List of Reading Materials and Reference Documents
Core Topic – Cryptoassets
- Crypto-asset markets-Potential channels for future financial stability implications
- Crypto-assets-Report to the G20 on Work by the FSB and standard-setting bodies
- Guidance-Regulation-of-Crypto-Asset-Activities-in-ADGM
- House of Commons-Treasury Committee- Crypto-assets
- Taking Caution-Financial Consumers and the Cryptoasset Sector
Core Topic – Fintech
- Disaggregating Fintech Brighter Shades-of-Disruption
- Closing-the-gap-Encouraging fintech in Canada
- FinTech credit-Market Structure- business models and financial stability implications
- FSB-Financial Stability Implications from Fintech Supervisory and Regulatory Issues that Merit Authorities’ Attention
- Getting the Deal through Fintech 2017
- Harnessing the Fintech Revolution-How Digital Innovations are Revitalizing MSME Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean
- IOSCO Research Report on Financial Technologies (Fintech)
- K Ramsoobhal and E Bood FinTech Development Sandboxing v5
- The-Pulse-of-Fintech-Q2-Report
- UK_FinTech_-_On_the_cutting_edge_-_Full_Report-An evaluation of the int’l fintech sector
Core Topic – Online Trading
- Canadian Securities Regulation of Online Lending Platforms – BAX Securities Law™
- CGFS Papers No 55-Fixed Income market liquidity
- The implications of electronic trading in financial mkts
- Drivers of Corporate Bond Mkt Liquidity in the EU
- ETP_Background_Note-Electronic Trading Platforms in Govt Securities Mkts
- Liquidity-in-Emerging-Markets-Exchanges-
- PWC-banking-global-financial-markets
- Securities Trading on the Internet-SEC Regulation of Internet Broker-Dealers and ATS
- Impact of Electronic Trading Platforms on Brokered Interdealer Mkt fo C’da Govt Bonds
- Pricing-liquidity-in-electronic-markets
- Alternative Trading Systems-Solving the liquidity and pricing transparency problems
Core Topic –Digital Currencies
(Following web links & resources provided by the Central Bank of T&T)
- Ahmat, Nurjannah, and Sabrina Bashir. “Central Bank Digital Currency: A Monetary Policy Perspective.” Bank Negara Malaysia. 2017. http://www.bnm.gov.my/index.php?ch=en_publication&pg=en_staffinsight&ac=45&bb=file
- Bank for International Settlements. Central bank digital currencies. Paper, Bank for International Settlements, 2018.
- —. “Digital currencies.” BIS. November 2015. https://www.bis.org/cpmi/publ/d137.pdf
- Bank of International Settlements. “The role of central bank money in payment systems.” BIS. 2003. https://www.bis.org/cpmi/publ/d55.pdf
- Barrdear, John, and Michael Kumhof. “The macroeconomics of central bank issued digital currencies.” Bank of England. July 2016.
- Bech, Morton, and Rodney Garatt. “Central Bank Cryptocurrencies.” BIS Quarterly Review, September 2017: 55 – 70.
- Bjerg, Ole. Designing New Money – The Policy Trilemma of Central Bank Digital Currency. CBS Working Paper, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, 2017.
- Bordo, Michael, and Andrew Levin. Central Bank Digital Currency and the Future of Monetary Policy. September 2017. https://voxeu.org/article/benefits-central-bank-digital-currency
- ECCB to Embark on Digital Currency Pilot with Bitt. March 13, 2018. http://www.caribbean360.com/news/eccb-to-embark-on-digital-currency-pilot-with-bitt
- Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures. “Digital Currencies.” Bank for International Settlements. November 2015. https://www.bis.org/cpmi/publ/d137.pdf
- Cox, Jeff. Federal Reserve starting to think about its own digital currency, Dudley says. November 2017, 2017. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/29/federal-reserve-starting-to-think-about-its-own-digital-currency-dudley-says.html
- Danmarks Nationalbank. “Central Bank Digital Currency in Denmark?” National Bank. December 2017. https://www.nationalbanken.dk/en/publications/Documents/2017/12/Analysis%20-%20Central%20bank%20digital%20currency%20in%20Denmark.pdf
- Dyson, Ben, and Graham Hodgson. Digital Cash: Why Central Banks Should Start Issuing Electronic Money. January 2016. http://positivemoney.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Digital_Cash_WebPrintReady_20160113.pdf
- Engert, Walter, and Ben S. C. Fung. Central Bank Digital Currency: Motivations and Implications. Staff Discussion Paper, Bank of Canada, 2017.
