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Morten Bech

Morten Linnemann Bech

Centre Head - Switzerland
BIS Innovation Hub
morten.bech@bis.org

Morten Bech joined the BIS in mid-2011. Before taking up his current assignment in 2020, he was the head of the secretariat supporting the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures with responsibility for coordinating and contributing to the activities of the Committee and its various working groups. He has also served as Secretary to the Markets Committee. He previously worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Danish central bank. In 2009, he was a visitor at the Monetary Affairs Division of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has written on various issues relating to monetary policy implementation, money markets, the network topology of financial markets, large-value payment systems and systemic risk.

Fields of interest
  • Monetary policy
  • Financial markets
  • Financial market infrastructures

All videos (8)

Video 7 May 2024
Fireside chat: Ensuring fairness and addressing potential implicit bias in AI-based supervisory activities
BIS Innovation Summit 2024
Video 6 May 2024
BIS Innovation Hub project showcase: project Agorá
BIS Innovation Summit 2024
Video 21 Mar 2023
BISIH project showcase: Using CBDCs across borders - lessons from practical experimentation
BIS Innovation Summit 2023.
Video 4 Apr 2022
The road ahead: challenges and opportunities for DeFi and CBDCs
DeFi and CBDCs seem worlds apart. But with the DeFi ecosystem maturing, the space of common interest could increase. What would…
Video 8 Dec 2021
Project Jura: Cross-border settlement with wholesale CBDC - Media briefing
Benoît Cœuré, Andréa M Maechler, Sylvie Goulard, Morten Bech and Thomas Moser host a briefing on the conclusions of…
Video 24 Mar 2021
Project Helvetia and Project Rio
Project Helvetia demonstrates the functional feasibility and legal robustness of settling tokenised assets with a wholesale…
Video 26 May 2018
The money flower and why Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme
Bech explains how cryptocurrencies fit into the "money flower". He talks about what money is and outlines work being done by…
Video 17 Sep 2017
Central bank cryptocurrencies
Discussion of the main findings of the BIS Quarterly Review article.

All podcasts (2)

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Podcast 27 Nov 2025
A primer on tokenisation
Morten Bech and Jon Frost explain the concept of tokenisation and how it can improve the international financial system.
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Podcast 1 Mar 2020
Technology is transforming payments
Morten Bech explains what's shaping the future of payments.
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