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Nordea’s Johanna Lybeck Lilja discusses emerging developments in Central Bank Digital Currencies, where Sweden’s pioneering eKrona initiative highlights some of the key design considerations for other central banks and financial systems around the world.

We discuss new initiatives to provide cross-border connectivity for domestic payments innovations, and ways to improve how financial institutions onboard their FinTech partners, with Terry Angelos, Global Head of FinTech at Visa.

Rachel Bailey, a senior manager specializing in machine learning in model risk and validation at Lloyds Banking Group, joins us on FRT to discuss key findings from our recent Machine Learning Governance study.

Recent developments have brought Quantum Computing out of the lab and into application testing. We discuss the key implications for financial services with experts Denise Ruffner (IonQ), Marko Milek (State Street) and Rudy Raymond (IBM).

As the ‘Platformization’ of finance gathers pace, KPMG Global Co-Head of FinTech Anton Ruddenklau talks us through developments in partnerships, the necessary mindset shifts, cross-industry convergence, and the emerging FinTech trends to look for in 2021.

Catherine Parry, Founder and CEO of DeepView, outlines the key trends in social media security and online surveillance technologies that have emerged through the COVID ‘Work From Home’ era.

FRT once again joins forces with CQ Roll Call’s FinTech Beat podcast, as we exchange our key takeaways from across the IIF Annual Membership Meeting, the IMF & World Bank annual meetings, and DC FinTech Week, with FinTech Beat host, Professor Chris Brummer of Georgetown University.

Ivo Jenik of the World Bank’s Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) discusses the opportunities and critical dependencies for digitalization to support greater financial inclusion, and key learnings for the application of regulatory sandboxes.

With the criticality of Digital Identity underlined by the pandemic and recent economic shifts, we discuss the opportunities to support SMEs in the digital economy and promote financial inclusion, and the importance of enabling interoperability.

Jay Healey, a Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s SIPA joins the IIF's Martin Boer to discuss the intersection between Cyber Conflict and the Financial Services sector.

Looking beyond ‘Open Banking’, we discuss Australia’s multi-sectoral Consumer Data Right (CDR) with Dr Liming Zhu of the national science agency CSIRO, looking at the potential extension of open data principles to other consumer sectors.

The economy has been adapting and digitalizing rapidly in response to COVID-19, both in financial services and beyond. IIF economists and digital finance experts look forward at what this means not only in financial services but also for SMEs to keep pace with tech firms in a competitive eCommerce environment.

BBVA’s Head of Digital Regulation and Trends (and former IIF secondee) Pablo Urbiola returns to FRT, discussing how the competitive landscape in financial services has evolved with digitalization, and where policymakers need to keep pace with ongoing developments.

Grace Sone, Head of Cooperation and Organization at the Financial Stability Board Secretariat in Basel, spoke with Martin Boer of the Institute of International Finance to discuss Cyber Risk and how the current COVID-19 pandemic is impacting cyber resilience across the financial services industry.

With COVID-19 ushering the increased digitalization of the economy and placing an increased emphasis on Digital Identity, Rod Boothby (Global Head of Identity at Santander) and Don Thibeau (Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation) visit FRT to discuss an important initiative for enabling online trust.

Meeting customer preferences is at the center of both the digital transformation of finance and Islamic banking. In this episode, Bassel Gamal, Qatar Islamic Bank’s Group CEO, shares his experience with these two innovation journeys and how they intersect.