This document sets out the Agenda, Summary Report and Speaker Biographies for the joint G20/OECD Task Force on Financial Consumer Protection and FinCoNet International Seminar on Developments in Central Bank Digital Currencies and issues for consumers, held on 22 March 2023.
Opening remarks
Nisha Arora, Chair of the G20/OECD Task Force on Financial Consumer Protection
Keynote and Panel Discussion: Issues, risks and opportunities of CBDCs for consumers
Moderator: Carmine Di Noia, Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD
Keynote speaker: Maria Demertzis, Senior Fellow at Bruegel and Professor of Economic Policy at the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute in Florence
Panellists:
- Keith Bear, Fellow at the Centre for Alternative Finance, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
- Priscilla Koo Wilkens, Senior Economist, Innovation and Digital Economy Unit, Economic and Monetary Department, Bank for International Settlements.
Panel: Jurisdiction updates regarding the development of CBDCs
Moderator: Miles Larbey, Head of Financial Consumer Protection, Education & Inclusion Unit, DAF
Presenters:
- Stephanie Haffner, Senior Specialist in Central Bank Digital Currencies Unit, Bank of England
- Fabio Araujo, Project Leader of the Digital Brazilian Real Initiative, Banco Central do Brasil
- Rashida Monguno, Director of Consumer Protection Department, Central Bank of Nigeria
- Chris Thompson, Deputy Head of the Payments Policy Department, Reserve Bank of Australia
Closing Remarks
Chris Green, Chair of FinCoNet
