Exposing the Critical Trust Intersections Between Stablecoins and Banks

Can stablecoins and decentralised finance ever truly operate without trust, or does trust simply relocate? While blockchain introduces speed, programmability, and transparency, real-world cross-border payments still depend on verifiable data, regulatory compliance, funding certainty, and enforceability under law. The greatest risks rarely sit in the payment rail itself, risks emerge in off-chain workflows, data integrity, counterparty oversight, compliance orchestration, reserve validation or financial integrity, redemption mechanics, and ultimately who “owns” the risk when something fails. 

In this webinar, we’ll apply a practical trust test to stablecoin workflows and examine how trust shifts across issuers, reserve managers, oracles, smart contracts, validators, bridges, custodians, and off-chain intermediaries. We’ll explore why on-chain finality does not equal real-world settlement finality, and why accountability remains central when something goes wrong. 

When failures occur, and they will, regulators and courts won’t ask which chain processed the block – they’ll want to know “who’s accountable?” or “who’s left standing to make someone whole?”. The answer to the first question will likely be everyone who touched a transaction, and the second is likely to be the deep-pocketed bank, especially if everyone else is vaporised.  

We’ll explore the practical benefits and limits of stablecoins, where they create efficiency and where they introduce new fragilities. We’ll also discuss how a Global Single Shared Platform can digitise risk, compliance, funding, and settlement controls across financial institutions, bringing regulator-grade transparency to both fiat and digital asset payment flows. 

Join this webinar to explore the use cases, challenges, and opportunities including: 

• How is trust executed within stablecoin and DeFi ecosystems, and how does it compare to traditional banking models? 

• What responsibility do banks have in terms of governance, operational, and compliance considerations across mentors, oracle design, smart contracts, validators, bridges, and redemption processes? 

• Financial integrity challenges across minting, reserve management and redemption 

• Overcoming the gaps between on chain and off chain data authentication and sharing in the context of risk, compliance and data protection.  

• A Global Single Shared Platform as a technology bridge between on chain and off chain to ensure appropriate transparency, risk and compliance digitization and financial integrity inside well-established banking and legal frameworks.  

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