Building on last year’s initial ITFA fintech discovery day, ITFA 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 in Helsinki.

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.

Join us and discover how ITFA is addressing global market ambitions through its recently launched fintech initiatives.

The final agenda is as follows:

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 fintech 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, 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
• Michel Kilzi, Founder and Managing Partner, Fineon Exchange
• Joel Schrevens, Solutions Director, China Systems
• Moderator: Sean Edwards, ITFA

10:30 Networking break

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

• Jari Hanninen, Director, Head of Structured Finance, Credit Products, Nokia Corporation
• Uzair Bawany, Founder, Traydstream
• Harri Rantanen, Business Developer, SEB
• Lena Hedengran, Global Head of Trade Finance Customer Service, Nordea
• Antti Niemelä, Director, Head of Transaction Banking, Large Corporates and Institutions, OP Financial Group
• Nicolas Saoudi, Director, Trade Sales Nordics, Germany and Switzerland, Standard Chartered Bank

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
• Jaime Gimeno, Senior Consultant, GlobalTrade Corporation
• Nicolas Saoudi, Director, Trade Sales Nordics, Germany and Switzerland, Standard Chartered Bank
• Moderator: André Casterman, ITFA 

15:00 Pitch 4: Testimonials on use of transaction data in transaction banking incl. the Trade Finance Distribution Initiative

• 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
• Presentation by Thomas Krieger, Head of Institutional Portfolio Management, Risk Distribution, Commerzbank AG
• Nils Behling, Founder and CFO, Tradeteq
• Niina Äikäs, Head of Large Corporates Coverage, Finland, SEB
• Moderator: Sean Edwards, ITFA 

16:00 Wrap-up, demos and networking cocktail

• Kirsi Larkiala, Finnish Fintech Ecosystem
• Sean Edwards, ITFA 

17:00 Close

Target audience: Northern European 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 and FFE communities to their premises in Helsinki, as well as Danske Bank, Nordea, SEB and Standard Chartered Bank for their collaboration in delivering this event.

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* Please note that dates and times are subject to change and cancellation at short notice, for which ITFA cannot be held responsible.