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XI Meeting of the Financial Information Forum of Latin American and the Caribbean Central Banks

June 5 - 6, 2025
Santiago, Chile
Face-to-face format

The meeting was jointly organized by the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA) and Banco Central de Chile in Santiago, Chile, on June 5–6, 2025. It was attended by 73 representatives from 31 institutions and CEMLA associates.

The meeting was focused on data science advances and applications for central banks, strategic perspectives on the future of central bank statistics, the new data demands for new payments systems, sourcing and sharing of financial data, cross-border transactions, credit and derivative repositories, and emerging challenges for statistical units.

The agenda included a keynote session by Patty Dujim, Head of the Department of Securities, Sustainability and Payment Statistics at De Nederlandsche Bank, titled “Data Science for Central Banks: How to Make It Work.”

Patty Duijm

Patty Duijm is Head of Department Securities, Sustainability and Payment Statistics at De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). Before that, she was involved in setting up the Data Science Hub at DNB: a completely new team aiming to guide policymakers and supervisors to leverage their data more smartly by using new data techniques. In 2019 she completed her part-time PhD in Finance at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in Rotterdam. During her PhD she has worked in the Financial Stability Division and the Supervisory Policy Division. Her research interests include the impact of policy reforms on financial institutions, sustainability, interconnectedness and macroprudential risk.