Agenda - Fintech Asia
Agenda - Fintech Asia
Agenda
All timings in SGT
15:00 – 15:30
Fintech Asia: Challenges in the fintech ecosystem
15:00 – 15:30
Keynote presentation: Bank of Thailand approach to driving Fintech ecosytems
Naphongthawat Phothikit
Payment systems policy director, payment systems policy department
Bank of Thailand
Mr. Naphongthawat Phothikit currently works at the Payment Systems Policy Department, Bank of Thailand. With more than twenty-year experience in central banking, Mr.Phothikit has experience in banking supervision, data management, payment systems and FinTech. Mr.Phothikit is currently responsible for the formulation and implementation of national policies regarding payment systems and related financial technologies to ensure efficiency and safety of the economy. His main responsibilities include the national policy for the development of payment systems infrastructure, promotion of the use of electronic payment transactions in public and private sectors, and the oversight of payment systems operators and payment service providers.
16:00 – 16:45
Presentation: how has Covid-19 impacted the evolution of financial market infrastructure?
Adil Zbir is Head of oversight of Financial Market infrastructures at the Central Bank of Morocco. With over than 14 years of experience in the Central Bank of Morocco and the private banking sector, he’s contributing to strengthen the resilience of moroccan payment systems and the modernization and digitization of the moroccan payments market and its opening to new players notably FinTechs.
Adil Zbir earned a Master’s degree in economics from lille 1 university in France. He currently lives in Rabat, with his wife and two children.
17:00 – 17:45
Panel discussion: how are central banks fostering innovation in fintech?
He is a Director of Administrative and Financial Control of Corporate Services at the Central Bank of Tunisia and has been working in areas related to Institutional, Banking, Corporate and Central Banking activities and international relations since 2005.
He has an academic and professional expertise as a Visiting Professor, a Reviewer of Academic articles and a correspondent of international events/magazine/reports and has been also a delegate, speaker and participant at international conferences, seminars and workshops related to innovative topics in banking and finance.
He holds a Master of Arts from Gloucestershire University (UK) and an Executive Master from Paris Dauphine with a concentration in Islamic Finance.
Otar Gorgodze
Head of financial and supervisory technologies development department
National Bank of Georgia
Otar Gorgodze, CFA, FRM, Head of Financial and Supervisory Technologies Development Department at National Bank of Georgia, oversees Financial Innovation Office, Regulatory Sandbox, Open Banking and Information Exchange, AI model risk management, internal data science teams and Suptech applications. Previous change management portfolio includes Risk Based Supervisory change in banking supervision, development of cyber risk, operational risk, market risk, credit risk, macropudential risk, corporate governance and market conduct units. Acting member of Monetary Policy Committee. Contributed to change of monetary policy framework to Inflation Targeting. Prior to joining the public sector, has worked in private sector as a credit officer and investment analyst, held teaching positions at various universities. Has various publications on the topics of financial development and risk management.
Stavroula Kampouridou is Head of the FinTech Innovation Hub and Advisor at the central Bank of Greece (BoG). Her focus is on the FinTech initiatives undertaken by the BoG, like the Hub created in March of 2019, and the upcoming launch of a Regulatory Sandbox. In addition, her focus is on the overall digital transformation of the bank through the fast procurement of relevant IT projects, like the new website that launched in September of 2019. Her main interests include: digital transformation, PSD2, SupTech, Blockchain, tokenization of assets, challenges that Big Techs pose for financial markets, and how all these can possibly transform the business model of supervised institutions and subsequently adjust the relevant regulations.
Before joining BoG she was an IT Procurement Manager at NBG Group (2009 – 2016), heading the efforts of the sourcing unit, charged with an annual spending IT budget of €50M. Prior to that, she was a Hardware Sales Manager at IBM (2005 - 2009), responsible for the hardware sales in the Banking and Telecom sectors in Greece (€35M sales annually), achieving “Rookie of the Year” status (highest sales in IBM EMEA) her 1st year.
She holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Athens with distinction, and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (on a full scholarship).
14:30 – 15:15
Fintech Asia: coordinating responses to best practices for CBDC issuance
14:30 – 15:15
Roundtable discussion: CBDCs: lessons learned during the pandemic
Carl Andreas is senior advisor at the Riksbank. He is an experienced central banker and is currently involved in questions related to money and the digitalisation of payments. His latest research focus on cash demand. Claussen has worked at several central banks and done technical assistance and consultancy work for many more. He has published in academic journals, central bank outlets and blogs. He has a Phd in political economy from the University of Oslo, Norway.
Marius Jurgilas has brought his experience in both academia and government to the important role of Member of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania with responsibility for supervisio, payment systems and research. During his tenur Lithuania emerged as a top jurisidiction for fintech companies witin the EU under the leadership of the Bank of Lithuania, forging Mr Jurgilas' reputation as a leading European thinker on the future of banking.
Aleksi Grym is head of fintech at the Bank of Finland. He leads a team that manages a portfolio of projects related to fintech, new payment technologies and digital currencies. He is a member of the Eurosystem's digital euro project steering group. Before joining the Finnish central bank he worked in the consulting and technology investment industry for 15 years in London and Helsinki.
Gabriel Söderberg is a Senior Economist at Sveriges Riksbank and an Associate Professor in economic history at Uppsala University. He works with the Riksbank’s CBDC project and related developments in the financial and payments sectors. As a university researcher he currently investigates and writes a book on the nature of economic – including monetary and financial - instability and how society deals with them.
16:15 – 17:00
Roundtable discussion: coordinating approaches for the use of stablecoins
Elisabeth Noble is a Senior Policy Advisor at the European Banking Authority. She leads the EBA’s work on crypto-assets, DLT, and the platformisation of financial services and is the EBA coordinator for the European Forum for Innovation Facilitators. She represents the EBA in EU and international standard-setter policy work streams relating to FinTech, market-based finance, financial system interconnectedness, market access and the regulatory perimeter. She is contributing to the delivery of the EU Digital Finance Strategy and was a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Regulatory Obstacles to Financial Innovation (now disbanded). Prior to joining the EBA, Elisabeth was at the UK’s finance ministry (2008-14) advising primarily on the response to the financial crisis and the post-crisis domestic and EU regulatory reforms, including the reforms to the regulatory architecture in the EU (Banking Union). Elisabeth has also spent some time in the private sector.
Thomas Moser is Alternate Member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank. He is also a member of the Managing Committee of the Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance at the University of St. Gallen and a member of the Board of Directors of Orell Füssli Holding Ltd. From 2006 to 2009 he was Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C., USA. Thomas Moser holds a MA and a doctorate in Economics from the University of Zurich.
Peter Wierts is currently senior economist central bank digital currency at the payments and market infrastructures division of the Dutch central bank. He also holds a part-time position as associate professor of finance at VU University Amsterdam, where he teaches two courses for postgraduate students. Previously, he worked at the European Commission (DG ECFIN; 2002-2005) and the Dutch Ministry of Finance (1996-2002). He holds a PhD from the University of Reading. Peter has published extensively on policy-oriented topics, e.g. in Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Economic Policy and the International Journal of Central Banking.
Rachael King
Associate editor and subject matter specialist, Central Banking
Central Banking Publications
Rachael is Central Banking's Associate/Commercial Editor. She graduated from the University of Nottingham with a first-class degree in classical civilisations. Rachael also manages the Book notes section and is editor of Central Banking’s FinTech & RegtTech Global Awards.