Central Bank Payment Conference 2018 | Currency Research | 25 June 2018 | Shangri-La Hotel Singapore, 22 Orange Grove Rd, Singapore 258350

"It was a very interesting experience from a central bank perspective. The topics were very current ones and panel discussions where very professional and helpful on understanding in deep terms the respective issues raised." Bank of Albania

The Highlight? "To meet other Central Bankers from all over the world." Deutsche Bundesbank

"Great opportunity for getting in touch with up to date work of other NCB colleagues and gaining ideas for changes in local environment." Bank of Slovenia

"I felt the conference was excellent. I was particularly impressed with the quality and seniority of speakers and attendees; the compactness and intimacy of the event; the opportunities to network and the openness and willingness of all to do so." CGI

"I found the conference to be very informative. It had a great mixture of developed economies, [the] experience of developing countries presenting and representation on the panels. Topics were very relevant to issue[s] being faced by all jurisdictions in terms of payments, especially on the technologies that are changing the payments landscape. Moreover, I found the conference particularly useful for networking and learning from the experience of other attendees." Central Bank of Seychelles.

2018 Speakers:

Gonzalo Santamaria
Vice President of Payments, Currency Research

Jean-Michel Godeffroy
CBPC Chairman

Jacqueline Loh
Deputy Managing Director, Monetary Policy & Investment / Development & International/ Fintech & Innovation, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Benoît Cœuré
Executive Board Member of the European Central Bank (ECB) and Chairman of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI)

Emmanuelle Assouan
Director, Payment Systems and Market Infrastructure, Banque de France

Johan Pissens
Deputy Director, Head of Supervision of Financial Market Infrastructures and Oversight, National Bank of Belgium

Lawrence M. Sweet
Senior Vice President and Senior Payments & Market Infrastructure Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Gerry Gaetz
President and CEO, Payments Canada

Saqib Sheikh
Head of Sales Services, SWIFT Asia Pacific

Mehdi Manaa
Deputy Director General, Market Infrastructure and Payments, European Central Bank (ECB)

Jan Pilbauer
Executive Director, Modernization and CIO, Payments Canada

Krystof Wozniak
Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Board

Tan Nyat Chuan
Director of Payment Systems Policy Department, Bank Negara Malaysia

Mandy Lamb
Group Country Manager, Regional Southeast Asia & SVP, Global Client Manager, Visa Inc.

Cédric Sarazin
Executive Vice President, Cartes Bancaires

Vladimir Komlev
General Director of JSC NSPK - National Card Payment System, Chairman of the Board of Directors

Mike Ogbalu
CEO, Verve International

Stephen Karpin
Group Country Manager, Regional Southeast Asia & SVP Asia Pacific Sales Operations , Visa Inc.

Gertrude Kadumbo
Project Manager, Switch General Manager & Board Secretary, National Switch Limited, Malawi

Mehdi Manaa
Deputy Director General, Market Infrastructure and Payments, European Central Bank (ECB)

John Jackson
Policy Lead, RTGS Renewal Programme, Bank of England

Paul Stoddart
CEO, Vocalink

Jochen Metzger
Director General, Payments and Settlement Systems, Deutsche Bundesbank

Jens Seidl
Vice President Consultancy, Currency Research

Nell Campbell -Drake
Vice President, Strategic Business Relations and Outreach & International Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Sharon Toh
Head of ASEAN Region, SWIFT

Andrew Brown
Chief Risk Officer, Earthport

Hiroshi Nakatake
General Manager, Transaction Banking Division, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

Marci Chavez
President, Currency Research

Stephen Mwaura Nduati
Director, Mobile Payments Institute

Maimouna Gueye
Principal Payments System Expert, World Bank

Grahame Johnson
Managing Director, Funds Management and Banking Department, Bank of Canada

Bernard Wee
Executive Director of the Financial Markets Development Department and Payments and Technology Solutions Office, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)

Mark Gould
First Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Federal Reserve System Cash Product Director

Dirk Bullmann
Adviser, Directorate General, Market Infrastructure & Payments, European Central Bank (ECB)

Björn Segendorf
Adviser, Financial Stability Department, Sveriges Riksbank

Victoria Cleland
Executive Director for Banking, Payments and Financial Resilience, Bank of England

Ali Fada
Chief Technical Officer, ProgressSoft Corporation

David Mangini
General Manager, Giori Digital SA

2018 Sponsors:

FOUNDING:
• ProgressSoft
• Bluechain
• Giori Digital

SPONSORING:
• Vocalink Mastercard
• SIA
• Earthport
• Swift
• Visa

BRANDING:
• INTL FCStone
• Travelex