The Road to Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)

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"The Road to Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)" focuses on key opportunities, challenges, and the path to widespread adoption of CBDCs

Tune into the Post Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group&#x27;s discussion on &quot;The Road to CBDCs.&quot; The focus will be on each speaker’s involvement with and outlook on CBDCs, as well as key opportunities, challenges, and design choices.“The Road to CBDCs” features Simon Chantry, Bitt; Ashley Lannquist, World Economic Forum; Alan Lim, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS); Wee Kee Toh, BIS Innovation Hub; Donna Parisi, Shearman &amp; Sterling LLP. This panel is hosted as a follow up to a July 2021 conversation we hosted on CBDCs and how they fit into the future of money and financial services with senior representatives from BTG Pactual, Banco Central do Brasil, Accenture, and Citi Bank. Watch that conversation here: https://youtu.be/y4mmMqTNuN0 This virtual panel discussion will be open to the public and be attended by PTDL’s network of financial, legal, and academic firms.The GBBC is the leading global industry association for the blockchain technology ecosystem with more than 350 institutional members across more than 76 jurisdictions and disciplines. Under the aegis of the GBBC, the PTDL Group’s network of more than 80 financial, legal, and academic firms meets monthly to discuss distributed ledger technology and regulatory developments in financial services.Speaker Bios:Simon Chantry:Simon is Co-Founder and COO of Bitt. He has a background in nuclear commissioning engineering. Simon cofounded Bitt in 2013 and has been working within the digital currency space for over eight years. He sits on the OECD Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board, and the WEFs Digital Currency Governance Consortium. Simon is Co-Founder and COO of Bitt. Simon began his professional career as a Nuclear Systems Commissioning Engineer, and after discovering Bitcoin in 2012, he co-founded Bitt. Simon was previously Director and CBDO with the firm and brought the company’s Digital Currency Management System (DCMS) to market in Q4 2017. Simon is a Board Member of the OECD’s Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board (BEPAB), a member of the World Economic Forum’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium and has been a featured blockchain and DLT expert at numerous government, regulatory, and technology centered forums. Simon is currently working to establish central bank digital currency (CBDC) standards and best practices to enable interoperability and effective CBDC project collaboration amongst international central banks. He also follows the evolution of decentralized finance, and digital currencies of various types. Ashley Lannquist:Ashley Lannquist is the Project Lead for Blockchain and Digital Currency at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. She leads the Forum’s work on CBDC, which has included the 2020 World Economic Forum “CBDC Policy-Maker Toolkit” that guides numerous central banks in their CBDC analysis. Ashley also manages projects related to blockchain, stablecoins and cryptocurrency policy and use-case analysis. She has an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a BA with honors in Economics and European Studies from Barnard College of Columbia University. Before working in blockchain, Ashley worked in fixed income investment management at BNY Mellon and elsewhere for six years, and she is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst. Alan Lim:Alan is the head of the FinTech Infrastructure Office at the Monetary Authority of Singapore where he leads the formulation of strategies and initiatives for technology innovation in the financial sector. He is responsible for research and innovation acceleration programs for emerging technologies in areas such as CBDC, DeFI and embedded finance. Alan leads the Foundational Digital Infrastructure (FDI) initiative focusing on the establishment of open and interoperable systems.Wee Kee Toh:Wee Kee joined the BIS Innovation Hub in May 2021 to lead Project Dunbar with a vision of enabling interoperable CBDCs and connected multi-CBDC platforms. Prior to joining the Innovation Hub on secondment from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Wee Kee was the Specialist Leader for Distributed Ledger Technology, and led Project Ubin, a collaborative industry project exploring the use of blockchain and DLT for clearing and settlement of payments and securities. With his strong network with the fintech and blockchain community, Wee Kee also led the curation of blockchain and digital currency content for the Singapore FinTech Festival.Donna Parisi:Donna Parisi is the Global Head of Finance covering bank finance, leveraged lending, project finance, restructuring and insolvency, and structured products and derivatives. She is the Derivatives Team Leader, is a Lead Industry Coordinator for Financial Institutions and spearhead’s the firm’s Family Office Group. Donna also leads Shearman &amp; Sterling&#x27;s FinTech Foundry, Shearman Women and is a member of the Firm’s Executive Group.She advises clients on the full range of derivatives, structured products, securitization, capital markets and commodities matters. In particular, she helps clients develop and structure new financial products and has extensive experience in the negotiation and documentation of OTC derivative transactions across all asset classes. Donna has broad and deep knowledge of financial institutions, regulatory requirements and the evolving business landscape. A skilled practitioner and negotiator, she represents major financial institutions including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, hedge funds and other private investment funds as well as corporate clients.Donna also spearheads the firm’s FinTech Foundry program, which supports the FinTech-related activities of our clients and the wider global FinTech ecosystem including financial institutions, FinTech start-ups, accelerators and incubators, venture capital and private equity investors, and policymakers.

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