The Sibos Academy programme launches this year, bringing the community educationally focussed content curated by the SWIFT Institute. The sessions taking place during the four-day event in October and monthly thereafter will stimulate and facilitate debate on real issues shaping the industry’s future. </p> Taking a simple topic or question as a starting point, such as ‘what is a central bank digital currency?’ the purpose of the Sibos Academy is to deconstruct and evolve the issue. This is achieved by examining its composite parts, and broadening the conversation and sector knowledge through insights from industry, as well as non-industry experts, such as academics. </p> The new stream incorporates the annual SWIFT Institute Student Challenge</strong>, now in its fifth year, which fosters creative, fresh and inspirational ideas from bright and inquisitive minds. This year university students have come up with novel ways to improve cyber security in financial services. Four ideas have been chosen from student teams at leading US universities, who will pitch these in 10 minutes presentations from 5-8 October. The winning team will walk away with a grand prize of USD $10,000.</p> The October Sessions </strong></p> The first session Defining central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)</a> will get to the heart of what CBDCs actually are, and how they could be implemented across world economies. With Aaron Klein from the Brookings Institution moderating, and contributors from top UK universities, the World Bank and MintBit, expect a lively debate. </li>Tuesday’s session Transforming transaction monitoring through efficiency, effectiveness and privacy enhancing technology</a> will dive into two SWIFT Institute-funded research projects on the challenges of transaction monitoring for suspicious client behaviour. Tom Keating of Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) will moderate with a formidable panel that includes KPMG and Barclays. </li>Technological revolution in financial services</a> will showcase a new book of the same title. Editors Michael King, University of Victoria, and Richard Nesbitt, University of Toronto, will lead a discussion with selected chapter authors, including Brenda Treowden CBE, PwC, delving deep into the areas of diversity, disruption, regulation and the economic forces driving fintech adoption. </li> Previewing the findings of a Deloitte and the World Economic Forum report, Emerging technologies shaping the future of financial services offers</a> a guide to how financial firms can explore and implement clusters of technologies, including 5G networking, DLT, AI and cloud computing.</li></ul> Register</a> and login</a> to see the full Sibos Academy programme and look out for the monthly sessions addressing issues, such as digital identity, gender diversity, tokenised assets and quantum computing.</p>