We have an exciting discussion ahead of us on digital currency distributed Ledger technology and cross border payments and a fantastic panel here to talk to us about this this interesting and wide ranging set of topics I'll read through everybody's bios and then we'll have short remarks by each of the panelists before we do some discussion on the panel and then open it up for Humanae so immediately here to my right is Dr a new who is executive director of the African Economic Research Consortium a Pan African premier cut premier capacity building network He's an associate professor of economics at the University of Nairobi Kenya and is the immediate former governor of the central bank of Kenya where he served 24 year terms as required by law from 2007 to 2015 he has been a member of the global advisory council of the World Economic Forum and a visiting fellow of practice at Oxford University prior to his appointment as governor he was the director of training at the African Economic Research Consortium He also worked at the International Development Research Center of Canada as a regional program specialist for eastern and southern Africa regional office in 2001 and the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis in 1909 as a principal economist he holds a Ph d. in economics from the University of Sweden immediately to it to his left is governing Bez from Riggs Bank and where he is the chairman of the executive board he's also a member of the board of directors of b.s. and chairman of the i.a.s. banking and risk management committee he's a member of the General Board of the European systemic risk board member of the General Council scuse me of the e.c.b. and governor for Sweden in the i.m.f. and board member of the Nordic Baltic macro prudential forum. In 28 scene Mr Ng the as was appointed chairman of the Toronto Center for Global Leadership in financial supervision he was previously the chairman of the Basel Committee on banking supervision director of the monetary and financial systems department at the i.m.f. deputy governor of the Riggs Bank and general director of the Swedish Bank support authority prior to that he was undersecretary and head of the finance markets department at the Ministry of Finance and he wants a Ph d. in economics and last but not least we have Banda who is the founder and c.e.o. of Bunyan infrastructure founded in 2017 buying an infrastructure utilizes machine learning algorithms and distributed Ledger technology to encode natural language financial contracts into smart contracts to provide lenders with an integrated sas solution for autonomy as tracking and reporting of contractural requirements contained in credit agreements used to finance distributed infrastructure systems and transportation assets as c.e.o. he's responsible for the company's strategic corporate and market development Mr Brand also serves as director of Africa for Edison Schweppes offshore a leading u.s. ship builder and marine contractor to the offshore energy industry as he supports the company strategic finance initiatives and previously led the company's corporate and business development efforts in Africa prior to coming to Suez he was an analyst at Sandler O'Neill and Partners an investment banking firm in New York. He's also the co-founder and trustee of students bridging the information gap a 5 a one c 3 in the u.s. celebrating its 10th anniversary building computer labs and libraries for going in orphanages and schools he wants a b.a. in finance from the University of Notre Dame where dare I mention here he also played football. Yeah. No fights start fights of the peace for parents and the other thing we're going to have everyone start with some opening remarks Dr new. Yes please. Good afternoon I am not so sure when you speak of the line so you don't know how to make sure that everybody's going to be engaged but let me say that I'm very happy to be here and. They think I've shared so many e-mails with Christie and Michael and so think I like the team the little bit efficient and so I'm very happy to be here it's my 1st time to be in Detroit and the University of me too and so I'm very happy that I was able to be invited here I was taught to talk about digital evolution especially I wanted to talk about the money and they were trying to payments ecosystem and I wanted to give the king an example but it is because this is the for the I am I've been away from the central bank and looks like everything is for a meow if you look at the might it just papers actually most of the papers are focusing on that because everybody has been asking me right on this might it disposed to talk about state and. Talk about digital technology and state and institutional capacity in the Global Center for Global Development is because this subject matter is actually coming at a time when everybody is exhausted about the new visions that are taking place. And I think maybe once I share the Kenyan experience you'll see how Actually even the way we look at it in terms of I know there is always this confusion about crypt occurrences and and also the the domestic currencies and I always tell people that let's let's not go there this a boundary if domestic For example in Africa even the mystic currency So rates to the dollar or even to the euro by 10 percent they'll be a commission of inquiry and I've went through so many of those but it meant a commission of inquiry why did they actually and units write to changes massive price structure must be relative pressure yes but we have seen Bitcoin just crash and then. It's not commission I don't know who can provide the commission of inquiry but it would be double that. Then before I go into the subject matter. You know when you change your jobs your so have to remember to pay some form of. Marketing and this is where this is a r.c. African Economic Research Council should we start a collaborative net a complete corroborating network we've been there during capacity in Africa for the last 20 s. now a new build capacity through research and graduate training corroborating with of public universities in not in sub-Saharan Africa and we also have an interactive. Communication and an outreach program that is to disseminate the parts that make us in terms of our research out what we have managed to build capacity in Africa in sub-Saharan Africa to the point where most of the institutions that you see have been strengthened just because of that capacity I'm one of those products and there are so many so many others that we can talk about but in a way it is good to talk about it because this is going to be an area of corroboration in terms of research and the people who sit in front yard not likely to see this race but. Every let me talk about let me go into this electronic payments ecosystem because that's where I want to start but my 1st point my 1st point when I entered the central bank in 2007 my for