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| Date: | Tuesday 04/12/07 |
| Title: | A Payments Strategy for the Future |
| Speaker(s): | Lee Fulmer, Consultant IBM Global Services |
Diarmuid Hanrahan, Head of Payments, AIB Bank |
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Eric Sepkes, Global FI Strategy Director, Citigroup Global Transaction Services, EMEA |
Payments remains an area of opportunity both in defining the future winners and losers and in understanding where investment and innovation are driving the business alongside the challenges of regulation and security.
The Panel will share views on where Ireland is in the global payments arena and where they think it should be in the context of current payment developments, platforms and European Union expectations of the industry.
This is a must attend event for anyone involved in the payments arena.
| Date: | Wednesday 07/11/07 |
| Title: | The Current Crisis in the Sub Prime Industry is of No Concern to Ireland? |
| Panel: | Pat Mc Ardle, Chief Economist, Ulster Bank Group |
The recent melt down in US Sub Prime markets has caused quality and liquidity concerns for Central Bankers, grief for Treasury managers, concern for lenders and a quandary for risk managers in knowing which models to trust and where the buck eventually stops and the red ink emerges.
Now the crystal ball has moved to defending the current system of regulation while speculation continues over the impacts of the crisis and the contagion effect into other markets, economies and geographies.
The discussion aims to examine perspectives of the situation and define ways forward through the labyrinth.
| Date: | 18/10/07 |
| Title: | Debate: This House Believes We Really Know Our Customers |
| Debaters: | Detective Superintendent, Eugene Gallagher, Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation |
| David Bannsiter, Editor, Banking Technology | |
| Mark Outhwaite, Principal, Outhwaite Hobbs LLP |
CRM systems have led Banks to believe they have the software to know their customers, predict their needs and make sales to them. Cross Selling is also a key feature of the growth achieved by Banks and their ability to really know their customers and make effective product connections to mutual advantage. AML3 increases the demands on Banks to know more details and make more connections but do Banks really know their customers, what they do and how honest they are in approaching financial institutions to access finance.
The debate aims to raise awareness of the practices employed by Banks and criminals in pursuit of profit and in pursuit of criminality. It will have appeal for marketers, anti money launderers, compliance and risk management and those interested in understanding the minds of Banks, Customers and Criminals alike.
| Date: | 14/06/07 |
| Title: | Question Time Panel, Dublin, "the Future of European Payment Structures" |
A prestigious panel comprising:
- Chris Reddish, Head of Prepaid Cards, MasterCard
- Vincent Brennan, Payments, Bank of Ireland
- Roy Vella, Head of PayPal Mobile, Europe
Background
There are many opportunities and challenges in payments. New payments models and competitors are being created through prepaid cards, mobile payments, contactless payments and biometrics. New payment structures are being created, such as Europe's PEACH and TARGET2 for Securities. New payments systems are being created with remittances moving from infrastructures to telephone networks. There are pressures on global infrastructures, such as SWIFT, through increasing government scrutiny. Finally, there is the growing voice of the Corporation who are demanding that banks look at payments in the wider context of their supply chains. Payments is a pretty exciting space to be in right now and this Financial Services Club event will explore the complete range of activities.
| Date: | 17/04/07 |
| Title: | Question Time Panel, Dublin, "Investing in Ireland after MiFID" |
A prestigious panel comprising:
- Peter Randall, Director, Instinet/Chi-x
- Tony Kirby, Co-Chair of the MiFID Best Execution Joint Working Group
- PJ Di Giammarino, Chief Executive, JWG-IT Group Ltd
Background
With the introduction of MiFID, liquidity will fragment across trading venues from electronic networks through multilateral trading facilities to internaliser's dark pools and, of course, traditional exchanges. Already, shaking the foundations of traditional exchanges, Project Turquoise is building its momentum as the largest brokers launch their own execution venue, and new facilities such as Equiduct build even more pan-European trading capabilities. What does all of this mean for institutional investors, pension funds, hedge funds and their current broking community? This discussion will try to provide some answers.
| Date: | 16 January 2007 |
| Subject: | Dubin FSC's Annual Debate: This House Believes Fraud Will Never Be Beaten |
Following the success of our first meeting on October 5 th, the Financial Services Club Ireland is pleased to announce our second meeting to be held on January 16 th at the RDS. The meeting will be a debate chaired by Michael Baume, Chief Risk Officer, AIB. The debate will focus upon fraud, with the motion that:
"This House Believes Fraud Will Never Be Beaten"
Proposed by: Jon Prideaux, former-Executive Vice President, Visa Europe
Opposed by: Detective Superintendent Eugene Gallagher, Deputy Director of the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation
Recent figures estimate that fraud will cost the Irish economy upwards of €3.75 billion a year. As a result, Irish banks formed the cyber crime forum, with Web security firms and police authorities, but how can the industry eradicate fraud when it is obvious that fraud can never be beaten? Well, some people think it can be eradicated, or at least minimised. Chip & PIN, two-level authentication, biometrics, shared secrets ... you name it, there are increasingly complex layers of bank security to minimise fraud. The Financial Services Club Ireland is therefore pleased to host the first annual debate in this area, in association with the Irish Payment Services Organisation (IPSO), Enterprise Ireland, Invest Northern Ireland and Original Solutions Ltd.
Jon Prideaux, recently left Visa Europe where he was the Executive Vice President for Marketing. Jon is very well known across Europe for his understanding of credit and debit cards, prepay and card fraud, and advises many organisations on card strategies. Within Visa Europe, he was responsible for the management of the Visa brand and the marketing of all of Visa's product lines.
Detective Superintendent Eugene Gallagher joined An Garda Síochána in 1978 following a year's introduction to accountancy. He was called to the Bar in 1990 and was conferred with a Certificate in Computer Forensics and Network Security by University College Dublin in 1998. He was awarded a BA (Hons.) in Police Management by HETAC in 2005. Eugene is Detective Superintendent of the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation (GBFI) at Harcourt Square, Dublin.