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Speaker photoAlejandro Valenzuela del Rio
Chief Executive Officer
Banorte
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Milton Luis de Melo Santos
Chief Executive Officer
Banco Nossa Caixa SA
 
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Chaomei Chen
Chief Risk Officer and Vice Chairman
Washington Mutual Card Services
 
Speaker photoBhairav Trivedi
Global Head of Remittance Services Citibank
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Alejandro Patino Lopez
Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Operational Risk Officer
Banco Davivienda SA

 

Programme


Conference day 1: Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Conference day 2: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Pre-conference workshop: Monday, September 22, 2008

last modified: 03/09/2008 20:46:02 (GMT)

Conference day 1: Tuesday, September 23, 2008
8am
Registration and coffee
 

9am
Chairman’s welcoming address
 
 
Nelson Irizarry, Principal,
First Annapolis Consulting

THE FUTURE OF CARDS & PAYMENTS
 

9.15am
Keynote address: the future of cards & payments in Latin America
  • Analyzing the current state of the Latin retail banking market
  • Trends in transactions and payments and how they will drive future changes to card programs
  • Identifying areas of growth in retail banking across the region
  • Understanding the importance of cards and payments to retail banks
  • What are the key constraints holding back the card and payment market?
     
 
Richard Hartzel, President, Latin America and Caribbean Region,
MasterCard Worldwide

9.45am
Keynote address: The advent of banking through retail stores
  • Why do offering banking services through retail stores make sense in Latin America?
  • Assessing good firms and stores to partner with from the perspective of a bank
  • Prepaid Cards, ATM Cards, Payments, Credit Cards – what services are necessary for the successful roll out of banking at retail stores
  • Understanding the fundamentals of the tie up between Banorte and CCM
  •  Importance of providing services to lower income families
 
Miguel Javier Huller, Head of Commercial Banking,
Banorte

10.15am
Keynote panel: the experiences of banking pioneers in Latin America
  • Taking the plunge: benefits and constraints to adopting new technologies for retail banks
  • Utilizing the big picture to push revolutionary ideas in cards and payments
  • Common characteristics of successful retail banking programs in Latin America
  • Including the unbanked and the future of retail growth
 
Milton Luiz de Melo Santos, Chief Executive Officer,
Banco Nossa Caixa

10.45am
Keynote Panel: Question & Answer Session
 
 
Milton Luiz de Melo Santos, Chief Executive Officer,
Banco Nossa Caixa
Miguel Javier Huller, Head of Commercial Banking,
Banorte
Richard Hartzel, President, Latin America and Caribbean Region,
MasterCard Worldwide

11am
Morning refreshments
 

THINKING GLOBALLY, ACTING LOCALLY IN BUILDING CARDS PROGRAMS
 

11.30am
Translating global lessons for effective card program development and deployment in local markets
  • Importance of standards in building transaction based revenue streams and streamlining costs
  • Benefiting from partnerships with global organizations
  • How incorrect standard selection impacts your bottom line
  • Customizing card programs to your banks customer demographic
  • The impact of standards on program development and deployment
  • Cost effective distribution channels
 
Antonio Carlos Carletto, Director of Cards,
Banco Panamericano
Rajan S Narayan , Director Asia Pacific ,
BPC Banking Technologies

12.15pm
Speed networking
 

1pm
Networking lunch
 

ADOPTING NEW CARD TECHNOLOGIES FOR EMERGING RETAIL MARKETS
 

2.15pm
Panel: Adopting and harnessing global cards and payment standards through EMV / Smart Cards
  • Understanding the drivers behind EMV adoption: fraud reduction, cost savings and new charging structures
  • Benefits to banks adopting the next generation of card technology
  • Current EMV penetration across major regional markets: Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Argentina
  • Merchant side benefits from EMV migration and adoption
 
Nealle Page, former Smart Card Manager,
Standard Bank South Africa

3pm
Presentation: Technology Selection and Risk Containment
  • Application of smart card technology in payment applications from EMV to contactless payment on mobile devices
  • Understanding the risks involved in wide scale deployment of smart card infrastructure for payment
  • Scalability and interoperability – Winning strategies for selecting and managing technology in today’s advanced smart card market
 
