Join Future of Finance at their inaugural Digital Money Event

June 13^th 2024

Offices of Reed Smith LLP, Broadgate Towers, 20 Primrose Street, London EC2A 2RS

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.

This one-day event will explore some of these issues and be joined by confirmed speakers from:

The Bank of England; Bundesbank; Banca D’Italia; Bank of International Settlement (BIS), Payment Systems Regulator (PSR); SWIFT; Citi; JP Morgan; NatWest; SDX; Chainlink; Loughborough University; Quant; Fnality; Reed Smith; Kima Finance; Commerzbank, UK Finance, MoneyHub; EY, HSBC, and many more.

Moderators:

Dominic Hobson (DH), Co-Founder and Editorial Director at Future of Finance

Keith Bear (KB), Fellow at the Centre for Alternative Finance, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Event Agenda

08:00:

Registration Opens with coffee and biscuits

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08:30:

Opening Address:  Future of Finance

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08:45:

Keynote:  Christopher Holmes, Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE

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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?

Panelists

Alistair Milne – Professor Financial Economics at Loughborough University

Heike Winter – Retail Payments Policy at Bundesbank

More to be Confirmed

Moderated by DH and KB

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10.00 to 11.00: 

The Impact of Digital Money on how payments are made

Panelists

Sam Seaton – CEO at Moneyhub Enterprise 

Payments System Regulator – name to be confirmed

More to be Confirmed

Moderated by DH and KB

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11.00 to 11.45

Coffee Break and Networking

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11.45 to 12.45: 

How can we build a fully transferable tokenised deposit market?

Panelists

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

Moderated by DH and KB

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12.45 to 13.45:

Lunch and networking (buffet lunch)

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13.45 to 14.45:

How many routes to interoperability does digital money need?

Panelists

Lee Briane – 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

Moderated by DH and KB

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14.45 to 15.45:

Is a “unified” programmable platform for multiple forms of digital money and digital assets a viable objective?

Panelists

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

Moderated by DH and KB

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15.45 to 16.45:

What are the roles of regulated and unregulated Stablecoins now

Panelists

Amarjit (Jeet) Singh – EMEA Blockchain Leader at EY

Will Lee – Financial Policy Advisor at UK Finance

More to be Confirmed

Moderated by DH and KB

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16.45 to 17.45:

What are the challenges and opportunities for a major reserve currency issuing a CBDC? 

Panelists

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)

Moderated by DH and KB

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17.45 to 18.00:

Closing Address

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18:00:

Networking drinks and Canapés

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For more information please contact Wendy Gallagher at wendy.gallagher@futureoffinance.biz with the Subject Line ‘Digital Money 2024’.