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SWIFT Regional Conference in Africa

Date: 4 - 6 May 2010
Venue: Sandton Convention Centre
Maude Street
Sandton 2196
Johannesburg
South Africa

Registration fee
Conference delegate fee: 950euro (excluding accommodation)
Conferenece day pass: 300euro (excluding social events and for a maximum of two days)


Monday 3 May 2010

16:00 – 18:00

User Group Chairpersons meeting (by invitation only)

17:00 – 19:00

Registration open

19:00

User Group Chairpersons dinner


Tuesday 4 May 2010

08:00 – 09:00

Welcome coffee, registration and Solutions zone open

09:00 – 10:30

Opening plenary - SWIFT for Africa - positioning for the future

  • Lázaro Campos, CEO, SWIFT
  • Daniel Mminele, Deputy Governor, South African Reserve Bank
  • Tertius Vermeulen, COO, Computershare South Africa
  • Javier Pérez Tasso, head of Western Europe, Middle East and Africa, SWIFT (host)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break and Solutions zone open

11:00 – 12:30

Work sessions 1

SWIFT essentials
Meet the partners

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch and Solutions zone open

14:00 – 15:30

Plenary session – Regional initiatives
More than ever, the African financial community is committed to its ambition to invest in financial integration and reform payment systems to grow regional cross-border trade and foreign investments. The building blocks are well established to provide sustainable foundation for the future. Several initiatives are well underway such as EAC RTGS integration between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and the SADC regional integration with a target date of 2018 but what else needs to be done? What is required to support take up of regional initiatives? We will come back on last year’s session and our key note speakers will share their views on how they see the way forward.

  • Dave Mitchell, Head of National Payment System Department, South African Reserve Bank
  • Eric Modave, Chief Operating Officer, Sub Saharian Africa, Barclays GRCB
  • Alice Zanza, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank
  • Edward Leach, Head of Africa South, SWIFT (moderator)

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break and Solutions zone open

16:00 – 17:30

Regional initiatives lab
After the Regional Initiatives plenary session, you are all invited to one of the two Labs on regional initiatives. The first one will be dedicated to SADC and the second one to East Africa. These sessions will give you the opportunity to participate, present ideas and see how together we can move forward as a community. Each Lab will have a facilitator to help participants brainstorm. For each of the Labs, we’ll have a round-table.

  • Edward Leach, Head of Africa South, SWIFT (facilitator)
  • Philip Tromp, CEO Tromp AG (facilitator)

Work sessions 2

17:30 – 18:30

Cocktail sponsored by exhibiting partners

19:30

On-site dinner


Wednesday 5 May 2010

08:00 – 09:00

Welcome coffee, registration and Solutions zone open

08:30 – 09:00

Plenary Session - Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility is about portraying our SWIFT values beyond the confines of the company. It is about being good citizens by getting involved in the communities to which we belong. The well being of our communities is also our business. This session will reflect on the SWIFT Corporate Social Responsibility programme and give an update of the One Laptop per Child project in Africa.

  • Walter De Brouwer, CEO, OLPC Europe
  • Ernest Mberamiheto, Minister of Education, Burundi
  • Francis Vanbever, CFO, SWIFT
09:00 – 10:30

Securities plenary - Debate
Are Capital Markets in Africa attractive: what still needs to be done to attract sustainable foreign direct investment? How should the capital markets be developed? Is more regulation needed or less? Post the financial crisis, what needs to be done to boost confidence in African capital markets?

  • Arunma Oteh, Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission Nigeria
  • Vinod Madhavan, Regional Head of Product Management for Africa, Standard Chartered Bank
  • Emmanuel Munyukwi, Chairman of CoSSE and CEO of Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
  • Tertius Vermeulen, COO, Computershare South Africa
  • Russell Jones, Head of Securities Initiatives, EMEA, SWIFT (Moderator)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break and Solutions zone open

11:00 – 12:30

Securities - special interest session
Aligning Capital Markets across Africa with international standards and global best practice through message standardisation, automation and increased levels of Straight-Through- Processing (STP).

  • Ian Bessarabia, Regional Account & Country Manager, SWIFT
  • Mark Gilogley, COO, African Alliance Securities
  • John Ukah, Custody Operations, Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC
  • John Falk, Director, Securities Market Infrastructures, SWIFT (Moderator)

Securities - special interest session
Beyond STP: How will standards like ISO 20022 and XBRL change the way financial market practitioners tackle STP projects in the future. Who gains the most? The end customer, intermediaries, regulators, the originators or all parties?