Kevin Gillick, Executive Director,
GlobalPlatform

3.30pm
Afternoon refreshments
 

PREVENTING FRAUD AND BOOSTING CONSUMER CONFIDENCE
 

4pm
Identifying and preventing fraud and counterfeiting – implementing risk management
  • Knowing the evolving nature of card and payment fraud
  • Effectively identifying systemic vulnerabilities
  • Implementing fraud prevention processes and technologies
  • Supply chain architecture and the rise of counterfeiting
  • The emerging importance of data-security
  • Executing anti-money laundering strategies
 
Carlos Avila Lopez, Executive Director,
Banorte
Jacinto Cofiño, Senior Business Leader Payment Systems Risk,
Visa Inc. - Latin America and the Caribbean Region
Alejandro Patino, Chief Information Security Officer,
Banco Davivienda (Grupo Davivienda)

4.45pm
Closing Keynote address: boosting consumer confidence through fraud reduction programs
  • Understanding the concerns of consumers from card fraud
  • Decreasing risk from fraud to consumer as a method of attracting new customers
  • Addressing consumer concerns about card fraud from contactless payments and new technologies
  • Loss guarantees, safeguards and client retention
  • How have other banks rolled out similar programs in international markets
 
Chaomei Chen, Vice Chairman and Chief Risk Officer,
Washington Mutual Card Services

5.25pm
End of Day One
 

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Conference day 2: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
8am
Registration and coffee
 

8.45am
Chairman’s welcoming address
 

9.15am
Utilizing instant issuance in Latin American retail banking
  • What is instant issuance and how does it work?
  • Processes necessary to deploy instant issuance facilities
  • How does instant issuance combat fraud
  • Benefits of instant issuance for banks, customers and merchants
 
Spencer Clark, Director International Sales and Marketing,
Dynamic Card Solutions

10am
Roundtables

Table 1: Increase Migration to Online Banking While Reducing Exposure to CNP Fraud"

  • New approaches for online banking security.
  • Technology to help banks ensure that online users ARE who they say they are.
  • Technology to differentiate the bank as a thought leader and innovator in security for online customers.
  • How this new technology can drive more users to online banking, thereby increasing bank profitability.
  • Compare and contrast with other approaches to online customer security

Table 2: understanding mobile remittance and money transfer systems

 
Vincent Schiavo, Senior Vice President, Global Sales,
Innovative Card Technologies
Matt Dill, General Manager,
Western Union Mobile

11am
Morning refreshments
 

BENEFITING FROM ROBUST PAYMENT SYSTEMS AND TRENDS
 

11.30am
Keynote panel: Effective payment system development
  • Adopting and adapting global payment processing and control structures
  • Building payment infrastructure to match the needs of local and regional payment flows
  • Cross-border cooperation to build efficient systems and minimize fraud
  • The role of the regulator in payment systems
  • Best practices for creating your internal payment architecture and merchant services
 
Massimo Cirasino, Head of Payment Systems Unit,
World Bank
Maurico Martinez, Deputy General Manager,
Banco Central del Ecuador (BCE)
Mardilson Fernandes Queiroz , Senior Advisor, Department of Banking Operations and Payments System ,
Banco Central do Brasil
Dr. Francisco Solis , Manager of Payment Systems ,
Central Bank of Mexico

12.15pm
Profiting from efficient global and regional remittance networks
  • Importance of remittance systems in the Latin American Market
  • Growth of mobile remittances and person to person transfers
  • Issuing remittance cards and their potential to draw future bank
  • Wholesale versus retail service costs and value added offerings
 
Bhairav Trivedi, Global Head of Remittance Services,
Citibank
Moises Jaimes, Chairman and CEO,
BBVA Bancomer Financial Holdings, Inc.

