Mexico’s payment ecosystem remains fragmented, costly, and highly dependent on cash. According to our joint study with Finnovista, 92% of adults still use cash for daily transactions, remittances lose an average of 5% in fees, and only 13.5% of microenterprises can afford to accept digital payments. At the same time, Mexico has one of the most vibrant fintech ecosystems in Latin America - yet the …
The digital content economy is evolving rapidly with projections reaching $69.8 billion by 2030 (Grand View Research). As this landscape grows, content creators, publishers and users alike are looking for more flexible, intuitive ways to connect and transact. While ads, subscriptions and paywalls remain essential tools, the future is about expanding possibilities and empowering choice.
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Discover how the People’s Clearinghouse a community-owned digital payments infrastructure built on Interledger is enabling community banks and credit unions in Mexico to receive remittances, clear payments locally, and strengthen economic self-determination across rural regions.
This session features the premiere of The People’s Code, a compelling film that brings to life the voices of rural prod…
At the Interledger Summit, hear directly from rural producers and the AMUCSS team as they spotlight how community banks and open payment systems—like the People’s Clearing House app—are reshaping economic self-determination in rural Mexico, in a celebration of resilience, culture, and community-led innovation.
Liquidity is the lifeblood of the global economy — essential, invisible, and often misunderstood. In this talk, Stefan Thomas, who led the team that created Interledger, reveals what liquidity truly is, how it has shaped the rise and fall of nations, economies, and empires, and why it remains one of the most powerful yet overlooked forces shaping our world today. He then explores how Interledger r…
Join Faheed Alli-Balogun (Head of Product) and Uchi Uchibeke (CEO of Chimoney) for a live, end-to-end demonstration of Web Monetization in action. Building on their work from last year, they will showcase the evolution of the Chimoney App, now enabled with multi-jurisdictional payouts and a seamless user experience. Witness a real-money, real-time micropayment from a supporter to a creator using t…
What would the future of a fair, just, and equitable financial system look like from the perspective of a delivery driver living under precarity? In what conditions can that future be enabled? What can be the roles of open payments in the future?
As the expansion of the gig platform continues, millions of workers across the world are turning to platform-based work in sectors like delivery and d…
As digital finance expands across Latin America, public confidence in these systems remains fragile. From embedded fintechs to traditional banks, trust is increasingly shaped by transparency, accountability, and user control, not just access. This session brings together financial leaders, innovators and advocates working at the intersection of technology, regulation, and consumer protection to ex…
Open Payments provides a modern, interoperable way to move money across networks currently using only the Interledger Protocol. But in order to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the open payments ecosystem, we need to connect to established rails like SEPA. In this talk, we'll explore what it takes to add SEPA support to Open Payments, or better to say, how we added support for SEPA t…
A candid conversation about the philosophical and operational tensions between fintech speed/scale and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) mission/responsibility. What models have worked? Where have partnerships failed? What’s needed to build trust? This discussion will be centered on real talk and practical issues.
Join us to see what we've been working on in Rafiki and Open Payments over the last year. We'll cover how the projects have evolved in 2025, what new features we have released, our plans for the future, and how Rafiki & Open Payments leverage the Interledger Protocol to simplify payments between integrators.
