Research Policy Network (RPNs) Finance and Fintech

Fintech and Digital Currencies

Project lead

Dirk Niepelt

Professor University Of Bern

Fellow, Monetary Economics and Fluctuations / RPN Leader, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Central banks such as the ECB and the Bank of England, among many others, weigh the pros and cons of retail Central Bank Digital Currency or “Reserves for All.” Banks plan to issue liabilities in new form, such as “deposit tokens.” New Fintech companies and crypto asset issuers aim to revolutionize payments, intermediation, funding, and asset management, with potentially important consequences for competition, privacy, and censorship resistance.

The network is concerned with these and other dramatic changes in money and banking. It generates and disseminates relevant academic research and fosters the dialogue between academics and policy makers.

Activities

Since its launch in September 2018, the Fintech and Digital Currencies RPN organised various online and in-person events, launched a VoxEU Debate Page and published two eBooks.

On Saturday, 6 December, 12:20-13:20 (Paris time), the Fintech & Digital Currencies RPN will hold a session at Collège de France during the CEPR Paris Symposium 2025.

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Members

Tobias Adrian

Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department International Monetary Fund

Toni Ahnert

Research Economist European Central Bank

David Andolfatto

Senior Vice President, Research Department Federal Reserve Bank Of St Louis

RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Katrin Assenmacher

Head of the Stress Test Modelling Division European Central Bank

Emmanuelle Assouan

Director General Financial Stability and Operations, Chair of the Banque de France Climate Change Centre Banque De France

RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Raphael Auer

Head, BISIH Eurosystem Centre Bank For International Settlements

Rhys Bidder

Senior Lecturer King's Business School; Deputy Director Qatar Centre For Global Banking And Finance

RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Ulrich Bindseil

Director General of Market Infrastructures and Payments European Central Bank

RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Markus Brunnermeier

Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics and Director of the Bendheim Center for Finance Princeton University

Stephen Cecchetti

Rosen Family Chair in International Finance, Brandeis International Business School Brandeis University; Vice-Chair, Advisory Scientific Committee European Systemic Risk Board

Fellow, Monetary Economics and Fluctuations / RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Jonathan Chiu

Senior Research Advisor Bank Of Canada

RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Piero Cipollone

Member of the Executive Board European Central Bank

Darrell Duffie

Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford University, Graduate School of Business Stanford University

RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Antonio Fatás

Vice President Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor of Economics Insead; Professor of Economics

Fellow, Macroeconomics and Growth / RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies / CEPR Vice President / RPN Steering Committee, Ageing and Longevity / RPN Member, Ageing and Longevity / RPN Member, Growth, Innovation and Social Model in Europe

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics, Director of the Penn Initiative for the Study of the Markets and Co-Director of the Business, Economic, and Financial History Project at the Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation University Of Pennsylvania

Leonardo Gambacorta

Head of Emerging Markets Bank For International Settlements

Rod Garratt

Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara

RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Wenqian Huang

RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Todd Keister

Professor of Economics Rutgers University

RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Anneke Kosse

Senior Economist Bank For International Settlements

RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Andrea Maechler

Swiss National Bank (SNB)

RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Cyril Monnet

Professor of Economics University Of Bern

Richard Portes

Founder and Honorary President, Centre for Economic Policy Research; Professor of Economics London Business School

Fellow, International Macroeconomics and Finance / Fellow, Monetary Economics and Fluctuations / RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies / Fellow, Banking and Corporate Finance / RPN Member, Geoeconomics

Linda Schilling

Assistant Professor of Finance Olin Business School, Washington University in St Louis

Hyun Song Shin

Economic Adviser and Head of the Monetary and Economic Department Bank For International Settlements

Harald Uhlig

Bruce Allen and Barbara Ritzenthaler Professor of Economics University Of Chicago

Maarten R C van Oordt

Research Fellow Tinbergen Institute; Professor of Money and Banking Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies

Kathy Yuan

Professor of Finance London School Of Economics And Political Science

VoxEU Debate: The Future of Digital Money

VoxEU Column

Central bank digital currency: Central banking for all

25 Apr 2020

Central Banking
Frontiers of economic research
Financial Regulation and Banking

VoxEU Column

Libra still needs more baking

25 Apr 2020

Monetary Policy
Frontiers of economic research
Financial Regulation and Banking

VoxEU Column

Digital money: Implications for emerging market and developing economies

16 Jan 2020

Monetary Policy
Financial Regulation and Banking

Upcoming events

5 December

Conference

CEPR Paris Symposium

CEPR Paris Symposium 2025

5 Dec 2025 - 10 Dec 2025 in Paris, France

Past events

Workshop