Wholesale CBDCs – The Future or a Complex Solution?
- Review the most important wholesale CBDC projects to determine whether CBDC will move out of exploration and experimental stages to transform the traditional wholesale environment
- Explore the value proposition for wholesale CBDCs including digital exchanges, cross border payments and wider payments systems
- Consider and understand the framework for a wholesale CBDC delving into the design, the use of DLT, and interoperability
- Consider the uncertainty around wholesale CBDC to understand if the benefits of CBDCs outweigh the risks:
- Regulatory questions, Coexisting with fiat currency, Taxonomy and global standardisation, Ecosystem development, Other solutions than CBDCs to improve wholesale inefficiencies
Noelle Acheson
Noelle Acheson
Managing Director of Research CoinDeskNoelle is Managing Director of Research at CoinDesk. She joined in 2016 after spending way too long in traditional finance and then in e-commerce. While scrambling to keep abreast of the industry’s rapid development and gazing into a crystal ball to figure out what topics will matter to professional investors in the months ahead, she writes CoinDesk’s weekly Crypto Long & Short newsletter.
James Pomeroy
James Pomeroy
Global Economist HSBCJames is a global economist at HSBC. He joined the Economics team in 2013 having previously worked within the Asset Allocation research team. His global work focuses on longer-term trends and themes, and the impact that they have on the economy and policy decisions today. Demographic data is at the heart of much of his work, but he has also written about urbanisation, the role of technology in the economy and how the world is moving away from cash. Alongside this, he provides economics coverage of Scandinavia. James holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Bath.
Segun Bewaji
Segun Bewaji
Team Lead, Senior Economist Payments CanadaAs Senior Economist at Payments Canada, ‘Segun has conducted a wide range of research developing quantitative and forecast models that advise Modernisation and Payments Canada’s corporate funding model. He has also developed market microstructure models of financial market infrastructures and is collaborating externally in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning within payments. In his role, ‘Segun is the subject matter expert on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and digital/cryptocurrencies, having participated in Payments Canada’s Project Jasper, as well as the ongoing Jasper-Ubin project. With a strong financial markets background, ‘Segun has worked in the Corporate Trust and technology functions related to secularisation, structured finance, and supporting over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives origination and trading at HSBC and the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo). ‘Segun has a Ph.D. in Computational Finance from the Center for ComputationalFinance and Economics Agents (University of Essex) specialising in the market microstructure of financial market regulation under the Basel Accords. His research interests include Financial Network Analyses, Agent-based Computational Economics, Quantum Economics, machine learning and computational intelligence in finance and economics
Will Lovell
Will Lovell
Head of Future Technology Bank of EnglandWill is the Head of Future Technology, responsible for looking at how new technologies are influencing the financial system, as well as how they can be exploited to meet the Bank’s mission. Among other things this involves work on distributed ledger, artificial intelligence and their usage on payment and settlement platforms. Will’s role on the RTGS Renewal Programme is to ensure that the new platform is fit for purpose for the upcoming changes in payment technology.
