Thomas Moser is Alternate Member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank. He is also a member of the Managing Committee of the Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance at the University of St. Gallen and a member of the Board of Directors of Orell Füssli Holding Ltd. From 2006 to 2009 he was Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C., USA. Thomas Moser holds a MA and a doctorate in Economics from the University of Zurich.

The Swiss National Bank is the central bank of Switzerland.

CBDC are a much-discussed topic in the central bank community. According to an IMF study, 85% of central banks world-wide are working on this subject.

But what problem does a retail CBDC solve ? What exactly are we trying to achieve ? And how do you measure success ? These are the questions that will be discussed in this panel.