John Kiff

John Kiff is Research Director at SODA (Sovereign Official Digital Association), Head of CBDC/Digital Capital Markets Advisory at Satoshi Capital Advisers, and Advisor to WhisperCash. He was a senior financial sector expert at the IMF, where he covered fintech, over-the-counter derivatives and pension risk transfer markets. Before joining the IMF, he worked at the Bank of Canada for 25 years.

Latest from John Kiff

Opinion

Test and Deploy: A New Era for CBDCs

Live CBDCs have been met with underwhelming demand. However, some central banks are pushing ahead with more modestly-scaled efforts laser focused on specific use cases.

Jan 17, 2024

Central banks from Mexico and Colombia studied crypto's role in the developing world (Flickr)

Opinion

Are There Tech Solutions to the Privacy and Compliance Trade-Offs for CBDCs?

Users will likely demand cash-like privacy protections for central bank digital currencies, which may be thwarted by regulations. However, new technology solutions may enable high degrees of privacy while complying with regulations.

Jan 27, 2023

Now is the time to consider more cash-like privacy-focused CBDC solutions, John Kiff, research director at the Sovereign Official Digital Association and Dr. Jonas Gross, chairman of the Digital Euro Association, write. (israel palacio, Unsplash)

Opinion

The History of Cash-Like Digital Payment Instruments

How and why those original digital payments projects are no longer with us today can give us an idea of what needs to be done to do it right. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Payments Week.

Apr 25, 2022

Policy

CBDCs for the People? Where the Current State of Digital Currency Research Leads

A look at central bank digital currency studies and where they might lead.

Dec 3, 2021

Number of Central Banks Exploring retail CBDC (Bank for International Settlements)

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