Rhys Bidder

Rhys Bidder is an economist and adviser working across digital money, payments and financial regulation. He advises Tokenised GBP on regulation and strategy, including its FSMA application and engagement with the Bank of England, FCA and HM Treasury, and also works with Coinbase and Chainlink Labs on digital assets, tokenisation and financial-market infrastructure. Rhys previously spent nine years as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and has since worked with the Bank of England and Central Bank of Ireland. He was most recently a Senior Lecturer in Banking and Finance at King’s Business School and is a member of Global Digital Finance’s Board of Advisors and Observers. His work focuses particularly on stablecoins, CBDC, tokenised finance and the interaction between new forms of money and existing payment rails.