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Qaiser Anwarudin

Qaiser Anwarudin

Director, Payment Services Policy Department, Bank Negara Malaysia

Qaiser heads the Payment Services Policy Department in Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM). The department is responsible for the regulatory framework to drive the development of the payments industry and to preserve payment system stability as part of the central bank’s mandate. The department houses BNM's Digital Currency Research Hub which coordinates work on digital assets and central bank digital currencies. It has also been involved in multiple projects championed by the BIS Innovation Hub including Project Dunbar, Project Nexus and Project Mandala.

Prior to this, Qaiser led the Financial Surveillance Department in BNM, which is responsible for financial stability. He also spent a notable part of his career in BNM in the area of micro-prudential policy. Qaiser joined BNM in 1999, and between 2012 and 2015 served as a Senior Financial Sector Specialist with the Financial Stability Institute of the BIS.

Qaiser holds a bachelor’s degree in computer and management science from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

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Roundtable Room 2 (Level 2)

Decoding Digital Assets and Payments

Tue, 02 Jul   |   11:30AM - 01:00PM

Foreign exchange: Digital money and the future of FX

This roundtable considers the work that the BIS Innovation Hub Eurosystem Centre, Singapore Centre, together with the central banks of France, Italy, Malaysia, and Singapore are pursuing to determine how FX will look like in a world of digital money.

The discussion will support this work, with the objective to:

- Promote understanding and share insights on the integration of digital currencies in the FX market.
- Identify challenges and explore opportunities presented by the intersection of FX, DeFi, and wholesale CBDCs.
- Encourage collaboration among stakeholders to shape a forward-looking FX framework that accommodates digital innovations.

This roundtable is closely tied to the work on Project Rialto, which aims to improving instant cross-border payments using wholesale CBDC settlement, details of which are available in the agenda brief. Operating under the theme of Decoding Digital Assets and Payments, this roundtable will explore the inefficiencies in today's foreign exchange markets, and the various initiatives that are being pursued to address these.

Attendees who wish to familiarise themselves with the history of the topic may refer to the reference materials here.

Alan Lim

Alan LimDirector & Head, FinTech Infrastructure Office, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Alexander Wehrli

Alexander WehrliAdvisor for Technology and Data Science, Money Market and Foreign Exchange, Swiss National Bank
Angelo Ranaldo

Professor Angelo RanaldoFull Professor, University of Basel & Chair, Swiss Finance Institute
Claudine Hurman

Claudine HurmanDirector of Innovation and Financial Market Infrastructures, Banque de France
Darko Hajdukovic

Dr Darko HajdukovicHead of New and Private Markets, Deputy Head of Digital and Securities Markets , London Stock Exchange Group
Gordon Liao

Dr Gordon LiaoChief Economist, Circle Internet Financial
Mike Robertson

Mike Robertson Chief Executive Officer, AbbeyCross
Nidhi Shanbhag

Nidhi ShanbhagHead of Business Development, Uniswap Labs
Qaiser Anwarudin

Qaiser AnwarudinDirector, Payment Services Policy Department, Bank Negara Malaysia
Sharon Donnery

Sharon DonneryDeputy Governor, Central Bank of Ireland
Zou Xiaonan

Zou XiaonanHead of Digital Assets, Group Treasury, UBS
Maha El Dimachki

Maha El DimachkiCentre Head - Singapore, BIS Innovation Hub
Raphael Auer

Raphael AuerCentre Head of Eurosystem Centre, Bank for International Settlements
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