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08:30 - 09:00 |
Registration |
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09:00 - 10:15 |
Opening Plenary: The Latest in RegTech, SupTech
The session will feature live demos with a discussion of applied lessons, new ideas and tools boosting regulatory capacity at the national level, implications for specific DFS/financial inclusion policy barriers at the local, regional and global SSB level. How new tools to gather data, monitor and supervise can be applied to accelerate some of the policy and implementation objectives in FIGI including build capacity of regulators, help us close the gender data gap, help regulators make better policy across sectors.
Moderator: Simone di Castri, BFA: Regtech for Regulators Accelerator [ Presentation ]-
Mehrechane Nayel, Central Bank of Egypt
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Pia Bernadette Roman Tayag, R2A Philippines [
Biography I Presentation ]
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Stefan Hohl, Bank for International Settlements
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10:15 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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10:30 - 11:45 |
Considering Data Privacy in an Age of Increasingly Digital Financial Services
Extensive innovation in digital financial services driven by big data and machine learning are enabling new services and improving management of financial risk. This is extending access to financial services to large numbers of people who previously lacked access, and resulting in strong growth in services. At the same time, these technologies raise new issues for consumer protection and data privacy that are not easily resolved even under the latest wave of data protection legislation in many countries. This session will discuss the developing challenges, such as potential bias in machine learning algorithm outputs, accountability and transparency in opaque automated decisions, and the notice and consent model for processing personal data.
Report on Data privacy issues in big data applications for DFS
Moderator: Bilel Jamoussi, Chief Study Groups Department,TSB, ITU [
Biography ]
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Patricia Adusei-Poku, Data Protection Commissioner, Ghana
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Biography I Presentation ] - Rory Macmillan, Digital Services Lawyer, Macmillan and Keck Partners [
Biography I Presentation ]
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Fredesvinda Montes, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank
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Juliet Meina, GSMA
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Caro Robson, Senior Counsel, Director, MasterCard [
Biography ]
| Applications of Digital ID in the financial sector – Key Policy Considerations
This session would discuss the key applications of digital ID in the financial sector; and key policy considerations that public authorities and financial sector regulators need to keep in mind to harness their potential while mitigating the risks. This would be based on the work of the Digital ID working group under FIGI and will feature several country case studies.
Moderator: Sharmista Appaya, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank
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Jeremy Grant, Managing Director, Technology Business Strategy, Venable & member, FIDO Alliance [
Biography ]
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Yiannis Theodorou, Director of Policy and Advocacy, GSMA [ Biography ]
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Phindu Lipenga, Principal Examiner, ICT, Reserve Bank of Malawi [
Biography I Presentation ]
- Mohammed Saidul Islam, Bangladesh
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Becoming Cashless: What Incentives and Innovations will Boost Electronic Payments Acceptance?
Wide acceptance of non-cash payments is a pre-condition to uptake and effective usage of transaction accounts to: (i) perform most, if not all, payment needs; (ii) to safely store some value; and (iii) to serve as a gateway to other financial services. Yet, acceptance of electronic payments remains limited among merchants. As a result, there is a significant opportunity to accelerate the development of wide electronic payment acceptance networks to underpin a large-scale shift to electronic payments especially for merchant payments.
The session will focus on incentives to promote acceptance of electronic payments, with a potential focus on barriers for acceptance and how incentives may help remove these barriers; and on innovations on shifting P2B, B2B and B2P payments to electronic instruments. Different use cases will be discussed.
Moderator: Camillo Tellez, Head of Research and Innovation, Better than Cash Alliance [
Biography I Presentation ]
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Ruan Swanepoel, Head of Mobile Money, GSMA [ Presentation ]
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Tarek Mahfouz, Country Manager, Visa Egypt
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Maha Bahou, CEO, JOPACC, Jordan
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Nadine Chehade, Senior Financial Sector Specialist , CGAP
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12:00 - 13:15 |
Next Generation Authentication Technologies for Digital Financial Services
The Digital Financial Services (DFS) ecosystem requires standardized, interoperable, strong authentication technologies as enablers to reduce risk and protect assets. Weak authentication approaches based on web browsers and passwords are no longer sufficient to support safe DFS use. This session will consider the next generation authentication technologies that can be used to implement strong authentication systems for DFS and provides examples of implemented strong authentication systems.
