Global Perspectives on Digital Rails

The world’s financial plumbing is being rewired. From instant payment systems to blockchain-based systems, new digital rails are emerging that could transform how money moves across borders. But the critical question is whether these infrastructures will converge into a seamless, interoperable system or fracture into competing standards.

This session explores the global outlook on digital rails: how Asia’s instant payment linkages, Europe’s push for digital monetary sovereignty, and new financial market infrastructure models worldwide are reshaping flows of capital and value. At stake is nothing less than the future architecture of global finance: a choice between greater efficiency and inclusion, or a fragmented patchwork.