First Speakers Announced for the CBDC Conference 2024

The CBDC Conference take place from 10-12 September in Istanbul. The conference organiser has now published the first tranche of confirmed speakers, 15 of whom are from central banks, as well as the International Monetary Fund.

While those central banks include Eurosystem members such as France, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain, and other European countries such as England, Georgia, Hungary and Switzerland, there is a good geographical spread including countries from Africa, Asia and the Americas – Canada, the Bahamas, Thailand, Ghana, Zambia, Chile and Uruguay will all speak.

The commercial bank sector is represented by Standard Chartered Bank, the European Savings and Retail Banking Group and the Association of German Banks. Other speakers now announced include IDEMIA, Saïd Business School, Oxford University, Kiffmeister Consulting and Payments Innovation Consulting.