Third Party Innovation in a CBDC Economy

I had the pleasure to moderate a panel bringing together leading institutions to discuss how blockchain is reshaping financial market infrastructures.

The conversation explored how distributed technologies are gradually transforming settlement processes and enabling new forms of programmability in financial systems. A key point of discussion was the importance of interoperable standards to ensure that innovation can scale while maintaining security and efficiency.

It was also interesting to hear concrete initiatives already taking shape. Among them, the City of Lugano’s blockchain-based payment token and the collaboration between the Swiss National Bank and the Bank for International Settlements on the digitization of promissory notes, illustrating how public and private actors can jointly experiment with new financial infrastructures.

Many thanks to the speakers for the insightful discussion:

• Thomas Moser – Swiss National Bank

• Daniel Eidan – Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

• Paolo Bortolin – City of Lugano

• Marco Kessler – SIX Digital Exchange

You can watch the replay here.