Hugo Mira

Deputy Director of Banco de Portugal's Payment Systems Department, with responsibilities for oversight, regulation and supervision, management and operation, development and innovation in the Portuguese payment market.

He has been involved in ongoing operational and regulatory developments in the field of national and European payment systems, such as the implementation of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), the transposition of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and the implementation of instant transfer solutions and other innovative payment services such as beneficiary confirmation and SPIN.

It is a member of the Market Infrastructure and Payments Committee (MIPC), the committee responsible for supporting the Eurosystem's decision-making bodies in the fulfilment of the European System of Central Banks' mandate to promote the smooth operation of payment systems, and of the European Banking Authority's Crypto Supervision Coordination Group (CSCG), created with the aim of enabling the exchange of experiences and practices in the supervision of issuers of asset-backed crypto tokens (ART) and electronic money crypto tokens (EMT).