Agenda

09:00

Registrations

09:30 – 09:45

Welcome note

Thaer Sabri, CEO, Electronic Money Association

09:45 – 10:10

Keynote: Regulatory Overview: View from DG FISMA

Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, Deputy Director General, DG FISMA, European Commission

10:15 – 11:15

Panel 1: The voice of industry: the big picture presented by EMA members

Barbara O’Beirne, Head of Enterprise Business Development & CEO, Stripe Technology Europe

William Olgiati, GM Payment Acceptance & Experience, Amazon EU/UK

Pietro Candela, General Manager of Alipay+ Europe, Ant International

Arun Tharmarajah, Head of European Banking & Payments, Wise

Evelien Witlox, Digital Euro Programme Manager, European Central Bank

Moderator: Thaer Sabri, CEO, EMA

11:20 – 11:50

Coffee break

11:50 – 12:45

Panel 2: Stable coins, Bitcoin lightning network, other crypto currencies, E-money, bank money, CBDC and synthetic CBDCs:

What contributions do each have to make? Do they compete, complement, or coexist? How do users choose? Or distinguish one from another?

Côme Prost-Boucle, Country Manager France, Coinbase

Jón Egilsson, Co-founder, Monerium

Brian Gahan, Managing Director for Europe, Kraken

Matthew Osborne, Policy Director for Europe, Ripple

Moderator: Thaer Sabri, CEO, EMA

12:45 – 14:15

Lunch

14:15 – 15:00

Panel 3: Combating fraud, data sharing in the value chain and allocation of liability

Kasia Said Nagy, Head of Financial Crime operation, Revolut Bank Europe

Fabrice Borsello, Chief Risk Officer, PayPal Europe

Stacey Featherstone, Public Policy Manager – Consumer Policy, EU Affairs, Meta

Érico de Melo, Advisor for International Relations, Consumers International

Maria Staszkiewicz, Advisor to Polish Deputy Minister of Finance, Expert at the Financial Market Development Department

Moderator: Morgane Laigo, Fraud Specialist, EMA

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

15:45 – 16:30

Panel 4: Open data in payments and in finance: greater competition, added functionality? A means to improve resilience, or sovereignty? What does the future look like for payments: Is it SPAA, EPI, aggregator intermediaries? What of AIS and data focused services?

Paul Foster, Director, Global Payment Partnerships, GoCardless

Jack Wilson, VP Policy & Research, TrueLayer

Giorgio Andreoli, Director General, European Payments Council

Eric Ducoulombier, Head of Retail and Payments Unit, DG FISMA, European Commission

Moderator: John Fernandez, Chairman, EMA, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer, Banked

16:30 – 17:00

Closing remarks

End of day drinks

Please note that the agenda is subject to change