As we explored in our highlights of Money20/20 Asia piece last week, stablecoins were one of the biggest topics of the show in terms of discussions both on and off stage. However, it is also interesting to see how much this focus was reflected in the show’s exhibitors.
While we were at the event in Bangkok last week, we reviewed each of the more than 140 stands on the show floor to identify which of a number of key topics were covered in the products and services showcased by each company at the event. This highlighted what we’d already suspected: several topics saw far greater coverage among exhibitors at the Asia event than at the equivalent Money20/20 events in Europe and the US.
Cross-border payments was well represented, with 40% of sponsors explicitly mentioning products or services in this area, while artificial intelligence was mentioned by 36% of exhibitors and stablecoins by 29%. Solutions related to risk, compliance and identity verification, meanwhile, accounted for 21%.
However, among companies providing cross-border payments solutions, stablecoins were disproportionately represented, with 53% providing some form of solution in this area and 43% having stablecoin cross-border payments as their main focus. Of all exhibitors, 17% focused primarily on stablecoin cross-border payments – a far higher share than at other Money20/20 events.
AI, meanwhile, took a lower share among cross-border payments providers, at 22%, but saw much higher representation among providers of risk, identity and compliance solutions, which accounted for 48% of all companies offering AI solutions. Beyond this, notable examples included a number of agentic solutions, including digital teammates, merchant services and test automation.
