The present and future of fast payment systems

Date

January 27, 2025, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST
Virtual Event

Nicolas Véron (PIIE), Harish Natarajan (World Bank) and Othon Moreno (Banco de Mexico)

Event Summary

New technological capabilities have enabled the development of “fast payment systems,” which settle retail transactions in a few seconds. This session considers these systems in the broader environment of current changes in the global payments landscape, including the development of central bank digital currencies.

Joining this episode of Financial Statements are:

HOST

Nicolas Véron
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

GUESTS

Harish Natarajan 
Practice Manager, Financial Inclusion and Infrastructure, World Bank

Othon Moreno
Director-General of Payment Systems and Financial Market Infrastructures, Banco de Mexico

Video

Series

About This Series

Financial Statements is a biweekly virtual event series hosted by Nicolas Véron that explores changes in the world of finance, encompassing themes of financial services regulation, corporate finance and governance, systemic fragility and crises, and structural changes driving business and policy trends in the financial sector.