Monday 14 September, 9:00 - 09:45

Discover how SWIFT for Payment Market Infrastructures helps central banks in their current and future payment clearing and settlement systems. Central Banks are modernising their payment systems, looking to strengthen their high-value payment infrastructures and/or enlarge the scope of their activities to increase efficiency, reduce settlement risk and lower costs to their community. Central banks will present their views on the evolution of their role, their vision of the evolution of payment systems and their current transformation plans. Learn how they are leveraging the SWIFT portfolio to underpin their transformation.

• Peter Gallagher, Senior Manager, Planning and Client Relations Payment Settlements Department, Reserve Bank of Australia
• Haster Tang, Head, Payment Systems Operations Division, Hong Kong Monetary Authority 

Monday 14 September, 10:00 - 10:45

You have probably heard of SWIFTReady but are not quite sure what it represents and why it may be useful to you. Yes, it is a label and there are a number of them – SWIFTReady Applications, SWIFTReady Services, SWIFTReady Connectivity and the new SWIFTReady Consultancy – but what do they all mean? What is behind each label and why should you care? If you consider SWIFT to be a mission-critical system for your business, you need to know about the SWIFTReady programme. This session will explain how you can benefit most from each label.

With simultaneous translation to Japanese and Mandarin.

Monday 14 September, 11:00 - 11:45 and Tuesday 15 September, 14:00 - 14:45

“We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunity.” Many operations professionals can no doubt sympathise with this sentiment. You know there are improvements that would deliver bottom-line value to your business. The only problem is finding time away from your mission-critical day-to-day activities to identify them. SWIFT Professional Services is here to help. We are a dedicated team of SWIFT experts who provide extensive knowledge of financial markets and systems, message standards and front and back office integration processes in business, technology and infrastructure related areas.

• Axelle Wurmser, Securities Services Head of SWIFT Coordination, BNP Paribas

Tuesday 15 September, 10:00 - 10:45

The credit crisis has turned the spotlight on liquidity management. The role of the treasurer is to make sure that the most effective approaches to cash and liquidity management are taken. As the speed of transactions accelerates, he must be able to rely on an intra-day cash reporting solution that allows him to communicate in a fully automated and standardised way with his counterparties. SWIFT has a range of intra-day cash reporting solutions that support the management of your institution's cash accounts. These standardised solutions enable automated, streamlined processes, providing greater control over dispersed cash positions in multiple currencies and multiple locations. 

• Peter Akwaboah, Head of Treasury & Reconciliations Operations, Royal Bank of Scotland
• Maurice Cleaves, Head of Regional Product Management – EMEA, GTB, Cash Management, Deutsche Bank
• Aseem Goyal, Head Payments and Cash Management Market for Asia Pacific, SWIFT
• Tom McCabe, CEO, Asia Growth Strategies Pte, Ltd

With simultaneous translation to Japanese and Mandarin.

Tuesday 15 September, 13:00 - 13:45

Banks are looking to improve their service offerings to their corporate customers for their physical and financial trade cycles (supply chain). These customers need help with financing, risk mitigation, compliance and speeding up their trade transactions overall. Visibility and accessibility of information is essential for banks to offer a competitive range of services and for their customers to remain competitive. Information must be specific, granular, and in data-element form so that it can be extracted and used. This session will offer concrete examples of SWIFT products – such as Trade for Corporates, the Trade Services Utility, Watch - that can make the difference.

• Ashutosh Kumar, Global Head of Trade Product Management, Standard Chartered Bank
• Jonathan  Richman, Managing Director and Global Product Head, Trade and Financial Supply Chain, Deutsche Bank

Tuesday 15 September, 14:00 - 14:45

A combination of the XBRL technical standard and ISO-based business standards is being touted as a potential solution to the challenge of involving issuers in corporate actions automation. SWIFT, ISO and XBRL are currently working together to bring this solution to fruition, focusing first on an initiative with DTCC, with a plan to roll out the solution to other infrastructures and geographies. What exactly is XBRL and how does it relate to ISO standards? What are the business benefits to be gained by bringing them together and are there other areas of the financial industry in which XBRL can be used to encourage the adoption of standardised, automated processing? What are the initiatives already undertaken, most specifically in the area of corporate actions, where the need to reduce cost, minimise errors and increase transparency is higher than before?

