Making America’s payment system work for a digital century

Brookings, Cornell Law, and Vanderbilt Law will host an event to examine America’s payment system, featuring keynotes from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra and Federal Reserve Governor Christopher J. Waller. Two panels will explore in detail the current state of U.S. payments and the new emerging digital asset technologies that could disrupt them. The event will discuss a variety of topics, such as the workings of public and private real-time payment systems (FedNow and Real-Time Payments) alongside cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, central bank digital currencies – and more. This event is a part of the Series on Financial Markets and Regulation from the Center on Regulation and Markets. Viewers can submit questions by emailing events@ or via Twitter @BrookingsEcon using #FutureofPayments.