The Bank of Finland will organize and host a one day international conference Going Cashless. The conference focuses mainly on the feasibility of and potential benefits and risks brought by a cashless society.
Starts: Tuesday 14.6.2016, 8:30
Ends: Tuesday 14.6.2016, 16:30
Venue: Finlandia Hall, Conference room Veranda 2
Address: Mannerheimintie 13 e, Helsinki
Opening words Governor Erkki Liikanen (Bank of Finland)
Key note speech: Professor Marvin Goodfriend (Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business)
1st Session: Price stability, macroeconomic and financial stability
Presentations:
- Jens Ulbrich (Deutsche Bundesbank): Cash and negative interest rates (PDF)
- Oreste Tristani (European Central Bank): QE and negative interest rates in the recent euro area experience (PDF)
2nd Session: On the way to the cashless societies
Presentations:
- Franz Seitz (Weiden Technical University of Applied Sciences): Cashless, Less Cash, Or Even More? (PDF)
- Andrea Pinna (European Central Bank): Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) - revolution or evolution? (PDF)
- Erik Zingmark (Nordea Bank): What do banks want from blockchain? (PDF)
- Ben Fung (Bank of Canada): Cashless society: Is it the future? (PDF)
- Malte Krüger (Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences): The Cashless Society. A case for plumbers or visionaries? (PDF)
- Juha Tarkka (Bank of Finland): Cashing Out? Some Issues on the Way to a Cashless Economy. (PDF)
Programme (pdf)
Participation is by personal invitation only.
Organizers:
Jouko Vilmunen (Bank of Finland)
Janiza Ouarab (Bank of Finland)