• Mark Bolgiano, President and CEO, XBRL US
• Ranjit Chatterji, Managing Director, Global Network Manager, Securities and Fund Services, Citi; Chairperson, ISSA Asset Servicing Working Group
• Brett Lancaster, Vice President, Asset Services, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
• Malene McMahon, Senior Business Manager, Standards, SWIFT

Tuesday 15 September, 16:00 - 16:45

Last May, SWIFT launched a new set of support levels. Aimed at operational attendees and SWIFT User Group Chairpersons, this session provides an opportunity to learn about the new support levels and offers a platform for open discussions to exchange best practices and explore the potential evolution of support.

With simultaneous translation to Japanese and Mandarin.

Tuesday 15 September, 17:00 - 18:00

With China’s rapidly-expanding economy and significance in global trade, there is much speculation that the Chinese Yuan will attain an international status more reflective of China’s economic weight in the world. In the meantime, China has recently initiated a pilot programme allowing for international settlement of CNY-denominated trade transactions, which is seen as an important step towards free conversion of the Chinese currency. Industry experts will address the implications of these developments for the financial industry and discuss opportunities for domestic, regional and international banks using SWIFT.

• Stanley Chan, Head, Financial Infrastructure Development Division, Hong Kong Monetary Authority
• Yang Jiewen, Senior Strategic Planner, Economics and Strategic Planning Department, Bank of China (Hong Kong) Ltd.
• Rao Lin, Deputy Director, Payment System Management, People’s Bank of China.

Wednesday 16 September, 9:00 - 09:45

Regulators are placing an increasing emphasis on the need for more transparency in the financial industry. Good quality reference data is one essential element required to turn transparency aspirations into reality. Does the industry have the quality of data it needs to meet these new challenges? How can more clarity and granularity be achieved for the identification of assets, exposures and parties to transactions? What steps are needed to make the process of obtaining reference data more effective and efficient? Suggestions have been made for an industry utility to hold essential reference data. Is this the best way forward and, if so, how would it work? The session will cover all these questions, provide a grounding in the latest initiatives under way to move the industry forward, and bring you up to speed on SWIFT's own initiatives in the reference data space.

• David Gilmour, Global Product Head, Securities Services, Transaction Banking, Standard Chartered Bank
• Thomas Gross, CEO, SIX Telekurs
• Paul Kennedy, Business Manager Reference Data, Interactive Data 
• Virginie O’Shea, Editor, Reference Data Review magazine

Wednesday 16 September, 09:00 - 09:45

This session will outline the business rationale and value proposition for Workers' Remittances, a new solution from SWIFT that supports financial institutions’ cross-border person-to-person payments. Two early-adopter banks will present case studies on their experience with the solution and outline the value it is bringing to them.

• Antonio Blanco, Director of International Banking, “La Caixa”
• Massimo Cirasino, Head of the Payments Systems Development Group, World Bank
• Arthur Cousins, Director Market Coordination, Standard Bank of South Africa
• Michael Whyte, Senior Market Manager, Banks & Low Value Payments, SWIFT

Wednesday 16 September, 10:00 - 10:45

Political and regulatory pressure to maintain the highest standards of corporate governance is growing. This requires a proxy voting process that is efficient, transparent and cost-effective. The process in place today can be fraught with inefficiencies. What are the challenges and what risks are they creating? How could standardisation help? SWIFT's Proxy Voting solution provides a robust, transparent audit trail to streamline and improve cross-border proxy voting. So what does the industry need to do to move forward with implementation? This panel discussion will bring together key stakeholders in the proxy voting and corporate governance process to debate the way forward.

