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Digital Euro Summit 2022

15th November

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The second virtual Digital Euro Summit took place on 15th November 2022 and focussed on the most pressing debates surrounding the digital euro, crypto, and the future of money. Participants engaged with high-level stakeholders from the banking and crypto sector, political institutions, startups, and academia.

What is the state of the digital euro? Where is it headed? What implications will arise from the various possible design choices currently proposed? Will private payments and crypto-assets make the central bank digital currencies futile or will they co-exist? How will developments in stablecoin sector Decentralized Finance (DeFi) impact the banking system?

At #DES22 participants learnt more about these cutting-edge topics in vivid panel discussions and inspiring keynotes. Participants were invited to share their knowledge and to connect with professionals from the finance industry, innovators from the growing crypto space or high-level political stakeholders.

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Speakers

Silvia Attanasio

Head of Innovation

Italian Banking Association

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Teana Baker-Taylor

Vice President Policy & Regulatory Strategy

Circle

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Burkhard Balz

Member of Executive Board

Deutsche Bundesbank

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Stefan Berger

Member of the European Parliament

CDU/EPP

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Jan Ceyssens

DG FISMA, Head of Unit Digital Finance

European Commission

Eric Demuth

Co-Founder & CEO

Bitpanda

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Michael Gronager

Co-Founder & CEO

Chainalysis

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Jonas Gross

Chairman

Digital Euro Association e.V.

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Peter Grosskopf

CTO / Co-Founder, Unstoppable Finance GmbH | building Ultimate

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Patrick Hansen

Director, EU Strategy & Policy

Circle

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Brett Quick

Head of Government Affairs North America

Crypto Council for Innovation

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Carola Rathke

Partnerin

YPOG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten und Steuerberatern mbB Schnittker + Partner

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Jochen Siegert

Managing Director

Deutsche Bank

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Ralf Wintergerst

Board Member Bitkom, Chairman of the Management Board and Group CEO

Giesecke+Devrient

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Dorothea Ysenburg

Vice President Business Development, Crypto segment Europe

Mastercard

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#DES22 adressed the following topics

Central Bank Digital Currencies

Most central banks around the world are currently assessing the benefits and challenges of issuing central bank digital currencies (CBDC). While the reasons for doing so vary significantly, from financial inclusion to monetary policy or consumer protection, the trend is clear. More and more central banks projects are moving to a pilot or development phase. After launching its investigation phase in 2021, the ECB has recently selected players for the joint prototyping of a user interfaces: it is time to discuss ECB’s digital euro project paralleled by the EU-Commission’s regulatory process.

Crypto-Assets

Institutional interest in crypto-assets picked up significantly again during 2021. Publicly traded companies like Tesla shifted parts of their capital reserves into Bitcoin and some of the biggest financial companies in the world, such as Paypal, VISA or Mastercard, were starting to build on- and off-ramps for crypto-assets and related services. Today, public perception has shifted from “to-the-moon” to “crypto-winter” while the EU is about to finalize its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation. Let us take a closer look at the long-term potential & strategies including mainstream adoption as well as Europe’s competitive position with the first major legal framework of this kind.

Stablecoins

Never realized but still famous: Facebook’s Diem (formerly Libra) project unleashed an unseen regulatory attention around the world: EU-Commission, the ECB, the FED, the FSB, the G7, the FATF. What followed was FATF’s travel rule or EU’s MiCA. In the meantime, stablecoins, such as USDT or USDC, with seemingly continuously rising market caps have developed rapidly. How is the European industry positioning itself in this new market and what role do international actors play in that regard?

The Future of Money and Finance

What kind of money are we going to use and how are we going to pay in the future? Are private forms of money such as global stablecoins or company coins going to gain traction? How will central bank digital currencies co-exist or compete with private forms of money and payment? Are we entering an era of currency competition? And how will Distributed Ledger Technology and Blockchain disrupt current payment systems and other industries? How will DeFi develop in the future and in how far will CeFi integrate crypto assets and underlying technological advancements in their daily business? Join the #DES22 to discuss the future with us.

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