Anikó Szombati

Innovative Chief Digital Officer and Executive Director for Digitalisation and FinTech Development at Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB), Hungary’s central bank, driving digital transformation and FinTech development across the financial sector. Internationally recognized expert of central-bank-level innovations, especially related to the potential future forms of money. She has a proven track record in shaping innovation-focused regulatory policy also on how to embrace advanced technologies like AI and DLT safely. Played a decisive role in central bank policymaking in the field of financial stability for almost two decades, also as member of the Financial Stability Council.

· Led MNB digitalization team into the top league of central banks in the field of FinTech support, setting minimum standards for the level of digitalisation of the incumbents, and CBDC experimentation and research.

· Founded and led several high-performing expert teams from scratch.

· Designed and implemented macroprudential and crisis management frameworks.

· Led the integration of Hungary’s supervisory authority into the central bank and redesigned strategic policymaking amongst monetary, macroprudential, and supervisory functions.