Ruurd Brouwer was appointed CEO of TCX in January 2015 with primary objective to grow TCX’s impact. Prior to joining TCX he held several senior management positions within FMO, the Dutch Development Bank.
He started his career in 1993 with the United Nations Protection Force in Croatia and Bosnia Hercegovina, after which he joined the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the private sector department.
Ruurd is an experienced Supervisory Board member, having served on the Board of Directors of financial institutions in Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Mauritania and of EM focused (PE) funds based in the UK, the US, Geneva and Luxemburg. He was member of several emerging market focused investment committees.
Currently, he chairs the Board of Directors of the Global Gender Smart Fund, the world’s largest gender lens investment fund and is a member of the United Nations Global Commission for SDG finance.
Parallel to his professional career Ruurd was lecturer International Finance at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Guest Lecturer at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and the Institute of Social Studies. He thoroughly enjoys teaching on Responsible Banking, Emerging Markets and Financial Instability and he publishes frequently on same topics.
Roundtable Room 1, Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 4
Invite-Only
Central banks play a crucial role in extending the trust and connectivity of their domestic financial ecosystem with other markets in this rapidly digital world. As businesses and SMEs increasingly venture cross border into new and emerging markets, they will need to have the support of a common digital trust and accessible foreign exchange to seamlessly connect with international parties.
An innovative way to build digital trust is through integrated Financial Trust Corridors (FTCs). FTCs not only build trust among financial institutions and businesses, but also sets forth a scalable digital ecosystem that allows for the sharing of common data, utilisation of smart digital assets and democratised access to foreign exchange.
In this roundtable, discussants will address the ways in which central banks can lead the development of common digital trust frameworks like FTC that empower local financial institutions and businesses, share about existing FTC work in Asia and Africa, how semi-fungible digital assets can accelerate development, and identify partnership constructs with banks, fintechs, foreign exchange solution providers and private sector entities towards a multilateral trust and FX ecosystems.
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