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: * * * 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 Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, I came to study philosophy and to write a thesis in African philo more PR