The Bank of Canada will host the 3^rd edition of the International Conference on Payments and Securities Settlement at its headquarters in Ottawa, Canada on 12 and 13 June 2025. The conference, organized in partnership with Deutsche Bundesbank, aims to bring together academic and central bank researchers, policymakers and practitioners to discuss the latest economic research focused on the developments, challenges and opportunities for payments and securities settlement.

Topics of interest for the conference include:

• Issues and trends in cross-border payments
• Tools for detecting and mitigating fraud and cyber risks in payment systems
• Opportunities and challenges due to alternative payment instruments and systems
• Innovations in settlement systems and the evolving role of financial intermediaries
• Payments data insights, privacy preservation and fostering competition
• Insights from using new analytical and empirical methods on payments and settlement data
• Safety and efficiency of RTGS systems, risk analysis and participant behavior in FMI