FinTech Leaders Convention & Awards

9:00 Fintech Leaders 2020 overall category winner announcement and award

CeFPro will announce the winner of the best overall service provider in the fintech industry, as voted by the industry, in its end-user poll and survey

KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION

9:15 Reviewing investment priorities and future prospects in fintech as identified in CeFPro’s FinTech leaders Report

Faster and real time payments: future opportunities and investment areas
Automation and self-service opportunities
Revenue generation and business model strategies
Using fintech as a tool to withstand a recession: lowering cost base, customer centric products and maximizing returns
Investment in security and anti-fraud
Regtech and financial benefits in financial institutions

Sabeena Liconte, Deputy COO & Chief Legal Officer, BOC International USA Holdings Inc., a member of the Bank of China, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Ido Lustig, Chief Risk Officer, BlueVine, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Mahi Dontamsetti, Chief Technology Risk Officer, State Street

9:45 5-minute transition to streams

INVESTMENT IN SECURITY & DATA

10:25 Investment in security to achieve long term goals and protect reputation

• Investment in security to facilitate payments
• Enhancing anti-fraud measures
• Safeguarding consumers from security risks

FUTURE GROWTH & OPPORTUNITIES

10:25 Leveraging fintech advances to enhance customer accessibility and inclusion in underserved markets

• Business opportunities and lines of credit
• Generation Z and fintech growth
• Inclusion in banking
• Targeting unbanked or underbanked populations
• National digital currencies – a game challenge for trade

Alessia Falsarone, MD, Portfolio Strategy and Risk DMFI, PineBridge Investments, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro

11:00 20-Minute networking break and demos in exhibition hall

PANEL DISCUSSION: FRAUD

11:20 Combating the increased risk or authorized push payment (APP) fraud and maintaining customer loyalty

• Increased use of APP fraud
• Investment in security to protect against risk
• Liability for losses: Balancing risk and cost

Brandon Davies, Non-Executive Board Director, Lintel Financial Services & Obillex, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Ido Lustig, Chief Risk Officer, BlueVine,  Advisory Board Member, CeFPro

PANEL DISCUSSION

11:20 Effectively using advanced analytics and data to enhance customer relations and service offerings

• Social media tracking to influence stock selection and direction
• Advances in AML and fraud
• AI as a revenue generator and cost reducer
  • Minimizing human labor and error
• Supervision of AI and human validation
• Regulatory scrutiny and compliance with data regulations

Saqib Jamshed, SVP, Head of Model Risk Governance, Options Clearing Corp., Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Michael Middleton, Head of Content Strategy, Markov Processes International, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Stevan Maglic, SVP, Head of Quantitative Risk Analytics, Regions Bank, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Stefano Canossa, Global Head of Operational Risk & Head of Risk, Luxembourg, GAM, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro

BUSINESS CONTINUITY

12:05 Driving business continuity and resilience plans in light of pandemic response

• Agile adoption and future of working from home
  • Security of remote employees on home networks
  • Cyber and protection of remote workers
• Balancing security with required adoption of WFH
• Addressing increasing client demands
• Benefits of increase cloud and business process automation usage

Markus Lammer, COO, Ultra High Net Worth Business, Credit Suisse

ETHICAL AI

12:05 Assessing regulatory and ethical considerations when using AI

• Detecting and removing bias
• Data usage and regulation
  • Privacy, compliance and consumer protection concerns
• Addressing regulatory pressures and likely next steps
• Capturing diverse data sets
• Use of social media and online activity

Albert Chin, Head of Model Risk Management, Signature Bank, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro

12:40 5-minute transition to keynote

DATA MANAGEMENT – PANEL DISCUSSION

12:45 Addressing the key data challenges and opportunities within fintech

Effective data management and governance

Financial data: quality, storage, access and usage

Data protection and cyber security concerns

Privacy and KYC

Vivek Tyagi, Chief Risk Officer, Institutional Banking, Goldman Sachs & Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Jeff Prelle, SVP, Risk Analytics, Bancorp South & Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Shannon Kelly, SVP, Head of Model Risk Management, Zions Bancorp & Advisory Board Member, CeFPro

1:30 Chair’s closing remarks and end of day one

8:50 Chair’s opening remarks

9:00 Fintech Leaders 2020 overall category winner announcement and award

CeFPro will announce the winner of the best overall service provider in the fintech industry, as voted by the industry, in its end-user poll and survey

KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION

9:15 Impact vs. opportunity of COVID-19: accelerant to advances and next steps in the fintech revolution

Use of technology to adapt to change
Maintaining agility and response to scenarios
Changes to funding and investment of startups
Reviewing strategies and business models to stand out and stay ahead
Customer centricity to expand offerings

Alessia Falsarone, MD, Portfolio Strategy and Risk DMFI, PineBridge Investments, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Gabriele Sabato, CEO and Co-Founder, Wiserfunding, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Tibor Bartels, Head of Transaction Services, Americas, ING, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Ebbe Negenman, CRO, Aegon