I was faced with this issue about. What happens what what what what what what what what what are you going to do with the request to actually rice and this mobile phone financial services payments but most people didn't understand it that way it was called m s but I want to show you in person is just one product is a product but the idea stretches far much waiter but the other aspect of I was faced with was how do we even a financial inclusion and they remember according C.E.O.'s of banks who are also my friends what we need to do and one of the topical issues that came up was how do we bring bridge networks to the people we tried even trying to say we can what is expensive but we can actually minimize how much we can do the 2nd thing was agents a banking isn't a group of a team of people to Brazil and Colombia like within 2 weeks they came up with draft regulations about agents a banking but when empathic hit the ground it was a coordinating mechanism for bills but that is the most important point but my point my 1st point here is that is that there isn't 2 women banking in the presentation and talked about even dormancy of of accounts even to do we suffer from governments. We thought that financial inclusion was opening accounts in the banking system but I think that the new direction that M.P.'s are gave us is that you need a transactions account savings comes of it or when you have stop you can include everyone. Once you have an efficient retainer at a training payment system and that's the starting point that's what an M.P.'s A's are about the 2nd thing is that we have talked to says yes that our recent a very nice debate and then I thought that. You need to be cognize in countries like Africa where we have market segmentation you need a product that can never get across market segments and it's going to be very difficult but are not going to lose market segments because markets and Titian is defined by the distance of the market or even less force of income and maybe a combination of so many other factors but into it that is maybe that's why when I talk about a chronic payment system of course come up with a widely quoted it electronic payment system we want I want to show that it is actually at the entry point in terms of financial services and then after that we can talk about financial inclusion and then what happens to the ecosystem of that So essentially even though I have some slaty I don't intend to go through them one by one but the most important thing is just to point out some few things that are I like and I would like I have seen the World Bank came up with a new with a review of trying to and rice payments instruments and we were just so happy about the even the savvy that has to be done and I've look at surveys that have been done outside ward like in kind of the for example how much cost cost and how much a cash will cost in terms of distribution and all that but I'm I'm happy to share with you one of the recent examples that have been done is especially no Binya is that once you migrate as it. When when you're using physical instruments they consume months money as well pay almost 50 percent of the cost of that of the transactions but when you move to a chronic payment actuary that 50 percent shifts to the infrastructure provide it so it's an idea that actually electronic payments system themselves are becoming cheaper to the consumers the whole issue is if you have the physical infrastructure then you can talk about skid ability. But on. The terror training payments and this is where I come in is the one it's into law as an employee the central bank of Kenya was given out an extra minute that is to issue a to have or to make sure that you have a safe efficient payment system that will support a successful financial inclusion goal and then all of a sudden we started looking at how do we effect on how do we bring up payments and a payment system a national payment system which was not part of the core might it at the very beginning and so it means that you start with he or from one and then you go from what by the time it started to those and then 3 by the time I went to the Central Bank into those and 7 that's not even been approved by a pandemic and parliament is one of those institutions that it's going to be very difficult to push but we wanted a payment system or a transactions platform that was going to be important in terms of the entry point and it's also going to be real tight and also put Of course they might bring evidence has shown that if you actually have a successful and I think then of course when you talk about financial inclusion which is actually market access but it it makes a difference or talk about the mobile phone best data but the most important thing is that we have seen the successes maybe I can proclaim that the success we have seen is that financial inclusion has been effective because of having a very well maybe well should a city. Accepted literate 20 payment system and beyond that it has actually generated its own life because essentially it has come up with products that are accessible I've seen studies that have shown that women can actually enter that space and save in products that cannot be encroached and that for us is a bit of important and we have also shown that when women take up that their fish and savers that the cycle is between savings and investment at. And I think there's a study based on but it doesn't it suited in mit and sort in Washington but have come up with that paper to show that actually 2 percent of the of the households enough in Kenya of Africa have been lifted from politics so essentially financial question becomes a public policy that actually can help us in time solve or sustainable poverty reduction but only talk about the Kenyan case because I just want to be very brief here therefore stages in Kenya in Kenya in case and then M.P.'s I know softly softly talked about that there was a need for the copper of the Sephardic community. Mineral to work and increase. It is a need to serve the market in the right way but how should it so to congest took it on the Earl of from from there should it the whole issue or support it come how that may system of prepaid. Air time and all of a sudden everybody started trading with the. Then one microfinance here is that if my customers don't have to come to the city they can use the air time to pay for their aunts then they don't have to come and we can do that but then there was one catch we have to uproot Sephardic home to create aggregators so that several people can send the air time and somebody can aggregate and send it to the microphone as that's how they went to Microsoft to do the analysis I think this has been documented by them but it just Foundation make. Some people who have done some good work I was trying to document this case study not in Oxford and that is where the starting point comes in and set out