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Michael Manz

Michael Manz

Head of the Financial Systems & Financial Markets Department, State Secretariat for International Finance SIF

Michael Manz is head of the Financial System & Financial Markets division at the Swiss State Secretariat of International Finance (SIF). The responsibilities of his division include supporting and consulting the Swiss Federal Department of Finance and the Swiss government and preparing laws and ordinances in the field of financial market regulation, financial stability, financial innovation, combating money laundering and terrorism financing, and international monetary assistance. He represents Switzerland in various international workstreams and supports the membership of the Swiss Ministry of Finance in the International Monetary Fund, the Financial Stability Board and the Financial Action Task Force.

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Thu, 25 Jun   |   02:00PM - 03:30PM

Stablecoins and the Monetary Order: What Is at Stake and What Should Drive their Design?

The global monetary system has a plumbing problem. Correspondent banking is slow, expensive, and exclusive, and now a $300 billion stablecoin market has grown around it. Yet 97% of that market is dollar-denominated, issuers hold hundreds of billions in short-term Treasuries, already impacting yields, and the largest stablecoin carries rating agencies’ lowest stability ratings.

Stablecoins could become genuinely useful payments infrastructure: for cross-border payments, programmable settlement, and treasury operations. In this roundtable we explore what it takes to make stablecoins truly stable and useful for broad adoption, and why Switzerland is well-placed to help (re-)define what responsible stablecoin design looks like.

Attilio Zanetti

Dr. Attilio ZanettiAlternate Member of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank
Michael Manz

Michael ManzHead of the Financial Systems & Financial Markets Department, State Secretariat for International Finance SIF
Andreas Kubli

Andreas KubliManaging Director, Group Head of Digital Assets, UBS
Christian Schmid

Christian SchmidSenior Partner & Global Leader | Global Banking & CIB, BCG
Andrea Luca Aerni

Andrea Luca AerniPolicy Advisor Digital Finance and Innovation, State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF)
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