Cyprus Thrill: Next Gen Payments Forum is about to Bring Payments Forums to the Next Level of the Digital Age

Payment innovation will take center stage in Cypress coming up in 2019.

The Event

Taking place the 4th and 5th of APRIL, 2019 in Limassol, Cyprus, the 4th annual Nextgen Payments Forum 2018 offers a premium gathering site for senior executives involved in financial transactions and payments operations.

Conference Goals

The conference will empower attendees for seamless transactions and operational excellence in today’s digital world, so that attendees should be able to rethink the “way we pay” as an adaptive evolution of consumers habits that ensures compliant, safe and simplified payment processes.

Attendees

Professional specialists set to attend include policymakers, leading solution providers, regulatory institutional representatives, and senior executives from Banking, e-Merchant, Retail, Insurance, Investment and Gaming sectors in the most intimate and dynamic format possible to capture the current industry payment ecosystem culture for strategic industry collaboration.

Topics

The two day event represents an interactive conference model combining formal and informal networking activities into a focused meeting platform, with an agenda that includes focus on key practical points such as Innovation through collaboration; the role of cooperation and coordination between regulator and regulated; Data- driven innovation- new opportunities in data automation and standardization; Cyber risks and resilience; Banking Transformation- strategies, policies, frameworks, channel transformation; Global and local government regulations; the legal side of tech; and new business models following the automated processes; and redefining the customer experience.

Day 1 Agenda Highlights

Day 1 includes a welcome address from QUBE Director Lilly Pavlou; and keynote addresses on Being Proactive in Banking Transformation, Partnership and Collaboration between banks and FinTechs, and Data- Driven Innovation.

Day 2 Agenda Highlights

Some Day 2 Highlights include the future of technology (Biometric technology, robo-advisors, voice technology, text interfaces, and ethical implications); a challenger session on the Future of Banking: Fintech or Techfin? And a Keynote address on Blockchain P2P transactions.

Speakers

Speaker panelists include Moorwand CEO Robert Courtneidge; Fintech Ireland Founder and Board Director of TransferMate & Susquehanna International Peter Oakes; and European Payments Council Legal Counsel & Company Secretary Gert Heynderickx. And ING Netherland Lead Platform Architect Vikas Munshi.

Outlook

The Nextgen Payments Forum will accelerate transaction and payment systems for all manner of company in the very near future, and this is a great chance to optimize your payment system ahead of the pack.