A fundamentally weak pound is not the best platform on which to base uncertainty about the Bank of England’s future. But, barring the withdrawal of independence, there are – after 25 years of the Monetary Policy Committee – real opportunities to make new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’ review constructive. It must be thorough, non-political
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Algorand, a blockchain company and central bank digital currency platform, join the Digital Monetary Institute’s editor, Lewis McLellan, to discuss the latest trends in CBDC development. Naveed Ihsanullah, vice-president of engineering research, Pietro Grassano, business solutions director for Europe, and Co-Pierre Georg, associate professor at the University of Cape Town and member of Algorand’s economic
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Dave Sissens, chief executive officer of RTGS.Global, sits down with the Digital Monetary Institute’s editor, Lewis McLellan, to discuss the possibilities for improving the quality of the infrastructure underpinning cross-border payments. They discuss the role that RTGS.Global’s platform could play in the future of the wholesale foreign exchange settlement ecosystem and how it might integrate
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Regulation and disclosure requirements for the financial sector are on the rise, and commitments to the net zero transition are increasing. Daniel Bouzas Luis, regional coordinator for Europe at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, speaks with Emma McGarthy, head of OMFIF’s Sustainable Policy Institute, about the development of UN-convened net zero alliances, the
In conversation with UNEP FI: the race to net zero and the role of alliances Read More »
Larissa De Lima, senior fellow at the Oliver Wyman Forum, and Erica Salinas, global technical leader for blockchain at AWS, join Lewis McLellan, editor of OMFIF’s Digital Monetary Institute, to discuss their joint report, ‘Retail Central Bank Digital Currency: From Vision to Design’. They delve into the importance of clear strategic priorities when it comes
Policy trade-offs for retail CBDC Read More »
Wolfram Seidemann, chief executive officer of G+D Currency Technology, joins John Orchard, CEO of OMFIF, for a discussion on how the recent crypto crash may influence government policy regarding central bank digital currencies. They touch on the importance of security and interoperability within the payments landscape. Watch in your own time: Fill out the form
Crypto crash proves the need for central bank issued digital currency Read More »
Simon Chantry, Bitt’s co-founder and chief information officer, and its new economist Jim Shinn, a former US government official and member of the Criteo central bank digital currency team that was one of the three winners of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s global CBDC challenge in 2021, join DMI editor Lewis McLellan. They discuss Bitt’s
Trends developing in retail CBDC Read More »
The European Central Bank has established a supervisory climate risk stress test to better understand banks’ capabilities, risk metrics, long-term risk projections and parameters in physical and transition risk scenarios. Christoffer Kok, head of the stress test modelling division of the ECB’s directorate general for macroprudential policy and financial stability, joins Emma McGarthy, head of
ECB and climate risk supervision Read More »
Melvin Khomo, general manager for financial markets at the Central Bank of Eswatini, joins Dieter Sauter, general manager of the business unit value printing at Bundesdruckerei, and Lewis McLellan, editor of the Digital Monetary Institute, to discuss what advantages a central bank digital currency can deliver. The importance of a robust means of digital identity
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