In this episode of FRT, Ronit Ghose, Global Head of the Future of Finance think tank at Citi Global Insights, discusses the future of money, tokens, and games. Each year, Ronit’s team publishes the “Citi GPS: Global Perspectives and Solutions” report exploring trends in digital money. This year’s report, subtitled “Blockchain’s Next Billion Users and Trillions in Value” explores why innovation in money is different than innovation in other assets ..read more

In this episode of FRT, Fabian Astic, Managing Director and Global Head of Decentralized Finance and Digital Assets at Moody’s Investors Service, asks critical questions like “Why do we need digital currencies?” and “What is their value?” Fabian analyzes the use cases for various types of digital currency, from cyptoassets to stablecoins to deposit tokens to CBDCs, and closes by sharing his views on the future of decentralized finance ..read more

In this episode of FRT, Tom Mutton, Director of Fintech at the Bank of England, discusses the Bank’s joint consultative report with HM Treasury, titled “The digital pound: a new form of money for households and businesses?” Tom additionally comments on the future of financial infrastructure, addressing privacy, interoperability, public vs. private solutions, and the future of decentralized technologies ..read more

In this episode of FRT, Yue Hong Zhang of Boston Consulting Group (Hong Kong) and Daniel Wu of Amazon Web Services (APAC) discuss emerging technologies and the future of financial infrastructure, including the development of cloud, artificial intelligence, digital assets, blockchain technology, and the policy environment shaping the adoption of these technologies in the Asia Pacific region ..read more

This episode of FRT reflects on the role of cloud computing in the future of finance, and the recent US Treasury Report on the topic, with Howard Boville, Head of IBM Cloud Platform & Technology Lifecycle Services. Cloud computing is an essential tool for the digital transformation of financial services, but its rise has been accompanied by a global policy dialogue on the role of cloud computing and the appropriate frameworks to manage risk and oversight. The US official sector had been comparatively quiet on the subject; however, a recent report from the US Treasury has put forward a comp ..read more

Data is at the core of today’s economy and the future of finance, so the stakes are high as governments create the frameworks to regulate and control its use. In this episode of FRT, Jessica Renier and Conan French share some of the different vectors where the IIF sees the new developments in the policy debate as well as the key takeaways on data governance from the 2022 IIF-EY Machine Learning Survey and recent staff papers on the impact of data frameworks ..read more

In this episode of FRT, Jennifer Lassiter, Executive Director of the Digital Dollar Project (DDP), discusses the global development of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and the DDP’s recent White Paper 2.0, titled “Revisiting the Digital Dollar Project’s exploration of a U.S. central bank digital currency ..read more

In this episode of FRT, Jesse McWaters, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Regulatory Advocacy at Mastercard, and former Financial Innovation Lead at the World Economic Forum, gives us a look into the 2023 WEF Annual Meeting and emerging digital trends on the horizon. In its first winter being held in Davos since the start of COVID-19, Jesse discusses this year's Annual Meeting theme, “Cooperation in a Fragmented World ..read more

In this episode of FRT, Jessica Renier, Managing Director of Digital Finance at the Institute of International Finance, discusses geopolitical and institutional frameworks as we close out 2022 and look forward to 2023. The environment in which financial institutions operate shapes priorities, and in turn, the workplans of global standard setting bodies with respect to digital finance. With this episode, we kick off our 2023 bi-weekly series of FRT ..read more

In this episode of FRT, Ryan Moore, Managing Director of Financial Services at EY, discusses trends in Machine Learning adoption in financial services and key insights in the upcoming IIF-EY Report on ML for Credit Risk and Anti-Money Laundering.   Ryan will join Conan French from IIF's Digital Finance department to discuss the state of development and adoption of ML, including the benefits and challenges that arise from ML use in financial services. Specific points include machine learning governance maturity, model monitoring, feedback mechanisms and other controls that are be ..read more