Making the world of finance open and connected with digital currencies

Name: Making the world of finance open and connected with digital currencies
Start: 2021-09-20T05:30:00-04:00
End: 2021-09-20T06:45:00-04:00

The topic of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) is one that is being watched with great interest across the globe. With its potential impact on payments and other areas of banks being far reaching, many are looking to understand what these are and why they are the focus of such interest right now.

Regulatory Change

With CBDC schemes currently being piloted and even launched in some regions, as well as the impact of similar ‘Commercial Bank Digital Currencies’ such as JPMorgan’s Onyx getting a lot of press, it’s more important than ever to understand how this fast-changing universe works and how far down the path of CBDC some of the players in this space are.

Topics include:

Commercial Bank Digital Currency Vs Central Bank Digital Currency
How CBDCs are looking to shake up trade and cross border payments
How will these new currencies be regulated?
Moving from P2P, B2B payment innovation to M2M payments (Machine to Machine) – Programmable Money and Micro money – futuristic use cases for CBDCs

Speakers

Chris Aruliah

Chief Product Officer, BCB Group

Tony McLaughlin

Emerging Payments and Business Development professional, Citi

Tony McLaughlin is responsible for Emerging Payments and Business Development in Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) business. Tony is responsible for the TTS Ecommerce proposition and is deeply involved in new methods of payment, Distributed Ledger and Fintech engagements. He joined Citi in 2004 and has been Core Cash Head for Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong and the Global Transaction Services Head for the United Kingdom, spearheading Citi’s engagement with large public sector clients and payment aggregators. Tony was responsible for the design and development of ABN AMRO’s Third Party Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) offering, core electronic banking platform and transactional FX solution. At HSBC Holdings, he fulfilled a global strategy role for the Payments and Cash Management business. Before that he was a Senior Product Manager for Barclays Bank with responsibility for electronic collections products including International Direct Debits.

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