‘Just because you’ve been relevant for the last 100 years does not mean you’ll be relevant for the next 100 years.’ Sunayna Tuteja’s reflections stood out at a digital currency conference in Washington DC last month for two reasons. First, because few people challenge central bankers so directly on the threat posed by digital currencies and second, because this challenge came from a serving central bank official.
Cryptoasset regulation suffers from lack of consensus By Douglas ElliottDigitalisation is accelerating, spreading both opportunity and disruption. Coherent regulation could channel this for the good of society, yet there is no consensus among regulators on how to proceed.
MEETINGS Future of capital markets conference and report launch Thursday 31 MarchThe ‘Future of capital markets’ conference brings together key financial market actors, regulators and institutions to explore the benefits and risks of new technologies to financial assets and capital market infrastructures.
ON DEMAND Next steps for Project Hamilton and CBDC payments Robert Bench, assistant vice-president at the Boston Fed, and Aman Cheema, general manager of global real-time payments at FIS, join Patricia Haas Cleveland, US president of OMFIF, to discuss the Boston Fed’s recent phase one report on Project Hamilton.
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DMI annual 2022 The world of digital money is changing at an unprecedented pace. The complexities of the issues at hand seem to grow with each new report, but gradually we are moving from the theoretical to the practical.
