Track: Banking & Payments

Speaker: Andrew Haskell, Global FX Solutions, BNY Mellon

Location: Conference Stage 5 (CS5)

 

Session Description:  Digitization is changing the way we pay. The past decade has seen the rise of online banking and mobile apps. Consumers and businesses are migrating away from cash and checks towards electronic payments, including card payments, electronic fund transfers and e-money payments. There’s a rapidly growing use of contactless and fast payments systems. And central banks the world over are now exploring issuing their own digital currencies. Digital payments executed in seconds all around the world: Is that the future of money? What does this future look like and how do we get there? And how do we make sure no one is left behind? In this session, our expert panel will explore these questions and more.

Track: IBM Workshop

Speaker: Zoran Kanlic, Head of Financial Supply Chain for Corporate Trade, BNY Mellon Treasury Services

 

Session Description:  The time is now for modernization of the trade finance and supply chain journey. By accessing real-time data, increasing transparency and eliminating manual processes, end-to-end digitalization can help financial institutions unlock greater value from legacy trade and supply chain practices. It also opens the door for AI technologies to create more intelligent, secure and reliable platforms.

 

The path to digitalization, however, can hold challenges such as cybersecurity, standardization and stakeholder collaboration. Join our panel of industry leaders to hear how institutions are using the latest advances in technology, innovating processes, and aligning with ISVs and ecosystem partners to create a stronger and more sustainable model for the future.

Track: Big Issue Debate

Speaker: Cathinka Wahlstrom, Chief Commercial Officer, BNY Mellon 

Location: Conference Stage 4 (CS4)

 

Session Description: Market infrastructures have a key role to play in enabling instant and frictionless end-to-end payments between bank accounts in their own communities. But what do you get when you interlink them? A much wider reach and a better payments experience across borders. In this session, we’ll explain SWIFT’s vision to interoperate with these market infrastructures, combining the global presence of SWIFT with their domestic reach. Whether a market infrastructure runs on SWIFT or on its proprietary communication channels, linking it with SWIFT has many benefits, including extending its reach globally, leveraging the values brought by the SWIFT platform, providing end-customers a truly instant experience for their cross-border payments and achieving frictionless end-to-end transactions between any two bank accounts globally.