- Fung, Ben S. C., and Hanna Halaburda. Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Framework for Assessing Why and How. Staff Discussion Paper, Bank of Canada, 2016.
- Grym, Aleksi, Päivi Heikkinen, Karlo Kauko, and Kari Takala. “Central bank digital currency.” Bank of Finland. May 2017. https://helda.helsinki.fi/bof/bitstream/handle/123456789/14952/BoFER_5_2017.pdf?sequence=1
- Huillet, Marie. R3 Researcher Predicts Central Bank Digital Currency Will Kick Off In 2018. April 2018. https://cointelegraph.com/news/r3-researcher-predicts-central-bank-digital-currency-will-kick-off-in-2018
- International Monetary Fund. “Virtual Currencies and Beyond: Initial Considerations.” IMF. January 2016. https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2016/sdn1603.pdf
- Ketterer, Juan Antonio, and Gabriela Andrade. “Digital Central Bank Money and the Unbundling of the Banking Function.” April 2016. https://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/7587/Digital-Central-Bank-Money-and-the-Unbundling-of-the-Banking-Function.pdf?sequence=1
- Prasad, Eswar. Central Banking in a Digital Age:Stock-Taking and Preliminary Taking Thoughts. Working Paper, Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, 2018.
- Scorer, Simon. Beyond blockchain: what are the technology requirements for a Central Bank Digital Currency? September 2017. https://bankunderground.co.uk/2017/09/13/beyond-blockchain-what-are-the-technology-requirements-for-a-central-bank-digital-currency/
- Wilkins, Carolyn A. “Canada explores digital currency: Fintech collaboration vital to unlock promise.” Global Public Investor 2017, 2017.
Recommended
- —. “The Payment System in Trinidad and Tobago.” Central Bank. 2009. https://www.central-bank.org.tt/sites/default/files/page-file-uploads/The%20Payments%20System%20In%20Trinidad%20%26%20Tobago.pdf
- —. “Understanding and Usage of Payment Options by Businesses in Trinidad and Tobago.” March 2010. https://www.central-bank.org.tt/psc/Publications/Business_Survey_Report_Understanding_And_%20Usage_of_Payment_Opt_by_Bus_in_Trindad_and_Tobago.pdf
- —. Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures. 2012. https://www.bis.org/cpmi/info_pfmi.htm
- Abel, Sanderson. Advantages and Disadvantages of Financial Innovation. 2015. http://baz.org.zw/consumer-centre/education-centre/advantages-and-disadvantages-financial-innovation
- Capgemini, World Fintech Report, 2018 https://www.capgemini.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/world-fintech-report-wftr-2018.pdf
- Capgemini, World Fintech Report, 2017https://www.marsdd.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/CapGemini-World-FinTech-Report-2017.pdf
- Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. “Payment Systems Quarterly Bulletin.” 2013.
- Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. 2015 Financial Stability Report. Financial Stability, Port-of-Spain: Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, 2016.
- Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. 2017 Financial Stability Report. Financial Stability, Port-of-Spain: Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, 2018.
- Chapter V – BIS Annual Economic Report 2018, Cryptocurrencies: looking beyond the hype https://www.bis.org/publ/arpdf/ar2018e5.pdf
- Clark, Grant, and Lulu Yilun Chen. How China’s Stifling Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: QuickTake. February 27, 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/how-chinas-stifling-bitcoin-and-cryptocurrencies-quicktake/2018/02/27/5c861f14-1c16-11e8-98f5-ceecfa8741b6_story.html?utm_term=.20b66bb68430
- Crypto-assets, Report to the G20 on work by the FSB and standard-setting bodies (2018) http://www.fsb.org/wp-content/uploads/P160718-1.pdf
- Das, Samburaj. Bitt Launches the Blockchain Barbadian Digital Dollar. February 25, 2016. https://www.ccn.com/bitt-launches-the-blockchain-barbadian-digital-dollar/
- European Central Bank, 2015, Virtual currency schemes – a further analysis https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemesen.pdf
- Fernández de Lis, Santiago. “A New Challenge for Banking.” Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria. 2017. https://www.bbvaresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/SFL-201711-CBDC-LACEA.pdf
- Financial Action Task Force. “Virtual Currencies Key Definitions and Potential AML/CFT Risks.” FATF. June 2014. http://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/reports/Virtual-currency-key-definitions-and-potential-aml-cft-risks.pdf
- Financial Services Agency, Japan , Speech by Ryozo Himino, Vice minister for international affairs, FinTech, the future of society and regulation, 2018 https://www.fsa.go.jp/common/conference/danwa/20180903/enfintech.pdf
- Government of Montserrat looks to digital currency to boost financial inclusion. February 22, 2018. https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/72740/government-of-montserrat-looks-to-digital-currency-to-boost-financial-inclusion
- Fujioka, Toru, and Masahiro Hidaka. Japan’s Central Bank Sees No Need to Mint a Digital Currency. January 28, 2018. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-28/japanese-don-t-need-digital-currency-as-they-love-cash-boj-says
- Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion. G20 High-Level Principles for Digital Financial Inclusion. Report, GPFI, 2016.
