It takes place on 29th and 30th October at the prestigious Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London.

This world-class international conference bringing together a wide range of participants in the payments sector is now the third since its inception in 2005.

It is being organised in conjunction with Capgemini, the consultants whose 3rd World Payments Report has just been published.

The conference will be chaired by Lord Norman Lamont of Lerwick, the former finance minister and Chancellor of Exchequer. It will be opened by Kitty Ussher, MP, the finance minister and Economic Secretary to the Treasury.

Delegates from all over the world are coming to hear and discuss the cutting edge changes in the payment sector which is growing at 20% a year -and worth an estimated $500billion - double that if you include the informal market.

Topics to be addressed range from

• Global survey by Capgemini on the payments sector
• aml
• marketing
• professional development
• the view points of the major retail banks such as citigroup, HSBCand Barclays Bank
• New technologies as they impact on the payments sector
• How mobile payments have become established
• Investors such as Goldman Sachs, William Blair and Aurora Russia give their analysis on the payments sector
• Informal money transfers - hawala
• Regional analysis - where the best opportunities lie

Says Lady Olga Maitland, CEO of International Association of Money Transfer Networks:"There has been a phenomenal change in recent years in the cross border payments sector fuelled by the rapid market changes - and the opportunities this has presented. This will be reflected in the conference."