Senior Associate Director, Payments Division, Federal Reserve Board (FRB)
David has responsibility for the Board’s innovations in payments, retail payments, FedNow Service oversight, fiscal agency and payments economic research programs. David is a key leader in the Board’s and the System’s overall focus on digital innovations topics, especially developments in digital assets, stablecoins, central bank digital currencies and distributed ledger technologies.
David is active in several international organizations. He is a member of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and chairs its Future of Payments working group. He is a co-chair of the Financial Stability Board’s Financial Innovation Network. He is a member of the G7’s Digital Payments Expert Group. He is also on the academic advisory council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Consumer Finance Institute.
David has published articles related to payments and monetary theory in a variety of journals including the Journal of Monetary Economics, the International Economic Review, the Review of Economic Dynamics and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
David received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University and has a B.A. in Economics and Classical Languages from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Roundtable Room 2 (Level 2)
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Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is frequently highlighted as a game-changer for financial market infrastructure (FMI). Yet, despite numerous pilots, proofs of concept, and even some production deployments, it has (yet) neither replaced nor fundamentally transformed today’s financial markets. Rather, DLT has remained limited to niche applications.
Which key elements are still missing, or are insufficiently mature, to enable DLT to truly reshape FMI? Is the main hurdle the current regulatory framework, or do challenges around standardization, interoperability with legacy systems, scalability, governance, and proven use cases with sufficient value bear the greatest responsibility?