a comedy or is this or this could be a good case Lestrade to research and that's how deified becomes into provides to provide some in intervention that is where it started but now we talk about really go from what it's only it only became changed into some M.P.'s or into those and 6 when the government changed their role or made it there are 2 up because one is a tronic units of credit of many and then according to in this of a chronic signatures that is what change this tire though it would have been a better treat. That send us air time we know the equivalent amount and then we can transform it into a month in a way that's a story that we use for another day but that is a starting point this affects about a Comedy Hour is that it's a good advantage and that is a good advantage because so far we have seen how it has been successful let me. Summarize what 4 stages in the fasted was just transfer p 2 p. government or even forms to be payments for goods and services but for me the most important being put on point about this stage is that there was that it erect 20 payments pratfall which was sufficient and it was safe I've seen colleagues in the world some friends in the World Bank and even the Oxford University crane in the car in Mer they came to the conclusion that actually in Kenya we could have a distribution is taking prisons and the backing sector outside the banking on and that was a very important contribution because it was actually because of the agent model the must agent model is that of information behind that you can talk about it in my job my stage and information more and how the resource that it could it is a problem so in a sense the naivety of this stage is the transactions account became actually the sort of the the trust account because it became the transactions account it was that it electronic. Payments back from that became very very important and the title comes to I just the transmission. Point of going to several African countries and they come and tell me that we want a bank led model not to tell call it moral and I always tell them that tell of course why just the transmission bug What is that all of that that of course they change crushing air chronic units of cash and store it in the trust account which is in the commercial bank so they just that is their main function and their anybody did with the guidance that the central bank provides plus the communication authority the rest is left for the. Central Bank 2 after the money the payment system the 2nd stage is fight your savings account I don't remember Bill Gates himself leader pushed us talking about or you have been the very excess for them yes but it is not even affecting the intermediation in the banking sector it is not it is not going to a bit affect people's lives because essentially people slaves are going to be affected by one savings to credit because they can then right there I said base an escape say cause of poverty and then the next thing is that it's expensive unit cost was very expensive How do you actually turn it into a savings pratfall and it worked remember promising that it to work just give us a give us some time and it's going to work thank you it's not I'm so vital savings account was a little magic but the next thing was used transactions data and the front end the savings data to generate credits caught for use for short term clearly I think this is the part I like more and today and there I would been telling people that we have seen that the factual savings account and vital could be surprised Pratt form has moved 5 countries to move from Kenya Tanzania because Commercial Bank of America was there to move to Uganda it to use moved to Ghana a certain sort of to Rwanda and now it has moved recorded one you can imagine I have been looking at that even micro data for example in Rwanda when it was formed there were Nando's in grown up brick Asians everybody. And they were proved and the turnaround time was not more than 45 seconds and their bridge loan was about $5.00 and the payments period was $21.00 days and then M.P.'s will have it all and the 4th one is the cross border this is the interesting bit because we are allowed Western Union can order is send money to the forms and then after that you have to. Travel to Natal be allowed in the other station to get your money now you can get it in in your mobile phone and having said that I want just to talk about 5 outcomes. 1st of all it is talked about the 1st one literate 20 press for the literary tronic payment system which is effective efficient transparent and safe this is very important the 2nd one is financial inclusion and even financial development has taken place and we can talk about poverty reduction we can talk about even something that I'll talk about later about even they fictive less of a mantra policy I went to the central bank and actually when it looked at that they account the banking accounts and even who was borrowing and who was lending there were just a 2.3.4000000 accounts for a population of about that a 1000000 then I ask myself quite we complain about the banking September reading rates because nobody's going to the banks and that's for another day but we'll talk about it but even I went to the central question m.l.c. after the gym in 10 or so bed and we try to improve on it using this and because of time sustainable business models I'm very happy about this we can talk about these fin techs This is where field techs comes in they can roll out products even payments practice form for other sects or for other sectors of the economy we have already made a contribution about tax policy and even fiscal policy design public finance with the i.m.f. in volume in 2017 we talked about even even provided the connected study in terms of how even the fiscal at the Kenya revenue authority was deciding tax payments platforms on the basis of these retailer trolling pressure forms and finally even the government was deciding government services based on that because I have to finish and then we talk about morass paper has focused on for years and this is something that we can talk about let pre-puberty across from their experiences in Kenya in East Africa we can even talk about half the rest of Africa. I've talked about this it's on many of. So many areas but and we focus on 4 areas one of them is connectivity and since yesterday I heard about this in the course of in this allows us of connectivity you know what the government provided the physical infrastructure that's I bought optic across across the cut across a bunch centers but the core infrastructure is the one that moved to the payment system to Platys the 2nd one is interoperability this is a market conduct thing and of course the Kenyan case stands out but it's a whole issue of saying how do we insure in top ability we get a little includes the math markets ace and not all unit cost but they issues must come