Mark Carney, the Former Bank of England governor and now a UN special envoy for climate and finance, shares his opinion on the environmental impact of cryptocurrencies.

Mark Carney, former governor of the central banks of England and Canada, makes a surprise admission while revealing how he ended up as both the UN special envoy for climate and finance and as the finance advisor to UK, which is hosting the upcoming COP26 in Scotland.

With all the potential use cases and ongoing developments around distributed ledger technology, Benjamin Soh, co-founder and managing director of STACS, is positive that multiple DLT projects will be announced soon.

Paula Hunter, executive director of Mojaloop Foundation, shares the objective of the open-source foundation in creating a software platform that would increase interoperability and reduce the cost in deploying a digital payments platform.

Newly appointed UN envoy on climate change, Mark Carney, discussed his role and what he hopes to achieve at the upcoming COP26 as well as his views on cryptocurrencies and experiences with past financial crises.

Sharon Tan, executive director at DBS, points out that banks should make it easy for clients to make payments, especially with the ongoing pandemic.

Stephane de Baets, founder and president of Elevated Returns, explains what the digitisation of financial product will do and managing the expectation of clients in the process.

In this Leadership Perspective series, Colin Dinn, executive vice president and segment head of Enterprise Technology and Operations at Security Bank talked about the importance of an institution’s business model and proposition in applying technology to achieve digital transformation.

Paula Hunter, executive director of Mojaloop Foundation explained how it will work with its new sponsor member, MAS, to explore technology advancement in digital currency settlement infrastructure and applications to increase financial inclusion.

“People do fall for scammers,” says David Grammig, founder and managing director of consultancy firm Grammig Advisory. He explains the multilayered role of family offices and gives advice on how to identify the right advisory firm.

Hashtacs (STACS) co-founder and managing director Benjamin Soh emphasised need for financial exchanges and markets to improve outdated operating models with an infrastructure that takes head-on the challenges posed by complex interdependent manual processing, and layered systems.

David Grammig, founder and managing director of consultancy firm Grammig Advisory, discussed the growth of family offices in Europe and other parts of the world but warned that due diligence should still be practiced in order to minimise investment fraud

With the growth of a new asset class, Stephan Dreyer, managing director of the Association of National Numbering Agencies explains the role of the taskforce and the purpose of the International Securities Identification Number in assessing emerging cryptocurrencies.

Krungthai Bank (KTB) utilised its e-wallet, Pao Tang, to transfer government COVID-19 relief funds to over 10 million customers as well as enable payments to merchants and businesses as part of retail and tourism sector support programme.

TNEX Digital Bank CEO Bryan Carroll shares his analysis on what banks need to do in order to be a successful digital bank.