Fed Governor Cook Issues Remarks at the Central Bank of West African States Conference on Digital Assets
May 09, 2026
May 09, 2026
DAKAR, Ssenegal, May 9 -- The Federal Reserve issued the following speech on May 8, 2026, by Governor Lisa D. Cook at the Central Bank of West African States Conference on Digital Assets:
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Perspectives on Tokenization and Implications for the Financial System
I am happy to have the opportunity to return to and to speak in Dakar. Not far from here, I began my unexpected journey into the economics profession.1 As a graduate student at l'Universite C . . .
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Perspectives on Tokenization and Implications for the Financial System
I am happy to have the opportunity to return to and to speak in Dakar. Not far from here, I began my unexpected journey into the economics profession.1 As a graduate student at l'Universite C . . .