Fintech Lab co-organises an event on the future of digital payments
Milan is going to be the core of the international debate on the evolution of payment systems and digital financial markets: on September 25 and 26, 2025, Bocconi University will host the conference "The Future of Payments: CBDC, Digital Assets and Digital Capital Markets", co-organized with the European Central Bank (ECB), CEPR and Review of Finance.
The event will be opened by Massimiliano Marcellino, Director, BAFFI Centre on Economics Finance and Regulation, Bocconi University and Dirk Niepelt, University of Bern, Leader of the CEPR Research and Policy Network Fintech and Digital Currencies. Then, the conference discusses digitalization and credit markets; monetary singleness; digital money; digital ownership.
On 26th September, after the welcome address of Bocconi University rector Francesco Billari, Piero Cipollone, Member of the ECB's Executive Board and Chair of the Eurosystem High-Level Task Force on the Digital Euro, will give a keynote speech entitled: "Ready for the Future: Researching Today, Shaping Tomorrow". The keynote speech will be discussed by: Daniel Gros, Director IEP@BU Institute for European Policymaking Bocconi University; Donato Masciandaro, Intesa Sanpaolo Chair in Financial Regulation and Bocconi University; Carola Westermeier, Research Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne. Moreover, Evelien Witlox, Programme Director, Digital Euro, ECB, is presenting the Digital Euro Innovation Platform Outcome Report. The last sessions are going deep into competing digital monies; monetary policy transmission to stablecoin rates; shock propagation in decentralized lending networks; making stablecoins stable.
"The digitization of money and markets poses unprecedented challenges that require sound theoretical and empirical understanding to guide regulatory decisions," explains Elena Carletti, Dean for Research at Bocconi and Director of the CEPR Banking and Corporate Finance Program. "This is why we promote a dialogue between academia and institutions, aimed at developing useful and rigorous knowledge."
"The initiative aims to foster cutting-edge research exploring the economic, regulatory and strategic implications of digital currencies, decentralized infrastructures and new market models," stresses Claudio Tebaldi (in photo), director of Bocconi's Baffi Fintech Lab.
The research unit is also among the almost 70 market participants who have been selected to collaborate with the ECB to explore digital euro payment functionalities and use cases.
Click here to download the programme and register to the event