Digital Finance

Digital Currencies Academy

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Dates

07/10/2024 - 09/10/2024

Location

Florence, Italy

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Registration Deadline

24/09/2024

Level

Intermediate

Approach

Qualitative

Delivery mode

Residential

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  • 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).

26 September  Online segment | 3 hours between Thursday 26 September – Friday 4 October
  • Video lectures (70 min)
  • Introduction and basic concepts (20 min) |Thorsten Koeppl
  • Setting the scene: Key regulatory challenges (15 min) | Mikolaj Barczentewicz
  • Why This Course? An interview with Thorsten Koeppl and Elisabeth Noble (18 min)
  • Financial Infrastructures and Regulatory Developments, An Interview with Klaus Loeber (18 min)
  • TBD 1 or 2 October, 4-5 PM CET – Live session (60 min) |Thorsten Koeppl, Mikolaj Berczentewicz
  • Icebreaker and course overview
  • Pre-discussion of case studies in groups
  • Prep work on Case Studies (individual work, 50 min)
7 October  (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 | Thorsten Koeppl

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 Session 2 – Cryptocurrencies and DeFi | Thorsten Koeppl

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Session 3 – Case Studies – Group Work | Thorsten Koeppl and Mikołaj Berczentewicz

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break (in parallel with Session 3)

16:00 – 17:30 Session 4 – AML/KYC and Fraud Issues in Payments | Mikołaj Berczentewicz and Florian Loecker

17:45 – 18:45 Guided Tour of the Badia Fiesolana

18:45 – 19:45 Aperitivo in Badia Fiesolana

20:00 Shuttle Bus to the city centre or Villa la Stella

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

9:30 – 10:00 Session 5 – Introduction to CBDC | Cyril Monnet

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

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:00 Session 7 – CBDC, Stablecoins or Tokenized Deposits? | Cyril Monnet. Discussion with Alessandro Giovannini and Thorsten Koeppl

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

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

15:00 – 16:30 Session 9a – Group work on Cross-border Payments Solutions | Thorsten Koeppl and Mikołaj Berczentewicz

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

20:00 – 22:00 Apericena at Hotel Baglioni

9 October 2024 (Theme: The Regulatory Landscape)

9:00 – 10:00 Session 10 – MiCA regulation | Mikołaj Barczentewicz

10:00 – 11:00 Session 11 – PSD regulation | Mikołaj Barczentewicz

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 13:00 Session 12 – Panel on New Developments in Payments | Silvia Attanasio, Alessandro Giovannini. Moderator: Thorsten Koeppl

13:00 – 14:00 Light Lunch

Course Director

Instructors

  • € 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

Accommodation

Participants are responsible for their own accommodation during their stay in Florence. Below are some hotels that are conveniently located either for the city centre or for the course venue.

Fiesole (closer to the European University Institute)

Florence Historic Centre – Santa Maria Novella Train Station area

Florence Centre – Piazza della Libertà area

Nearby airports

Pisa International Airport (Galileo Galilei Airport), is located 85 km from Florence. The shuttle Pisa Mover connects Pisa Airport to Pisa Railway Station, and it is in service every day from 6.00 a.m. to midnight with variable frequencies. The average travel time between the airport and the railway station, including the intermediate stop, is about 5 minutes. From Pisa Railway Station it is possible to take a train to Florence Railway Station (average travel time is one hour). Timetable and ticket options are available at Trainline.

Guglielmo Marconi Bologna International Airport is located 105 km from Florence. It is connected to Bologna Central Station by the shuttle train “Marconi Express” that leaves every 7 minutes. Tickets can be purchased on this website. From Bologna Central Station, Florence can be reached with a high-speed train in about 40 minutes. Timetable and ticket options are available at Trainline.

IT information

  • Upon arrival, you will be provided with temporary Wi-Fi access for the duration of the event.
  • If using your company laptop, please check with your company IT department regarding firewall protections before your departure. EUI uses a Captive Portal authentication to access the EUI Wi-Fi network.

On-site contact points

For any practical questions, please feel free to contact the Florence School of Banking and Finance to the attention of Noemi Epote’ (fbf@eui.eu).

Restaurants

Below you can find a few suggestions on restaurants located in Fiesole or the city centre, which might be useful for your free night(s).