The first event of the Coinbase Institute Speaker Series brings together world experts in remittances and crypto to discuss opportunities and challenges of using crypto to increase the efficiency of the remittance process, and improve the lives of people around the world.
International remittances exceed half a trillion dollars annually, and make up a vital part of the global economy. Still, the process of international money transfer is still complex and costly. Recently, cryptocurrencies have ushered in a new, alternative system for transferring money around the world seamlessly peer to peer, without corresponding banking networks or other centralized intermediaries.
To know more about the use of crypto for remittances, the Coinbase Institute just released a primer on the topic www.coinbase.com/institute.
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Dilip Ratha is an economist specializing in migration, remittances and innovative financing. He is currently developing a low-cost remittance platform (which was featured in a well known TED Talk), while concurrently working on market-based financing solutions for poor households, small businesses, and low- and middle-income countries.
He is also the founder of KNOMAD, a global knowledge hub on migration, and co-founder of the Migrating out of Poverty Research Consortium at the University of Sussex. He currently serves as focal point on migration, remittances and diaspora bonds for the World Bank, and a co-coordinator of the Global Remittances Working Group that grew out of the G7 and the G20 processes.
Robert L. Villaseñor currently serves as Chief Administrative Officer at Moneygram. Villaseñor has over 20 years of experience representing public companies on a broad range of legal issues including public reporting, lending and capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, investments and various commercial matters.
Most recently, Villaseñor worked in the Corporate & Securities Group at Starbucks Corporation from 2012 to 2018. Prior to Starbucks he served as the chief corporate & securities attorney at two other public companies. He began his career in private practice at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP working in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and capital markets.
Moheeth is a Senior Product Manager leading Peer to Peer products at Coinbase. His team recently launched functionality for customers to send and receive ETH, MATIC, and USDC on Polygon, and USDC on Solana, marking the first time Coinbase has enabled the ability to send and receive on an L2 or sidechain.
Moheeth also launched Coinbase’s first Remittance product earlier this year targeting the US to Mexico retail corridor. He began his tenure at CB leading International Expansion, and was responsible for the launch of Germany, Japan and enabling x-border fiat rails for customers in 40+ countries.
Outside of Coinbase Moheeth pursues a passion for Pickleball and has built a 7 figure DTC business manufacturing and retailing the sport’s premium racquets.
Dr. Cesare Fracassi is our first Director of Economic Research and Chief Economist of the Coinbase Institute. Cesare is also a member of the State of Texas Work Group on Blockchain Matters.
Before joining Coinbase, he was an associate professor of finance at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was also Director of the Blockchain Initiative and the Fintech Research Lab.
