Jennifer Fowler is a member of the Secretariat of the Financial Stability Board, where she supports the FSB’s work on cross-border payments and tokenization and contributes to Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub projects. Prior to joining the FSB, Ms. Fowler led the North American Fintech Policy team at Facebook/Meta, with a focus on digital wallets, stablecoins and digital assets. Ms. Fowler previously served in senior positions in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, leading policy development related to anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, and sanctions. She also held a number of leadership positions in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), including chairing key working groups on policy development and international cooperation. Ms. Fowler holds a master’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University.
Roundtable Room 3 (Level 3)
Open
This roundtable gathers experts from key organizations involved in shaping the future of wholesale cross-border payments. In this early phase—focused on collecting diverse requirements, shaping the technological fundamentals and establishing a multi-stakeholder project organisation—participants will share initial lessons learned and discuss anticipated challenges for future phases of Project Agorá. The discussion is designed to foster robust debate and exchange innovative ideas from various perspectives.
It aims to discuss the driving forces and motivation behind project Agorá and synthesise early insights around key coordination, technical, and operational challenges in building a resilient next-generation tokenised cross-border payment platform. Further the roundtable aims to share and ideate on possible strategies to resolve identified challenges and consider emerging technology trends in future phases of the project.
The discussion will produce a report of synthesised insights, current challenges and proposed solutions and strategies, to effectively and efficiently enable the future of cross-border payments with future phases of Project Agorá.