Marius Jurgilas, Member of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania, will participate in the conference "Balancing Fintech Opportunities and Risks. Implementing the “Bali Fintech Agenda”", organized in Vienna by Austrian National Bank and Finance Ministry, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Joint Vienna Institute. The event will bring together public officials, private-sector executives and academic scholars from countries in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, as well as the Caucasus and Central Asia, to share their latest experiences and practices related to Fintech’s challenges.
Mr Jurgilas will take part in the discussion on financial infrastructure, concentrated on implications of fintech to central banking services (e.g., digital currency, and expanding access to and improving the resilience of payments services) and improving cross-border payments and remittance transfer systems, as well as approaches to developing robust data Infrastructures that are resilient to disruptions, while addressing issues that are relevant not only to the financial sector but also to the digital economy at large (e.g., data ownership, protection, and privacy, cybersecurity, etc.).
