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Vannroath Ky
Director of Digital Innovation & Business
Chip Mong Commercial Bank
Vannroath Ky is the Director of Digital Innovation and Business at Chip Mong Commercial Bank, bringing more than a decade of experience across retail banking technology, fintech infrastructure, and commercial product delivery.
Starting his career in front-line IT support, Vannroath progressively mastered core banking systems, ATM networks, and enterprise migration projects before transitioning into executive leadership. His focus centers on building resilient digital banking platforms, driving nationwide payment compliance (KHQR and Open Banking), and architecting modern, data-driven financial ecosystems. He holds international research experience from South Korea, where he worked on big data and applied machine learning models for industrial automation.
Speaking at the summit
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1:30–3:00pmMon 16 NovRoundtableOpen
Bakong - Sovereign Rails
Who Owns the Rails? Governance, Access and the Economics of Shared Infrastructure
About this session
Shared payment infrastructure creates value precisely because competitors use the same network, but that makes ownership and funding contentious. Banks may resist paying for infrastructure used by newer competitors. Fintechs may resist access terms controlled by incumbents. Governments may finance the network and still face pressure over unequal access or rising operating costs. Different markets have taken different approaches, including central-bank ownership, industry-owned switches and open-source infrastructure. The roundtable compares these models through three questions: who owns the rail, who gets access and on what terms, and who pays to maintain and upgrade it. It then examines how those choices change once infrastructure crosses borders and sovereignty becomes shared rather than purely national.
