Asia’s Leading Payments, Banking Relationship & Transaction Services Event

Payments Asia Summit 2009

Understanding the Drivers for Change and Building Strategies for Competitive Advantage

Now in its 2nd year, IIR’s Asian Payment Event offers you a cost and time efficient way to meet with the most important people in the Payments Industry in Asia, all in one place, at one time! Last year over 160 industry professionals gathered together for 3 days of frenzied networking. Don’t miss out!

We will be utilizing the expertise of our renowned faculty of International Payments speakers plus leading payments specialists from throughout the region to address this Asian Payment Conference which will cover 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. – Transaction Services, Cash Management, Financial Supply Chain and Remittances amongst much else at this Asian Banking Relationship Conference.

Conference Highlights 2009

Here are some of 2009's hot topics:

Changes in the Global Payments Universe: What Could They Mean for Asia? – Find out at this Asian Banking Relationship Event

Assessing global payments trends
What will the global credit crunch mean for payments providers and their customers?
The impact of the increasingly long arm of regulation
The drive to standardisation and price compression
Innovations and drivers for change in the Asian payments markets
Who will be the winners and losers in an ever shrinking global market?

Evaluating Current Payments Infrastructures Across Asia

Where are we now? What are the latest developments?
What are the risks if payments systems aren’t sufficiently efficient and robust?
Where do the challenges lie for Asia?
What lessons can we learn from around the world?

Evolution of the Euro(pean) Payments Market – What Lessons Can Asia Take From Europe?

Large value payments (Target 2, Euro1)
Retail payments (credit transfer, direct debits, cards, e payments, m payments)
Value added services: e-invoicing
Standards (ISO 20022, UN-CEFACT)
Potential benefits for other communities

Re-Engineering the Supply Chain Through Trade to Payments to Optimise Liquidity and Working Capital

Where do the challenges lie in supply chain optimization?
What is required to unlock the real value?
Improved SCF asset conversion cycle and balance sheet management via the use of traditional cash technology to up tier information transparency and data matching capability
Improved liquidity for emerging market suppliers via the cash of traditional EIPP-like solution and via banks’ increased willingness to work with 3rd party financial services vendors

What Challenges Are Corporates Operating in Asia Facing?

The increasingly complex payments needs of corporations
Key trends in cash management affecting corporates operating in Asia
Streamlining the receivables and payments processes for cost control and efficiency
Costs, benefits and risks of using technology-driven payments and cash management facilities

New Opportunities in Supply Chain Financing

Helping corporate clients manage the complete working capital cycle
Innovative collaborative financing options along the supply chain
Alternatives to a letter of credit – new financial concepts benefiting everyone
What does the future hold?

Outsourcing/Insourcing/White Labelling: What Sort of Payments Provider Do You Want To Be?

What can “collaboration” mean in the context of processing relationships between financial institutions?
How do you know who you can trust?
Why outsource as opposed to white-label?
Which institutions need to make these decisions?

Key Speakers

Esmond Lee Head, Market Systems Development HONG KONG MONETARY AUTHORITY	Gerard Hartsink Chairman EUROPEAN PAYMENTS COUNCIL	Kefei Chang Director, Global Transaction Banking, Cash Management DEUTSCHE BANK	Masayuki Tagai Chief Manager, Transaction Services Division BANK OF TOKYO MITSUBISHI UFJ
Bin Zhang Chief Executive UMPAY	Daniel Ayala Group Head, Global Remittance Services WELLS FARGO	Toshiya Cho Business Consulting Department, Financial Information Systems Division HITACHI	Dianne Challenor Region Head of Corporate Payments, Treasury and Trade Solutions Director CITI
Tom Buschman Founder, Chairman and CEO TWIST	Kazuhiko Saiki Managing Director, Customer Services eBANK	Paul Burstein Former Managing Director GE CORPORATE TREASURY	Chris Skinner Chief Executive BALATRO
Dr John Ure Associate Professor and Director of the Telecoms Research Project UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG	Stan Li Director CENTRE FOR BIOMETRICS AND SECURITY RESEARCH	Aneace Haddad Founder and Chairman WELCOME REAL-TIME