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Thu 19 Nov4:00–4:40pmPolicy Stage
The Price of Connection: What It Actually Takes to Build Cross-Border Payment Cooperation
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About This Session
Interoperability is widely recognised as a goal, but connecting one country’s payment system to another takes more than technology. It requires alignment on regulation, standards, governance and commercial incentives — as well as negotiation over how costs, risks and benefits are shared. This panel brings together the networks, national payment schemes, policymakers and multilateral hubs working to make cross-border payments more connected, examining where regulatory and commercial frictions persist, how different payment ecosystems can connect and scale across markets, and what smaller or newer markets need to participate on viable terms.
The discussion will explore where cross-border payment cooperation is working in practice, what it takes to make connections sustainable, and whether the biggest barriers to greater connectivity are technical, regulatory or commercial.
- When
- Thursday 19 November4:00–4:40pm, Singapore time
- Where
- Policy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPO
- Access
- Open Open sessionWith a Delegate, Executive, Startup, Policy, Academic, MeetUp or Trade Visitor Pass. The Trade Visitor Pass is complimentary.Compare all passes
Speakers
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Andrew McCormack
Chief Executive Officer
Nexus Global Payments
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Carlos Álvarez
Chief Risk Officer, Member of Executive Team
FLAR
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Joyce Bo
Executive Vice President, Core Payments, Asia Pacific
Mastercard
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Mike Truter
Head of Industry Engagement
Swift
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Sohini Rajola
Executive Director, Growth
National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
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Sourav Ghosal
Head of Commercial & Strategy
APIX Platform
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