Central Banking Spring Meetings
The Central Banking Spring Meetings will bring together central banking experts from across the globe. The event will focus on the latest developments, innovations, and challenges in central banking, featuring panel discussions, working groups, and opportunities to network with policymakers.
Central Banking Spring Meetings
The next Spring Meetings will take in Cape Town from 25-26, February 2025
A must attend event within the central banking community
Stay current
Keep ahead of the latest developments and innovation
Have your say
Engage in panel discussions and working groups
Hear from leaders
Find out how central bankers can, and are, tackling current challenges
Meet counterparts
Establish relationships with leading policymakers from across the globe
This year's speakers included:
Tania Patrícia de Oliveira Mendes
Director of the market department
National Bank of Angola
Julian Masson
Senior portfolio manager
South African Reserve Bank
Carl Julian Masson (Julian) is a Senior Portfolio Manager at the South African Reserve Bank.
He assumed his position in the Reserves Management Unit, Financial Markets Department in April 2022. His main responsibilities include the management of Global Fixed Income portfolios.
Suyog Peshkar
Section chief for third party risk management
International Monetary Fund
All financial organizations currently face an exceptionally challenging external environment: increasing regulatory pressures, heavy reliance on external third-parties, dominance of cloud based services and Artificial Intelligence (AI), all amid makes issues related to Third Party Risk Management prominent for both regulators and organizations alike.
With a track record of successfully establishing a robust third party risk management (TPRM) function at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Section Chief, Suyog Peshkar brings a unique perspective on the intersection of operational risks and outsourcing.
In his twenty plus years’ experience, Suyog has advised global firms as well as provided hands-on expertise in delivering outsourcing solutions to generate higher cost savings, mitigate risks and derive efficiencies. Suyog completed a LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law from the University of London and a Masters in Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems from the London School of Economics (LSE), which enables him to provide ‘techno-legal’ advisory on complex issues related to sourcing governance, risk management and third party compliance.
Recognized as an operational and third party risk expert, Suyog is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences, risk panels and UN seminars.
Andrew Kawere
Director, National payment systems department
Bank of Uganda
CPA Andrew Kawere is a banking professional with extensive experience in finance, audit and financial sector regulation, obtained in diverse sectors, both public and private. Andrew started his now 20-year career with a stint in public practice, while working with KPMG. He later on moved to East African Development Bank and Bank of Uganda where he has served in different roles over the years, growing through the ranks to Head of Division at the Central Bank.
Until December 2020, Andrew oversaw the regulation and supervision of Non-Bank Financial Institutions in the Bank of Uganda Supervision Directorate. Effective January 2021, Andrew serves in the National Payment Systems Department of Bank of Uganda, where he is tasked with implementation of the National Payment Systems Act, 2020 and the regulations thereunder. He is directly responsible for the regulation, licensing, supervision and oversight of payment service providers such as electronic money issuers. Andrew led the development of the first e-payments strategy for the Central Bank, the establishment of the payment systems oversight function and the design of the attendant business processes to support the oversight activities. He has spoken at different fora about risk management, payment systems oversight and digital financial services.
Among other professional responsibilities, Andrew is a retired three term founder board member at the Information Systems Audit and Control Association - ISACA Kampala Chapter, represented the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda on the National Information Security Advisory Group and currently sits on the Industry and Business Panel of the Professional Standards Committee of Council at the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda.
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