Join Celent's Monica Summerville and leaders from across FS including Bank of England, Bank of International Settlements, Barclays, Citi, JPMorgan, HSBC, NatWest, SDX, Swift and more and supported by Ownera, Kima, SDX, Quant, R3 and Reed Smith. Monica is speaking on this panel: 14.45 to 15.45 on the topic of: Is a “unified” programmable platform for multiple forms of digital money and digital assets a viable objective? Monica is also moderating this panel: 13.45 to 14.45: How many routes to interoperability does digital money need?
Event Description
The Internet is evolving from closed platforms dominated by centralised Big Tech firms creating value by monetising the data of their customers (Web 2.0) to one characterised by open platforms owned by users creating value by trading digital assets peer-to-peer (Web 3.0). The growing number of commercial applications of blockchain technologies, which are an integral part of the transition to Web 3.0, are creating a demand for blockchain-native cash equivalents to provide a means of storing value and making payments in entirely digital environments. This is as true of the tokenised securities, funds, commodity, and alternative markets as of, say, the Decentralised Finance (DeFi), gaming and Metaverse markets. The candidates for on-chain cash equivalents still include cryptocurrencies but these are in secular decline by comparison with Stablecoins, tokenised deposits and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The timing and nature of the transition from analogue to digital assets will be governed by the structure of digital money that emerges.
Event Agenda
08:00: Registration Opens with coffee and biscuits
08:30: Opening Address: Future of Finance
08:45: Keynote: Christopher Holmes, Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE
09.00 to 10.00: Bitcoin versus fiat Currency: Did the cryptocurrency promise to transform money die of its own shortcomings or was it killed by central banks?
Panellists
Alistair Milne – Professor Financial Economics at Loughborough University
Heike Winter – Retail Payments Policy at Bundesbank
Tariq Rasheed – Partner Structured Finance at Reed Smith
10.00 to 11.00: The Impact of Digital Money on how payments are made
Panellists
Sam Seaton – CEO at Moneyhub Enterprise
Payments System Regulator – name to be confirmed
Dr Jon Helgi Egilsson – Chair and Co-Founder at Monerium
11.00 to 11.45 Coffee Break and Networking
11.45 to 12.45: How can we build a fully transferable tokenised deposit market?
Panellists
Emma Landriault – VP Product Management at JP Morgan
Olaf Ransome – The Banker’s Plumber
Tony McLaughlin – Emerging Payments and Business Development at Citi
Roberto Pagliari – Director Senior Product Owner – DLT Cash and Markets at Commerzbank
John O’Neill – Managing Director – Global Head of Digital Assets Strategy at HSBC
Neera Patel – Product Lead, Digital Currencies at R3
12.45 to 13.45: Lunch and networking (buffet lunch)
13.45 to 14.45: How many routes to interoperability does digital money need?
Panellists
Lee Braine – Managing Director – Advanced Technologies, Chief Technology Office at Barclays
Nick Kerigan – Managing Director Head of Innovation at SWIFT
Ami Ben-David – Founder and CEO at Ownera
Eitan Katz – CEO at Kima Finance
Angie Walker – Global Head of Banking and Capital Markets at Chainlink Labs
14.45 to 15.45: Is a “unified” programmable platform for multiple forms of digital money and digital assets a viable objective?
Panellists
Gilbert Verdian – CEO at Quant
Marco Kessler – Head of Digital Securities SDX
Morten Bech – Head of Swiss Centre Innovation Hub at the Bank of International Settlement (BIS)
Lee McNabb – Head of Group Payment Strategy at NatWest
Monica Summerville – Head of Capital Markets Technology at Celent
15.45 to 16.45: What are the roles of regulated and unregulated Stablecoins now
Panellists
Amarjit (Jeet) Singh – EMEA Blockchain Leader at EY
Will Lee – Financial Policy Advisor at UK Finance
Romin Dabir – Partner Financial Services Regulation at Reed Smith
Dave Sutter – CEO at Open Trade
16.45 to 17.45: What are the challenges and opportunities for a major reserve currency issuing a CBDC?
Panellists
Katie Fortune – Economist at the Bank of England
Angus Fletcher – CEO UK at Fnality
Daniel Eidan – Advisor and Solutions Architect at the Bank of International Settlement (BIS)
17.45 to 18.00: Closing Address
18:00: Networking drinks and Canapés
For more information please contact Wendy Gallagher at wendy.gallagher@futureoffinance.biz with the Subject Line ‘Digital Money 2024’.