Ep. 119: Marion Laboure on Democratising Finance, Bitcoin as Digital Diamond and Central Bank Digital Currency 

This episode is sponsored by Amber Group

Marion is a senior economist at Deutsche Bank in London and a lecturer at Harvard University. She has extensive private sector, public policy, and monetary policy experience, including at the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, the Luxembourg Central Bank, and Barclays. She received first prize from the American Society of Actuaries, Revue Banque nominated her as a rising star in finance, and Business Insider named her a cryptocurrency mastermind. Laboure holds a bachelor’s degree from Université Paris Dauphine, a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Doctorate of Philosophy from the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris. On this podcast we discussed:

1. Experience in working for the European Commission
2. How fintech is impacting developing countries
3. The financial challenges of millennials
4. The problem of financial literacy amongst retail investors
5. Why crypto markets are so volatile
6. The impact of central bank liquidity on crypto
7. Crypto: payment vs digital gold
8. The rise of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)
9. Whether CBDC will displace banks
10. Whether crypto can displace the fiat financial system
11. Books that influenced Marion: The Curse of Cash (Rogoff), The End of Alchemy (King)

You can find Marions’ latest book Democratizing Finance here. You can follow her on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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