Digital Currencies Academy

• Understand the basic drivers of modern payments technology
• Learn about different business cases for providing payment instruments or services
• Get exposed to the basic technology underlying cryptocurrencies
• Assess the role of central banks in the payments space
• Familiarise yourself with the emerging regulatory framework for privately issued coins
• Learn about new tools available for detecting and preventing fraud in payments
• Get up to speed on recent developments in international payments infrastructure
• Discuss with payments service providers, regulators and academic scholars the future of payments

Profiles in EU Institutions, in the three ESAs, ministries of finance, and central banks interested in gaining a deeper understanding of digital currency’s trends and issues. Emerging scholars on financial topics and private sector practitioners (e.g., trade associations, journalists, law firms, consultancies, banks, investment funds).

7 October 2024 (Theme: Payments)

9:00 – 9:30 Welcome coffee

9:30 – 10:00 Introduction & Tour de Table

10:00 – 11:00 Session 1 – Introduction: The Modern Payments Landscape

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 Session 2 – Cryptocurrencies and DeFi

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Session 3 – Case Studies – Group Work

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break (in parallel with Session 4)

16:00 – 17:30 Session 4 – AML/KYC and Fraud Issues in Payments

Evening Social activity TBC

8 October 2024 (Theme: CBDC & Cross-border Payments)

9:30 – 10:00 Session 5 – Introduction to CBDC

10:00 – 11:30 Session 6 – The Digital EURO Project (i) main objectives and timeline; (ii) design principles; (iii) interaction w/ monetary policy

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:00 Session 7 – CBDC, Stablecoins or Tokenized Deposits?

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Session 8 – Challenges in Cross-border Payments

15:00 – 16:30 Session 9a – Group work on Cross-border Payments Solutions

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break (in parallel with Session 9a)

16:30 – 18:00 Session 9b – Plenary on Cross-border Payments Solutions (Groups pitch their case)

Evening Social activity TBC

9 October 2024 (Theme: The Regulatory Landscape)

9:00 – 10:00 Session 10 – MiCA regulation

10:00 – 11:00 Session 11 – PSD regulation

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 13:00 Session 12 – Panel on New Developments in Payments

13:00 – 14:00 Light Lunch

• € 2150 – Private Sector
• € 1950 – Public Authorities (e.g. National Competent Authorities, Central Banks) and European Institutions
• € 950  – Full-Time Professors, PhD Students, Research Associates
• Group discounts available upon request

The fee includes tuition, access to all course materials and pedagogic activities, coffee and lunch breaks and social activities. It does not include travel and accommodation expenses or other local transportation costs (taxis, private cars).

Please submit a certificate attesting your status as a Professor, PhD Student or Research Associate to fbf@eui.eu before registering. FBF secretariat will provide you with a code to register. Seats for academics are limited.

Please note that the payment must be settled two weeks before the start of the course.

A certificate of attendance will be provided to all participants after the course.

CANCELLATION POLICY

• In case you can no longer attend the course, you are required to inform the organisers by sending an email to fbf@eui.eu in order to free a seat for participants on the waiting list.
• In case of frequent cancellations, FBF reserves the right not to accept further registrations from the same person.

For more details, please contact fbf@eui.eu