9:45 5-minute transition to streams

PAYMENTS

9:50 The future of payments and impact of COVID-19 on innovation

• COVID-19 prompting radical reduction in use of cash
• Increased use of contactless payments
• European open banking and cashless societies
• Investment in payments and transactions in global markets
  • Global disparities in progress

Peter Smith, Director, Seneca Investment Management, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro 

AML AND FINANCIAL CRIME

9:50 Use cases of advanced data and analytics, including AI, on anti-fraud and financial crime

• AML advances
• Real time internal understanding of cyber threats
• Future payment protection plans
• Deterring threats into the organization and movement upstream
• Increasing automation, predictive analytics and outsourcing

CYBER SECURITY

10:25 Developing cyber security defenses to protect data as the most valuable asset

• Headline risks and impact to business operations
• Impacts to security with workforces working from remotely
• Protecting data as the most valuable currency
• Ensuring adequate protection of data and ethical usage
• Building and maintaining customer confidence and trust

ERP & TREASURY

10:25 Integrating banking services into customers’ existing ecosystem: Case from Nordea next gen FX

• Nordea case study
• Integrating FX services into customer ERP and accounting systems
• Automating customer processes
• Building customer loyalty through experience
• Leveraging partners, APIs and in house build platforms

Matti Holkanen, Head of New Gen FX, Nordea Markets, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro

11:00 20 minute networking break and demos in exhibition hall

PANEL DISCUSSION – OP RISK & GRC

11:20 Addressing the challenges of managing operational risk

• Establishing a sound conduct/culture environment
• KYC
• Third party risk management
• Anti-fraud and AML strategies

Craig Spielmann, CEO & Founder, RiskTao, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Joshua Kotok, Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, First Savings, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Nison Nagdimov, VP, Chief Control Office, HSBC

PANEL DISCUSSION – REGTECH

11:20 Increasing effectiveness and efficiency of regulatory compliance through regtech

• Opportunities of technology to streamline processes
• Reducing costs and increasing efficiency
• Data protection and cyber security
• Legislation implementation ahead of investment
• Application of big data approaches
• Strengthening cyber security
• Facilitation of macroprudential policy
• Legaltech advances

Stan Yakoff, Head of Americas Supervision, Citadel, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Stefano Canossa, Global Head of Operational Risk & Head of Risk, Luxembourg, GAM, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Ruchi Gupta, VP, Risk Analytics, HSBC

DIGITAL CURRENCY AND BLOCKCHAIN

12:05 The future of digital currencies and impact of issuance of central bank offerings

• Increased usage of national backed digital currencies
• Increased risk of fraud and money laundering with reduced transparency
• Reducing costs whilst increasing security
• Impact to currency values when trading directly in digital currency
• Increased stability, traceability and monitoring of central bank currencies
• Chinese Yuan case study

Natalia Navarro, Customer Journey Expert, Distributed Ledger Technology, ING, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro

FINTECH PARTNERSHIPS

12:05 Leveraging mutual benefits of incumbent and fintech partnership

• Trading fintech innovation with incumbent data and base
• Working together to build customer trust
• Partnering to take advantage of the technology revolution
• Strategic partnerships to develop agile strategies
• Attracting new talent to financial services

Stephane Malrait, Head of Market Structure and Innovation, Financial Markets, ING, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro

12:40 5-minute transition to keynote

KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION

12:45 The future of fintech and opportunities over the next five years – addressing the findings of CeFPro’s international survey

Adapting business models and upscaling operations
Role of digital currencies and blockchain
Evolution of mobile and digital services: next steps
Advances in mobile and digital services
Advanced data and analytics, cloud, BPA, AI and payments opportunities
Acceleration of change with introduction of new processes and technologies

Albert Chin, Head of Model Risk Management, Signature Bank, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Stan Yakoff, Head of Americas Supervision, Citadel, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro
Hakan Danis, Director, Macroeconomic Scenarios & Op Risk Stress Testing Models, MUFG Union Bank, Advisory Board Member, CeFPro

1:30 Chair’s closing remarks and end of day two

Global Fintech Leaders 2021 Virtual Convention & Awards is a two day virtual convention reflecting the results of the Fintech Leaders survey and report.

We look to address key opportunities within fintech both across 2021 and with a forward view towards 2026. The event looks to examine in great detail the investment priorities in fintech, as well as the main obstacle currently impacting full fintech adoption.

The report and event feature sections on the advances and implementation within incumbent financial institutions and their journey to fintech implementation including key benefits and opportunities.

The event and corresponding survey and report will also take into account the state of the industry, including the impact of 2020 on businesses and implementation.

Hear from Fintech Leaders advisory board members, industry thought leaders representing incumbent financial institutions, category winners and much more.

Register for your complimentary pass and receive a copy of the final report.

FINTECH LEADERS CONVENTION & AWARDS IS A FREE TO ATTEND EVENT…

You are able to register for free using our link below. All registrations are manually reviewed and approved before any confirmation emails are sent. If you have any questions please email amy.greene@cefpro.com

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