Focus Session – Wholesale central bank money: Appia Roadmap for shaping the European tokenised financial ecosystem

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Welcome address

Explore the Eurosystem’s programme on tokenised wholesale central bank money that is paving the way for a future-ready, integrated financial ecosystem leveraging tokenisation and distributed ledger technology (DLT) and how it shapes the development of a European tokenised financial ecosystem. Learn more about how this strategic initiative brings together the Eurosystem as well as public and private sector stakeholders, with the aim of building integrated, innovative and resilient tokenised wholesale financial markets in Europe.

• Thomas Vlassopoulos, Director General, ECB

Overview on Appia roadmap

The Appia roadmap sets out how the Eurosystem will shape the development of a European tokenised financial ecosystem. Gain insights on the objectives for pursuing this roadmap, the design principles and the timeline for this journey.

• Holger Neuhaus, Head of Division, ECB

Insights on general approach of Appia and how to be involved

The Eurosystem is committed to continue its collaboration with the market as Appia advances. Learn more about the general approach of Appia and the building blocks that will be developed, how public and market stakeholders will support and advance analytical and practical work and how work on relevant standardisation activities in this field will be supported. Find out how you can provide feedback and express your interest in contributing to the forthcoming work on Appia.

• Paul Gardin, Market Infrastructure Expert, ECB

• Gergely Koczan, Team Lead, ECB

Closing remarks

• Dimitri Pattyn, Deputy Director General, ECB