LIVE episode! To CBDC or not to CBDC, what was the question?

In this special episode of Fintech Daydreaming we were recording with a live audience for the very first time in our show's short history. To add to the excitement our fantastic guest Johanna Lybeck from Nordea gave us an economist perspective into central bank digital currencies and more. Did our hosts, Pål Krogdahl and Ville Sointu make it out of the live recording without major injuries? Did the audience in virtual attendance react to the attempted abysmal banking humor? All this and more in this week's episode. Guest: Johanna Lybeck, Executive Advisor, Nordea (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanna-lybeck-lilja-09300428/) Links mentioned in the episode: - Avant Cash, the 90s era central bank digital currency: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/01/25/avant-card-a-central-bank-digital-currency-from-1990s-finland/ - The Digital Euro paper by ECB: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/html/digitaleuro.en.html - European Commission proposal for crypto asset regulation (MiCA): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52020PC0593 - Fintech Daydreaming on Twitter - https://twitter.com/FintechDaydream - Fintech Daydreaming on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/fintech-daydreaming - Pål Krogdahl - https://www.linkedin.com/in/krogdahl/ - Ville Sointu - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ville-sointu-54682b/

Om Podcasten

Between digital native customers demanding instant gratification and the ever increasing amount of regulation, financial institutions are between a rock and a hard place. The era of the fintech started after the 2008 financial crisis, challenging the status quo. More than a decade later banks haven’t gone anywhere, yet fintech is more relevant than ever. What happened with all the fintech hopes and dreams? In this podcast Pål Krogdahl & Ville Sointu pick one topic in every episode and try to look at it through the lens of fintech disruption - or lack thereof. This is Fintech Daydreaming.