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Mon 16 Nov4:15–5:45pmPublic-Private Roundtable
Rethinking Instant Payment Infrastructure from the Ground Up
Global Frameworks and Shared Best Practices in Payments Chains
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About This Session
Most conversations about improving instant payment systems focus on iteration: faster rails, lower costs, broader interoperability. This roundtable asks a more foundational question: are there aspects of how these systems are typically architected that are worth revisiting at the root, rather than only refining at the edges?
Many systems today rely on a model where a payment is sent, and if something doesn’t match up, the two sides exchange after-the-fact messages to reconcile what happened. This reconciliation-heavy approach carries real ongoing cost, and emerging approaches, including early pilot evidence, suggest that dependence on it can be reduced through pre-validation, where payment data is checked and verified before a transaction is executed. Such design choices made early in a scheme’s architecture can shape how easily it extends to full inclusion later.
This session aims to bring together development institutions, instant payments players, central banks, and relevant voices to discuss whether the iterative path – where systems are made incrementally better over time – or the fundamental path – where systems are rebuilt from the ground up – is a more viable solution for national payments systems looking to embark on pre-validation.
The roundtable aims to produce a practical roadmap for countries looking to implement prevalidation across financial institutions. Where available, early pilot data will serve as evidence, discussed frankly under the Chatham House Rule.
- When
- Monday 16 November4:15–5:45pm, Singapore time
- Where
- Public-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 4
- Access
- Open
Speakers
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Blaise Pascal Gasabira
Chief Executive Officer
Rswitch Ltd
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Clara B. Arthur
Chief Executive
Ghana Interbank Payment & Settlement Systems (GhIPSS)
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Irene Arias Hofman
Chief Executive Officer
MIRA
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John Mukono
Chief Executive Officer
Kenswitch
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Julie Guetta
Managing Director
ThitsaWorks
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Mark Munne
Head of Technology
Nexus Global Payments
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Musa Itopa Jimoh
Director, Payments System Policy Department
Central Bank of Nigeria
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Pandu Putra
Director for Asia
Co-Develop
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Steve Haley
Global Director, Mojaloop Ecosystem
Mojaloop Foundation
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Matteo Rizzi
Founder, Timepledge & Senior Advisor
Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)
Moderator
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As money becomes programmable, across central bank digital currencies, tokenized deposits, and stablecoins, a real question is emerging about where compliance should live: embedded directly in the asset as a rule that travels with it, layered on top through richer messaging and real-time screening, or enforced separately by whichever party touches the transaction last.
Players are all building credible but different answers in parallel, and none has converged on how these should interoperate across jurisdictions with different compliance regimes. The stakes are rising on every front — real-time cross-border settlement, tokenized securities, and increasingly, autonomous agents initiating transactions on their own — all of which need a compliance check at the moment value moves, not after. What would each of these approaches to programmable compliance actually need to interoperate, and which rules win when they conflict across borders?
Discussion questions:
1\. Should compliance logic live in the asset itself, in the messaging/settlement layer, or in a separate real-time screening service, and does the answer change depending on whether it's a CBDC, a tokenized deposit, or a stablecoin?
2\. When a transaction crosses borders, whose compliance rule actually governs — sender's jurisdiction, receiver's, or the rail's — and what happens when they conflict?
3\. Retrofitting compliance onto existing settlement infrastructure and building it in from scratch are both live strategies right now — what would each need to prove to become the default, and is convergence between them actually possible?
4\. As more transactions — including those initiated by autonomous agents — require a compliance check the moment value moves, what are the minimum interoperability standards needed for rules to actually travel with money across rails?
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