Ģirts Bērziņš
Management & Strategic Advisor at Swedbank
Type: Panelist
I’m a digital banking and technology leader passionate about turning change into opportunity. Over the past two decades, I’ve worked across banking and telecom—from building payment systems to leading large organizations and shaping strategy at executive level. Today, I focus on market intelligence, especially around the next generation of money, banking and customer experience.
Appears in:
Wednesday09:40 - 10:20
Do We Even Need CBDCs in the New Payment Stack?Track: Future of Payments and Financial InfrastructurePayments innovation is moving fast, often outside public infrastructure. This session breaks down how payment schemes, stablecoins, and tokenized deposits are used in practice, and where each creates real value. It examines how they compare to wholesale CBDCs, where they compete or complement each other, and what this means for the future payment stack.