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Stablecoins: Infrastructure for the New Financial Rails
Stablecoins: Infrastructure for the New Financial Rails
Join NYPAY.org for a panel discussion on how stablecoins are revolutionizing the future of financial infrastructure. As digital currencies like USDC and USDT gain traction, businesses and individuals are discovering faster, more cost-effective ways to move money globally—slashing transaction fees by up to 98% and settling payments in minutes instead of days.
This event brings together a dynamic panel: a founder building cutting-edge card-linked stablecoin solution, an expert on the GENIUS Act—a bipartisan bill poised to modernize America’s payment rails and set new standards for stablecoin regulation—and a consultant with deep experience with fintech and digital assests . Together, they’ll explore how blockchain-powered payments are driving financial inclusion, transforming corporate payroll, and reshaping international remittances for both enterprises and workers.
Whether you’re a fintech innovator, corporate leader, regulator, or simply curious about the future of money, this is your chance to learn how stablecoins and new policy frameworks are unlocking unprecedented efficiency, transparency, and global reach in payments. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with the pioneers shaping the next era of financial infrastructure.
Agenda
July 30th, 2025
6:00 pm
Welcome
6:05 pm
Discussion Starts
7:00 Pm
Discussion Ends & Zoom Networking Session Begins
7:30 pm
Event Ends
Speakers
Meet Our Speakers
Judie Rinearson
Partner, K&L Gates
Judie Rinearson is a partner specializing in emerging payments, with particular expertise in crypto and virtual currencies and blockchain technology. She has over 25 years of financial services experience, including 18 years at a major American bank holding company’s General Counsel office.
Judie co-chairs her firm’s global Fintech group and spearheaded the firm’s blockchain initiative. She has hands-on experience launching and managing Bitcoin exchanges and miners, providing legal guidance on cryptocurrency compliance with federal banking, anti-money laundering, and state money transmitter licensing laws.
Her cryptocurrency expertise includes testifying at the January 2014 Virtual Currency Hearings before New York’s Department of Financial Services and training bank examiners on crypto-currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple. She has moderated blockchain use case panels at Money2020 and addressed regulatory bodies on cryptocurrency regulation.
Named one of American Banker’s “Most Influential in Fintech” (2023) and Top 10 Payment Lawyers by Paybefore Magazine (2015).
Edward Peter Stringham
Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of American Business and Economic Enterprise, Trinity College
Edward Peter Stringham is the Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of American Business and Economic Enterprise at Trinity College. Stringham is editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise and two books and is author of more than seventy five journal articles, book chapters, and policy studies. His work has been discussed on more than 100 broadcast stations, including CBS, CNBC, CNN, Headline News, NPR, and MTV. He has appeared on BBC World, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox, Fox Business, TD Ameritrade Television, and Yahoo Finance Television and in 2016 Rise Global ranked Stringham as the 77th most influential economist. His book, Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life, is published by Oxford University Press.
Charles Yoo-Naut
Co-Founder and CTO, Rain
Charles Yoo-Naut is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rain, the stablecoin-based card issuing and payments platform powering millions of transactions in 150+ countries around the world.
Before starting Rain, Charles founded PlaybookHR, which was acquired by Intuit. At Intuit, Charles was a principal engineer and tech lead on the QuickBooks team.
Charles holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Sara Elinson
Strategic Advisor to Corporates, Investors, and Boards; Partner and Managing Director @ L.E.K. Consulting
This Event is Free
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