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Events
Central Banking and Financial Policy brings together policymakers, academic researchers, policy experts, students, and financial industry participants to discuss important current policy issues and looming financial developments where more research on policy choices and outcomes is needed. To date, CBFP has done that through a series of public: workshops, conferences and roundtables, book talks, guest lectures, speeches and panels. The topics have included: monetary policy, regulation and supervisory policy, financial technology, macroprudential policies, financial structure and stability issues.
Featured Video
The Global Impact of the Second Trump Administration’s Economic Policies
In this panel discussion, SIPA faculty and experts dissect the administration’s trade, fiscal, and energy policies and their ripple effects on the US and the rest of the world.
Introductory remarks by: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Professor of International and Public Affairs; 67th Secretary of State and former Senator from New York; IGP Faculty Advisory Board Chair
The New York Fed and Columbia SIPA annual Workshop on Monetary Policy Implementation is an annual event which brings together international experts in monetary policy design and implementation to brainstorm and debate the “new normal” for central banks. Plans (and execution of plans) for the normalization of monetary policy are an opportunity for central banks to step back and consider how to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of monetary policy, taking into account the lessons of the 2007-09 financial crisis and the important changes in global financial structure since then. The workshop provides an annual forum for new thinking and debate about central bank operating procedures and frameworks. Participants span academia, the financial industry, as well as current and former central bankers from around the world– to discuss the “new normal” in central bank monetary policy implementation frameworks.
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Reserve Reductions, Money Markets, and Future Frameworks
The workshop provides an annual forum for new thinking and debate about central bank operating procedures and frameworks.
Bank Regulation Research Conferences
- Bank Regulation Research Conferences
- 10th Annual Columbia SIPA/BPI Bank Regulation Conference
- The Design of Liquidity Regulation
- Bank Regulation and The Resilience of The Banking Sector
- Bank Regulation and the Business Cycle
- Bank Regulation, Climate change and Digitialisation
- Lessons from COVID-19
- Bank Regulation, Capital, Liquidity and Operational Risk
- Bank Regulation, Lending, and Growth
- Optimal Bank Liquidity Regulation
- Optimal Bank Capital Regulation
Bank Regulation Research Conferences
This conference aims to improve dialogue across the major stakeholders in financial regulatory policy.
The Columbia SIPA-Bank Policy Institute Annual Bank Research Conference brings together experts from academia, regulatory agencies and the financial industry each year to discuss and debate the latest research on bank regulation and its impact on the financial system and the economy. Research papers (chosen from an open Call for Papers each year) are presented by authors and discussed by both researchers and regulatory practitioners.
10th Annual Columbia SIPA/BPI Bank Regulation Conference
The overarching themes of this year’s conference were (1) innovation and automation in banking, (2) banking supervision, and (3) digitalization and banking. The conference concluded with a panel discussion focused on the outlook for digital innovation in banking, and what experts believe comes next.
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The Design of Liquidity Regulation
9th Annual SIPA/BPI Research Conference
The conference focused on the design of liquidity regulation, including contingent liquidity provision, and on drivers of structural change in the banking industry, particularly the ongoing evolution of credit formation across banks and nonbanks. Topics discussed included regulation impact: banks and nonbanks, monitoring banks: investors and regulators, more lessons from 2023, and outlook for regulatory policy.
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Bank Regulation and The Resilience of The Banking Sector
8th Annual SIPA/BPI Research Conference
This year’s overarching theme was bank regulation and the resilience of the banking sector, especially in light of the failures of several regional banks last spring. Topics discussed included vulnerabilities to runs, bail-in debt, the transmission of monetary policy through banks’ securities portfolios and the interaction with banking regulation, and the future structure of the banking industry.
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Bank Regulation and the Business Cycle
7th Annual Columbia SIPA/BPI Bank Regulation Conference
The theme was bank regulation and the business cycle. The conference covered bank capital and lending dynamics through the cycle, evidence on countercyclical capital buffers and temporary regulatory actions, and expected next steps for capital and liquidity regulation.
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Bank Regulation, Climate change and Digitialisation
6th Annual Columbia SIPA/BPI Bank Regulation Conference
The conference covered lending by banking and fintech, M&A in fintech, measuring physical risks of climate change and the impact of regulation on climate risk.
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Bank Regulation, Capital, Liquidity and Operational Risk
4th Annual Columbia SIPA/BPI Bank Regulation Conference
The conference covered the following topics: micro vs. systemic risks, capital and liquidity regulation and emerging risks.
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Bank Regulation, Lending, and Growth
3rd Annual Columbia SIPA/BPI Bank Regulation Conference
The conference covered the impact on bank regulation on lending and growth, consumer protection, efficiency in supervision, regulation and the cost of capital and costs and benefits of capital and liquidity requirements.
