Program Overview
Blockchain, CBDCs, and tokenized assets are redefining payments, settlement, and digital value transfer. As these models move toward regulated adoption, financial institutions need clear decision frameworks for technology suitability, compliance alignment, and operational integration. This program builds the capability to evaluate blockchain architecture, assess tokenization opportunities, review CBDC models, and interpret smart contract applications. Through targeted case examples and simulation-based exercises, participants learn to assess risks, evaluate feasibility, and align blockchain initiatives with business priorities and regulatory expectations.
Features
- Assess blockchain models, CBDCs, and tokenization frameworks for regulated financial applications
- Evaluate smart contracts, custody design, and operational integration requirements
- Identify governance, risk, cybersecurity, and compliance considerations for digital asset deployment
- Make informed adoption, platform evaluation, and partnership decisions aligned with strategy and regulation
Target audiences
- Digital banking, innovation, and transformation teams
- Risk, compliance, and regulatory policy specialists
- Payments, treasury, and settlement leaders
- IT architecture, blockchain engineers, and product managers
Curriculum
- 4 Sections
- 19 Lessons
- 1 Day
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- Blockchain Foundations for Regulated Finance5
- 1.1Distributed ledger architecture, consensus mechanisms, cryptographic primitives
- 1.2Permissioned vs permissionless models and their enterprise suitability
- 1.3Token classifications: Utility tokens, security tokens, stablecoins, and CBDCs
- 1.4Smart contract fundamentals, execution logic, automation rules, and auditability
- 1.5Interoperability, scalability, and identity layers within financial systems
- Applied Use Cases: Digital Assets, Tokenization & CBDCs5
- 2.1CBDC frameworks: Retail vs wholesale models, monetary implications, interoperability with domestic and cross-border systems
- 2.2Tokenization of real-world assets: equity, debt, real estate, commodities, and structured products
- 2.3Smart contract deployment for lending, asset transfers, custody, and automated compliance
- 2.4Settlement and clearing redesign using blockchain rails
- 2.5Custody, identity, and wallet infrastructure: private keys, institutional key management, cold vs warm custody models
- Real-World Implementations, Risk & Governance Models5
- 3.1Case studies: Tokenized treasuries, cross-border settlement pilots, trade finance platforms, and programmable money trials
- 3.2Risk dimensions: Cybersecurity, cryptographic failure points, custody breach, model manipulation, governance failures
- 3.3Compliance alignment: AML/CFT, sanctions screening, chain analytics, and audit trail design
- 3.4Regulatory frameworks: Licensing, reporting expectations, operational resilience requirements, and global supervisory comparisons (EU MiCA, US frameworks, India sandbox)
- 3.5Commercial feasibility: Cost-benefit analysis, interoperability readiness, integration with core banking, and vendor ecosystem evaluation
- Strategy Labs, Modeling Exercises & System Simulations4
- 4.1CBDC Design Exercise: Compare design choices and determine functional, compliance, and settlement implications
- 4.2Tokenization Simulation: Model a real-world asset tokenization workflow and assess custody, compliance, and operational challenges
- 4.3Smart Contract Evaluation: Review a sample contract for logic integrity, compliance alignment, and risk exposure
- 4.4Risk & Governance Decision Game: Respond to operational incidents (key compromise, AML flag, network downtime) and draft an escalation and remediation plan
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