The Banco de España hosts the 10th Conference of Mediterranean Central Banks, entitled “Digital Currencies, Payments and Reserve Management: Implications for Mediterranean Central Banks”. The conference brings together governors, deputy governors and senior executives from the central banks of 13 countries, as well as leading researchers from academic institutions and think tanks, representatives of financial institutions, and senior officials from multilateral organisations.
Press release: The Banco de España hosts the 10th Conference of Mediterranean Central Banks
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Programme
Friday, 2 October
Welcome from organisers
Senén Florensa, Senén Florensa, Executive President, European Institute of the Mediterranean
Meltem Büyükkarakaş, Deputy Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean
Aida Caldera, Head of Division, Economics Department, OECD
Keynote speech: Technology, Money and the Financial Infrastructure of the Future (206 KB)
José Luis Escrivá, Governor, Banco de España
Session I. Improving cross-border payments in a changing geopolitical landscape
Chair: Clara Raposo, Deputy Governor, Banco de Portugal
Panelists:
Christina Papaconstantinou, Deputy Governor, Bank of Greece
Alexander Demarco, Governor,Central Bank of Malta
Irena Radović, Governor, Central Bank of Montenegro
Marko Pahor, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Slovenia
Session II. Payments and Remittances: Current Systems and Future Directions
Chair: Holta Zaçaj, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Albania
Panelists:
Jean-Christophe Dumont, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD
Abdeslam Badre, Mohammed V University of Rabat
Chahdan E Jebeyli, Senior Adviser, Audi Banking Group and Union of Arab Banks, Lebanon
Session III. An evolving International Monetary System. Implications for global reserve currencies and central banks
Chair: Ante Žigman, Governor, Croatian National Bank
Panelists:
Christodoulos Patsalides, Governor, Central Bank of Cyprus
Emir Kurtić, Vice Governor, Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abderrahim Bouazza, Vice Governor, Bank Al-Maghrib
Ivan Odonnat, DG, Financial Stability and Operations, Banque de France