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Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
Dr. Attilio Zanetti
Alternate Member of the Governing Board
Swiss National Bank
Attilio Zanetti, born in 1969, studied economics at the University of Fribourg and completed his doctorate in 2001. In 1994, he joined the Swiss National Bank's Economic Affairs division. From 2002 to 2008, he was Head of the Economic Analysis Switzerland team within the Economic Analysis unit. In 2008, he was appointed Head of the Economic Analysis unit. From 2010, he also took over the leadership of the SNB's delegates for regional economic relations. In addition to these responsibilities, Attilio Zanetti held lectureships in macroeconomics and monetary policy at the University of Basel between 2008 and 2019. As a Visiting Scholar, he also spent time at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the International Monetary Fund. In 2020, Attilio Zanetti was appointed Head of the SNB's International Monetary Cooperation division. The International Monetary Cooperation division is responsible for managing cooperation with other central banks as well as multilateral institutions and authorities.
With effect from 1 August 2022, Attilio Zanetti was appointed by the Federal Council as Alternate Member of the SNB’s Governing Board. He performs this function in Department I in Zurich, where he is responsible for the operational management of the Economic Affairs, Statistics, Communications, and Human Resources divisions.
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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. -

