Konrad Sobański: ‘Crisis-Innovation-Transformation: Digital Financial Infrastructures in Wartime and Postwar Ukraine’

Hybrid format | TUESDAY, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., GD HS 08 | This lecture examines how Ukraine is redefining the foundations of its financial system in response to the infrastructural collapse triggered by Russia’s full-scale invasion. Amid destroyed bank branches, cash shortages, institutional dislocation, and limited access to international finance, Ukraine is developing a digital financial architecture - spanning government service platforms, stablecoins, and blockchain-based tools - that helps to maintain the continuity of core monetary and financial functions. The lecture explores both the short-term role of these instruments during wartime disruption and their potential to transform Ukraine’s financial infrastructure in the long term.

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