Suela is part of the "Payments' analysis and innovation" team at Norges Bank. She has engaged with topics in strategy and innovation over the last 20 years. She holds a DPhil in strategy from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in strategy and innovation from the University of Cambridge.

Norges Bank is the central bank of Norway.

The presentation will cover testing undertaken by Norges Bank in its fourth project phase. In this phase we focused on rCBDC and relied on Hyperledger Besu to build our sandbox and further testing. We amongst others tested CBDC issuance and destruction, mass-payments, swapping and bridging. We also tested with the deployment of smart contracts for verified credentials, compound interests, and AML-procedures. Icebreaker was a successful happy-path project for cross-country payments through rCBDCs together with cooperating central banks and the BIS Innovation Hub of Stockholm.