Throughout history, people have developed financial technologies to make use of the state of the art ICTs  1  available at that time, in pursuit of defying the gravity that constrains the dynamic and cooperative use of available resources.
This conference takes place against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, from which the global economy is now recovering rapidly, if unevenly. In the euro area yesterday’s fresh projection by the ECB foresees, the economy is rebounding significantly this year on the back of the expected re-opening of the economy, strengthened policy support and economic recovery in the rest of the world.