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Mathias Imbach

Mathias Imbach

Co-founder & Group Chief Executive Officer, Sygnum

Mathias is the Co-Founder and Group CEO of Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group. Sygnum holds a Swiss banking licence, Capital Markets Services and Major Payment Institution licences in Singapore, and is licensed in Abu Dhabi and Luxembourg as well as registered in Liechtenstein.

Sygnum empowers professional and institutional investors, banks, corporates and DLT foundations to invest in digital assets with complete trust. This is enabled through institutional-grade security, expert personal service and portfolio of regulated digital asset banking, asset management, tokenization and B2B services.

Prior to Sygnum, Mathias was General Manager at RNT Associates, Mr. Ratan N. Tata's personal investment platform, where he joined as first employee. He led multiple venture capital and private equity investments and participated in Blockchain/ DLT related equity deals globally.

Mathias started his career at Bain & Company where he led advisory projects for Private Equity Funds, Family Offices and Technology companies. He holds a PhD from the University of St. Gallen and a Master of Science from the London School of Economics (LSE).

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GFTN Insights

Roundtable Room 1, Ground Floor

Open

Thu, 25 Jun   |   04:00PM - 05:30PM

Beyond De-Risking: Are Stablecoins the Future of Trusted Cross-Border Payment Infrastructure?

Cross-border payments remain among the most expensive, slowest, and least accessible financial services globally. Stablecoins have emerged as a working alternative in the corridors underserved by traditional correspondent banking, processing significant volume alongside traditional rails, but questions of trust, reserve integrity, adoption, and systemic risk remain unresolved.

As regulatory frameworks mature across jurisdictions, this roundtable will explore the question of whether stablecoins are poised to graduate from a parallel system into genuine cross-border payment infrastructure, and what has to be true about their design, governance, and regulatory treatment for that to happen.

With payment-native banks, institutional settlement networks, and central banks at the table, the conversation will move beyond the technology debate to the harder questions of standards, coexistence, and who bears the risk when settlement infrastructure fails at scale.

Adam Gagen

Adam GagenGlobal Head of Government Affairs, Revolut
Bridget Rose Mesina-Romero

Bridget Rose Mesina-RomeroDirector, Payments Policy and Development Department, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Calvin Cheng

Calvin ChengChairman , Paymonade Tech
Carine Chartouni

Carine ChartouniDeputy Division Chief, Legal Department, International Monetary Fund
Guerino Ardizzi

Dr. Guerino ArdizziDeputy Head of the Analysis & Database Division (Retail Payment Instruments & Services Directorate), Banca d'Italia
Jeannie Lim

Jeannie LimCo-Founder & Head of Growth, Xweave.io
Juan López Carretero

Juan López CarreteroHead of Market Development Europe, Stellar Development Foundation
Julie Guetta

Julie GuettaProduct Solutions Lead, Mojaloop Foundation
Mathias Imbach

Mathias ImbachCo-founder & Group Chief Executive Officer, Sygnum
Matthias Obrecht

Matthias ObrechtHead Supervision New Technologies, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)
Steven McWhirter

Steven McWhirterGlobal Policy Lead, Binance
Yesha Yadav

Prof. Yesha YadavBoard Member & Professor, Fintech Foundation, Vanderbilt Law School
Lucy Ingham

Lucy InghamVice President of Research, FXC Intelligence
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