Attend the the second session of the Central Bank Digital Currencies: International and Domestic Challenges online conference on Jurisdictional and Regulatory Boundaries. 

The application of national regulation to international payments remains subject to significant uncertainties and complicate the use of money by non-resident entities. How much control does the central bank want to maintain and should maintain if any and how will data protection be observed? How should international settlement occur and finality be assured in cross-border payments?

Meet our speakers and chair

Philipp Haene is an advisor in the Switzerland Centre of the BIS Innovation Hub, where he is working on tokenisation projects involving central bank digital currencies. Before joining the BIS, he was the deputy head of financial market infrastructure oversight at the Swiss National Bank. He was also a member of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), a member of the CPMI-IOSCO Steering Group, and a member of the CPMI-IOSCO Policy Standing Group. He contributed to the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMI) and to various CPMI working groups.

Richard Hay (@richardhay01) is Linklater’s FinTech lead and has considerable experience in advising on the financial structuring and regulatory aspects of innovative capital markets structures, products and systems. He regularly advises investment banks, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers and start-ups on the deployment of novel technologies to support new or existing business lines. He has particular experience of new product development in the context of market infrastructures, notably trading, clearing, payment and settlement systems.

Christian Pfister is Director General, Directorate General Statistics at Banque de France.

Laetitia Grimaud-Agaesse is a Capital markets lawyer at Natixis also specializing in blockchain and digital assets, she is also a member of the advisory board of D2X Group: an institutional grade derivative exchange for digital assets. Prior to this Laetitia worked as a lawyer at Linklaters in London and Paris.

More about this event

This event is part of the Central Bank Digital Currencies: International and Domestic Challenges online conference which will address current cutting edge questions related to the development and deployment of CBDC bringing together scholars, central banks, banks, and fintech companies to facilitate an inter-active and inter-disciplinary dialogue on the relationship between CBDC and new roles for central bank money.

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