Fintech Lecture
Location:
Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
Date/time
Thu 22 February 2024
18:00 - 19:00
About the event
This lecture will discuss the different stages of development of theories of money, including the use of money as memory and acting as a conveyer belt in supplying liquidity to the economy. It will also offer a comparative analysis of proposals for digital money in some key jurisdictions, including the UK, EU, US, and China. In that context, it will focus on changes digital money brings in the conduct of commercial transactions
About the speaker
Dr Geoff Goodell - Lecturer in Financial Computing, University College London, Dept of Computer Science
Dr Geoffrey Goodell is a Lecturer in Financial Computing at University College London whose work focuses on socio-technical systems in financial services. He is a member of the Bank of England CBDC Technology Forum and an associate of the Systemic Risk Centre of the London School of Economics. He is Convenor of two ISO working groups on distributed ledger technologies and an ISO advisory group on digital currency. Dr Goodell is a CFA charterholder and has roughly a decade of experience in the financial industry, first as a strategist at Goldman, Sachs & Co and later as a partner and chief investment officer at a boutique asset management firm. His research contributes to knowledge and policy at the intersection of finance, technology, and regulation.
This event is in person only.