EFA & Fintech RPNs Joint Webinar - CBDCs and Payments

On Monday, 6 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:30 (CEST) / 14:00 - 15:30 (BST), the CEPR Research Policy Networks (RPN) on European Financial Architecture as well as on Fintech and Digital Currencies, in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum, organised a Webinar on CBDCs and Payments with Ulrich Bindseil (ECB), Amiyatosh Purnanandam (University of Michigan), Tobias Berg (Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR), and Dirk Niepelt (University of Bern and CEPR). 
 
One key motivation for the introduction of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) is to strengthen payment architectures. The Webinar's three speakers addressed this motivation from different angles: Ulrich Bindseil explained the European Central Bank's plans for a digital euro payment architecture. Amiyatosh Purnanandam presented research joint with Tamanna Singh Dubey on India's Unified Payment Interface and its implications for household income and small business activities (available here). Tobias Berg presented research joint with Jan Keil, Felix Martini, and Manju Puri on potential implications of CBDCs for private sector payment firms  (available here). 
 
The presentations lasted an hour and will be followed by a 30 minutes Q&A session with the audience moderated by Dirk Niepelt. 

To watch the recording, please click here.