Advanced Workshops
Digital Currencies
This workshop is designed for payments professionals who want to come up to speed quickly on digital currency essentials. After exploring key concepts and new stakeholders, current economic models emerging for crypto, stable and CBDCs are examined to understand how these new systems may impact the payments ecosystem and someday reshape everything from the six payments domains to our global economy.
Location
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Agenda
Key Concepts
- The purpose of money
- Account-based vs Token-based Payment Systems
- Crypto, Stablecoin, and Central Bank Digital Currencies Compared
- The Internet of Value Exchange
Digital Currency Building Blocks
- Key Questions in Digital Currency System Design
- Digital Currency Wallets
- Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers
- Smart Contracts
Stakeholders
- Digital Currency System Value Chain
- End User Perspectives: Consumers, Merchants
- New Infrastructure Providers
- Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs)
- Incumbent and New Providers: Banks, Networks, PSPs, Processors
Stablecoin Systems
- Four types of stablecoins
- Current landscape
- Emerging Use Cases
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Systems
- Two forms of CBDC
- Regulatory perspectives on CBDCs
- Early adopters: DCash, Sand Dollar, e-Yuan
- What We’re Watching
Cross-border CBDC Systems
- Today’s Correspondent Banking Model
- The challenges of correspondent banking
- Cross-border payments with Stablecoins
- Cross-border payments with CBDCs
- What We’re Watching
Wrap Up & Q&A
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