Call for papers: Fintech and digital currencies
Workshop on "Fintech and digital currencies" hosted by the ABFER, the BIS and the CEPR, Basel, 26-27 September 2019.
26 September 2019
Together with the ABFER (Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research) and the CEPR (Center for Economic and Policy Research), the Bank for International Settlements is hosting a two-day workshop on "Fintech and digital currencies".
Taking place on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 September 2019 in Basel, the conference aims to stimulate debate and research on financial innovation and the digital economy.
The workshop will bring together leading academics, central bankers and bank supervisors. The topics discussed will include, but are not limited to:
- Implications for financial markets of the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), big data and crypto-assets, and the macroeconomic outcomes
- Technological innovations in financial and payment systems: implications for financial intermediation
- Consequences of digitalisation for financial stability, monetary transmission and the conduct of monetary policy
- How financial innovation can help central banks to achieve their mandates
- Central bank digital currencies: pros and cons
- How central banks and financial regulators might respond to recent financial innovations
- Big data and consumer protection in the financial sector
- Financial innovation and new funding models (eg ICOs) and
- Technology and financial inclusion
If you would like to submit a paper, please follow the instructions. The submission deadline is 31 March 2019.