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Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
Dr. Guerino Ardizzi
Deputy Head of the Analysis & Database Division (Retail Payment Instruments & Services Directorate)
Banca d'Italia
He is currently a member of the Payment System Policy Working Group at the ECB, of the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR) Expert Group at the European Commission, and of the Target Data Group at the Financial Stability Board (FSB), contributing to the G20 Cross-border Payments Roadmap.
He has been a member of the Italian Presidency Team in the Working Party of the European Council during the Italian EU Council Presidency (2014), in the field of the EU payments framework (PSD2 and the IFR).
His research focuses on industrial organization and payment habits in the retail payments industry. He has worked as a national expert at the European Commission (DG Competition), dealing with antitrust issues in payment systems, and has presented his work at numerous international conferences.
He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, where he is currently a visiting lecturer, and is the author of several publications on payment systems.He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Bank of Italy’s MISP Series.
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4:00–5:30pmThu 25 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 1, Ground FloorOpen
Blueprint for Digital Assets
Beyond De-Risking: Are Stablecoins the Future of Trusted Cross-Border Payment Infrastructure?
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Adam GagenGlobal Head of Government AffairsRevolut
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Bridget Rose Mesina-RomeroDirector, Payments Policy and Development DepartmentBangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
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Calvin ChengChairmanPaymonade Tech
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Carine ChartouniDeputy Division Chief, Legal DepartmentInternational Monetary Fund
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Dr. Guerino ArdizziDeputy Head of the Analysis & Database Division (Retail Payment Instruments & Services Directorate)Banca d'Italia
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Jeannie LimCo-Founder & Head of GrowthXweave.io
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Juan López CarreteroHead of Market Development EuropeStellar Development Foundation
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Julie GuettaManaging DirectorThitsaWorks
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Mathias ImbachCo-founder & Group Chief Executive OfficerSygnum
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Matthias ObrechtHead Supervision New TechnologiesSwiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)
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Steven McWhirterGlobal Policy LeadBinance
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Prof. Yesha YadavBoard Member & ProfessorFintech Foundation, Vanderbilt Law School
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Lucy InghamVice President of ResearchFXC IntelligenceModerator
About this session
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.
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