in but we have to be there then of course transformative language or to rigid that's something that I have always said they somebody who mentioned that if you are not at all innovation in the market then obviously the market cannot not have a chronic id system in Kenya we succeeded because of a b. but so too are the market we need to move to the 20 women system and the final one and very important for me is to. Institutionalise that Clegg unit they had risks that are emerging and they will give us today because I don't want to talk about it more land abuse my other is that. By the time I was leaving the central bank I told the government and I even top of the president telling him that we have to regulate the betting on Main betting. Because it to can come to hurt the financial system we have to tell the regular go to did it in $700.00 s. of the regulator for the Benteke but they didn't listen of course the wind the betting companies went to Ireland and the much lauded the m.p. so that at that all was not asked and then in the end what happens. Now as as we stand now they are more than $3000000.00 Kenyans that have broccolis that because of betting on rain and borrowing through the roof through the through the credit then through the virtual credit the problem is that if you would just open up and say that this banks must actually put of provide food provisioning will be a media critic but for me those are the points that I would like to replicate that across the African economies these are the points we would like to make sure that we simply go but this is got this is what is going to help in terms of this digital revolution thank you very much sorry for using you know that of course I don't know what I tried to verify but I wouldn't be it will be invaded by the way owner driver this were to come and talk for 10 minutes but I don't want to argue with. Thank you so much. Next. Year. So there was just persistent. Factors you're ready to hear your pick or carrying around a car just because it's. 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And why is this something that is in July Let me give you some numbers of examples of. Things way out. As a share of cash out there for the press and he's down to 30 percent. 40 percent of the people never use cash and all if you talk to retail brass. Many of them sort of say. Probably cashing the drugs off. Not being good because somebody had. Their Way. So much more can be used to use technology. To get something there is international for people to come up to here is that I'm that guy do that this idea that we're getting out of cash. I did this and I'd say no that's divided in. The producers over here on some of the battles are that we have to think hard about why it is and why this is is because he said Americans use old fashioned technology paper money. Or is there something in this that we need to deal with when it comes to providing 2 things one systems real pie. And the. Willing. To. Clean retail claims on the. Whole. 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The good things that I love really but talk to the lawyers and with a fraction of the surface they just didn't come up with another that makes sense so we have the position of the parliament saying the last time you develop a good 1st one might be get out of the heart of it with your knowledge. And then you sort of came out for. Physical clashes this feeling this is all casual and that's essentially how unity following the uniter this week. And this is all disappears and what is a speech from nobody leading els so we have written to the Parliament of the. Like it or not this is what you do in our lives pondering how to. Be here is the word 5 percent to 5 years a lot of. We need. A really. Good really the definition of good in the trouble because we don't have that efficient we don't know what. Why is it that I'm talking about this from this perspective that because I'm a central banker and that my job to produce good all this is the short run and then my job here is a good start. Because most people never think about money this way but money is ever her that holds. Produces good out of people filing for. Us and it is my job to make sure that the entire country of our artist or start using he or any other. That would be. On my side and so part of my job is to make sure that we get the only. People going to be here for another 350 years. Thank you so earlier today that many people brought up the why of financial inclusion and I think Mr Randall here well help us think about some of the things that that the governor former governor said and help us extrapolate to why some of the stuff is important in some of the private sector applications that come from this. So I'm going to talk about. The structure. And it will at 1st it does and also. Our. Cultural and economic representations of sustainable infrastructure. I like to say a big. Piece on the Asian you 1st you wish you but I mean there really are. Risk of fema by you know a structure that is worthy of speech. 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And paste maybe about a decade ago and the digital currency and how you thought about the decision I think in the case of Kenya to take a watchful eye but sort of a hands off approach is developed in the private sector and then in the case of of Sweden have as you said you weren't the decision maker and so you've taken the the watchful eye of some of the private sector apps and other things developed but you're also piloting the krona So I wonder if you could just talk a little bit about how you came to the calibration of how to engage with these disruptions. If you think you very much. I. Mean. We've all been given. To me. Big. Ideas of the on. The margins I lose. It 1000 I don't use it. But it is the really good players we really keep people needed in parables and his ministry mission. If I can see who actually this is something that can help. Quite a bit should be on my own so when I'm ready I hope you do feel I think the position what we did I. 