From Pilots to Plumbing: How Switzerland is Building the Infrastructure for Programmable Money

Experts discuss Switzerland’s approach to moving deposit tokens, stablecoins and CBDCs from pilots into everyday financial infrastructure. Video thumbnail

 

Switzerland is not debating whether programmable money works - it is building it. Various pilots are now looking to answer the same question: how does programmable money move from laboratory to the infrastructure layer of everyday finance? This session examines where deposit tokens, stablecoins, and CBDCs serve genuinely different use cases, and what the rest of the world can learn from the Swiss approach.



Speakers:

Dr. Alexander Thoma, Head of Digital Assets, PostFinance

Dr. Roman Studer, Chief Executive Officer of the Swiss Bankers Association

Frederik Gregaard, Chief Executive Officer of the Cardano Foundation

H.E. Adrian Cachinero Vasiljevic, Co-Founder of Steakhouse Financial

Stephanie K. Wickihalder, President of Swiss FinTech Innovations (SFTI)

 

Host:

Nicola Plain, Principal Business Consultant Digital Assets of Zühlke