BIPA Joins the Black Swan Summit in Phnom Penh as Partner
Phnom Penh, 15–16 November 2026 — The Blockchain Intelligence Professionals Association (BIPA) has joined the Black Swan Summit Cambodia as a Partner, at the invitation of the Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN), which hosts the Summit with the National Bank of Cambodia, in collaboration with the Cambodian Association of Finance & Technology and the Association of Banks in Cambodia.
A second engagement with GFTN
The partnership continues a relationship established in Tashkent in August, where BIPA was a Community Partner of the Silk Road Finance & Technology Forum, convened by GFTN and the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Bogdan Vacusta spoke there on the roundtable The Interoperability Frontier — Aligning National Digital Stacks with Global Financial Corridors, arguing that corridors can be fully interoperable at the payments layer and still leave the supervisors at each end unable to compare what they are looking at.
Among the speakers on that same roundtable was H.E. Chea Serey, Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia. Three months on, the argument travels to a Summit her institution hosts.
Why Cambodia
Bakong, the National Bank of Cambodia’s sovereign payment infrastructure, is one of the few national digital rails anywhere to have moved from design to everyday use at scale, and the Summit devotes considerable attention to how it was built and what transfers elsewhere. The agenda runs to monetary sovereignty, financial inclusion and the economic corridors linking ASEAN to Francophone markets — the Summit coincides with the Sommet de la Francophonie and FrancoTech — and draws ministers, central banks and regulators, financial institutions, FinTechs, investors and development finance institutions.
“Cambodia did not theorise about sovereign digital infrastructure — it built it, and it has the operational experience most jurisdictions are still only modelling.” — Bogdan Vacusta, Chairman, BIPA
The supervisory layer beneath the innovation
Stablecoins, CBDCs, cross-border QR interoperability, embedded finance and AI-driven services each enlarge what a supervisor is expected to see, across infrastructure no single authority controls. When activity crosses a border, the authority at the receiving end inherits a record but no shared way of reading it: providers apply their own methods and vocabularies, so the same activity can be described differently in each jurisdiction, none of the descriptions wrong and none of them comparable.
The result is a decision-making problem rather than a technical inconvenience. Open, vendor-neutral standards are what close that gap, and they are cheaper to build into a national stack from the outset than to retrofit later.
Bogdan Vacusta, BIPA’s chairman, will bring that case to the discussions in Phnom Penh, with an open invitation to contribute to and take part in the Open Blockchain Intelligence Standards (OBIS) initiative.
BIPA thanks GFTN for the invitation and looks forward to meeting counterparts from across ASEAN and the Francophone markets in Phnom Penh.