This Friday and Saturday, the Bank of Spain's facilities in the municipality of Tarragonès will host the first edition of this forum, which will focus on the economic and financial challenges of the Latin American region within a global context of geopolitical uncertainty and trade tensions.
Under the title Capital Flows, Exchange Rates, and Geopolitics, the event will feature the participation of financial supervisors, academics, and researchers specializing in economics and monetary policy.
“"The inaugural session will feature an intervention by the President of the European Central Bank, who will address the global role of stablecoins, cryptocurrencies designed to maintain a stable value typically linked to traditional currencies such as the dollar or the euro."
During the sessions, four closed-door panels will be held, discussing topics such as tariffs and geoeconomics, exchange rates and monetary policy, capital flow management, and the impact of trade tariffs on international economies.
Attendees will include representatives from central banks of countries such as the Bahamas, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Also present will be officials from supervisory bodies in Guatemala, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, as well as deputy governors from central banks of Argentina, Chile, the Philippines, Honduras, and El Salvador, and the executive president of the Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR).
As part of this gathering, a meeting of central bank governors who are members of the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA) will also take place, led by the president of the CEMLA Governing Board and the organization's general director.
