Connected Fintech and Commerce Forum #21

The Instant Economy – How Always On Payments Are Powering Growth

Across the globe the regulatory and commercial landscape for tokenised assets, stablecoins and digital currencies are developing rapidly. For telcos, this opens opportunities to:

• participate in emerging digital-asset and tokenised-finance ecosystems, leveraging  their trusted connectivity capability, identity, customer relationships, and digital infrastructure
• build new digital assets propositions as fintechs
• enable real-time, low-cost international settlements, vendor payments and internal transfers, complying with ISO20022 and ensuring seamless interoperability with existing legacy banking systems
• be among the early adopters pf agentic commerce leveraging this new payment rail

In this session, Hedera VP, Global Policy,  Isadora Arredondo will provide an update on global regulatory frameworks and how Hedera is helping translate them into practical opportunities for telecom operators,financial institutions and fintech innovators.

Why attend?

Attendees will gain insight into the policy trends shaping digital assets and financial services, Hedera’s evolving solutions for trusted and scalable digital finance, and the strategic opportunities for telcos as financial infrastructure becomes increasingly digital, interoperable and programmable.

Who should attend

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