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In this country back to night parks. And those who read our history know the part where there are so everything ends up in the set. Sooner or later and take our swished we're just recited from one another we have to if they live weather and we have users we were part of that evolutionary process for a while because but the general public need not understand there are it's that way to do a solution transaction costs are part of the method of money. Because the Bastille process so we have a part of the 1st. One thing of course one would like to see that this or of a subtle way so that people don't get. Fired or. Not so that they will. Get there and this falls all over the world with us. From the awful village where all these different. Ultimately the one passes to the end system are. So those are only like what you showed above and yes are kind of well but the end users see no but you can. Get around the simple. Process. To shift to the. Way America goes looking for her about $200000.00. And just so far coming as I wonder if you could provide an sob specially and that audience here in the audience on mine. As you're watching your pilot develop Are there any early conclusions you can share or new questions that are that are popping up that you did not anticipate. A lot of. It's striking. The money. Part of the money. Movie. So that's one of the striking feature of that conversation another series 5 good. Thinking the whole plenty of people who are experts but it's all good. Because that's something to be separated from. And they're really very few people have an education in mother figure and sort of the inner workings of money and some of those issues are horrible to most often. And it's just that this is really the hard part to. Crazy Asperger's with different backgrounds and get them to talk to each other in such a way that you have to create something. That was. The kind of where we're getting our grandson to go and drip process that we have a lot of companies. For a lot of the. Process is over we will produce a program a pilot but it will be for do with such a great scalable so that there. Are women of this art. We know that we can do it at the National at the actually we have these 2 this is the conversation where the Years ago. Years ago the bag issue the whole digital back no. It's about money a 100 years ago the baggers arguing that there was no need for a bad physical money and they argue that there is no need for the jewels on so in that respect there is nothing new under the sun. Good service I hope. So but I mean Karachi to do with the fisheries we go so much of this is that we're going to get into that treaty you just assume that in this article we are 100 percent all going to go off it and you know how it happens and the same thing with money you just sit around in the stew that there is a certain structure there that is being used to do these things and then you're certainly making the. Case it's actually the equal who decides on these doctors. But for the good hearted to have. A political they are provided in the program for so great with the blood. And that sort of catches that sort of heart of. Well you touch collaboration and how so the the tech people come in and they don't know anything about central banking or financial regulation and I think the same is often true sometimes you talk to regulators and it's hard for them to keep up with all the developments in the private market I wonder if you could talk a little bit about maybe just thinking about your experience broadly beyond. But also back to your history in investment banking but now you sort of seen this opportunity taking your cues from some of what's happening in the financial inclusion space in the e.s.u. space and use that to find your business opportunity so there is a a collaboration of sorts there and I wonder if you could just speak to that and tell us how you how you look to central banks and other authorities to decide how to form your technology for a business opportunity. To leverage this. My dear. Friction there is. A market being a real barrier and. Lenders or concerns really. That there was no regulation no central bank. That they had to answer to. Actually just be doing whatever they wanted to do and we were seeing that story before and it was really good. You need to. Think about how we can prove the power of technology to reduce the burden of the regulation on the natural immunity and I would hold the central bank to the core celebrate their groups they. Really are. Our. Technology. And we've been fortunate this far because we had a few lenders who were willing to engage with us very early at. Variance. With what we were thinking and Broadway and I think on the regulatory side more bad engagement with me. Lenders people. Coming back to this idea of. Different different jurisdictions being and different places I wonder after New Moon and governing rez if you could tell us maybe a little bit about the conversations you have or experience in terms with your counterparts across the world. And how others are are thinking about Central Bank digital currency where some are really leaning in and experimenting with with going cashless maybe being led there by their constituency while others have as are stuck to the need for cash and really resisted the idea of a central bank digital currency. Thank you thank you very much I think when it comes to jurisdiction you know. That. You have to start from the home front and you know I didn't push on because one of the things I had a big fight with the banks with the commercial banks especially in Kenya that is the time was so there was a success in terms of micro finance some banks have had succeeded in terms of micro finance they argued that the small this impasse is going to Oculus not accustom us but I argued that you need to encourage these because essentially then you can get deposits and even you command the Jeffries 247 because essentially you can get everyone actually participating in the payment system throughout the night and I think I remember I was in the u.s. Treasury and given making a presentation and and the u.s. secretary. Say that actually you can pay for. A taxi night will be using a mobile phone at midnight which means you're drawing from me about. Now but that is the can in case was the banks were very much opposed to this but in the end they realize that all of us at the actually don't need to even create a large number of branches they can use the agency network they can use virtual accounts so it's a question of investment let me go when then we when we started even talking about it I thought member I had so many occasions that I had to talk with them and the World Bank actually even to explain how it was working and that was a very difficult aspect because at one time it was being seen like oh it's a payment system we did with Nora Grecians there what we don't have we didn't have very well framework for payment system in Kenya then it was it was just sitting in the parliament waiting and what we did was to invoke the trust role and then that the trust account which later became the transactions platform was actually a caution cash transfer technology corporate form which again was actually. Guided by the trust straw and the trustees while they were not silicone this water it even with this jurisdiction now of course in the end after 3 presentation of that is everywhere in Europe meeting I think the World Bank and them ever agreed that it was working well what are the by the African regions and actually my most of the governance in the region except for Tanzania everybody else thought that we are out there of course to deal with money and I think this is this this is an idea even going to Nigeria