Switzerland's Federal Department of Finance has announced that the fifth Point Zero Forum will be held at Kongresshaus Zurich from 23 to 25 June 2026 as part of Swiss FinTech Week, bringing policymakers, central banks, financial institutions and technology firms together to discuss how stablecoins, tokenisation, artificial intelligence and quantum technologies are reshaping financial infrastructure. Organised by the Swiss State Secretariat for International Finance and the Global Finance and Technology Network, the forum will run under the theme A Financial System Rewired: Trust, Compliance and Protocols in a Shifting World. The agenda centres on which regional model could become the global standard for next generation finance, who will control the new rails as infrastructure moves from pilot projects to production, whether Switzerland can bridge competing financial systems through programmable finance, and how policymakers should address monetary sovereignty and trust as machine executed finance expands. Scheduled participants include Swiss Federal Councillor Karin Keller-Sutter, European Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque, European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone, Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden, FINMA chair Marlene Amstad, UBS chief executive Sergio Ermotti, and executives from Tether, Circle, Mastercard, PayPal and NVIDIA. The 2025 edition drew more than 1,300 participants from over 60 countries.

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