Andrew Slack is Senior Design Strategist for Digital R&D at SICPA where he is working on nation state trust challenges in the domains of identity, currency and supply chains. As an advocate for inclusive and privacy preserving technologies, Andrew promotes societally-centric design principles and technology standards development, contributing to open-source communities including through his role as co-chair of the Human Experience Working Group at the Trust Over IP Foundation.

Market leader in security inks and leading provider of secured authentication, identification, traceability and supply chain solutions, SICPA is a long-trusted partner to governments, central banks, high security printers and the currency industry. Every day, governments, companies and millions of citizens rely on its expertise, which combines material-based covert features and digital technologies, to protect the integrity and value of currency, personal identity, value documents, e-government services, as well as products and brands. True to its purpose of enabling trust through constant innovation, SICPA aims to further an Economy of Trust worldwide, where transactions, interactions and products across the physical and digital worlds are based on protected, unforgeable and verifiable data.   Founded in Lausanne in 1927 and headquartered in Switzerland, the company operates on five continents.

A human perspective on payments - insights for CBDC design

What can we learn from existing choices and behaviours in payments today? We present the findings of recent research in Brazil and highlight relevant insights for CBDC design to encourage broad adoption among public users.