Alexandre Stervinou is currently Director in the Cash and Retail
Payments Policy and Oversight Directorate at the Banque de
France, a 55+ staff directorate in charge of strategic policy,
oversight and security of all types of retail payments, with a focus
on fostering innovations in those fields (e.g. CBDC with the digital
euro). The Directorate also has a direct responsibility on cash anti
counterfeiting matters. Prior to this, Alexandre held a Deputy
Director role in the Market Infrastructures and Innovations
Directorate and, between 2019 and 2021, he was a member of the
Financial Stability Board (FSB) Secretariat, where he mostly dealt with innovation related matters on
the G20 agenda for financial services, and more specifically on cutting-edge topics such as cross-border
payments, cybersecurity, crypto-assets and stablecoins, BigTechs, cloud services, artificial intelligence
and machine learning. Between 2015 and 2019, Alexandre was the Head of the Non-cash Means of Payment Oversight
division at Banque de France, in charge of policy and oversight issues for cashless payments. In this
role, he was the Secretary of the Observatory for the Security of Payment Means, chaired by the
Governor of Banque de France, and Secretary of the National Payments Committee. To this end, he
contributed to the development of a national and European retail payment strategy supported by
Banque de France, in collaboration with the private sector.
Alexandre has represented the central bank since 2008 in various international (G20, G7) and European
committees related to payments, cybersecurity and innovation, notably working on regulation,
supervision and oversight frameworks, and is currently also a member of the digital euro project steering
group. Alexandre started his career in the private sector, working in the financial services and telecom industry.