Central Bank Digital Currencies: New Opportunities for Payments

International conference

21 February 2020, Kyiv

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Central bank digital currency

In recent years, digital currencies have sharply advanced. Their issue and circulation have been occurring based on a variety of models and legal conditions, using a multitude of technologies.

 

In this context, many central banks are researching the possibility of issuing proprietary digital currency (so called CBDC, central bank digital currency) and their options in employing them. CBDC is regarded as a new and evolutionary type of central bank money, despite CBDC types and technologies varying, depending on the objectives.

 

Research of CBDC by the National Bank of Ukraine

In line with the global innovative developments in the payment sector, the National Bank of Ukraine launched in 2016 a pilot project on issuing proprietary digital currency, the E-Hryvnia. During the project, a blockchain platform for issuing CBDC as an instrument for retail payments was tested, international practices and approaches to introduce CBDC were examined, the macroeconomic effect was analyzed, and the development of the best business model was initiated.

 

Relevant questions on CBDC

Currently, the NBU – as with economists globally – is faced with many questions related to digital currency.

 

  • What are the opportunities, potential, and prospects of introducing CBDC?
  • How could the financial ecosystem change with the introduction of CBDC?
  • What business models of CBDC can be utilized? What are the benefits and faults of such models?
  • What are the global trends in the introduction and regulation of CBDC?

 

Conference

 

The conference will provide a platform for central bank representatives, stakeholders, specialists and researchers from throughout the world to share their knowledge and experience on the potential introduction of CBDC and its place in financial ecosystem.

 

Invited experts  

Among those presenting their views at the conference on CBDC introduction are experts of the World Bank; the International Monetary Fund; the central banks of Japan, South Africa, Uruguay, Finland, Lithuania, Canada and Sweden; representatives of the financial market (banks and FinTech); as well as researchers. 

Preliminary Programme

2/21/2020

08:30 - 09:30

Welcoming coffee

09:30 - 09:40

Welcoming Remarks

  • Yakiv Smolii, NBU Governor
09:40 - 10:00

Keynote speech: CBDCs - Global Overview

  • Harish Natarajan, World Bank     
10:00 - 10:35

Case study: E-hryvnia Pilot Project (E-hryvnia game)

  • Roman Hartinger, NBU     
10:35 - 11:00

Presentation 

  • Charles Kahn, University of Illinois      
11:00 - 11:20

Coffee break

11:20 - 12:30

Panel Discussion: Prospects and Opportunities of CBDCs

Moderator: Mihnea Constantinescu, NBU

  • Scott Hendry, Bank of Canada     
  • Aleksi Grym, Bank of Finland
  • Aistė Juškaitė, Bank of Lithuania
  • Yuuko Kawai, Bank of Japan
  • Harro Boven, De Nederlandsche Bank     
12:30 - 13:10

Case studies: CBDCs as interbank settlements

  • Scott Hendry, Bank of Canada      
  • Gerhard Van Deventer, South African Reserve Bank
13:10 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 15:10

Case studies: CBDCs as an equivalent to cash

  • Björn Segendorf, Sveriges Riksbank     
  • Adolfo Sarmiento, Banco Central del Uruguay
     
15:10 - 15:30

Keynote speech: CBDCs – a global overview

  • Tanai Khiaonarong, IMF
15:30 - 15:50

Coffee break

15:50 - 17:00

Panel discussion: CBDCs in the Ukrainian payment landscape
Moderator: Anastasiya Shevchenko

  • Olha Vasylieva, NBU
  • Dmytro Donets, PrivatBank 
  • Natalia Savchuk, UkrSibbank 
  • Serhii Koptik, Kyivstar
  • Sergiy Vasylchuk, Attik Lab
  • Dmytro Zarakhovich, UaPay
17:00 - 17:45

Presentations: technical architecture for retail CBDC

  • Ousmène Jacques Mandeng, Accenture      
  • Pavlo Kravchenko, Distributed Lab 
  • Makoto Takemiya, Saramitsu     
  • Ryan Lackey, Tezos Foundation     
17:45 - 18:00

Closing remarks

  • Sergii Kholod, NBU Deputy Governor
18:00

Reception

Speakers

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Yakiv Smolii

National Bank of Ukraine

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Harish Natarajan

World Bank

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Tanai Khiaonarong

International Monetary Fund

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Sergii Kholod

National Bank of Ukraine

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Gerhard Van Deventer

South African Reserve Bank

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Roman Hartinger

National Bank of Ukraine

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Scott Hendry

Bank of Canada

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Björn Segendorf

Sveriges Riksbank

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Adolfo Sarmiento

Central Bank of Uruguay

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Charles Kahn

University of Illinois

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Olha Vasylieva

National Bank of Ukraine

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Yuko Kawai

Bank of Japan

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Aleksi Grym

Bank of Finland

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Pavlo Kravchenko

Distributed Lab

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Harro Boven

Dutch Central Bank

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Sergii Vasylchuk

AtticLab

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Makoto Takemiya

Soramitsu

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Ryan Lackey

Tezos Foundation

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Ousmène Jacques Mandeng

Accenture

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Serhii Koptik

Kyivstar

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Nataliia Savchuk

UKRSIBBANK

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Dmytro Zarakhovych

Softinvest Holding

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Moderators

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Kate Shcheglova-Goldfinch

National Bank of Ukraine

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Mihnea Constantinescu

National Bank of Ukraine

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Anastasiya Shevchenko

Independent expert on fintech

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Venue

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Unit City

UNIT.City, Building B12, UNIT.Verse conference-hall, 3 Dorohozhytska St., Kyiv, Ukraine