Our objective in setting up this working group is to guarantee a "safe space" for our members' compliance officers who wish to discuss regulatory hot topics once a month under the "Chatham house" rule. The group regularly invites "special guests" such a key officials from the European Commission, local regulators or prominent actors of our industry. Among the topics discussed recently: the EU Digital financial strategy, PSD3, MiCA, Instant Payments, SPAA, CESOP…
This months guest Maria Tereza Cavaco, Director of Banking, Head of Payment Systems Department at Banco de Portugal.
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She is the Head of the Payment Systems Department at Banco de Portugal, which is responsible for the oversight, regulation, operation and development of the Portuguese payments market.
She has been involved in the operational and regulatory developments taking place in the field of payment systems, such as the migration towards the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), the transposition and implementation of the revised Payment Services Directive, the deployment of instant payment solutions and other innovative payment services, and the investigation on the possible issuance of the digital euro.
She is also a member of the Market Infrastructures Board (MIB), the Eurosystem body in charge of the operation and management of Eurosystem market infrastructures such as TARGET services, and she represents Banco de Portugal in several other fora.
