Open Banking 2023 - Middle East | Open Future World | 18 September 2023 | Mövenpick Hotel and Residences Riyadh, District, Northern Ring Branch Road, Exit 4 Al Ghadeer, Riyadh 13311, Saudi Arabia

The entire Middle East region is undergoing a phenomenal transformation of their financial sectors, with innovative and exciting open banking frameworks emerging across multiple countries. The KSA and Bahrain are building on PSD2, the UK’s OBIE, and the Nigerian National Fintech Strategy, and licensing game-changing fintechs out of their sandboxes. The UAE has taken a market-led approach, nurturing talent and quickly accelerating digital services, while drafting regulation for release in 2023. Still more, including Oman and Kuwait, are setting out roadmaps to open banking, including sandboxes and cloud frameworks, to drive financial inclusion, diversification, and competitiveness.

The Congress is the hub where you can meet and learn from the innovative regulators, banks, and fintechs who are leading the region on its journey to become a major global financial centre. Joining them will be experts and first movers from around the world, sharing their best practices and insights on the opportunities that open banking, and ultimately open finance, will create.

Global learnings from the open banking movement; tailoring frameworks to support the development of local ecosystems; technically-literate populations; and high levels of internet and mobile phone penetration make a recipe for success, putting the Middle East is in a unique position to implement open banking - and even accelerate into open finance - quickly and effectively.

Join leaders from the regulators, banks, and TPPs who are innovating to make the KSA and wider Middle East region a leader in global finance, along with key players from the global open banking community.

2023 Speakers

Alina Beleuta
Chief Growth Officer, Salt Edge

Andre Achtstaetter
Co-Chief Operating Officer, Adorsys

Badr Tharwat
Head of Cloud Native Application Development Specialists - EMEA, Oracle

Barry O’donohoe
Founder & COO, Raidiam

Bassam Al Eidy
Chief Digital Banking & Innovation Officer, Bank Albilad

Danillo Branco
CEO & Co-Founder, Finansystech

David Beardmore
Ecosystems Development Director, Raidiam

Dr. Antoine Khadige
Principal, Strategy& Middle East, PWC

Partner
Arkwright Consulting

Gatis Kalnins
Head of Open Finance Solutions, Adorsys

Hakan Eroglu
Global Open Banking & Open Data Lead, D&s at Mastercard – Top 30 Mena Fintech Influencer, Payments and Fintech Executive, Public Speaker, Mastercard

Hisham Al-Falih
Co-Founder & CEO, Lean Technologies

Ihsan Al Hayek
Co-Founder, Dapi

Jubran Alshahrani
Co-Founder, Mod5 R

Kannan Rasappan
Founder & CEO, Banfico

Kareem Refaay
Managing Director, the London Institute of Banking & Finance MENA

Louise Beaumont
Senior Vice President, Mastercard

Maria Medvedeva
Country Manager, Mastercard

Michael Salmony
CEO Payments Innovation Consulting/ Strategic Advisor ETPPA - European TPP Association

Mirna Sleiman
Founder & CEO, Fintech Galaxy

Nameer Khan
CEO, MENA Fintech

Nihal Abughattas
GM – Middle East & North Africa, Ozoneapi

Omar Mansur
Global Enterprise Lead & MD APAC, Codebase Technologies

Paulo Barbosa
COO, Banfico

Reem Ashraf
VP Product Growth, Emba, Knowledgenet

Saleh Alhammad
Managing Director, MENA, Konsentus

Sanjeev Kumar
Founder, Whitesight

Serena Sebastiani
Director - Financial Services Advisory, PWC

Sultan Albayhani
VP - Head of Open Banking Business, Riyad Bank

Brendan Jones
Chief Commercial Officer, Konsentus

Chris Michael
Chief Executive Officer, Ozone API

Richard Prior
CEO, Fdata

2023 Partners

FOUNDER PARTNERS:
• Adorsys
• Banfico
• Knowledge Net

GOLD PARTNER:
• Mastercard

BRONZE PARTNER:
• Saltedge

KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS:
• WhiteSight
• Fintech Galaxy
• Fdata Global
• The London Institute of Banking & Finance