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Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
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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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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