  • Freda Evans,Chief Financial Officer, Johannesburg Stock Exchange
  • Angela Hardwick, Manager Product Development Custody Services, FirstRand Custody
  • Gavin Marais, Associate Director XBRL Southern Africa Leader, Deloitte & Touche
  • Gregory Naicker, Manager Business Specialist, Strate
  • Sophie Bertin,Global Head of Asset Servicing, SWIFT (Moderator)

Work sessions 3

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch and Solutions zone open

14:00 – 15:30

SWIFT Plenary

  • Russell Jones, Head of Securities Initiatives, EMEA, SWIFT
  • Harry Newman, Head of Banking Initiatives, EMEA, SWIFT
  • Christian Sarafidis, Head of Consulting Services, EMEA, SWIFT
  • Francis Vanbever, CFO, SWIFT
  • Rob Green, CEO of Payments Product House, FirstRand Bank Ltd and SWIFT Board Member (Moderator)

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break and Solutions zone open

16:00 – 17:30

Work sessions 4

19:00

Gala dinner


Thursday 6 May 2010

08:00 – 09:00

Welcome coffee, registration and Solutions zone open

09:00 – 10:30

Payments plenary - Moving forward

  • Cheikh Ndiaye, Group Executive Operations and Technology, Ecobank
  • Harry Newman, Head of Banking Initiatives, EMEA, SWIFT
  • Diane Reyes, Managing Director, Global Payments Head, Citibank
  • Philip Tromp, CEO Tromp AG
  • Sido Bestani, Head of North Africa and Middle East, SWIFT (Moderator)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break and Solutions zone open

11:00 – 12:30

Work sessions 5

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch and Solutions zone open

14:00 – 15:30

Closing plenary

  • Rob Green, CEO of Payments Product House, FirstRand Bank Ltd and SWIFT Board Member
  • Francis Vanbever, CFO, SWIFT
  • Javier Pérez Tasso, Head of Western Europe, Middle East and Africa, SWIFT (host)


SWIFT work sessions description

The following work sessions will take place in French and in English several times through the conference.

SWIFT essentials

Newcomers to the SWIFT community will benefit from this session which provides an essential guide to SWIFT. You will get an insight into how SWIFT can support your business with a focus on standards, the SWIFT messaging platform, the value of SWIFT and the key components that make up payments and securities clearing systems.

Meet the partners

As valued members of the SWIFT community, partners play a key role in helping you to get the most from your investment in SWIFT. During this short session, we will give you an overview of the solutions the partners are demonstrating in the Solutions zone as well as a brief explanation of the SWIFT Partners framework. 

Connectivity, resilience and business continuity

In this session, we will discuss the best practices to manage your SWIFT infrastructure, with special attention to the new Alliance Connect products. By the end of 2011 you will need to have upgraded your current VPN boxes to one of the Alliance Connect products. Upgrading to Alliance Connect will increase the functionality of the service we provide while at the same time lowering your connectivity costs. This session provides an overview of all the relevant information you need to successfully plan for the upgrade and minimize impact on your operations. Furthermore, based on concrete examples taken from the field, we will review in-built resiliency of typical system configurations. This is an opportunity for you to share experiences and learn about best practices and guidelines on how to operate, maintain and troubleshoot your SWIFT infrastructure.

Alliance portfolio

We recognise that different customers have different needs. Your operational profile based on your daily traffic defines your connectivity needs. This session will focus on the evolution of our Alliance interfaces and how to match it to your needs. What are the new features that you can benefit from in Alliance release 6.3. This session will outline the Alliance evolution planned for 2010.

Trade services and corporate connectivity

In this session we will review the key drivers in the corporate space for leveraging SWIFT for treasury, payments and trade. After a look at the current situation, we will outline the key product developments such as eBAM (electronic bank account management), the personal digital identity offering and SWIFT's trade for corporates standards. We will also update you on our Supply Chain solutions, including SWIFT's Trade Services Utility, the Bank Payment Obligation and e-invoicing.

Market Practices and industry standards

This session will examine the major trends and best practices being used in the securities and banking markets and how the African financial market can benefit from them. How is the inter-bank landscape changing, and what roles do Market Infrastructures and regulators play? Specific sub-topics include high value and retail payments, MT202COV, and Workers’ Remittances. How standardised messaging can be used to achieve regionalisation and harmonisation and what new services offered by SWIFT for the securities markets are being used elsewhere in the world can be applied in the Africa.

Consulting Services

SWIFT’s Consulting Services give you direct access to experts who help you to improve your business processes, to identify best-practice enhancements to your SWIFT infrastructure, to speed up your SWIFT integration projects, and to reduce your total cost of ownership. In this session, you will learn how SWIFT experts can help in every phase of your project: from the initial assessment of your business processes, to design of a solution, all the way to go-live and maintenance.