2009 CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED:

• Hard data on the trends and drivers for change in the industry

• Strategies for success: capturing the business opportunity

• The impact of volatile foreign exchange rates and strategies to manage them

• The role for banks in the remittance and money transfer business

• The beginning of a broader client relationship with migrants

• What formal channel providers can learn from the hawala system

• Addressing the KYC, regulation and compliance challenges

• What are the practical implications of the Payment Services Directive? 

• The current impact of new technologies and the solutions they will provide

• Where do the opportunities lie in new delivery channels for remittances?

• Who will be the winners and losers in the mobile remittance space?

• Case studies on remittances in practice from business across the globe Read more.

Remittances are big business…..
Estimates put the value of official flows at $300bn - with unofficial flows probably worth half as much again – ie in excess of $450bn per year.

Never has awareness of remittances been higher.  There are huge opportunities in the market place and massive commitment on the part of policy makers at the global levelto co-ordinate activity and, despite the global downturn, there is still double-digit growth in remittances as workers continue to migrate. There is no doubt, also, that the long term trends in global migration mean that remittances will continue to grow and to provide an outstanding business opportunity for those playerswho know how to position themselves in the market.  And there has neverbeen a more opportune time for existing operators to take a hard lookat their current business and ensure that it is in the optimum shapeand for potential new entrants to re-evaluate their market entrystrategy. 

ICBI’s second annual remittances conference will afford you such an opportunity as 40+ leading experts in the field address your major concerns.

2009 Speakers Included

Leon Isaacs Managing Director INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MONEY TRANSFER NETWORKS	Barbara Fridel Project Development & Liaison Officer THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION	Massimo Cirasino Head of the Payment System Development Group WORLD BANK	Manuel Orozco Senior Associate and Director of Remittances and Development INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE
Dirk H. Kranen Head of Division MINISTRY OF FINANCE, GERMANY	Ruth Wandhöfer Head of Payments Strategy, Treasury and Trade Solutions EMEA, GTS CITI	Souren Hayriyan Chief Executive Officer UNISTREAM	Daniel Ayala Group Head, Global Remittance Services WELLS FARGO
Mohit Davar Chief Executive COINSTAR MONEY TRANSFER	Moises Jaimes President BANCOMER TRANSFER SERVICES	Chris Skinner Chairman THE FINANCIAL SERVICES CLUB	Y.Sudhir Kumar Shetty Chief Operating Officer - Global Operations UAE EXCHANGE
Roy Vella Global Director of Mobile & Retail Innovation ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND GROUP	Norman Frankel Managing Director MI-PAY	David Ferri Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel MONEYGRAM INTERNATIONAL LIMITED	Pedro De Vasconcelos Programme Coordinator, INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT