ITFA Sibos debrief and ITFA Initiatives – October 17th at 16:00 – 18:00

Not all of us enjoyed the opportunity to attend last month’s Sibos conference. However, most of us would like to hear about the many highlights impacting the trade finance and payments businesses. This is why we are delighted to invite you to our post-Sibos gathering taking place next week in London.
 
We look forward to welcoming you on Thursday October 17^th as from 16:00 (UK time) at Deutsche Bank in the City of London (1 Great Winchester St, London EC2N 2DB). The session is restricted to ITFA members with a maximum of 5 persons per ITFA member institution. A networking reception will take place from 18:00 till 20:00. Please register to the session by sending an email to ITFA.

We thank Deutsche Bank for hosting this ITFA briefing and we look forward to welcome many of you on October 17^th. Please sign up asap. The agenda and speakers are confirmed as per below:
 
16:00 Welcome

• Sean Edwards, ITFA

16:05 Keynote on Geopolitics

• Jack Harding, Head of Political Risk, Coriolis Technologies and co-author of “Gaming Trade: Win-win Strategies for the Digital Era”

16:25 The Value of Human Centred Design for Trade

• Merisa Lee Gimpel, Head of Trade Innovation, Lloyds Banking Group

16:35 Solving the biggest issues in Supply Chain Finance today: Guidance from the Global Trade Finance Associations

• Christian Hausherr, Product Manager SCF EMEA, Deutsche Bank

16:45 Growing trade origination in collaboration with platforms – Sibos news

• “Fineon Exchange: a new global marketplace for exporters to trade their export receivable assets” – Ray Webb, Business Development, Fineon Exchange
• “Levantor Capital passes US$1bn of working capital financing on the way to US$4bn by the end of 2020” – David Frye, CEO, Levantor

17:00 Fintechs working together to help trade originators – Sibos news

• Transaction data key to feed machine learning algorithms – use cases in trade – André Casterman, CMO, INTIX
• Traydstream and China Systems integration – Uzair Bawany, Founder, Traydstream

17:10 The Digital Negotiable Instruments initiative – Sibos news

• Objectives and technology – Göran Almgren, CEO, Enigio
• An example of fintech – fintech collaboration – Michel Kilzi, CEO, Fineon Exchange

17:25 The Trade Finance Distribution initiative – Sibos news

• TFD Initiative Roadmap – Dr. Nils Behling, Founder and CFO, Tradeteq
• SMBC – expectations from TFD Initiative – Sean Edwards, SMBC

17:40 Trade infrastructures – Sibos news

• Marco Polo and Voltron – Clive Cooke, Managing Director, Business Development EMEA, R3
• ICC and the UTN
• SWIFT’s KYC Registry for Corporates – Delphine Masquelier, Product Manager AML & Sanctions, SWIFT
• SWIFTgpi for Corporates

18:00 Networking reception

19:30 Close