- He, Dong. “Fintech and Cross-Border Payments.” Ripple – Central Bank Summit. Carnegie Hall, New York: International Monetary Fund, 2017.
- Higgins, Stan. Bank of Russia: ‘It’s Time to Develop National Cryptocurrencies’. June 2, 2017. https://www.coindesk.com/bank-russia-time-develop-national-cryptocurrencies/
- Ingves, Stefan. Do we need an e-krona? Sveriges Riksbank, 2017.
- International Monetary Fund (IMF), Monetary Policy in the Digital Age – Crypto Assets may one day reduce demand for central bank money, June 2018 https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2018/06/central-bank-monetary-policy-and-cryptocurrencies/he.pdf
- Jordan, Thomas J. “How money is created by the central bank and the banking system.” BIS. January 2018. https://www.bis.org/review/r180118c.pdf
- La Hora. Banco Central del Ecuador desactivará cuentas del dinero electrónico. March 18, 2018. https://lahora.com.ec/imbabura/noticia/1102143212/banco-central-del-ecuador-desactivara-cuentas-del-dinero-electronico
- Lee, Jamie. Singapore wary of issuing digital currencies to public: MAS chief Ravi Menon. January 15, 2018. http://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/singapore-wary-of-issuing-digital-currencies-to-public-mas-chief
- Lervik, Frode. The world’s first central bank operated mobile payments platform – Ecuador’s revolutionary scheme. n.d. https://www.paconsulting.com/insights/the-worlds-first-central-bank-operated-mobile-payments-platform-ecuadors-revolutionary-scheme/
- Looper, Christian de. Ecuador Is The First Country To Use A Public Digital Currency System. August 10, 2015. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/75609/20150810/ecuador-first-country-use-public-digital-currency-system.htm
- Monetary Policy of Singapore. Project Ubin: Central Bank Digital Money using Distributed Ledger Technology. 2018. http://www.mas.gov.sg/Singapore-Financial-Centre/Smart-Financial-Centre/Project-Ubin.aspx
- Nakaso, Hiroshi . “Central Bank Policy on Financial Market Infrastructure.” Conference on Retail Payments. Bank of Japan, 2016.
- Powell, H. Jerome. “Innovation, Technology, and the Payments System.” At Blockchain: The Future of Finance and Capital Markets? Washington, DC: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2017.
- Republic of Estonia. E-Residency. 2018. https://e-resident.gov.ee/
- Rogoff, Kenneth S. Costs and Benefits to Phasing Out Paper Currency. Working Paper 20126, Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014.
- Segendorf, Björn. “Motivations, drivers and obstacles: Highlights from the Swedish e-krona project.” Monetary Law Forum Switzerland. November 2017. http://www.swissmlf.ch/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Segendorff.pdf
- Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago. Quarterly Market Update – Q3 2017. Market Report, San Juan: TATT, 2018.
- The Law Library of Congress, Global Legal Research Center, Regulation of Cryptocurrency Around the World, June 2018 http://www.loc.gov/law/help/cryptocurrency/cryptocurrency-world-survey.pdf
- Tian, Chuan. China’s Central Bank Opens New Digital Currency Research Institute. June 30, 2017. https://www.coindesk.com/chinas-central-bank-opens-new-digital-currency-research-institute/
- China Working on a Digital Currency Electronic Payment, DCEP. March 9, 2018. https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/03/09/china-working-digital-currency-electronic-payment-dcep
- World Bank Group. Financial Inclusion. 2018. http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/financialinclusion
Note: this is a suggested list of reading materials and research provided to you by the TTSEC & other stakeholders for preparation of your particular debate topics. Feel free to do your own additional research to complement and build your respective arguments.
Good luck!