London Training Series

Topics covered

|  Leadership  |  Fintech  |  Currency |   Balance sheets |  Financial stability | AI & automation  | 

Learning outcomes

Innovating with Fintech, Regtech, and Suptech: Enhancing inclusion and regulatory efficiency

• Understand Fintech’s role in financial inclusion: Gain insight into how fintech advances financial inclusion and empowers underserved communities, with examples of impactful fintech initiatives. 
• Explore regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs: Learn the purpose and setup of regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs, examining real-world case studies from central banks and financial regulators. 
• Analyse Regtech solutions for compliance: Discover how Regtech tools enhance compliance processes, streamline reporting, and improve accuracy in regulatory oversight.
• Examine Suptech’s impact on supervision: Understand how Suptech applications support proactive supervision, enabling regulators to detect and manage risks effectively in evolving financial landscapes.

AI and automation: Leveraging data and managing risks 

• Explore AI applications in central banking: Understand how AI is being applied across central banking functions, from monetary policy analysis to financial supervision, with examples of real-world use cases. 
• Assess risks and ethical considerations of AI: Identify and evaluate potential risks, including ethical and operational challenges, that AI introduces within financial systems 
• Examine legal and regulatory implications of AI: Delve into the legal issues around AI, focusing on regulatory compliance, data privacy, and the evolving policy landscape for AI in finance. 
• Utilise data for AI and automation: Learn how to effectively collect, manage, and analyse data to enhance automation, explore the benefits of generative AI, and develop a data-driven approach to central bank operations.

DLT, blockchain, and open finance: Innovations, risks, and collaborative potential 

• Understand DLT and blockchain fundamentals: Gain a foundational understanding of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain, including key concepts, differences from traditional systems, and practical use cases in central banking. 
• Explore DLT’s role in central bank operations: Examine how DLT can enhance cross-border payments, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen security, with insights into governance and consensus mechanisms for central bank DLT networks. 
• Identify and manage risks and regulatory challenges: Analyse key risks associated with blockchain—such as security, scalability, and privacy—and discuss regulatory challenges and frameworks to support secure DLT adoption. 
• Discover open finance and collaborative DLT initiatives: Learn about APIs, open finance applications, and interoperability opportunities between institutions, with case studies on DLT experiments and pilot projects, exploring real-world applications and emerging trends.

Securing financial stability in a shifting global landscape 

• Analyse geopolitical risks and inflation pressures: Examine current geopolitical tensions and their effects on inflation and financial stability, with a focus on risk mitigation strategies for central banks. 
• Assess climate risks to financial stability: Understand how climate change impacts financial stability and explore how central banks are integrating climate risk assessment into their mandates and decision-making. 
• Enhance business continuity and resilience: Learn how central banks develop resilience and continuity plans to protect against operational disruptions, ensuring stability during crises. 
• Explore emerging financial stability risks: Identify and discuss other topical threats to financial stability, such as cyber threats, evolving market dynamics, and the impact of rapid technological changes on financial resilience.

The evolution of currency: Balancing tradition with digital innovation 

• Examine the role of physical cash in a digital world: Explore the ongoing significance of cash (banknotes and coins), the societal impacts of declining cash use, and strategies for ensuring access to physical currency. 
• Understand the basics of digital money and e-Money design: Gain insights into the architecture of digital money, including e-money, wallets, and the fundamental design elements of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). 
• Discuss modern payment systems and interoperability: Learn about payment system advancements, the importance of interoperability, and initiatives aimed at future-proofing payment infrastructure. 
• Strengthen Operational Resilience in Financial Market Infrastructures (FMI): Understand the importance of FMI modernization, particularly RTGS updates, and strategies to enhance operational resilience in the face of digital and systemic changes.

Navigating balance sheet challenges in modern central banks 

• Understand the functional basis of central bank balance sheets: Learn the core structure of central bank balance sheets and how they support policy objectives, especially under inflationary pressures. 
• Examine central bank solvency and capital structure: Explore the unique concept of central bank solvency, implications for capital structures, and approaches to maintaining policy solvency through effective capital management. 
• Manage revaluations and reporting practices: Analyse strategies for handling balance sheet revaluations and best practices for transparent performance reporting amid fluctuating market conditions. 
• Assess balance sheet resilience in changing markets: Identify key criteria for robust capital levels and resilience, adapting to economic shifts while upholding central bank stability.

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