Banking in 2030
Some considerations
Farzam Ehsani @farzamehsani
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Some considerations
Farzam Ehsani @farzamehsani
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How do we agree on who has monetary value in society?
Today ay Past Future ure
$ Humanity’s abridged money timeline
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Digital Bearer
In 2009 the digital bearer instrument was born
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Physi sical cash Ce Central bank money Commercial bank money
Central banks are testing settlement on DLT
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Physi sical cash Ce Central bank money Commercial bank money
SARB Ban Bank 1: 1: Ban Bank 2: 2: Ban Bank n: n: Ban Bank 1 Ban Bank 2 Ban Bank n PS PSOs R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
Central banks are testing settlement on DLT
Settlement in digital cash
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Physi sical cash Ce Central bank money Commercial bank money
SARB Ban Bank 1: 1: Ban Bank 2: 2: Ban Bank n: n: Ban Bank 1 Ban Bank 2 Ban Bank n PS PSOs R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
Central banks are testing settlement on DLT
Settlement in physical cash
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Physi sical cash Ce Central bank money Commercial bank money
SARB Ban Bank 1: 1: Ban Bank 2: 2: Ban Bank n: n: Ban Bank 1 Ban Bank 2 Ban Bank n PS PSOs R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
Central banks are testing settlement on DLT
Digital to physical change
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Physi sical cash Ce Central bank money Commercial bank money
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Crypto cas ash
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DLT
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Central banks are testing settlement on DLT
Introducing crypto cash
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Physi sical cash Ce Central bank money Commercial bank money
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Crypto cas ash
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DL DLT
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Central banks are testing settlement on DLT
Settlement in crypto cash: 3rd type
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Physi sical cash Ce Central bank money Commercial bank money
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Crypto cas ash
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DL DLT
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Central banks are testing settlement on DLT
Conversion to cryptosettlement
Notes & coins FX Capital & reserves Equity
Cen Central l ba bank Balance sheet
Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Notes & coins Commercial bank reserves Capital Bonds/NCDs Notes & coins Loans Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Deposit
NOTE: Stylised balance sheets
Com Commercial ba banks Cumulative balance sheet Dep Depositor Balance sheet
Deposits Reserves
A potential paradigm shift: Crypto-banking (deposit-less banking)
Gold
Bonds/NCDs Notes & coins FX Capital & reserves Equity Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Notes & coins Capital Notes & coins Loans Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Deposit
*Central Bank Cryptocurrency NOTE: Stylised balance sheets
Reserve Deposit Reserve CBCC* CBCC* Deposits Reserves Commercial bank reserves
Cen Central l ba bank Balance sheet Com Commercial ba banks Cumulative balance sheet Dep Depositor Balance sheet
Gold
A potential paradigm shift: Crypto-banking (deposit-less banking)
Bonds/NCDs Notes & coins FX Capital & reserves Equity Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Notes & coins Capital Notes & coins Loans Ass Assets Lia Liabilities
*Central Bank Cryptocurrency NOTE: Stylised balance sheets
CBCC* CBCC* Commercial bank reserves Reserves
Cen Central l ba bank Balance sheet Com Commercial ba banks Cumulative balance sheet Dep Depositor Balance sheet
Deposits
Gold
A potential paradigm shift: Crypto-banking (deposit-less banking)
Notes & coins FX Capital & reserves Equity Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Notes & coins Capital Notes & coins Loans Ass Assets Lia Liabilities
*Central Bank Cryptocurrency NOTE: Stylised balance sheets
CBCC* CBCC* Deposits Commercial bank reserves Reserves Balance sheet reduction
Cen Central l ba bank Balance sheet Com Commercial ba banks Cumulative balance sheet Dep Depositor Balance sheet
Bonds/NCDs
Gold Problem for: 1) Credit creation 2) Liquidity for commercial banks
A potential paradigm shift: Crypto-banking (deposit-less banking)
Bonds/NCDs Notes & coins FX Capital & reserves Equity Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Notes & coins Capital Notes & coins Loans Ass Assets Lia Liabilities
*Central Bank Cryptocurrency NOTE: Stylised balance sheets
CBCC* CBCC* Deposits Commercial bank reserves Reserves CBCC* CBCC* Unsecured Loan Unsecured Loan
Cen Central l ba bank Balance sheet Com Commercial ba banks Cumulative balance sheet Dep Depositor Balance sheet
Gold
A potential paradigm shift: Crypto-banking (deposit-less banking)
Central l Ban ank Go Government Treasu sury
GO GOV IOU IOU
Unsecured central bank lending is essentially unheard of…
Central l Ban ank Go Government Treasu sury
GO GOV IOU IOU
Unsecured central bank lending is essentially unheard of…
Central l Ban ank Go Government Treasu sury
GO GOV IOU IOU
Commercial l Ban ank
GO GOV IOU IOU
Central banks therefore do accept un unse secure red as asse sets Relaxing the assumption that central banks only lend on a secured basis opens possibilities1
1: Once upon a time the thought of relaxing the assumption that paper money could be unbacked (by gold) was unthinkable!
…but the net effect is the same is you put a bank in the middle
Notes & coins FX Capital & reserves Equity
Cen Central l ba bank Balance sheet
Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Notes & coins Commercial bank reserves
Gold Capital Notes & coins Loans Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Deposit
NOTE: Stylised balance sheets
Com Commercial ba banks Cumulative balance sheet Retail de depositor Balance sheet
Reserves Bonds/NCDs Deposits
So balance sheets that originally looked like this…
Notes & coins FX Capital & reserves Equity
Cen Central l ba bank Balance sheet
Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Ass Assets Lia Liabilities Notes & coins
Gold Capital Notes & coins Loans Ass Assets Lia Liabilities
Com Commercial ba banks Cumulative balance sheet Retail de depositor Balance sheet
Unsecured loans from central bank CBCC*
*Central Bank Cryptocurrency NOTE: Stylised balance sheets
CBCC* Unsecured loans to commercial banks CBCC* Bonds/NCDs
…could look like this, with banks not being depositary institutions
Why would we even consider a crypto-banking world?
for policy making)
elimination of bank runs)
assets are issued onto a “sovereign blockchain”)
Ben Benefit its of
crypto-bankin ing Ris Risks
(creation of money would vest purely with the central bank – no fractional reserve system – narrow banking system) – a central bank funding curve could emerge
(as with physical cash)
Means of exchange
IIII
Unit of account Store of value Functions Forms Physical Digital
Divisible Durable
Fungible Portable Scarce Accepted Features
A word on what we call money
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Divisible Durable
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Fungible Portable Accepted
Feat atures s of f money
Scarce
Decentralized cryptocurrencies: The most frictionless assets today
Better money
Ba Bankin ing St Store re
(deposits)
Pro rotect
(risk-off / risk-on)
Tr Transfer
(payments)
Pro rovi vide
(lending/investing)
What does all this mean for Banking in 2030?
Banks need to find ways to meet their governance process but not stifle their agility to adapt to an increasingly fast-changing world
management” – anticipate and provide storage services for new asset classes
and public) for quicker/ more informed decisions (credit committees take too long)
derivatives and insurance in a form palatable to clients
Past Future ure
Family Tribe City-state Nation state
Today ay
Global federation of nations
We are inevitably moving towards a more unified world that is changing the conception of money
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