Full Steam Ahead for Banknote & Currency Conference in February

The Banknote & Currency Conference will take place, in person, on 21-24 February in Washington DC. Six weeks prior to the event, overall attendance matches the same stage prior to the 2019 Currency Conference, with particularly strong numbers of central banks and printworks.

For readers of Cash & Payment News™, while the agenda is packed with a wide range of topics covered, of particular interest are the pre-seminar sessions on 21 February:

• IACA Member Meeting Future of the Cash Cycle: The Impact of External Factors & Policy Considerations

• Workshop on Circulating Coins – Intrinsic, Essential, Sustainable.

And in the plenary sessions, from 22-24 February attendees will hear from the central banks of India, Lebanon, Russia, US talk about developments in issuance and production, along with a wide spectrum of presentations and sessions looking at currency and coins in the cash cycle, counterfeiting, sustainability and more.

Perhaps of greatest interest are two sessions:

• Access to cash, payments and financial inclusion

• From physical to digital: the roles of cash and CBDCs.

On 25th February there will be the first Digital Currency Conference which will talk about:

• Quantum computing – risks and opportunities

• The Digital Currency Trifecta: privacy, risk, and security

• Importance of digital innovation

• Project Nexus: cross-border interoperability

• Interoperability in a global economy

• China and CBDC

• Interaction between the technical design and CBDC ecosystem implications

• Technical approach and design of a CBDC

• Big Tech and digital currencies

• Access to digital payments: the new digital divide.

More information can be found at the Banknote & Currency Conference and Digital Currency Conference websites.