INNOVATE, COMPETE, SUCCEED: THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL PAYMENTS
EMA EU Conference | 27 January 2025 | Brussels
Agenda
08:30
Registrations
09:15 – 09:30
Welcome note
Thaer Sabri, CEO, EMA
09:30 – 10:00
Keynote
EU Commissioner or Cabinet Member (TBC)
10:00 – 11:00
Panel 1: A glimpse into the future of payments
Barbara O’Beirne, Head of Enterprise Business Development & CEO, Stripe Technology Europe
William Olgiati, Head Payments Acceptance and Experience Europe, Amazon
Pietro Candela, General Manager of Alipay+ Europe, Ant International
Arun Tharmarajah, Head of European Banking & Payments, Wise
Stephen Ratcliff, PM, Google Pay EMEA (TBC)
Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, Deputy Director General, EU Commission/DG FISMA
Moderator: Thaer Sabri, CEO, EMA
11:00 – 11:35
Coffee break
11:40 – 12:25
Panel 2: E-money, bank money, stable coins, CBDC, synthetic CBDCs, lightning network, what distinguishes each
Jon Elgisson, Co-founder, Monerium
Further panellists TBC
Moderator: Thaer Sabri, CEO, EMA
12:30 – 13:45
Lunch
13:55 – 14:40
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
Further panellists TBC
Moderator: Faith Reynolds
14:45 – 15:15
Coffee break
15:20 – 16:05
Panel 4. Open banking in payments and in data: greater competition, resilience, sovereignty? What does the future look like: SPAA, EPI, aggregator intermediaries, or vanilla PSR?
Panellists TBC
Moderator: TBC
16:10 – 16:40
Closing remarks
New ECON Chair/New MEP Rapporteur PSD3/PSR (TBC)
Registration
- EMA Member (early bird): €245 (register by 22 November 2024)
- EMA Member: €325
- Public: €595
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