John advises leading institutions on digital financial markets, digital currency, and CBDC topics ranging from strategy to design, implementation, and secure operation, allowing these institutions to take the next step in developing the digital financial ecosystem.

Otranto operates globally, advising leading institutions on digital financial markets, digital currency and CBDC topics. Otranto focuses on strategy, management, technical, and information security advisory services. We have global delivery capabilities for developing and implementing Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and Digital Financial Markets (DFMs) solutions.

The National Bank of Kazakhstan released the Digital Tenge into limited production in November of 2023 and has been successively rolling out a variety of applications for this new format of central bank money. The Digital Tenge is a general purpose CBDC with applications across a number of consumer, citizen, commercial and cross border applications. In this presentation you will hear more from the team leading this amazing achievement and get an update on the latest developments and plans for the coming years.