Agenda of ITFA / FFE fintech discovery day – 27 February 2020

Building on last year’s initial ITFA fintech discovery day, we will collaborate again with Finnish Fintech Ecosystem (FFE) and Standardised Trust to organise the 2020 edition which will take place on Thursday 27 February 2020.

The event will feature growing fintech adoption by various financial institutions and concentrate on the following market-level trends and innovations:

• Digital bills of exchange and promissory notes
• Automated document rule-checking
• Match-making originations platforms
• Digital trade risk / asset distribution
• Use transaction data and machine learning in transaction banking.

“We initiated this educational day with ITFA, Finnish Fintech Ecosystem, and Standardised Trust last year, and focused intentionally on actionable innovations in order to identify low-hanging fruits with new technology partners”, said Jari Hänninen, Director, Nokia Corporation who is looking forward to report on one practical outcome, “Following that discovery exercise, we successfully completed a pilot with Traydstream in partnership with some of our banking partners in order to apply machine learning on documentary credits. We understand better now how specialized technology can help us benefit from increased digitization and automation and what it requires from us.”

Patrik Zekkar, Head of Trade Finance & WCM at Nordea is looking forward to this special day too: “Trade Finance is a complex eco-system. Banks require to manage various types of technologies, and being able to discover, enhance the usability as well as understanding how they integrate during the one single day is a great opportunity.”

The agenda includes the following sessions:

08:30 Welcome and registration

09:00 Introduction by the host

• Jari Jaulimo, Head of Transaction Banking, OP Financial Group

09:10 ITFA’s mission and market initiatives

• Sean Edwards, Board Member and Chair, ITFA
• André Casterman, Board Member and Chair of Fintech Committee, ITFA

09:30 Pitch 1: The ITFA Digital Negotiable Instrument Initiative

• Sean Edwards, Chair, ITFA
• Geoff Wynne, Partner, Sullivan

09:45 Digitising negotiable instruments: bills of exchange and promissory notes

• Gunnar Collin, Account Executive, Enigio
• Geoff Wynne, Partner, Sullivan
• Sean Edwards, Chair, ITFA
• Michel Kilzi, Founder and Managing Partner, Fineon Exchange
• Moderator: André Casterman, ITFA

10:30 Networking break

11:00 Automating Document Checking – testimonial on the Traydstream pilot

• Jari Hanninen, Nokia
• Uzair Bawany, Traydstream
• Michael Vrontamitis, Standard Chartered Bank
• Harri Rantanen, Business Developer, SEB
• Pekka Puustinen, OP Financial Group
• Lena Hedengran, Global Head of Trade Finance Customer Service, Nordea

11:45 Pitch 2: Standardised Trust

• Harri Rantanen, Business Developer, SEB

12:00 Lunch and fintech demos

13:15 Geopolitical drivers in 2020 and what to watch for? How is geopolitics going to affect trade in 2020

• Klisman Murati, Founder and CEO, Pangaea Wire

14:00 Pitch 3: The fintech opportunities for VCs by Finnish Fintech Ecosystem

• Kirsi Larkiala, Founder & Executive Director, Finnish Fintech Ecosystem
• Sami Miettinen, Partner, Translink Corporate Finance
• Matti Copeland, Executive Director

14:15 Match-making origination platforms – a business development opportunity for trade banks

• Michel Kilzi, Founder and Managing Partner, Fineon Exchange
• Joshua Cohen, Managing Director, Mitigram
• Nicolas Saoudi, Director, Trade Sales Nordics, Germany and Switzerland, Standard Chartered Bank

15:00 Pitch 4: The growing use of transaction data and AI in transaction banking

• André Casterman, CMO, INTIX

15:15 Helping banks distribute digitally to fund MNCs and SMEs

• Introduction by Sampsa Laine, Digital & Corporate Banking leader, investor and board member, Finnish Fintech Ecosystem
• Nils Behling, Founder and CFO, Tradeteq
• Thomas Krieger, Head of Institutional Portfolio Management, Risk Distribution, Commerzbank AG
• Michael Vrontamitis, Head of Trade Europe and Americas, Standard Chartered Bank and Chair of ICC Digitalisation of Trade Finance Working Group

16:00 Conclusions of the day

• André Casterman, ITFA Board Member and Chair of Fintech Committee
• Kirsi Larkiala, Founder & Executive Director, Finnish Fintech Ecosystem

Target audience: Nordic banks, corporates, capital market investors, logistics players and fintechs in payments and trade

Date: Thursday 27 February 2020

Host: OP Financial Group, Gebhardinaukio 1, 00510 Helsinki, Finland

Registration: please click here – required for security purposes
 
Attendance is free of charge for ITFA and FFE members with a maximum of 8 participants per member institution. It is restricted to confirmed guests.
 
We warmly thank OP Financial Group for welcoming the ITFA & FFE community to their premises in Helsinki, as well as Danske Bank, Nordea, OP, SEB and Standard Chartered Bank for their collaboration in supporting this event.