Yves Mersch: The future started yesterday Keynote speech by Mr Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the Bank of Latvia conference “Payments in the 22nd century: future starts today?”, Riga, 3 October 2018.
* * * Predicting what payments will look like in the 22nd century is perhaps better left to science fiction writers than to central bankers. Still, at least one thing I can be sure of is that payments will be instant or cash-like. And we don’t need to wait for the 22nd century to see this happen.