FinTech Book Authors to Attend This Year's BABEL International Conference
Forging Digital Money in the Tokenization Era
Reshaping Legal Tender?
III BABEL International Conference in cooperation with the European Banking Institute
Hybrid event: May 8 - 10, 2025 | Florence, Italy
The III BABEL International Conference (BIC25) explores the evolving landscape of digital money in the tokenization era. Organized by the University of Florence’s Department of Economics and Management (BABEL*) in collaboration with the European Banking Institute (EBI), the conference aims to examine the legal, regulatory, and technological implications of innovations like central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), tokenized payment systems, and the broader impact on financial stability and monetary policy. Over three days, BIC25 will feature keynote addresses, roundtable discussions, and networking opportunities focused on the future of legal tender in an increasingly digital world.
Over the three-day event, BIC25 will feature keynote addresses, roundtable discussions, and networking opportunities, including:
On May 8, Professor Dirk Zetzsche will participate in the roundtable "Redefining Money—Evolving Legal Frameworks in the Token Economy," held in the Aula Magna.
On May 9, Professor Douglas Arner (online) will contribute to the panel "Digital Legal Tender—Implications for Monetary Policy and Financial System Stability," scheduled in Sala Convegni 0.18.
Later that day, Professor Ross Buckley will join the panel "Global Regulatory Coordination Strategies for Digital Currencies," also in Sala Convegni 0.18.
For a detailed schedule and registration information, please visit the official BIC25 website.
Professors Ross Buckley, Douglas Arner, and Dirk Zetzsche are the authors of FinTech: Finance, Technology and Regulation. The book offers a unique perspective on FinTech as an interactive system encompassing finance, technology, and law - available on Amazon, with 20% publisher's discount at Cambridge University Press.
* BABEL is a research unit in the Department of Economics and Management (DiSEI) at the University of Firenze, focusing on Blockchains, Artificial Intelligence for Business, Economics, and Law.
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