About This Event
“Position your reserve strategy for the decade the old playbook did not cover.”
The capstone markets course, exploring how ESG considerations, central bank digital currencies and digital assets are reshaping reserve management strategy for the decade ahead.
What You'll Explore
A future-proofed reserve diversification strategy and policy blueprint
A considered position on CBDCs' policy and reserve implications
A weighed view of tokenised reserve instruments: opportunity versus risk
Practical grounding in green and sustainability-linked bonds for reserves
A structured way to evaluate future reserve innovations as they emerge
Who Should Attend
Open to all qualifying staff — particularly: Governors, Deputy Governors, Chief Investment Officers.
Why This Course Matters
ESG Without the Hype
Weigh green and sustainability-linked bonds on their actual place in a sovereign reserve.
CBDCs, Decision-Ready
Understand the policy and reserve implications of CBDCs well enough to brief a board.
Digital Assets, Weighed
Assess tokenised reserve instruments on real opportunity and real risk, side by side.
Programme
Day 1
ESG integration in sovereign reserve portfolios
Learn where ESG genuinely changes a reserve decision and where it is a label without substance.
Day 2
Green and sustainability-linked bonds for reserves
Assess these instruments specifically for reserve use.
Day 3
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs): policy & reserve implications
Learn enough to brief your own board on what a CBDC would actually mean.
Day 4
Digital assets & tokenised reserve instruments: opportunities and risks
Separate genuine innovation from speculative noise.
Day 5
Future-proofing the reserve strategy: panel & policy blueprint
Build a future-proofed reserve diversification strategy and defend it.
Standards & Faculty Benchmark
NGFS (Network for Greening the Financial System) guidance
Central bank climate-risk network and Bank for International Settlements guidance on CBDCs & ESG.
BIS CBDC reports
Central bank climate-risk network and Bank for International Settlements guidance on CBDCs & ESG.
NGFS guidance and BIS CBDC reporting are where the international policy conversation on these exact questions is already happening.
Is This Right for You?
- ☑You shape long-term reserve diversification strategy
- ☑Your institution is evaluating CBDCs or digital assets
- ☑You want the capstone markets course, having completed earlier markets-track courses
Good to Know
This capstone is pitched at long-term reserve strategy rather than day-to-day operations, ideally building on earlier markets-track courses.
The Bottom Line
Position your reserve strategy for the decade ahead, with a considered position on ESG, CBDCs and digital assets you can defend, not just describe.
Recommended For
Open to all qualifying staff — particularly: Governors, Deputy Governors, Chief Investment Officers.