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Day 1, Wednesday, March 13 |
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8:30 – 9:30 |
Registration |
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Welcome Remarks |
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9:40– 10:30 |
Opening Session Abdellatif Jouhahri, Governor, Bank Al-Maghrib |
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10:30– 11:00 |
Group Photograph |
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11:00 – 12:10 |
Session 1:Safeguarding Financial Stability Adapting regulatory frameworks and supervisory practices to facilitate the safe entry of new products, activities, and intermediaries; sustain trust and confidence; respond to risks, and strengthen compliance (e.g., sandboxes, crypto-assets, regtech and suptech, etc.). Moderator: Michaela Erbenova, Assistant Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF. Lead-off Speakers:
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12:15 – 14:00 |
Luncheon |
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14:15 – 15:30 |
Session 2: Financial Infrastructure Implications of Fintech to central banking services (e.g., digital currency, and expanding access to and improving the resilience of payments services) and improving cross-border payments and remittance transfer systems, as well as approaches to developing robust data infrastructures that are resilient to disruptions, while addressing issues that are relevant not only to the financial sector but also to the digital economy at large (e.g., data ownership, protection, and privacy, cybersecurity, etc.). Moderator: Ghiath Shabsigh, Assistant Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF. Lead-off Speakers:
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00 – 17:15 |
Session 3: Legal and Institutional Frameworks Providing an enabling legal framework with greater legal clarity and certainty regarding key aspects of Fintech activities, as well as setting up appropriate frameworks for enhanced monitoring of Fintech developments and cross-agency collaboration. Moderator: Ross Leckow, Deputy General Counsel, Legal Department, IMF. Lead-off Speakers:
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18:00 – 20:00 |
Dinner |
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Day 2, Thursday, March 14 |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Welcoming Coffee |
| 9:30 – 10:45 |
Session 4: Financial Inclusion and Development and Inclusive Growth Fintech potential for overcoming long-standing barriers to financial inclusion and to enabling new pathways for economic and financial development (e.g., expanding access to finance, providing new ways to raise funding, enabling new ways to assess risks, spurring new businesses, etc.), while reinforcing commitment to open, free, and contestable markets to ensure a level playing field and to promote innovation, consumer choice, and access to high-quality financial services. Moderator: Alfonso Garcia Mora, Director, Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice, World Bank. Lead-off Speakers:
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| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
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Session 5: Roundtable Discussion and Conclusions Reflections on the outcome of the meeting and how Fintech issues could be integrated in national inclusion and financial and digital literacy strategies, while fostering knowledge-sharing between public- and private-sector players, civil society, and other countries and stakeholders. Moderator: Abdellatif Jouahri, Governor, Bank Al-Maghrib Lead-off Speakers: Panel discussion led by sessions’ moderators making 3-5 min summaries of their sessions’ key outcomes followed by open discussion
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