FINANCIAL CHRONICLE – The Central Bank of Sri Lanka is set to host a conference focused on reserve management, bringing together central bankers, sovereign asset managers, policymakers, economists, and investment specialists from around the world to explore both the challenges and opportunities within this field.
According to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), the event seeks to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, promote best practices, and encourage international collaboration to strengthen reserve resilience and support sustainable macroeconomic stability.
Key discussion topics will encompass the difficulties in building foreign reserves, the challenges faced by Asia amid geopolitical fragmentation, the role of digital and tokenized assets in official reserves, an assessment of the dominance of the U.S. dollar in foreign exchange reserves, the importance of gold and alternative assets within reserve portfolios, and the enhancement of reserve management through technological advancements and artificial intelligence.
The conference is scheduled to take place on September 10 and 11 at The Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo.
Notable speakers at the event will include Domenico Nardelli, Treasurer of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank; Ussrah Hussain, Director of Digital and Product Solutions at The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC); Shaokai Fan, Global Head of Central Banks at the World Gold Council; and Ajay Kumar, Executive Director of the Reserve Bank of India.
