Central Bank Digital Currencies

This series of seminars on the future of FMI, hosted by the LSE Law School, was established in 2020 in order to provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion of the most pressing issues relating to this systemic part of the global financial markets. Our theme for 2022/23’s programme is ‘Assessing New Developments’. With this theme in mind, we are organising a series of events to contextualise and develop contemporary debates around central counterparties, clearing, settlement and the role of new technologies in FMI. For our next event, we are delighted to be hosting John Kiff, speaking on the topic of Central Bank Digital Currencies.

In this presentation, John will discuss which central banks are doing what and how in the central bank digital currency (CBDC) space. He will also cover the risks and trade offs that are being managed in the design and rollout phases. The talk will be followed by a Q&A.

John is Research Director at the Sovereign Official Digital Association (SODA), Head of CBDC/Digital Capital Markets Advisory at Satoshi Capital Advisers, and Advisor to Whisper Cash. He was a Senior Financial Sector Expert at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2005 to 2021. Prior to that, he was at the Bank of Canada for 25 years, where he spent most of his time managing the funding and investment of the government’s foreign exchange reserves, including running its interest rate and currency swap book. At the IMF he was part of the team that produces the semi-annual Global Financial Stability Report. More recently he has been focusing on fintech issues, digital currencies, OTC derivative market infrastructure, and longevity risk transfer markets.

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