xover times invited by its foundation to talk to the Central Bank and even the business community and the banks and then they believe that we don't want to tell call it moral Kenyan mores attack call it moral then I actually insisted that it wasn't the movement the whole idea of. Converting cash into electronic units of the same cash has never sank very well across even most African countries even today that there are some countries that this is all which is working very well but I'm not so sure it is good so essentially that that it is the same thing about the digital the digital currency and I made a point about that area so essentially it is across the dish and we still have these doubts about how can you convert cash into a chronic units of steel core it in goes back to what Governor is actually talking about. Maybe it is a space we didn't need maybe to come back and try to define that but I think when they're most observers came to Kenya and that's why in in Africa Iran's for financial inclusion the digital working group dames by the time started as mobile phone financial services what now it is the digital working and because I was chairman that time I think I had to host most of the people most of the people from Asia right in America and even after a couple of Kenyan tried what is than what is really happening it is the whole concept across the jurisdiction that how do you have a chronic units of money in your phone and then it is also in the in the in an account in the same way now of course that comes back to the cryptocurrency And I remember there was a big item in the news last year woman in Kenya was actually receiving that she pays bills in a hotel using the Bitcoin and it was a good analysis and they missed only one point how do you make the payments. But the whole idea and the generous went on even in hunting for the governor Luckily I was in there and then then they were asked then the wires to do was quote The payments are made and essentially is the if you have a wire it even have a wire it between wire it then you can change units with the same one it isn't it and then we say if you really want to make connections out of that order us out of used you have to go to a pos point also and that's when they say they don't ask Central Bank to talk about or even to accept a currency that doesn't know the origin doesn't help rules of the game doesn't have a real Freemont that you can rail and that is how we were escaping this big debate so across jurisdiction everybody was like No the central bank should narrow. Cryptocurrency and then the question was Where is it coming from who is and I think this is the kind of. Issue that Stephanie's raising that maybe it is the failure of central banks to arouse some innovation but central bank has to go through the ground rules that are supposed to be required because at the end of the day if you lose your income there's no massive for the central bank because they come back and say this is not advice that's why I started by saying once you have there is communication and we put it in a lot of risk mitigation and then we put it in that it will framework that is required and then we paraded the guidance that are supposed to be followed then you would be sure that it to work nicely there on those days in what's been looking at different retreats. Is that the description of M.P.'s is one of the most successful. Regulatory stand box when we were doing that in Kenya we didn't realise that's what we were doing but actually that is the case that is the outcome that is showing up. First. Both. The. We're a few years on the road course. And if the growth. Was glad of course of discipline of that. Whole and that actually all of the ingenuity community in this country. That is probably better than the everything we have under. The other part of. The just and that is should the press here be already and we have years and years of wholesale several. Of the goods last involved. So there. Was. A retail so. Called motor. Oil already and here is a diverse enormously under the timing on one of the models are. That their country question is undervalued or whether you should try and find a good whether you. Had all so that they're finally. Going to go away because if I go. And then that is my responsibility and it's nobody else. Should have these big cashable in the country. If there's a problem the problem is absolutely never ever that sort of. So that would be. To your point about the conversation. We're going to my mind because that is essentially a. Construct had to think about things in a very different. And that's what we think about those goals. And then all of a sudden there are the. Words like money around the. Isn't because I'll. I'll be like I'm. Going to get really needs these aggressive use of the features that we get into the whole issue of trust and dues actually backing up is that God What is it somebody else is according. To your decision to do this and in the worst cases you're better off with King Bob to be allowed to use somebody else's. Money where your trust to do. But in addition to that. You're talking like cell phones computers cars whatnot that's kind of the cities that lead the nation in that you can use many different people way of storing your money and making sure that it's really with you but when you do that then you also get into the there was alluded to the board with the cost. And let me give you one example on the number of things that for. Her or a member of the. Version of you is a part of Europe to see over about. The changes that have been seriously. Part of your. Costing coverage around 80 percent. Nordic costing the ratio 65. If you set up. A new bag that I can license you. Internet media or possibly a racial bottles. And then we heard earlier this morning about the horrible violence of one man for. Miles. That is going to be described there is no question about that. Idea of God with the soul and your occasional and live in Eagles crap girl mainframes Oh yes Heidi and fighting like crazy hoping that you will too and that's an underlying issue let me go blundering example I will start talking. About the major fact. About a year ago it's. We're heading out of our world where payment systems can be run for years. So what about sending the whole thing needles. And I have read. Them over again and says them our whole state system over those that are involved is that. If you ever get in by there is no need to go. And then. This month we were last year and the opening hours from fire 6. That's not as huge. Eventually somebody else is going to show up if you get a tree change thing is a quibble. But builders are the subtlety. Part of God because we have on our of our craft sort of a structure of the financial center of the structural change and anybody that actually has the Ace Who Needs To me he trusts in the. Hope. I think we've got about 15 minutes last night to