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Bogdan Vacusta
Chairman, Blockchain Intelligence Professionals Association & Strategy Consultant
National Bank of Romania
Professional with over 20 years’ experience in intelligence, compliance, audit & investigations and now serves as a strategy consultant on crypto-assets and digital currencies for the National Bank of Romania. Also currently the chairman of the Blockchain Intelligence Professional Association (BIPA), the first EU initiative to facilitate the development of standards and good practice in blockchain intelligence.
An Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist, Accredited Counter Fraud Manager, Certified DLT & Blockchain Manager, Certified Crypto-Assets Investigator & Compliance Specialist, Certified OSINT Practitioner, with a wealth of experience as an investigator and compliance specialist, particularly in blockchain transactions, holding ICA Diplomas in Anti Money Laundering and Financial Crime Prevention.
Speaking at the summit
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1:30–3:00pmSun 15 NovRoundtableRoundtable 2Open
Baray - Monetary Sovereignty
Beyond the Dollar: Stablecoins, Local-Currency Settlement & the Future of Money
About this session
Most stablecoins in circulation are linked to the US dollar. For economies seeking to reduce their dependence on the dollar, that creates a fundamental contradiction: the same technology that can lower the cost of payments may also make dollar-denominated money easier to use. At the same time, local-currency settlement is advancing through bilateral arrangements, regional initiatives and domestic payment systems. The roundtable examines that tension directly. When do stablecoins solve a genuine user problem, and when do they reinforce existing monetary dependence? What would a credible local-currency digital instrument require in reserves, governance, redemption and supervision? And where does local-currency settlement provide a better answer than creating another form of digital money?
