SOL Lounge at Sibos | Payments

​Join us for a discussion on the most critical trends in stablecoins, cross-border and agentic payments. Speakers include:

• ​Monica T. Ramirez de Arellano, Head of International Banking, Anchorage

• ​Rob Regan, EVP Business Development & Head of The Americas, Nium

• ​Maya Caddle, Head of Payment Partnerships, Solana Foundation

​Stablecoins have crossed from crypto-native use into mainstream institutional payment flows. Real volume is settling today in cross-border B2B, treasury movement, FX and card settlement, and the interesting question is no longer whether it works, but which corridors and use cases it actually beats the incumbent rails on. This session starts with where that volume is, who's moving it, and what the economics look like against correspondent banking.

​Then the infrastructure gap. Banks and payment providers need things the crypto stack wasn't originally built for: reliable on- and off-ramps, deep liquidity at size, screening and travel-rule compliance, reconciliation that survives audit, and settlement finality their risk teams recognise. We'll cover what's solved, what's still workaround-dependent, and how the regulatory picture — MiCA, GENIUS and the regimes following them — is shaping which flows institutions can move next.

​Who it's for: payments, treasury and transaction banking teams; PSPs and fintech infrastructure providers; and the compliance, risk and operations functions that have to support the flows. No prior blockchain background assumed.