Leanne is an Advisor at the BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong Centre, where she leads CBDC and big-data-analytics projects. Prior to joining the Hub, she was an Economist at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. She has published papers on CBDC, climate risks and global supply chains, and her work has been featured in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Economist, among others. She holds an MPhil in Economics degree from the University of Oxford, where she was a Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld Scholar, and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Economics from McGill University.

The BIS's mission is to support central banks' pursuit of monetary and financial stability through international cooperation, and to act as a bank for central banks. The BIS Innovation Hub develops public goods in the technology space to support central banks and improve the functioning of the financial system. We have centres around the world and a global network of central bank experts on innovation.

This presentation will provide an update on the BIS Innovation Hub, Hong Kong Centre’s Project mBridge , a multi-CBDC platform for wholesale cross-border payments that recently reached MVP stage.