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Dates : June 2009 |
ICBI's FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON WORKERS' REMITTANCES VOTED A HUGE SUCCESS BY THOSE WHO ATTENDED
Over 100 attendees gathered in Berlin for ICBI's first annual conference on Workers' Remittances. All the key players in the industry were represented - money transfer operators; banks; national and government organisations; telecoms operators; academics; research organisations; technology providers; exchange houses; lawyers and regulators. The level of debate and interaction amongst attendees was unparalleled; the issues covered were wide ranging and highly topical, including:
• The Scale and Potential Business Opportunity of Workers’ Remittances
• New Delivery Channels for Remittance: Where Do the Opportunities Lie?
• Technology Solutions for the Remittance Market
• What it Takes to Make Remittances Flow to Developing Countries: the MTO Perspective
• The Role for Banks In the Remittance Business
• Addressing the Key Principles of Successful Microfinance
• Creating a Co-Operative Model – How the Public and Private Sector Can Collaborate More Effectively
• Meeting the Needs of the Remitters and the Recipients
• Understanding the Hawala System
• Informal Value Transfer Systems – What Lesson Can Formal Channel Providers Learn From Them?
• Remittances and the European Payments Services Directive
• Addressing the KYC, Regulation and Compliance Challenges Surrounding Workers’ Remittances
• How Financial Institutions, Technology Vendors and Industry Utilities Can Work Together to Build the Remittance Market
Here are just some of the comments made by attendees:
“Excellent networking, extremely relaxed professional atmosphere. Premier remittance conference”.
Vito Tassone, MoneyGram
“Excellent conference. The intensity of the attention and interest of the audience was most valuable”.
Masayuki Tagai, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ
“A great event, capturing the main players within the industry and touching on a variety of “hot topics”. Created an excellent networking opportunity”.
Laura Luscombe, HSBC
“Enlightening, knowledgeable, diverse group of speakers and attendess”.
Sonny Bardhan, McKinsey
“This is one of the first attempts to put up a comprehensive programme, addressing from business, analytical and regulatory angles, one of the most important financial flows to developing and transition economies”.
Rouben Indijikian, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
“Useful information. Important players”.
Irina Peptenaru, Transfond
“Good mix of people from different organisations related to issues of remittances”.
Elvira Graner, South Asia Institute
“The quality of the presentations was very good”.
Doina Cristea, Transfond
“Very worthwhile event, attended by the key influences in the market”.
Leon Isaacs, Developing Markets Associates
“Interesting group of people”.
Christophe Tuerlinckx, KBC Bank
“Interesting, high quality presentations”.
Fernando Silva, Banco Santander
“This is the first conference where all the subjects covered captured my interest”.
Maarten van Rossum, ABN AMRO
“Rarely does an event attract such a range of key industry players and address the key issues facing the industry so directly”.
Barry Pennill, MoneyGram (retired)
“The insights afforded by this conference definitely provided exceptional professional value and benefit”.
Tim Mills, The Clearing House
2008's OUTSTANDING SPEAKERS WERE FROM:
THE WORLD BANK
EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR MIGRATION
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (IFAD)
UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT
BUNDESMINISTERIUM DER FINANZEN
WELLS FARGO
ERSTE GROUP
MASTERCARD WORLDWIDE
UNISTREAM
CITI
HAMBURG INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
RIA FINANCIAL SERVICES
WESTERN UNION
DEVELOPING MARKETS ASSOCIATES
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY
IMF
CRITICAL FACULTY
CLIFFORD CHANCE
PAYQUIK, INC.
VIDEOKALL
NATIONAL MONEY TRANSMITTERS ASSOCIATION (USA)
WALL STREET EXCHANGE
THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ
SUSSEX UNIVERSITY
WORLD SAVINGS BANKS INSTITUTE
FINANCIAL ACCESS INITIATIVE
THE AGA KHAN AGENCY FOR MICROFINANCE
KREDITANSTALT FÜR WIEDERAUFBAU (KFW)
UK MONEY TRANSMITTERS ASSOCIATION
GTZ
EUROGIRO HOLDING A/S
SWIFT
LIFE
NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK (S.A)
BANCO SANTANDER
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
RAIFFEISEN INTERNATIONAL BANK-HOLDING AG
DEUTSCHE BANK
ICICI BANK
THE WORLD BANK
WHY CHOOSE AN ICBI PAYMENTS EVENT
ICBI produce the flagship annual event, International Payments, the leading payments event in the market. Now in its 16th year, it attracts 600+ senior executives from banks; corporations; technology and infrastructure providers; regulators and service providers from around the globe. We always produce events on the Single Euro Payment Area; Electronic Invoicing; Payments Asia; Payments Middle East; Payments Central and Eastern Europe amongst many others. In the course of our extensive research into the hottest topics in payments, we found that increasingly our delegates were interested in the subject of workers’ remittances and so were delighted to bring our first annual event to the market.
