Digital Money 2024
- Jun 13, 2024
- 5 min read
Updated: 3 days ago
How the Ways We Pay and Get Paid are Going to Change
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.
Join Future of Finance at their inaugural Digital Money Event
Event Details
Venue: Offices of Reed Smith LLP, Broadgate Towers, 20 Primrose Street, London EC2A 2RS
Date: June 13th 2024
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.
The Panels and Agenda
08:00 – Registration Opens with coffee and biscuits
08:30 – Opening Address: Future of Finance
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?
1st Panel
The promises of cryptocurrency in theory
The shortcomings of cryptocurrency in practice
The reaction to cryptocurrency by regulators
The future of cryptocurrency
Confirmed Panellists:
Moderated by Paul Amery
10.00 to 11.00: The Impact of Digital Money on how payments are made
2nd Panel
The differences between payments now and payments in the future
The payments infrastructure of the future
Programmable money and the apps that will bring it to life
How cross-border payments will be cheaper, faster, and more transparent and more accessible
Confirmed Panellists:
Moderated by Dominic Hobson
11.00 to 11.45 - Coffee Break and Networking
11.45 to 12.45: How can we build a fully transferable tokenised deposit market?
3rd Panel
Why tokenised deposits are taking so long to develop
The features and benefits that give tokenised deposits their competitive edge
The infrastructure that is needed to make tokenised deposits take off
The regulatory treatment of tokenised deposits
Confirmed Panellists:
Marcy Dumitrescu – Senior Product Manager Digital Currencies at R3
Moderated by Keith Bear
12.45 to 13.45 - Lunch and networking (buffet lunch)
13.45 to 14.45:How many routes to interoperability does digital money need?
4th Panel
Why interoperability matters
The competing routes to achieve interoperability
Whether the scope of interoperability should include cryptocurrencies
Whether interoperability requires the tokenisation of traditional finance
Confirmed Panellists:
Lee Braine – Managing Director – Advanced Technologies, Chief Technology Office at Barclays
Moderated by Monica Summerville
14.45 to 15.45: Is a “unified” programmable platform for multiple forms of digital money and digital assets a viable objective?
5th Panel
The different models for a single programmable platform for all financial assets
The arguments for an against Ethereum as a model
Whether regulated entities need such an infrastructure
Whether the single programmable platform must be a public good
Confirmed Panellists:
Moderated by Dominic Hobson
15.45 to 16.15 - Coffee Break and Networking
16.15 to 17.15:What are the roles of regulated and unregulated Stablecoins now
6th Panel
The current state of the Stablecoin market
The impact of local implementations of the global regulatory consensus on Stablecoins
The coming divide between regulated and unregulated Stablecoins
The use-cases for Stablecoins now
Confirmed Panellists:
Moderated by Dominic Hobson
17.15 to 18.15:What are the challenges and opportunities for a major reserve currency issuing a CBDC?
7th Panel
The current state of the CBDC universe around the world
Predicting whether a major reserve currency will issue a CBDC
The case for synthetic CBDCs
Questions about the utility of CBDCs
Confirmed Panellists:
Keith Bear – Fellow at the Centre for Alternative Finance, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Moderated by Dominic Hobson
18:45 - Networking drinks and Canapés
Confirmed Speakers
 Heike Winter Retail Payments Policy
 |  Daniel Eidan Advisor and Solutions Architect  |  John O’Neill Managing Director – Global Head of Digital Assets Strategy  |
 Andrea Nobili Director and the Head of Analysis and Database Division at Banca D’Italia  |  Emma Landriault Vice President Incubation and Architecture – Solution Development Onyx Coin System  |  Shearin Cao EMEA Regulatory Engagement Function Director  |
 Tony Craddock Director General
 |  Lee Braine Managing Director – Advanced Technologies, Chief Technology Office at Barclays  |  Lee McNabb Head of Group Payment Strategy  |
 Ami Ben-David Founder and CEO  |  Sam Seaton CEO  |  Dr Raoul Herborg Managing Director Digital Currency Division  |
 Olaf Ransome The Bankers’ Plumber an independent consultant  |  Eitan Katz CEO  |  Nick Kerigan Managing Director, Head of Innovation  |
 Gilbert Verdian CEO  |  Tariq Zafar Rasheed Partner  |  Marcy Dumitrescu Senior Product Manager – Digital Currencies  |
 Roberto Pagliari Director, Senior Product Owner – DLT Cash and Markets  |  Amarjit (Jeet) Singh EMEA Blockchain Leader  |  Marco Kessler Head of Digital Securities  |
 Monica Summerville Head of Capital Market  |  Will Lee Policy Analyst – Finance and Crypto Policy  |  Angus Fletcher CEO  |
 Romin Dabir Partner |  Alistair Milne Professor Financial Economics  |  Mark Raynes Head of Capital Markets Solutions  |
 David Sutter CEO  |  Jón Egilsson Co-founder and Chairman  |  Keith Bear Fellow at the Centre for Alternative Finance, Judge Business School  |
 Paul Amery Senior Marketing Manager  |  Varun Paul Senior Director  |
Moderators
 Dominic Hobson Co-founder and Editorial Director  | Keith Bear Fellow at the Centre for Alternative Finance, Judge Business School | Monica Summerville Head of Capital Markets |
Paul Amery Senior Marketing Manager  |
Contact Information
Wendy Gallagher
Co-Founder Future of Finance
wendy.gallagher@futureoffinance.biz
Mobile 07725 160903
