Speakers:
Andrew Griffith MP, Economic Secretary, HM Treasury

Moderator:
John Orchard, CEO, OMFIF

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

• 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

Speaker:
– Andrew Abir, Deputy Governor, Bank of Israel

Moderator:
– Katie-Ann Wilson, Managing Director, Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF

Speaker:
Mu Changchun, Director-General, Digital Currency Institute, People’s Bank of China (virtual)

Moderator:
John Orchard, CEO, OMFIF

• 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

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

• 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

Speaker:
– Carolyn Wilkins, External member of the Financial Policy Committee, Bank of England

Moderator:
– Philip Middleton, Chairman, Digital Monetary Institute, OMFIF

Speaker:
José Manuel Campa, Chairman, European Banking Authority

Moderator:
Guy Johnson, Anchor, Bloomberg

• 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

• 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

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
• 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

Speaker:

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

Moderator:
Taylor Pearce, Senior Economist, OMFIF

Speaker:
Thammarak Moenjak, Senior Adviser for CBDC Projects, Bank of Thailand

Moderator:
Taylor Pearce, Senior Economist, OMFIF

• 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

• 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