Rationale for CBDCs, design choices, challenges - Vipin Bharathan

Dec 4th - Vipin Bharathan -
Rationale for CBDCs, design choices, challenges - Central Bank Digital Currency
CBDC ( Central Bank Digital Currency ) is one of the major factors that can change the landscape in finance, trade and commerce forever. While most crypto does not work for the majority of commerce scenarios, CBDC may drive big changes. Vipin is a thought leader and leading architect in many domains including Finance, Trade and Digital Currency. Do not miss the opportunity to understand CBDC and how it may impact your business and work.

Vipin Bharathan

Vipin has 35 years of experience as a developer, development manager, Product owner and Project manager in many different domains, including insurance, embedded systems programming, cryptography, payment systems, media, fx trading and fixed income. For the last five years he has been working as a blockchain strategist and advisor. Vipin has been involved with Hyperledger since its inception; now he is the chair of the Identity WG and founder and chair of the Capital Markets SIG. Vipin is the founder of dlt.nyc. Vipin has contributed to Corda, DAML and EEA/Quorum. Most recently, he launched two projects in Hyperledger labs: eThaler, a wholesale CBDC and xcsi: an interoperability solution. Vipin is currently working with Digital Currency Global Initiative, an ITU (ITU is a UN Special Agency) project; as vice-chair of the Interoperability workstream.