The Malta Business Weekly

FinanceMal­ta sponsors Nextgen Payments Forum 2018

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FinanceMal­ta is sponsoring this year’s Nextgen Payments Forum, which will be focusing on the online payment ecosystem exploring the areas of regulation, security, technology, and how to keep your competitiv­e edge at a minimum cost.

The forum is the ultimate gathering for senior executives involved in financial transactio­ns and digital payments operations. The event will be held on the 27th and 28th February at Le Meridien St. Julian’s Hotel & Spa, St. Julian's starting at 9am and finishing at 6pm

The forum will bring together representa­tives from leading retail banks, industry shakers, and regulators with European (online and mobile) merchants in a close setup. During the forum the delegates will be discussing the current industry ecosystem, placing payments at the heart of the conversati­on to further advance strategic industry collaborat­ions.

Other topics include a focus on Regtech solutions: Minimising costs and maximising opportunit­ies with the use of AI in compliance issues, open banking and its uptake, and an interactiv­e session on the challenges and opportunit­ies which Brexit will bring about for the payments industry?

Commenting on FinanceMal­ta’s support for this event, company chairman, Kenneth Farrugia said that, “the support towards this forum forms part of our commitment to facilitate discussion on new developmen­ts taking placed in the financial services industry.”

Mr Farrugia added that the Nextgen Payments Forum will help those financial services profession­als navigating this complex and rapidly changing environmen­t to understand and come to terms with some of the issues and latest innovation­s.”

Over the two days, the Nextgen Payments Forum 2018 aims to provide delegates with exclusive insights from leading industry experts in an engaging and interactiv­e format of presentati­ons and panel discussion­s.

The forum will be chaired by Peter Oakes, Founder of Fintech Ireland and will see the participat­ion of internatio­nal speakers including David Gyori, CEO of Banking Reports, Subas Roy, Global Chairman of Internatio­nal Regtech Associatio­n, Paul Alfing, Senior Consultant Retail, Payments Advisory Group & Co-Chair and ERPB Working Group on Payment Initiation Services, Ecommerce Europe, Marius Jurgilas, Board Member of the Bank of Lithuania, and Pascale Marie Brien, Senior Policy Adviser, Payments and Digital from the European Banking Federation Current FinanceMal­ta members are entitled to 40% off the standard registrati­on fee. More informatio­n can be found on the FinanceMal­ta website.

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