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# Ryan Chan-Wei 

Research Fellow, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives

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Ryan Chan-Wei is a research fellow at the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives. His research focuses primarily on issues relating to financial innovation. Prior to joining Cato, he worked as a central banker and financial regulator, with experience across payments and digital assets policy, banking supervision and resolution, and capital markets enforcement. He has also served as a member of the Future of Payments Working Group convened under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements’ Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Oxford.

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