Join us on 1 December from 12pm GMT for the next Virtual Policy Forum webinar by Cambridge Digital Innovation and Regulation Initiative (C:\>DIR) - an initiative of Financial Innovation for Impact.
Digital identity, instant payments and data exchange are becoming the shared rails of the digital economy, used by governments, banks, fintechs and, increasingly, AI agents acting on people's behalf. Yet no single authority is responsible for them. A digital ID system may answer to an identity agency, the payments built on it to the central bank, its use of personal data to the data protection authority, and the market around it to the competition regulator.
This is often where DPI governance falls short: not for lack of rules, but in the gaps and overlaps between institutions. The UN Universal DPI Safeguards Framework and other international efforts set out what good governance should achieve. Delivering it depends on regulators that can see where their mandates meet, measure how well they work together, and act jointly when it matters.
This C:\>DIR Forum asks what that looks like in practice. Drawing on experience from Asia, Africa and Latin America, the discussion will explore how countries can build governance that works across institutional boundaries, why it matters most where capacity is thinnest, and what governments and regulators should prioritise over the next two years to support a digital economy that grows responsibly and earns public trust.
Recent webinars in the series
Stablecoins, Tokenisation and Regulatory Responses to Distributed Financial Market Infrastructure
As tokenised markets move from experimentation to adoption, regulators face critical questions around stablecoins, digital financial market infrastructures, interoperability, and the future of market oversight.
This event was moderated by Agustin Carstens, C:\>DIR Co-Convenor, former General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements and former Governor of the Bank of Mexico.
Panellists included:
🔵 Danny Ryan, Co-Founder and President, Etherialize
🔵 Lyle Horsley, Divisional Head of Fintech, South African Reserve Bank
🔵 Jane Moore, Head of Department in Payments & Digital Assets, UK Financial Conduct Authority
🔵 Pallavi Thakur, Director of Industry Engagement, Swift
🔵 Siddharth Shetty, CEO, Finternet Labs
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Computational Regulation: From Policy Sludge to Smarter Rules
Advances in AI and computational regulation are creating new possibilities for how rules are analysed, compared and developed. Moderated by Gillian Tett (Provost of King's College, Cambridge and Financial Times columnist), and in collaboration with RegGenome, this forum will explore how machine-readable regulation and AI tools can support more effective rule-making, reduce regulatory complexity, and strengthen cross-border regulatory cooperation, while preserving trust and accountability. The session will see a presentation from Michael Hsu, former Acting Comptroller of the Currency, followed by a panel discussion including speakers from the National Bank of Georgia and the UK Financial Conduct Authority.
Speakers included:
Michael Hsu, Fellow, Cambridge Judge Business School and the Aspen Institute
Helen Packard, Head of Market Oversight Data & Intelligence, FCA
Robert Wardrop, Founder & CEO, RegGenome
Varlam Ebanoidze, Head of FinTech and SupTech Development / Innovation Office, National Bank of Georgia
Witit Synsatayakul, Digital and Innovative Specialist, Asian Development Bank
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