Report on Next Generation Authentication Technologies
Moderator: Abbie Barbir, AETNA
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Xi Sun, Senior Standardization Expert Ant Financial Service Group [ Biography I Presentation ]
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Jeremy Grant, Managing Director, Technology Business Strategy, Venable & member, FIDO Alliance [
Biography I Presentation ]
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Andrew Hughes, Digital Identity Strategist, InTurn Management Consultancy Services [
Biography I Presentation ]
- Shahrokh Shahidzadeh, Director, Accepto
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KYC 2.0: Emerging KYC Registry Approaches That Enhance Inclusion
This session will introduce the concept of KYC registries, their role in advancing financial inclusion, how countries have approached them and the key issues and challenges in developing an effective and efficient KYC registry.
Moderator: Fredesvinda Montes, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank
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Oscar Rubio, Deputy Manager of the Payment Systems Policy and Oversight department, Central Bank of Mexico[
Biography ]
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Masud Rana, Joint Director, Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), Bangladesh [ Presentation ]
- Peter El Sharoni, Assistant Manager & Deputy Head of the Research and Strategy Analysis Department, Egyptian Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Combating Unit (EMLCU) [ Presentation ]
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Cybersecurity Assurance for Digital Financial Services
Consumer adoption of digital financial services (MFS) is increasing rapidly. It is therefore only to be expected that these services, together with the mobile platforms that deliver them, will attract ever greater attention by criminals. At the same time, there is a need for all stakeholders in the ecosystem, to enhance consumer trust in using digital financial services. This session will consider the main security issues facing stakeholders in the ecosystem and present a framework through which these risks can be managed.
Moderator: Leon Perlman, Columbia University
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Dorothee Delort, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank Group [ Presentation ]
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Vijay Mauree, Programme Coordinator, TSB, ITU and Kevin Butler, Associate Professor, University of Florida [
Biography I Presentation ]
- Eran Islam, Market Infrastructure Expert / Oversight Division, European Central Bank
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13:15 - 14:15 |
Lunch |
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14:15 - 15:30 |
A Regulator’s View of Fintech: The Balancing Act
Advances in digital technology are quickly transforming the global financial landscape. Although these developments have the potential to significantly enhance financial inclusion, FinTech developments also pose new risks and challenges for regulators and, if left unhampered, may negatively impact financial stability and financial integrity. This session will aim to provide guidance to policymakers and related stakeholders to help determine and implement an appropriate regulatory and supervisory approach to enabling FinTech innovation for financial inclusion.
Moderator:
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Dorothee Delort, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank Group
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Sharmista Appaya, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank Group
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Regional Harmonization: The future of payments?
Highlight regional regulatory and payments systems harmonization initiatives, and the implications for policy and system standards at the national, regional and global levels.
Moderator: Carolyn McMahon, Glen Brook Partners
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David Lubinski, Senior Programme Officer, BMGF
- Ruan Swanepoel, Head of Mobile Money, GSMA
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Jeremiah Grossman, Deputy Director, Policy and Ecosystem Development, Bankable Frontier Associates
- Mohamed Assem, Country Manager, Mastercard, Egypt [ Biography ]
- Felix Polianski, Director, Credit Pilot
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Applying AI & Machine Learning to Financial Inclusion
This session will examine the potential of AI and machine learning in advancing financial inclusion in developing countries. The use of machine learning and big data analytics use in biometric identification and credit scoring will be considered as an example.
Moderator:
Bilel Jamoussi, Chief Study Groups Dept, TSB, ITU [ Biography I Presentation
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Hemant Baijal, Vice President, Global Public Policy, MasterCard
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Barbara Iyayi, Chief Growth Officer, Element, Inc. [
Biography I Presentation ]
- Daniel Gersten Reiss, Research Advisor, Department of Banking Operations and Payments System, Central Bank Brazil [ Presentation ]
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Closing Plenary : Looking Forward: Catalytic Change toward 2020
FIGI Partners reflect on progress against Inclusion Goals to-date and anticipate advances and challenges as the Financial Inclusion Global Initiative looks ahead to its next year of country-level implementations and global work.
Moderator: Jamie Zimmerman, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Marc Hollanders, CPMI, Bank for International Settlements
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Mahesh Uttamchandani, World Bank Group
- Bilel Jamoussi, Chief Study Groups Department, TSB, ITU [
Biography ]
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Sofie Maddens, Head Regulatory and Market Environment Division, BDT, ITU
Closing remarks by Dr. El-Sayed Azzouz, Vice President of NTRA [ Presentation ] |
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Refreshments |
