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Dates : March 2009 |
Payments Asia Summit 2008
Achieving Harmonisation in Asia’s Financial Markets and Capturing
New Market Opportunities
- The only event in the market that will give a complete picture of payments systems in the Asia, with in-depth analysis of the challenges facing the region and the emergent business opportunities
- Brought to you by the producers of International Payments, Europe’s largest payments event, with over 600 delegates, the speakers represent the most senior and well respected players in the industry
- Special addresses from the Monetary Authority of Singapore; the Asian Development Bank; the Hong Kong Monetary Authority; the Bank of International Settlements and the European Payments Council.
- Free places for corporate treasurers!
As the organisers of one of the key events in the payments calendar, International Payments, IBC understand the issues that really matter to payments specialists and we are delighted to be bringing you our inaugural annual event on Payments Asia which will combine outstanding speakers with business critical information.
The current payments landscape in Asia – of fragmented markets, different legal frameworks, disparate payments instruments and diverse standards – needs to be addressed if Asia wants to compete on a global level. Similarly, Asian political and business leaders understand the need to tackle the key issue of the stability of financial systems in Asia. What lessons can they learn from the US and Europe? And what lessons can the West learn from Asia about payments innovations? Will Asia leapfrog western banks in the race to develop new technologies and to create alternative payment methodologies?
We will be utilizing the expertise of our renowned faculty of International Payments speakers plus leading payments specialists from throughout the region to address the essential local and global issues for senior banking executives who want to be at the forefront of the most important payments developments in Asia today.
- What is in the Regulators’ Field of Vision?
- The Latest Imperatives Towards Increasing the Efficiency of Asia’s Financial Systems
- A Perspective on the Asian Bond Market Initiative
- Clearing and Settlement in Asia: Creating a Unified Framework
- Latest Developments in Offshore USD Clearing in Asia
- What Challenges Are Corporates Operating in Asia Facing? How Should Our Bankers Be Responding?
- Corporate Needs, Supply Chain Management and Trade Finance
- Re-Engineering the Supply Chain Through Trade to Payments to Optimise Liquidity and Working Capital
- Latest Opportunities in Financing Corporate Activity in Asia
- The New Arena for Anti Money Laundering
- Workers’ Remittances: Capturing New Market Opportunities
- How Financial Institutions, Technology Vendors and Industry Utilities Can Work Together to Build the Remittance Market
- Changes in the Global Payments Universe: What Could They Mean for Asia?
- The Single Euro Payment Area; the Payments Services Directive; Target2: What Next for European Payments?
- Lessons Asia Can Take from the Creation on an Integrated Euro Payments Market
- Harnessing Standards to Drive Greater Innovations and Efficiencies in Payments – Bank-Bank; Bank-Corporate and Corporate-Corporate
- Assessing Cutting Edge Payment Innovations in Asia
- The Latest Developments in the Cards Arena: Are We Moving Towards a Cashless Asia?
- Breaking New Ground with Mobile Payments in Asia
- What Will The Latest Consumer Payments Innovations Mean for Payments Providers in Competitive & Operational Terms?
And don’t miss the cutting edge workshop:
The Future of Payments: A Cashless, Cardless Society
Led by Chris Skinner, CEO, Balatro
Cash usage is declining around the world but only very slowly, still representing almost three-quarters of all payments flows. But this is set to change as new forms of anonymous electronic payment service, such as prepaid cards, emerge. Meanwhile, we have almost eradicated cheques and other forms of old paper payments. Even the Letter of Credit is disappearing. These payment instruments are being replaced by debit and credit card payments, e-invoicing and other services. But even the plastic card can be replaced by, for example, mobile telephones.
There can be no doubt that a payments revolution is taking place. This intensive one day workshop will examine the key trends and the major drivers for change, including:
- Where are we now with mobile payments, micropayments and contactless payments?
- How Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) or Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies will change the face of payments
- Why mobile, micro and contactless payments are disruptive technologies in the payments world
- How they will lead to to new, simple and convenient methods of making low value payments
- Why - from prepaid to contactless, cash to non-cash, card to non-card - payments in the 21st Century are transforming beyond our dreams
- But how do you authenticate the identity of payees when you have no idea who they are or how they are paying?
- Will we see a move towards more complex PINs combined with biometrics?
- And what about an even grander vision of a completely cash and card free society. Could this happen, and if so, when?
By attending this workshop, attendees will have a clear view of the payments innovations in play, examples of where they are currently being used around the world and the implications on traditional infrastructures.
Your workshop leader
Chris Skinner
Chair, The Financial Services Club
Chief Executive, Balatro Ltd
Chris Skinner provides consultancy and speaking engagements as the Chief Executive of the think tank Balatro. Chris is also Chair of the European networking group the Financial Services Club, and a co-founder of the website Shaping Tomorrow.
Chris is well-known for his regular column in the Banker magazine and Blogs on Finextra.com and Global Custody Review. He is the author of two books published by John Wiley, titled "The Future of Banking" and "The Future of Investing", and is currently working on a third related to SEPA.
Chris is also known for his regular speaking and keynote presentations at the leading industry forums, including SIBOS and BAI’s Retail Delivery, as well as many others. Through these keynotes, he has presented alongside many other leading world figures including Gary Hamel, Michael Porter, Richard Branson, Lou Gerstner, Meg Whitman and Bill Gates.
Chris has been Chairman of the Banker's Technology Awards since their inception in 2003, and is a Judge with awards programs run by both TradeTech and the Asian Banker. He has been a contributor to the World Economic Forum's Scenario Project on Technology Innovation in Financial Services, and has worked closely with the financial markets research firm TowerGroup.
Prior to founding Balatro, Chris was Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for Unisys Global Financial Services and Strategy Director with NCR Financial Services. These roles sparked Chris’s specialization in the future of financial services after he created the Global Future Forum in Unisys and the Knowledge Lab in NCR.
