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PANEL DEBATE – Central Bank Digital Currency – The real deal or a damp squib?
• Is it really the next big thing in digital transformation?
• Which firms are planning to take first mover advantage?
• How are other regions globally planning to capitalise?
• Has Covid-19 expedited the need for such services or has it impacted this movement negatively?
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Nilixa Devlukia
Nilixa Devlukia
Chair Open Finance AssociationNilixa is the founder of Payments Solved a regulatory consultancy advising on the regulatory framework for crypto assets, CBDC, payment services and open banking both in the UK and globally. Nilixa is an experienced regulatory expert and lawyer with a Masters in European Competition Law and over 20 years of banking and payments experience gained from her time at Barclays, the FCA, the European Banking Authority and as Head of Regulatory at the Open Banking Implementation Entity. Nilixa has worked extensively with the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the World Bank and regulators across the globe. Nilixa has represented the UK and FCA on various EU and UK level committees including the ECB SecurePay Forum, the EU API Evaluation Group and the UK Payment Strategy Forum and lead on the publication of the FCA Approach Document on Payment Services and EBA Consultations. Nilixa is a well know public speaker and works with industry, regulators and legislators to drive changes in the banking and payments ecosystem for a payments and open banking landscape that is secure, transparent and inclusive.
Carolina Caballero
Carolina Caballero
Head of Innovation for B2B Payments & Digital Currencies MastercardCarolina Caballero is an influential payments industry leader (Payments Source most influential women in payments 2020), focused on execution and relationship building with a creative “can do”mentality and over 20 years of experience in financial services.
Carolina is the Head of Innovation for B2B Payments & Digital Currencies at Mastercard leading a team of product managers that partners with product,
franchise, operations and technology areas to design and bring new innovative payments solutions to market alongside Mastercard’s key clients and external partners.
Prior to Mastercard, Carolina was an Executive Director at Citi Trade and Transaction Service servicing Corporates, Financial Institutions and Public Sector clients. She held leadership roles in the Global Payments product organization including P&L management, product development, thought leadership, and risk and regulatory partnering with Sales, Operations and Technology, Risk Management and Legal functions. Among her accomplishments are setting up a new cross border payments network for over 30 markets, growing new P&L lines for payments and leading thecompany’s Resolution and Recovery plan initiative through a successful outcome.
Carolina was also a supervisor of financial institutions at the Central Bank of Argentina during the 2002 default crisis and a strategy and operations management consultant at Deloitte and Accenture for banks and financial institutions.
Carolina holds an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business and London Business School and a BA in Economics from the University of Florida, Gainesville.
She lives with her family in Larchmont, NY and enjoys swimming and painting. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and proficient in French and German.
Chris Aruliah
Chris Aruliah
Vice President - Banking Relations BitstampChris heads up bank partnerships for Bitstamp, one of the world´s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, working with banks and financial institutions to help them realise the potential of the cryptocurrency and cryptoasset markets. Bitstamp has been in operation since 2011 and now serves 4 million institutional and retail clients globally. Prior to Bitstamp, Chris led the launch of Token in Europe and has been working with banks for the last 15 years in the areas of open banking and mobile banking.
