2021 CIBEL Global Network Conference Webinar 1: New landscape of international economic legal order

This panel discusses the future landscape of world economy. Technology, digital currency, and climate change are factors that have profoundly affected the world economy. New digital currencies, such as central bank digital currency (CBDC) have brought along new opportunities and challenges such as data harvesting, privacy issues and cyber security.

So how should CBDC be issued and operate? What are the rights and duties of central banks? What are the different approaches to CBDC? How to address the new challenges brought by climate change to monetary policy?

To learn more, visit the Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre website.

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Professor Sayuri Shirai on 'Climate Change and Growing Challenges to Monetary Policy' starts from 3:50
Mr John Velissarios on 'Financial Ecosystems 2.0 & the Role of CBDCs' starts from 13:37
Professor Corinne Zellweger-Gutknecht on 'The Right and Duty of Central Banks to Issue Retail CBDC' starts from 27:09
Professor Heng Wang on 'China's Pathway to Central Bank Digital Currency' starts from 40:09