Julie leads the Mojaloop Foundation’s efforts to advance financial inclusion by promoting the adoption of its open-source inclusive instant payments platform in Southeast Asia and overseeing global cross-border payments initiatives. With over four years of active involvement with the Mojaloop Foundation, she has been at the forefront of several workstreams, including the implementation of ISO 20022 standards, helping to introduce new standards to the industry.
A finalist in the 2024 Women in Payments Innovation Awards, Julie brings more than a decade of experience in implementing complex payment systems, covering schemes, standards, and business processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.
Before joining the Mojaloop Foundation, Julie served as Technical Product Director at Partior, where she contributed to the transformation of cross-border payment settlements. She also led payments strategy at RedCompass Labs, guiding clients through emerging trends and developing actionable strategies.
As a recognized thought leader and frequent speaker at international conferences, Julie also lectured at the EBA Summer School in 2022.
Roundtable Room 1, Ground Floor
Open
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.