2020 Central Bank of the Future Conference
The Central Bank of the Future: Building a Financial System for a More Inclusive Economy
This event built on the 2019 Central Bank of the Future conference by continuing to explore how central banks are evolving and their potential to foster greater financial and economic inclusion in the United States and worldwide. 2020's conference examined how the three functions of a modern central bank could evolve to create a more inclusive financial system.
Day One Videos
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CBOTF 2020 Day 1 Opening Keynote with Dr. Claire A. Nelson Nov 24, 2020
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CBOTF 2020 Panel 1: Parsing the Pandemic: How Did Central Banks Respond to COVID-19 Globally? (Day 1) with Sir Paul Tucker, Seth Carpenter, Fernanda Nechio, and Michael Wiegand Nov 24, 2020
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CBOTF 2020 Firesidee Keynote: Building a Financial System for a More Inclusive Economy (Day 1) with Mary C. Daly and Tracy A. Basinger Nov 16, 2020
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CBOTF 2020 Panel 2: Monetary Policy in an Age of Inequality (Day 1) with Kathryn Dominguez, Julia Coronado, Karin Kimbrough, and Viola Llewellyn Nov 16, 2020
Day Two Videos
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CBOTF 2020 Keynote Address (Day 2) with Timothy G. Massad Nov 17, 2020
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CBOTF 2020 Panel 3: Traditional and Evolving Functions of the Financial System: Payments as a Utility (Day 2) with Michael S. Barr, Andrea Dunlop, Tilman Ehrbeck, and Must Jimoh Nov 24, 2020
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CBOTF 2020: Introduction to Central Bank Digital Currency (Day 2) with Daniel Gorfine Nov 17, 2020
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CBOTF 2020 Panel 4: Could Central Bank Digital Currencies Transform the Economy? (Day 2) with Christopher Brummer, Lisa Cook, J. Christopher Brummer, Lisa Cook, J. Christopher Giancarlo, Bejoy Das Gupta, and Morgan Ricks Nov 18, 2020
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CBOTF 2020 Firesidee Keynote (Day 2) with Mu Changchun and Michael S. Barr Nov 24, 2020
Day Three Videos
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CBOTF 2020 Keynote Address (Day 3) with Her Excellency Chea Serey Nov 18, 2020
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CBOTF 2020 Panel 5: From Payment Utilities to Data Utilities: What Role Could Central Banks Play in Data Use and Security? Day 3 with Kaitlin Asrow, David Medine, Sopnendu Mohanty, and Siddarth Shetty Nov 18, 2020
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CBOTF 2020 Panel 6: Responsible Innovation: Can the Regulatory Perimeter Keep Up (Day 3) with Victoria Guida, Douglas Arner, Jo Ann Barefoot, and Malavika Raghavan Nov 18, 2020
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CBOTF 2020 Fireside Keynote (Day 3) with Patrick Njoroge and F. Christopher Calabia Nov 18, 2020
THANK YOU!
The Center on Finance, Law & Policy thanks the 45 speakers who participated in early morning and late night prep calls and allowed us into their home offices and living rooms to share their expertise for this event. We thank Kaitlin Asrow, Ana de Sousa, Tracy Basinger and Mary Daly from the San Francisco Fed for co-hosting this event with us. We thank Chris Calabia of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for his partnership on this research and for the Gates Foundation's financial support of this project.
Finally, we thank the hundreds of attendees who joined us for this conference. Attendees hailed from 23 central banks, a dozen U.S. regulators, state and municipal governments, fintechs, financial institutions, think tanks, and universities.
This conference is part of a larger Central Bank of the Future project led by the University of Michigan's Center on Finance, Law & Policy, made possible through the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. To read our papers or blog posts, or learn more, go here.