FNA Broadcasts

| Richard Dzina, The Clearing House

On the 10th of November, guests Richard Dzina (The Clearing House, TCH) and Stephen Wojciechowicz (Bank of New York Mellon) joined FNA to discuss the Relevance of Liquidity Savings in a real-time World.

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| Anneke Kosse, Bank for International Settlements

Today, 90 per cent of central banks are exploring Central bank digital currencies, with over half already developing digital currencies or conducting experiments.

In Session #10 of FNA’s 60-minute webinar series, The CBDC Broadcast, guests Anneke Kosse and Ilaria Mattei from the Bank for International Settlements joined FNA to discuss the recent report ‘Gaining Moment – Results of the 2021 BIS Survey on Central Bank Digital Currencies and the report “Options for access to and interoperability of CBDCs for cross-border payments.”

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| John Velissarios, Accenture

CBDC is a very particular product. An extremely successful rollout, with massive adoption, could affect financial stability as deposits could migrate to CBDCs. On the other hand, poor adoption could mean a reputational risk event for the central bank. Therefore, unlike most central bank products, it looks like CBDC design should be user-oriented, with consumers and merchants as the main users and commercial banks as distributors. This means that before CBDCs are rolled out, there has to be a design phase that studies under which design options the CBDC will be used will be convenient, as well as safe, reliable, and efficient.

Guests John Velissarios (Accenture/DEA/DDP) and Raoul Herborg (Giesecke + Devrient) joined FNA for session #9 of The CBDC Broadcast as we discussed how some design options could shape the rollout and adoption of CBDCs. The session played close attention to the particular balance CBDCs must achieve to be successful, that is, being effectively adopted without jeopardizing the stability of the financial system.

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Financial markets face unprecedented challenges. These challenges include fragmented and inefficient post-trade processes, liquidity constraints and complex and costly risk management.

To address these challenges, Fnality is developing a peer-to-peer payment system underpinned by Distributed Ledger Technology to enable quicker and safer exchanges of value.

In session #5 of The Payment Systems Broadcast, Jan Schoombee (Fnality) joined FNA to discuss the success of a project exploring liquidity savings calculations and what this means for banks looking to optimise their balance sheet.

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| Claudi Ceresani, DGT Solutions

| Phil Mochan, Nomos

Cross-border payments have always been in the spotlight, often criticized for being slow and costly and unable to cope with the demands for efficient payments among individuals, firms and financial institutions from different jurisdictions.

Challenger financial market infrastructures are trying to solve this long-lived claim for efficient cross-border payments. New technologies and access to flexible and affordable computing services have encouraged the development of solutions that aim to fulfil the demand for better retail and wholesale cross-border payments.

In this session of The Payment Systems Broadcast, we’ll continue the discussion on how challenger FMIs are contributing to solving the cross-border payments conundrum with guests Phil Mochan from Nomos, a new global FMI that supports correspondent banking and Claudio Ceresani from DGT Solutions. Join us as we explore the extent to which FMIs are influencing the cross-border payments ecosystem.

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| Larissa de Lima, Oliver Wyman Forum

In previous sessions of The CBDC Broadcast, we focused on the many motivations for rolling out a CBDC, from achieving higher financial inclusion and higher transactional efficiency to preserving monetary sovereignty by compensating for the declining use of cash and by countering the entrance of new private forms of digital currencies.

Session #8 of the CBDC Broadcast featured guests Larissa De Lima (Oliver Wyman Forum) and Erica Salinas (Amazon Web Services), who joined FNA to discuss their joint report: Retail Central Bank Digital Currency: From Vision to Design. The report sets a framework to support policymakers in evaluating the interdependencies between policy and technological choices and highlights the importance of ensuring CBDC motivations, design principles and policy decisions are properly aligned.

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| Masaki Bessho, Bank of Japan

There are many motivations for rolling out a CBDC, from achieving higher financial inclusion and higher transactional efficiency to preserving monetary sovereignty by compensating for the declining use of cash and by countering the entrance of new private forms of digital currencies.

Each country has a different set of features and objectives that make the CBDC’s design and roll-out a tailor-made process.

In the seventh session of FNA’s CBDC Broadcast, we talked to two guest speakers from the Bank of Japan and Standard Chartered Bank Singapore, who offer an insight into CBDCs from an Asia-Pacific perspective.

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Throughout history, technological developments, economic growth and the requirement for the effective execution of payments have driven changes to currencies and the financial system- from the first transatlantic cable to the rise of ATMs and credit cards 100 years later.

Today, as new technologies and innovations continue to emerge with the potential to transform the financial system, such as CBDCs, we ask, what historical and modern lessons are shaping the future of CBDCs?

To answer this question guests John Kiff, Managing Director at the CBDC Think Tank and Harish Natarajan, Lead Financial Sector Specialist, Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation at The World Bank joined FNA for Session #6 of The CBDC Broadcast.

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| Ludmilla Buteau Allien, Bank of the Republic of Haiti

There are many motivations for rolling out a CBDC, from achieving higher financial inclusion and higher transactional efficiency to preserving monetary sovereignty by compensating for the declining use of cash and by countering the entrance of new private forms of digital currencies.

Each country has a different set of features and objectives that make a CBDC’s design and roll-out a tailor-made process. Having heard about the challenge and motivation from a G7 perspective in Session #4 with the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada, we turn our attention to Latin America as we hear from Ludmilla Buteau Allien (Bank of the Republic of Haiti) and Dr Adolfo Sarmiento (Central Bank of Uruguay)

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| Francisco Rivadeneyra, Bank of Canada

There are many motivations for rolling out a CBDC, from achieving higher financial inclusion and higher transactional efficiency to preserving monetary sovereignty by compensating for the declining use of cash, and by countering the entrance of new private forms of digital currencies.

Each country has a different set of features and objectives that influence a CBDC’s design, making the roll-out a tailored process.

In this fourth session of FNA’s CBDC Broadcast, we talk to Dr Francisco Rivadeneyra from the Bank of Canada and Mehregan Ameri from the Bank of England to gain an insight into CBDCs from a G7 perspective