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Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
Evaldas Ruzgys
Member of the Board
Bank of Lithuania
Evaldas Ruzgys is responsible for payments infrastructure in Lithuania, including the well-known CENTROlink system, and works on various EU-level projects, representing Lithuania in the Digital Euro as well as initiatives related to wholesale CBDC and other innovative use cases for EU financial market infrastructure.
Evaldas Ruzgys started his professional career in commercial banking in 2002 and held various positions at Scandinavian banks, including HANSABANKAS, DnB and NORD/LB, until 2013. In 2013–2020, he was the Head of the Digital Channels Department for the Baltics at AB DNB bank and its successor Luminor Bank.
In 2020–2023, Ruzgys worked as an independent technology and business consultant, implementing projects for the State Enterprise Centre of Registers and various fintech companies. He joined the Bank of Lithuania in June 2023 as the Director of the Market Infrastructure Department.
Ruzgys holds a MSc in Finance and Banking and a BSc in Economics from Vytautas Magnus University.
Speaking at
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11:30am–12:00pmTue 23 JunWorkshopWorkshop Room, Level 1Open
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Crypto Rails for Everyday Payments: Building the User, Regulatory, and Trust Layers That Make It Work! - Powered by Kraken (Payward)
WorkshopWorkshop Room, Level 1Open
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Evaldas RuzgysMember of the BoardBank of Lithuania
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Matthias Bauer-LanggartnerHead of Policy, EuropeChainalysis
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Nick GershSenior Regulatory CounselPaxos
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Jonathan JachymGlobal Head of Policy & Market StructurePaywardModerator
About this session
Payments is where crypto either earns its place in the real economy or doesn't. Stablecoins now move meaningful volume, but most everyday users still can't navigate wallet addresses, and most regulators are still working out how to supervise a payment instrument that settles on public infrastructure. The gap between “technically possible” and “actually used at scale” is the most interesting policy and product problem in the space right now.
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2:00–3:30pmThu 25 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 1, Ground FloorOpen
Blueprint for Digital Assets
Stablecoins and the Monetary Order: What Is at Stake and What Should Drive their Design?
GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 1, Ground FloorOpen
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Andreas KubliManaging Director Group Head of Digital AssetsUBS
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Dr. Attilio ZanettiAlternate Member of the Governing BoardSwiss National Bank
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Aymeric SalleyHead of Digital Assets PlatformBanking Circle
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Christian SchmidSenior Partner & Global Leader | Global Banking & CIBBCG
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Evaldas RuzgysMember of the BoardBank of Lithuania
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Michael ManzHead of the Financial Systems & Financial Markets DepartmentState Secretariat for International Finance SIF
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Pascale BrudererFounder & ChairwomanSwiss Stablecoin AG
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Rebecca MunDirectorS&P Global
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Andrea Luca AerniPolicy Advisor Digital Finance and InnovationState Secretariat for International Finance (SIF)Moderator
About this session
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. -

