FNA Insider: January 23
Looking at both sides of the Coin. Carlos León evaluates CBDCs for City AM
Do CBDCs put us on the path to an Orwellian nightmare? For Carlos León, Director of FMIs and Digital Currencies Solutions, such an argument is overly simplistic. To counter, he weighs up the pros and cons of CBDCs from a technical standpoint to offer an informed discussion on the matter.??
What can banks do to solve liquidity challenges??
As stories of liquidity pressure have dominated headlines recently, FNA President Phillip Straley explains the actions banks and other financial institutions feeling the strain of current market challenges can do to solve liquidity challenges in this article.?
The US is moving closer to the Digital Dollar, but is there enough of a business case?
FNA's Founder and CEO, Dr Kimmo Soram?ki, offers his thoughts on whether there is enough of a business case to replace existing digital centralised settlement systems with tokenised securities and a DLT-based CBDC in this Global Risk Regulator article.?
FMI Broadcast Sessions 7 & 8
The FMI Broadcast returned this month with not one but two sessions last week. Guests Saskia Devolder (SWIFT) and?John Jackson (Bank of England) joined FNA for Session #7?as we explored everything you need to know about the global payment standard ISO 20022. Then, guests?Patrick Papsdorf (European Central Bank)?and?Claudine Hurman (Banque de France)? joined us for Session #8 to discuss Operational Resilience in Decentralized Payment Systems in Wholesale Banking.?