The Federal Reserve Board announced it will host a Payments Innovation Conference on October 21, bringing together a range of stakeholders to discuss how to further innovate and improve the payments system. The agenda will include panel discussions on the convergence of traditional and decentralized finance, emerging stablecoin use cases and business models, the intersection of artificial intelligence and payments, and the tokenization of financial products and services. Governor Christopher J. Waller said the event will examine the opportunities and challenges of new technologies and consider ways to improve the safety and efficiency of payments. The conference will be livestreamed for the public on federalreserve.gov, with additional details to be announced.