosin
Commercial Director
partnerships@omfif.org
Steering group
DMI members
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