Future of Finance #5 - Online Event

​Future of Finance #5 — Who owns the merchant? Payments, stablecoins, and the battle for on-chain settlement

​Join us for a 45-minute deep dive hosted by Aleksandar Bukovski and Hugo Panczak, bringing together an incumbent payments leader and a crypto-native rail operator on opposite sides of the same question.

​The merchant relationship is already contested — legacy acquirers, modern PSPs and now crypto-native rails all competing for it. As stablecoin settlement moves from experiment to something incumbent acquirers are actively adopting, one question sharpens: when money settles on-chain, who keeps the merchant — the established acquirer or the owner of the rail? This session confronts that tension head-on, from both sides.

​What to expect:

• ​Data-Driven Insights: A concise read on where on-chain settlement actually stands today, informed by exclusive research from The Big Whale.

• ​Expert Strategy: Where stablecoins genuinely win against the card networks, where incumbents defend their ground, and what the arrival of players like Stripe means for the merchant relationship.

• ​The Agent Layer: What happens to the merchant relationship when the buyer is a machine — a forward look at agent-initiated payments.

• ​Live Q&A: Your chance to press the operators building this stack today.

​Our Featured Guests:
🎙️ Océane Codjia – EMEA Payments, Coinbase
🎙️ Thibault Pelé – Global Head of Product, Stablecoin & Agentic, Worldline

​🌍 Language: English
🕒 Duration: 45-50 Minutes