Harrison Tan is a Senior Strategy Manager with the Digital Currencies team at R3, with a focus on advising global central banks and commercial banks on digital currency strategy and execution for Central Bank Digital Currencies and Permissioned Stablecoins. Prior to this, Harrison held various roles within the Strategy and Operations function at R3, where he led corporate strategy and pre-sales initiatives across cross-functional teams in APAC. Prior to joining R3, Harrison was a member of the Corporate Development and Strategy function at Sea (NYSE:SE), where he held various roles around investor relations, strategic investments, fundraising, and other corporate strategy projects.

Harrison holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) from the National University of Singapore.

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In this session, Harrison will delve into the progress of domestic, bilateral, and multilateral CBDC networks, exploring their implications on liquidity management for central banks and financial institutions. Additionally, Harrison will examine the current CBDC distribution models across these networks.  Attendees will get an exclusive preview of R3's digital currency product, which provides innovative solutions to tackle the challenges of CBDC implementation and distribution.