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Optimal Bank Liquidity Regulation
2nd Annual Columbia SIPA/BPI Bank Regulation Conference
This conference covered the following topics: impacts and interactions of liquidity regulation, optimal design, consequences of shadow banking, and the welfare effects of bank liquidity and capital requirements.
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Annual Meeting of the Central Bank Research Association
The mission of CEBRA is to encourage applied and theoretical research on topics relevant to central banks, financial regulators, international financial institutions, and fiscal authorities, as well as to connect the research staff of these institutions with academia.
The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Central Bank Research Association took place in-person from 5-7 July 2023, at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (July 5) and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) (July 6-7) in New York City, USA. Co-organized with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Columbia SIPA, and the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research “Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe (SAFE)”.
The 2023 Annual Meeting #CEBRA23 offered seven parallel session tracks featuring 39 sessions in total, covering a wide variety of policy relevant topics.
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Tenth Annual FRBP Conference
SIPA co-organized the Tenth Annual Fintech Conference with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
As more institutions leverage the GENIUS Act, this year’s event delved into how new regulatory frameworks are reshaping digital asset strategies, the lessons from early blockchain integrations in traditional finance, the opportunities and challenges of tokenizing real-world assets, and what institutional adoption of digital assets truly looks like.
Past FRBP Conferences
November 12, 2025
October 22, 2024
September 7, 2023
- The Future of Global Finance: Populism, Technology and Regulation »
- Seventh Annual Central Banking Roundtable »
- CEBRA Annual Meeting »
- Symposium on Central Banking and Delegated Power »
- International Central Bank Coordination and Cooperation in Practice »
- The Future of Global Finance: Populism, Technology and Regulation »
- Whither Regulatory Reform? Challenges For The Future of Banking »
- Next Steps For Macroprudential Policy »
Featured Book Talk
Unelected Power: The Search for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State
A discussion on the role of independent central banks in modern democratic states. Spurred by Paul Tucker’s new book, the discussion explores what it means for central banks to be independent agencies, the evolution of central bank authority and state of central bank independence today.
Author: Paul Tucker, Harvard Kennedy School and Systemic Risk Council
Featured Discussion
Central Bank Independence: A Panel Discussion
A discussion of what central bank independence really means, from a practitioners perspective.
Stanley Fischer, Former Vice-Chair of the Federal Reserve and Former Governor of the Bank of Israel
Ilan Goldfajn, Former Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil
Kathryn Judge, Harvey J. Goldschmid Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
- Future of the International Monetary System: Haruhiko Kuroda and Alan Blinder
- The 3 i's- Invasion, Inflation, and Interest Rates: Dr. Andreas Dombret
- What Monetary Narrative After Forward Guidance?: Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau
- Clyde Wu Fellows »
- Central Bank Independence: A Panel Discussion »
- Making the Physical Fiscal: Climate Change and the Financial Sector »
- The Future of Central Banking: The Role of Balance Sheets in the New Normal »
- Normal Monetary Policy in Words and Deeds »
- U.S. Economic Outlook and Implications for Monetary Policy »
- Central Bank Independence: The Case of Banque du Liban »
- Inflation Targeting & Economic Recovery in Brazil »
- Debt and Financial Stability »
- Monetary Policy Expectations and Surprises »
- Challenges for ECB Monetary Policy »
- Canada and the US: Partners in Prosperity »
- New Challenges for Central Banking: A European Perspective »
- Argentina: Graduating from Populism after One too Many Spring Breaks »
- Challenges for Monetary Policy Conduct of Emerging Market Central Banks »
- Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Are we any safer? »
- China's Rebalancing and Financial Reforms »
Featured Webinar
Global Liquidity and International Lender of Last Resort
This webinar will cover new and old lessons about global liquidity and international lender of last resort: effectiveness, usage and limits of swap line arrangements; the evolution of multilateral lending arrangements particularly for EMs; the IMF short-term liquidity facilities; and lessons on global liquidity risks from the COVID period.
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked extraordinary economic policy responses by central banks, financial regulators and other financial policymakers around the world. This webinar series will be bring together current and former policymakers from central banks and regulators, as well as SIPA faculty and other scholars, to discuss the structure and impact of these changes. Which policies have been more or less effective in “cushioning the blow” of the pandemic for households and businesses? How have different economic policymakers -- fiscal, monetary, regulatory -- coordinated their policy responses either within or across countries? How has the nature of this particular crisis driven policy choices? What practical policy lessons have we learned from the experience so far? What else may need to be done on the economic policy front?