Speakers

László Kajdi is the Head of the Financial Infrastructures and Payments Policy Section at the Central Bank of Hungary (MNB). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics with a thesis on international remittances to Hungary. Previously he worked at the Hungarian Ministry of Finance and in the Hungarian Central Statistical Office. In his present position he is responsible for tasks concerning the development of the Hungarian payment system, i.e. designing and executing public policies which facilitate the prevalence of electronic payment methods. This includes the further development of the domestic instant payments service, as well as tasks in connection with the analysis of central bank digital currencies. The development of financial infrastructures like the Hungarian ACH, CSD and CCP is also an important part of his work. In addition, his tasks cover the elaboration of proposals for payments related regulation.