1pm
Networking lunch
 

HARNESSING THE NEXT GENERATION OF PAYMENT TECHNOLOGIES TO SPUR GROWTH
 

2.15pm
Building Mobile Payments (M-Payments) platforms to bolster customer product offerings
  • What are M-Payment platforms and how do they work
  • Methods to authenticate and authorize the source of the mobile payment
  • Transaction processing and confirmation for mobile payments
  • Revenue generated by mobile payment offerings
  • Preventing fraud in mobile payments and false authentication
  • Impact of mobile standards (CDMA, GSM) on m-payment systems
 
Alejandro Patino, Chief Information Security Officer,
Banco Davivienda (Grupo Davivienda)

2.45pm
Potential for contactless payments and near field communication in the Latin market
  • What are contactless payments and how are important for banks?
  • Deconstructing the underling technologies and how they impact
  • How much will it cost – a bottom line analysis of new technology adoption
  • Verifying and processing transactions originated from a contactless source
 
Randy Vanderhoof, Executive Director,
SmartCard Alliance
Daniel Olivera, Director,
Smartcon Consultoria Ltd
Jorge Krug, Senior IT Executive,
Banco do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul

3.30pm
Afternoon refreshments
 

BUILDING ACCESS TO LOW INCOME CUSTOMERS THROUGH CARDS AND PAYMENTS
 

4pm
How prepaid cards are critical the future of Latin America
  • How do prepaid card programs and systems work
  • Increasing deal flow, convenience and future customers
  • Benefits of pre-authorization and no-credit checks for unbanked customers
  • Converting the unbanked into new bank customers
  • Identifying consumer demand for prepaid cards in specific regional markets: Mexico, Brazil, Argentina
  • Differentiating between various types of prepaid cards and their market appeal: remittance cards, open/close loop cards, gift cards
  • What can Latin banks learn from global successes and mistakes?
 
Alexandre Ieker, Head of Products,
Votorantim Bank Credit Cards
Jose Maria Ayuso, Regional Head of Products,
Visa Inc. - Latin America and the Caribbean Region

4.45pm
Providing services for the unbanked and under banked
  • Why is it important to expanding banking services to the unbanked low income populations
  • What are the transactional necessities for potential unbanked customers
  • Importance of payroll cards, prepaid cards, and remittance services to lower income populations
 
Jose Luis Blando, Vice -President for Products for the Mass Market,
MasterCard Latin America & the Carribean

5.15pm
End of conference
 

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Pre-conference workshop: Monday, September 22, 2008
Mobile payments, smart, cards, contactless, payments, adoption and development
This interactive workshop focuses on building and implementing the next generation of cards and payments technologies in Latin America. Learn about specific new technologies, the current global capabilities and rollouts, international standards being adopted for them, and the right partners to use when choosing them for your firm. Study how to monetize the adoption and sale of these new technologies in the regional markets. Know the service capabilities and structures of local telecom carriers before committing and creating new products.

8.30am
Registration
 

9am
Workshop begins

Session 1: Designing a mobile banking and payment platform

  • Fundamentals of creating a mobile-payment platform
  • Standards selection and how it impacts operations
  • Building partnerships to expand the reach of a mobile payment system
  • Behind the veil: understanding the systems behind mobile payment and banking user interfaces
  • Entry of mobile remittances into Latin America 

Session 2: Implementing contactless payment systems

  • Understanding the working parts of contactless payment systems
  • Fundamentals of contactless payment architecture
  • Adopting technologies based on global standards
  • Deployment strategies for retail banks and their merchant side clients
  • Making contactless stick: encouraging customer adoption
  • Identifying and preventing fraud in contactless payment systems
  • RFID and other technologies at the root of touchless payment 

10.15am
Refreshments
 

12.45pm
Networking lunch
 

3.15pm
Afternoon refreshments
 

5pm
End of workshop
 

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conference details
Conference:
Day 1
September 23rd, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Day 2
September 24th, 9:00am - 5:00pm
 
Workshop:
September 22nd, 9:30am - 5:00pm

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