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Miguel Díaz
Deputy Head, BIS Innovation Hub & Head of Strategy
Bank for International Settlements
Miguel is the Deputy Head of the BIS Innovation Hub (BISIH) and Head of Strategy. Within the BISIH, he has contributed to the creation of digital financial public goods such as settlement systems, identity solutions, supervisory applications of AI, and open finance environments. Before the BIS he was the head of Payment Systems and Financial Market infrastructures at the Central Bank of Mexico where he guided the development, operation, analysis, and regulation of financial market infrastructures. He oversaw the modernization of the payment systems in Mexico, directed the creation of a fast payment system denominated in dollars, and was deeply involved in the development of the operational and regulatory strategy of the Central Bank regarding financial market infrastructures, including CBDC and the inclusion of new market participants in the ecosystem and the opening of the market to open finance solutions. In his previous roles he directed strategic planning and managed macro-financial analysis for the Bank of Mexico, and he is an Economist with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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4:30–5:00pmWed 18 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
Policy Rewiring
Cross-Border Wholesale Connectivity: Building a More Connected Financial System
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Dr. Alexandra HachmeisterDirector General Digital EuroDeutsche Bundesbank
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Ivan OdonnatGeneral Director for Financial Stability & OperationsBanque de France
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Tom MuttonExecutive Director of Payments Innovation & FintechBank of England
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Miguel DíazDeputy Head, BIS Innovation Hub & Head of StrategyBank for International Settlements
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Peerapong ThonnagithDeputy Director, Payment Policy and Financial Technology DepartmentBank of Thailand
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Alan LimDirector & Head, Financial Infrastructure & Artificial Intelligence OfficeMonetary Authority of SingaporeModerator
About this session
As digital money, tokenized assets and next-generation financial infrastructures gain traction around the world, jurisdictions and institutions are adopting a growing range of technologies, infrastructure models and settlement systems. While this diversity is driving innovation, it also raises an important question: how can increasingly interconnected financial systems continue to operate seamlessly across borders — without waiting for a single global standard to emerge first?
This panel brings together the institutions alongside policymakers and innovators from Asia, Europe and the UK to discuss what regional cooperation actually requires in practice: unified ledgers, synchronisation mechanisms, privacy-preserving technologies, and the governance arrangements that let independently built systems trust one another.
The discussion will examine the technical, legal, operational and regulatory challenges involved in scaling these regional models, and explore how deeper connectivity between them — rather than a single unified global system — may be the more realistic path to an interconnected financial system. -
