Leveraging data, technology and innovation for sustainable finance

Patrick Hoffmann

Adviser, BIS Innovation Hub

Bank for International Settlements

José Manuel Marqués

Director Financial Innovation and Market Infrastructures Department

Banco de España

José Manuel Marqués is Head the Financial Innovation and Market Infrastructures Department Bank of Spain (Banco de España). In this position, he coordinates the contribution from Bank of Spain to Infrastructures related with the TARGET Services (Target 2 Securities and Eurosystem Collateral Management System) and Market Activities Processing System. He also coordinates the analysis of the main trends transforming the financial system: Big tech and Fintech, Cryptocurrencies, CBDC, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Blockchain and DLT. Marqués has joined Bank of Spain in 1996 and has written a number of articles on financial markets and is chair of the Working Group of Green Finance in the BIS Innovation Network and represent Bank of Spain on the High Level Taskforce on the digital euro, the CEMLA Foro Fintech. He has a BA in Economics and Business from University of Zaragoza, and an MSc from University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Karl O’Farrell

ESG & Risk Analytics Solutions Lead

State Street

Karl O’Farrell is risk analyst in the environmental, social and governance and risk analytics solutions team at State Street. He leads the team for the State Street Analytics platform, TruView, working with asset managers, asset owners, hedge funds and official institutions to produce ESG and market risk reporting, for both regulatory and oversight needs.

Marcus Mølbak Ingholt

Senior Lead Climate Economist

Danmarks Nationalbank