AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: David MacKeith
David MacKeith leads business development for Amazon Web Services (AWS) government financial services for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). He has over 20 years of experience helping government and financial services organizations all around the world transform their operations to better serve their respective customers and markets. This includes helping these organizations develop, experiment, and deploy innovative solutions in the areas of digital currencies, monetary and market analysis, regulatory reporting and data collection automation and optimization, and transformation of treasury management functions. Prior to joining AWS, David worked on shaping and delivering major IT transformation projects and in the city of London as a commercial transaction lawyer. He holds a degree in physics from the University of Cambridge.
The future of money is digital: How the cloud can deliver solutions for central bank digital currencies
Increasingly, central banks want to answer practical questions and make the technology choices involved to deliver a central bank digital currency (CBDC). They need a solution that delivers on their missions and meets the performance criteria required to support a stable monetary and financial system. To help organizations understand available technology options and see how cloud services can enable optimal solution designs, AWS authored a two-part whitepaper. Here are some of the highlights.