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Virtual Panel via Toronto Centre (Apr 17): Using Stable Coins to Facilitate Financial Stability and Inclusion Under Unprecedented Times

The Toronto Centre | Apr 13, 2020

The Toronto Centre Webinar Supervising the new normal - Virtual Panel via Toronto Centre (Apr 17): Using Stable Coins to Facilitate Financial Stability and Inclusion Under Unprecedented TimesThis session is designed for financial sector regulators and supervisors, central bankers, officials from ministries of finance, the IMF and the World Bank, international development agencies, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.

Technological innovation is transforming the provision of financial services and products. Payment services have seen significant change in recent years through the introduction of new payment methods, platforms, and interfaces. Above all, cross-border payments remain slow, expensive, and opaque, especially for retail payments such as remittances. Moreover, there are 1.7 billion people globally who are “unbanked.” Given the innovative potential of the underlying technology, crypto assets were originally envisioned to address some of these challenges. However, to date, they have suffered from several limitations, not least severe price volatility. Stablecoins have many of the features of crypto assets but seek to stabilize the price of the “coin” by linking its value to that of a pool of assets. Therefore, stablecoins might be more capable of serving as a means of payment and store of value, and they could potentially contribute to the development of global payment arrangements that are faster, cheaper, and more inclusive than present arrangements.

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Stablecoins also present some potential challenges and risks for public policy, supervision, and regulation, including legal certainty, sound governance, anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) compliance, operational resilience (including for cyber security), consumer/investor and data protection, and tax compliance.

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Date / Time: 
Apr 17, 2020 10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
PANELISTS
• CEYLA PAZARBASIOGLU - Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions, the World Bank Group.
• TOBIAS ADRIAN - Financial Counselor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF.
• DIETRICH DOMANSKI - Secretary General, Financial Stability Board (FSB)
• ROSS LECKOW - Senior Adviser Fintech - Strategy and Legal, the BIS Innovation Hub.MODERATOR
• ADITYA NARAIN - Deputy Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF; Board Member Toronto Centre.

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