29–30 october 2007 
Agenda
Monday 29th October |
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8.00 |
Registration and morning coffee OPENING SESSION |
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9.00 |
INTRODUCTION |
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Welcome message by The Rt. Hon. Lord Lamont of Lerwick, President of IAMTN |
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9.15 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
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UK government perspective on the remittance and payments market. |
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Kitty Ussher, MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury |
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“Leading for Payments success” | ||
Bertrand Lavayssiere, Managing Director - Global Financial Services, Global Financial Services, Capgemini |
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10.15 |
International Regulators and Compliance – setting the standard |
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Jamal El-Hindi, US Associate Director, FinCEN |
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10.45 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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11.00 |
A Global view on fighting money laundering lead by new and innovative methods of electronic cross-border systems as well as new payment methods that are substantially different from traditional transactions. |
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Richard Berkhoudt, Administrator, FATF - Financial Action Task Force |
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11.30 |
Gulf challenges on money laundering |
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Philip Thorpe, Chairman and CEO, Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority |
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12.00 |
Response to the Regulators. How regulation will shape the payments sector |
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David Schlapbach, General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Western Union |
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12.30 |
The risk factors to be taken into account by the payments sector |
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Martin Owen, Vice President, Haydrian Corp. |
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13.00 |
World Payments Awards for Excellence | |
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13.10 |
LUNCH |
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14.10 |
New technologies in tackling money laundering |
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| Patrick Marshall, CEO, World-check Kerry Furber, Director, Digilog |
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14.25 |
Developing Opportunities in the payments market. |
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| Massimo Ciracino, Head of Payments Systems, World Bank Moderator: Henrik Parl, CEO, EuroGiro |
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15.30 |
What strategic issues will shape the future of the payments industry in Russia, CIS, Central Asia and Eastern Europe |
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Souren Hayriyan, CEO, Unistream |
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16.00 |
Panel: New banking perspectives for international payments |
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| Marcus Treacher, Head of E-Payments, HSBC Jack Jared, Head of World Payments, Citigroup |
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16.35 |
TEA BREAK |
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16.50 |
Managing currency risk |
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| Glenn Jones, Chief Marketing Officer, HIFX | ||
17.20 |
Understanding the Hawala system.Why do people use the informal sector. How the money service system can compete. |
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| Dr Roger Ballard, Manchester University experts on Hawala David Seddon, Critucal Faculty Moderator: Zia Ullah, Pannone |
17.50 |
CONCLUSION |
| Rt. Hon. Lord Lamont of Lerwick, President of IAMTN | ||
18.00 – 20.00 |
Gala Reception: Orchid Room, Dorchester Hotel - sponsored by William Blair & Co |
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Tuesday 30th October |
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8.00 |
Coffee |
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9.00 |
The future for the money transfer operator and the consumer. | |
Rt. Hon. Lord Lamont of Lerwick, President of IAMTN |
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9.05 |
Panel discussion: The payments sector with 20% growth a year has become an investment fund’s best opportunity. The recent acquisitions in the money service business has drawn attention from the investment sector |
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John McRoberts, Founder and Director, Aurora Russia |
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9.45 |
“Consolidation of a rising sector” |
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Elizabeth Grausam, Vice President Investment Research Analyst Payments, Goldman Sachs & Co |
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10.25 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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10.40 |
Overview of the current payments sector, Middle East and Asia – studying a successful product | |
| Jayram Ketkar, Group Operations Director, Wall Street Exchange Centre, LLC, UAE | ||
| The remittance trail to Iraq | ||
| Kenny Zair, Security Financial Service, Inc | ||
11.20 |
Global business – Latin America | |
| Juan Bianchi, Managing Director, Euronet Worldwide Money Transfer Segment, Ria Financial Services | ||
11.50 |
The African continent – economy and opportunities. How to bring on the unbanked | |
| Razia Khan, Chief Economist Africa, Standard Chartered Bank | ||
12.20 |
The Consumers Charter: How Best to serve the Consumer Introducing Standards to the Payments Sector Transparency in costs |
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| Leon Isaacs, CEO, Developing Markets Associates | ||
12.40 |
Services to money transfer banks | |
| Alexander Gentsis, Senior Vice President, Diasoft | ||
13.00 |
LUNCH |
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14.00 |
Panel discussion: “Cutting Edge in Mobile phone technology – e-cash, the mobile purse” |
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| Asheem Aggarwal, President Mobile Phone Payments, ViaOne Jan Lindoff, Chief Technology Officer, Mobile Financial Services Diarmuid Mallon, Senior Product Manager, Sybase Eric Khilstrom & Dave Sturgess, VideoKall Moderator: Nick Ford, Head of Payments, Capgemini UK |
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15.15 |
“Is technology and innovation leading the market?” |
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| Peter Cox, CEO, IDDATA and credEcard Dan Starr, Neteller Rich Wagner, CEO, Advanced Payment Solutions |
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16.10 |
The year ahead for IAMTN |
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Lady Olga Maitland, CEO, IAMTN |
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16.20 |
CONCLUSION |
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16.30 – 17.00 |
TEA | |
