Pavle Avramovic

Director of Research & Policy

Financial Innovation for Impact

Pavle Avramović is Director of Research and Policy at Financial Innovation for Impact (Fii), an international not-for-profit advancing regulatory and supervisory innovation in developing economies. His work focuses on digital public infrastructure, emerging technologies, and cross-regulatory coordination in support of inclusive financial sector development. He currently leads a multi-country DPI regulatory programme spanning Southeast Asia and Africa, covering digital identity and e-KYC, open finance, data sharing and data protection.

Previously, Pavle established the Emerging Technologies function at the UK Financial Conduct Authority, developing regulatory approaches to quantum computing, artificial intelligence including synthetic data, and privacy-enhancing technologies. He led the UK's international engagement through the Global Financial Innovation Network, coordinating regulatory cooperation across more than 80 jurisdictions, and co-led cross-regulatory horizon scanning on emerging technologies through the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF).

Pavle is a Research Affiliate at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, University of Cambridge. He holds an MSc in Information Systems and Digital Innovation from the London School of Economics and has authored and co-authored over 30 publications on financial technology, regulatory innovation, and digital infrastructure.

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2:00–3:30pmThu 25 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 3, Ground FloorOpen
Blueprint for Digital Assets

Navigating the New Digital Order: Regulatory Divergence, Monetary Architecture, and a Path toward Coordination

GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 3, Ground FloorOpen
About this session

Digital assets, programmable money, and AI-driven transactions are crossing borders at increased speed. But the rules governing them are being written jurisdiction by jurisdiction, with no shared architecture in sight. As the US advances GENIUS Act rules for private-sector stablecoins, the EU deepens MiCA and pursues a digital euro, and China scales its state-backed e-CNY, three major economies are building divergent governance frameworks around one underlying technology — with significant implications for cross-border payments, monetary policy transmission, and AI in the global financial system.
This policy divergence is a compliance challenge for market participants, but it is also the early stage of a structural buildup. When domestically rational policy choices generate internationally costly spillovers — and when no coordinating mechanism exists to manage them — fragmentation compounds over time until the cost of inaction becomes prohibitive. Digital currencies and AI governance are following this trajectory, and while the window to get ahead of it remains open, it is closing.
Against this backdrop, the Bretton Woods Committee will convene a closed roundtable at Point Zero Forum on Thursday, June 25th to bring together global policymakers, central bankers, regulators, and private sector leaders to stress-test the diagnosis. This discussion will directly inform the Bretton Woods Committee's upcoming work, with a focus on the defining digital governance challenge of the moment: whether coordination across jurisdictions can accelerate to match the digital rails being built beneath the global financial system.
The roundtable will be a 90-minute discussion featuring 10 minutes of scene-setting remarks from featured speakers, followed by an open exchange among the broader group. A brief framing paper will be circulated in advance. The core question animating the discussion: What are the costs of continued fragmentation — and what global coordination mechanisms are necessary to manage the associated risks and opportunities?

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Pavle Avramovic

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Navigating the New Digital Order: Regulatory Divergence, Monetary Architecture, and a Path toward Coordination