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’.