European Central Bank - Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique Conference 2019 | European Central Bank (ECB) | 26 November 2019 | TBA, Brussels

The conference will be the sixth in the series of high-profile retail payments conferences organised jointly by the ECB and a national central bank. This time the conference is co-hosted with the Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique. Discussions over the one and a half days will revolve around the highly topical issues of transformative trends and possible disruptions in the retail payments space, as well as their potential impact.

2019 Speakers

Pierre Wunsch
Governor of the Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique

Benoît Cœuré
Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Valdis Dombrovskis
Vice-President, European Commission

Jean Hilgers
Director, Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique

Burkhard Balz
Member of the Executive Board, Deutsche Bundesbank

Ivo Mechels
Executive Director, Test-Achats/Test-Aankoop

Javier Santamaría
Chair, European Payments Council

Geoffroy Goffinet
Deputy Director of Authorisations, Licensing and Regulation Directorate, Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution

Damien Dion
Business Development Payments & Partnerships Director for Europe Middle East & Africa, Fitbit

Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva
Deputy General Manager, Bank for International Settlements3

Ulrich Bindseil
Director-General Market Infrastructure and Payments, European Central Bank

Tuomas Välimäki
Member of the Board, Suomen Pankki – Finlands Bank

Mario Nava
Director, Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission

Ivo De Meersman
General Manager Payments & Cards Belgium, KBC Bank & Verzekering

Fernando Rodríguez Ferrer
Business Development Director, Bizum

Arturo González Mac Dowell
President and Chief Executive Officer, Eurobits Technologies

Nicole Jonker
Carin van der Cruijsen et al (De Nederlandsche Bank)

Florian Misch et al
International Monetary Fund

Eric Ducoulombier
Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission

Valérie Fasquelle
Director, Banque de France

Fiona van Echelpoel
Deputy Director-General Market Infrastructure and Payments, European Central Bank

Rita Lourenço
General Manager, Head of Payments & Acquiring Business, Millennium bcp

Philipp Sandner
Head of Frankfurt School Blockchain Center, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Flora Coleman
Head of Government Relations Department, TransferWise

Jörn-Jakob Röber
Head of Public Affairs, Trustly

Markus Gunter
Managing Director, N26 Bank

Andrea Pinna et al
European Central Bank

Helmut Stix
Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Carlos Conesa
Associate Director General, Financial Innovation and Market Infrastructures, Banco de España

Francesco Papadia
Senior Fellow, Bruegel

Key Pousttchi
SAP Professor of Business Informatics and Digitalisation, University of Potsdam

Tim Hermans
Director, Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique

Nathalie Tuxen
Head of Payments Systems, Danmarks Nationalbank

Javier Pérez-Tasso
Chief Executive Officer, SWIFT

Bill Trent
Managing Director, Clients & Markets, Context

Morten Bech
Head of Secretariat, Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures, Bank for International Settlements

Cecilia Skingsley
Deputy Governor, Sveriges Riksbank

László Kajdi et al
Magyar Nemzeti Bank

Tanai Khiaonarong et al
International Monetary Fund

Maria Tereza Cavaco
Deputy Head of Department, Banco de Portugal

Alexandre Stervinou
Member of Secretariat, Financial Stability Board