Future-Proof Your Business for Digital Currencies & Financial Innovation - GDS Group

Future-Proof Your Business for Digital Currencies & Financial Innovation

ROUNDTABLE
18 March 2026 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm GMT
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Are you ready for programmable money before it reshapes payments without you?

Digital currencies, including stablecoins and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are rapidly reshaping the global financial system, creating both urgency and complexity for financial institutions. As stablecoins gain traction as liquidity instruments and the Digital Euro moves from concept to implementation, leaders face mounting challenges: modernizing legacy payment rails, ensuring interoperability across borders, managing regulatory uncertainty, and aligning technology, procurement, and operating models to support real-time, always-on finance. This is not simply an innovation challenge, it is a compliance, resilience, and competitiveness imperative.

Forward-looking institutions are responding by re-architecting payment and settlement infrastructures to support programmable money, real-time settlement, and 24/7 cross-border liquidity. This requires coordinated action across IT, product, payments, architecture, and procurement to adopt new rails, integrate digital currency capabilities, and partner strategically across the ecosystem. Done right, digital currencies unlock automation, embedded financial services, streamlined treasury operations, and entirely new business models, far beyond incremental efficiency gains.

Join Publicis Sapient, AWS, and a select group of your peers as we discuss digital-ready architectures, always-on liquidity & payments and compliant innovation at speed.

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Event host

Jude Bly

Vice President Financial Services AI, Payments, Cloud
Publicis sapient

About Publicis Sapient

Publicis Sapient is a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services. With over 30 years of digital business transformation experience, we enable enterprise clients to transform how they operate and serve their customers, unlocking new value and enabling them to thrive in an AI-driven world. Our platforms use AI built off this deep enterprise context to help them modernize, build agentic solutions, and sustain their competitive advantage. The combination of our AI platforms and the expertise of our people enables us to deliver faster and more effective outcomes through solutions that are specific to the unique needs of our clients’ businesses, their industries and their customers. Publicis Sapient is the technology hub of Publicis Groupe, uniting 20,000 people worldwide.

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Discussion topics

How to prepare core systems, architectures, and operating models for digital currencies at scale

What stablecoins and CBDCs mean for cross-border payments, liquidity, and transaction banking and retail clients

How to balance innovation, regulatory requirements, and growth strategy in a programmable money era

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