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.
Roundtable Room 2 (Level 2)
Open
The proliferation of tokenized financial assets across distinct networks has created significant challenges for both the private and public sectors, including issues of interoperability, scalability, regulatory compliance and security. A base layer foundational digital infrastructure, which facilitates interoperability and supports secure transactions of tokenised assets across such networks, could address these challenges while unlocking new opportunities for economic growth.
Global Layer One (GL1) is a collaborative initiative between the public and private sectors to foster the development of multi-purpose, shared ledger infrastructures, that will facilitate seamless cross-border financial transactions while meeting regulatory expectations. More information about GL1 may be found at
The GL1 Dialogue is a series of in person public-private dialogues to facilitate broader industry engagements around GL1. These dialogues seek to bring together financial institutions and policymakers to discuss and learn about developments in financial and asset tokenisation, and features key milestones and progress under GL1. This roundtable will discuss the regulatory and operational considerations in building an ecosystem of regulatory compliant digital infrastructure for tokenised financial transactions.
Roundtable Room 2 (Level 2)
Open
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?