open it up to audience q. and a. Simply make sure you introduce yourself wait for the mike and then introduce yourself as you're asking your question I think. Man. I think Dave and I. Hi My name is David Eric and I'm a co-founder of a Fin Tech called at all and also a co-founder of a nonprofit with giant barefoot called the air the Alliance for innovative regulation I want to thank a gin and Michael for pulling this together this is been just a phenomenally thought provoking and interesting conference I also want to thank our 3 distinguished guests because this is really been a very very interesting session I have a question actually it's for governor invests. With regards to the transition to an e currency one of the primary values of cash is privacy privacy of transactions and as we all know and perhaps foreshadowing our next session it's also one of the great pitfalls of of cash is that access to money laundering in the heinous crimes that that can enable as you start thinking about transitioning to in the currency How important is the question of privacy is that a question that is a part of what the central bank should be concerned about and if so what frameworks have you been thinking about. Or are. We. I would. Create the rules very well I. It's a must to apply for a. Rule that you have and the world has changed enormously all that 5 pounds in your buying things will mean that just would not work so the world. As we changed and if we an underlying issues but rather. Than go slow. Or hire a company knowledgeable. In both cases why are there whatever they are doing. So our bottom line very good say that the rules. Will be difficult and the rules of the Midi she. Might be or Huge are going to be really. Thank you Katherine to make it at the University of Michigan so. The central banks all the central banks I know of have a national mandate which I think you mentioned as well and they're not global they're really focused on what is best for the domestic economy but all that we've been talking about is this kind of idea of trust and potentially cross settlement of payments and I'm just curious since we're talking about the central bank of the future how would we actually move from this kind of very nationally focused. Set of institutions or or would the central bank of the future in your minds actually be an international central bank or are we going to stick with the current kind of country by country model and have court nation across them just curious about where you think that's going. To work. I mean. Different different different jurisdictions going to. I think from come from this sheet of the African region so. Good agents of market development and once the market has developed they've been moved. Because essentially there is. The comedies always were trying one of them is mantra policy of financial stability and of course support government now we have national payments and then support government's National Development Agenda The next question is what is government's National Development Agenda one of them yourself you're supporting the money but once you've done that then you move on to the next but perhaps you let the market fall and that that that is that is going to be maybe the central bank of the future a successful cut how do you know the market to the right direction and then when do you leave exit that market when you exit that market as actually should I say. Produce the right m Vironment and is actually evolving on its own on its own that is you are all for that don't you know them and that is from the region that I come from if the central bank doesn't provide that kind of fighting and nudging the market in that I'd then obviously it to be failing in terms of the national development agenda but it doesn't have to be there after the market has forced maybe that's the way I would look at it and of course everybody talks about regional integration and we think the best we have done in the stuff to come region is to adopt the same kind of mantra policy framework and I'll talk about it so one of the most encouraging from the fund do c.s. when everybody was moving into information targeting But beyond that how they use different instruments depends very much on the market development on their own market development and how the central banks are pushed the market development in that kind of sphere the. One thing that is happening also in a world where you have many many central banks and this holds particularly for for smaller countries is there is a world where it becomes less and less likely that you develop your own systems because it just costs too much to do. And when we're talking about digital life station when we're talking about let me give you an example when I was a young man in the Options business and I dealt with stock exchanges and things like that everything was May put together domestically in one form or the other Today you can buy a stock exchange of shell in the future it's highly likely that you can also buy a digital currency off shelf because it's not that hard actually to produce these these things and in that environment it's one thing to be responsible for things but it's a different thing in terms of where actually this servers are located and how you operate operate the systems and take our present payment system which is getting the wholesale system it was actually from the beginning developed in South Africa it's owned by an Italian company and I think that the good good a good chunk of the rewriting of the code is probably done in India or I don't know where it's done but it's actually that's how these things evolve in our days and that's globalized sation because it's under realistic for us to hire 200 i.t. people and do all this on our own because it's much more efficient to have somebody else doing it but it takes quite a while to get to that point because once people say well you know are you buying this from somebody else and they they get kind of a bit suspicious and this is really where it pays to to cooperate. Mac. Coralie former commercial banker and now an m.b.a. student at the University of Michigan it's clear that the pushback on Facebook's Libra is that we need a much closer partnership between the public and private sector to be curious to get all of your opinions on what is the best way to collaborate towards you know a global currency of the future. If I if I knew that I probably wouldn't be here. So 2nd best is to ensure that we have transactional systems that are efficient and that can handle these things because most likely we will still continue to have national currencies but we maybe we will have fewer national currencies in the future and then what we have had and in the past and how that we live all just I just don't know because there has been so many attempts and so many political conversations of that over the years let's say in the context of the i.m.f.. To think