The Bank of Canada, in partnership with Deutsche Bundesbank, will host the 3rd edition of the International Conference on Payments and Securities Settlement on June 12 and 13, 2025 at its head office in Ottawa.
About this conference
This conference aims to bring together academic and central bank researchers, policymakers and practitioners to discuss the latest economic research focused on the developments, challenges and opportunities in payments and securities settlement.
Call for papers
Topics of interest for the conference include:
- Issues and trends in cross-border payments
- Tools for detecting and mitigating fraud and cyber risks in payment systems
- Risk analysis and participant behaviour in financial market infrastructures
- Opportunities and challenges due to alternative payment instruments and systems
- Innovations in settlement systems and the evolving role of financial intermediaries
- Payments data insights, privacy preservation and fostering competition
- Insights from using new empirical methods on payments and settlement data
- Safety and efficiency of real-time gross settlement systems
Limited travel support is available for academic speakers at the conference.
Submission process
Interested authors are invited to submit their papers by to the committee. Extended abstracts will also be considered.
Deadlines
Deadline for paper submission is March 9, 2025.
Authors of accepted papers will be notified by April 15, 2025.
Scientific committee
- Ajit Desai (Bank for International Settlements)
- Martin Diehl (Deutsche Bundesbank)
- Matti Hellqvist (Bank of Finland)
- Matthias Jüttner (Swiss National Bank)
- Ye Li (University of Washington)
- Maarten van Oordt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Jan Paulick (Bank for International Settlements)
- Francisco Rivadeneyra (Bank of Canada)
- Katrin Tinn (McGill University)
- Russell Wong (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Local organizers
- Narayan Bulusu (Bank of Canada)
- Erhao Xie (Bank of Canada)
Content Type(s):
Conferences and workshops