Special Interest Group
Capital Markets Special Interest Group (CMSIG)
Report Author(s)
Vipin Bharathan: SIG Chair
CMSIG Overall Health
Interest in our SIG continues to soar. We have a mix of presentations and projects. New projects for the next year include NIFTY a cross-silo initiative that continues to garner views. New presentations have covered Intitutionalization of AMMs and digitization of Financial Market Infrastructure.
Issues
We have had success with well-attended presentations. We do have the challenge of gender and location diversity.
Overall Activity in the Past Two Quarters
The CMSIG is very well attended. We have had seven meetings from August 2021 until today (Jan-15-2022) (the period covered by the report) A new subgroup has been added (The Mortgage sub-group)
- CBDC - DXCD, Patterns
- FMI (Financial Market Infrastructure)
- Tokenization
- Regulation - Law, Public Blockchains
- Standards (ISO 20022), CDM (Common Domain Model)
- Institutionalization of DeFi, AMMs
- Automation
Planned Work Products
- Split the calls APAC-US/Europe
- 2022 - momentum on the topics
- NIFTY (breaking the silos)
- Identity, Tokenization, Security, Standards, Interoperability
- Regulation
Participant Diversity
We opened very strongly with some women led presentations, this last year. We do need to increase presentations from women leaders in the space. Please send those recommendations our way. We need to improve this mix. Gender diversity is still a challenge.
Geographic diversity will be addressed with a separate APAC call every month.
This is a very diverse membership with global representation (including, but not limited to, member participation from China, East and West Coast US, England, Canada, Switzerland, India, and the different countries within the EU).
Date Published
2022-12-15