about a global currency but as long as a nation states produce a loss. That's just the way things will stay. Good afternoon Chris clubby from the Gates Foundation in the 20th century central banks regulators and organizations like the Basel Committee on banks region wrote standards and rules these are words written down the tell people how we expect banks and other types institutions to behave and what they should and shouldn't do but today and yesterday we've been talking about artificial intelligence and we've been talking about on mation and 24 by 7 availability and intelligent agents and Abdel is writing code to help monitor smart contacts and so on and loan agreements so might the central bank of the future or the Basel I mean if you stop writing rules and instead write code or maybe mandate the use of certain technologies would you be happy in a world like that so we're 2 governors maybe 1st on on what might change about rule writing in the future. I would be happy in a world like that I think it would make for a much better world. But my opinion I think you typically see that innovation seldom comes from within. Reason like Kodak and Instagram. Usually you need a fresh perspective and so I'm of the view that. Collaborating with 3rd parties. To properly you know innovate is probably the best path forward but you know the end game. Ends up being the same more of a digital regulatory environment I think. We're allowed the whole system to function well socially. I think that you just have to keep at it for years and years and years and there was a story the other way the other day in the newspapers about some kind of a postal agreement an organization which is more than 100 years old being with how much you pay when you say and send packages cross border and then this is just how these things of all over time and I mean here when it comes to code or no code I mean I mentioned the whole issue of a a digital definition of who you are for that to be meaningful cross border you have to agree on what but the nature of that kind of a definition would be and that would require some serious conversations about how you actually do that same thing when it comes to this with a system which is basically a global system dealing with not making payments but dealing with payment messages. And you needed local standard to do that to deal with that because otherwise you would have no idea what kind of messages go with the payments and that's one example of where it has been possible to get to an agreement on how this is this is done but it is never it's never easy because I mean being chairman of the bottle committee you sit there in the chair person and then you have 50 people around the table and all of them say that they are right. And then you have to try to make sense of sense of that then just live with the fact that there are many rights using the plural. You really get one right. Now you know Michael again from the Gates Foundation So you've said the you know the existing cross border payment system is is outdated doesn't work well. We don't think we're going to move to a global central bank and a global single currency. You know the tip system is owned and run by by a single entity if you think about other regional efforts and I know that the government do go for McGovern do Lou and Tanzania we're starting to think about East Africa regionalization does this require a ultimately do we need a global entity that runs the global payments system can this be done just through cooperation. And if you know these type of swift sort of play some of that role currently but like Abdel says innovation rarely comes from within a monopolistic company. What's the way forward how do we think about this and is do we need new entities that can help drive a whole new cross border payments of. Don't I think it would be just too difficult because each and every time we start thinking about something global creating a better world nothing moves because it's just too hard because it's sort of saying let's create a Cadillac or a Rolls Royce it never gets done and all those who have been involved in major i.t. projects know that So Hume aim 481-2718 sort of a regional basis that's one way to start and. Maybe this is not a very good comparison but it has something to do with your question the 1st cross border mobile phone system ever constructed was the an empty the Nordic mobile phone standard to the g one and the rest is history. Because it was possible to agree on a standard between a limited group of countries and then there's sort of realized maybe there is something in this so if you can sort of gradually prove your case you can take it from there and that's certainly the case in various parts of Africa and if you agree on it we're not talking forever you just get on with it and do it then it will happen and eventually will be copied by others or others can sort of voluntarily join because each and every time you try to create something where you impose things on others it just won't happen or at least that's my my view. I don't and I think what Michael as you're mentioning is that we tried to do that in East Africa we created they stuff a containment system and then the 1st step was actually to link up the outages those countries that didn't have the adequate arity real time gross at them and we they managed to get funds from the African Development Bank and the World Bank and the why able to mount that the next thing was actually when it came now to cross border payments which required that you you can actually use the Dakar and so what he does very badly was actually the 1st of all is the national payment system we need countries are not very well right but the most inhibiting was actually the by the truck by that direction it in a sense nobody wants to one currency to dominate and they argued that we can develop a new marriage but nobody would know what they thought about it so we decided Kenya and Tanzania can go about it and then we will be posting the better drugs and it we find we fund account operates we're finding the accounts in the currencies in the currencies that were meant bringing in physical quantities of course we realize that it can go for 4 for wrong with physical currency if you take your physical. Can and sharing to Tanzania you know Russia which was nearest and then bring some to Nairobi obviously nobody was taking this the towns and so essentially it good in go finally So we were in financing we have a national a new Maria for the stuff like an economist and it can work and we can push it but again it all depends who is the fast who is who is that leader with a really nice I think after. They have to be seen living dives already nobody even talks about it it is a national leadership problem because once the leaders agree central banks will be very very effective in moving to the next level. And want to thank our panel and thank you.