• Patrick Cichy, Senior Vice President, Custody and Clearing , HSBC 
• Elizabeth Maiellano, Senior Director for Institution Product and Strategy, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc 
• Julie Wang, Vice President, Shareholders Affairs Department, Taiwan Depository and Clearing Corporation

With simultaneous translation to Japanese and Mandarin.

Wednesday 16 September, 13:00 - 13:45

In the current financial climate, the pressure is on to eliminate as much risk and cost from your operations as possible, and timely, automated confirmation matching is a powerful tool to improve straight-through processing and make important operational efficiency gains. Find out about the latest enhancements to SWIFT’s established Accord matching system for treasury, including new functionality to capture trades for matching directly out of order matching systems, as well as Accord for Securities, now live and enabling prime and executing brokers to radically reduce the risk and costs associated with processing equity and fixed income trades originating from hedge funds globally. Accord continues to be the leading choice of matching solution both for individual firms – and, as Accord for Securities demonstrates, increasingly for communities of users seeking common solutions to collective, industry-wide problems. Attend this session to find out why.

With simultaneous translation to Japanese and Mandarin.

Wednesday 16 September, 14:00 - 14:45

The world economy relies upon the financing of trade to keep the wheels of commerce turning, and perhaps nowhere is that more evident than in Asia, whose economies have been driven by export-led growth. This session will identify opportunities for banks, importers and exporters in the Asian market. Expect to learn how SWIFT’s Trade Services Utility helps corporates and member banks streamline their trade operations, reduce costs and improve their profit margins.

• Simon Gleave, Partner-In Charge, Financial Services, KPMG China
• Daisuke Kamai, Manager, Global Trade Service, Trade Business Division, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi
• Michael Kang, Senior Manager, Trade Product Develop., Trade & Services Division, Korea Exchange Bank 
• Yuanmeng Xiong, Senior Manager, Trade Finance Corporate Banking Unit (Global Trade Services), Bank of China

With simultaneous translation to Japanese and Mandarin.

Wednesday 16 September, 14:00 - 14:45

Workers' Remittances is more than a technical platform. It is a business framework for person-to-person payments. This session will guide participants through the steps to building their network of partners on the service. From choosing the remittance corridors relevant to your customers, identifying a partner, building a bilateral business agreement and go-to-market plan and how Workers' Remittances market practices bring flexibility and scalability to your service are topics that will all be covered.

• Michael Bellacosa, Director, Product Management, Treasury Services, Bank of New York Mellon
• Igor Efremov, Vice-President, Head of IT development and operation, Russlavbank
• Chris Furness, Managing Director, Transaction Banking Cash Management, Standard Chartred Bank
• Alex Lee, Head Payment Solutions, Asia Pacific, SWIFT

Wednesday 16 September, 14:00 - 15:00

SWIFT traffic is closely associated with and impacted by the economic environment. Sometimes it shows a reaction to events, sometimes it is an indication of what is going to happen. SWIFT’s ecosystem is a daily barometer of the world economic performance such as GDP growth rates in major countries and regions, economic cycles, capital and import/export flows, FX and securities trade volatility. This meeting will present the first public look at insights from new work initiated by SWIFT's business analysis team to identify correlations between SWIFT traffic and other economic data, with a focus on the Asia Pacific region. Come hear SWIFT Director André Boico launch this project with analysis of traffic flows and how it relates to market and other external economic events.

Wednesday 16 September, 14:00 - 14:45

Ensuring the highest levels of operational efficiency and minimised operational costs and risks is essential in the post-crisis financial markets. SWIFT offers a number of solutions to support you in managing process risk and maintaining strong operational risk controls. Find out how SWIFT’s solutions for portfolio reconciliation and trade processing for OTC derivatives, commodities and loans transactions can help.

Wednesday 16 September, 15:00 - 15:45

The shift to the new MX messages will impact every SWIFT user. What is the latest on deadlines and timeframes for moving from the traditional MT messages to the new MX messages? Which messages are first? When do I need to be ready and what is SWIFT doing to make this transition easy and transparent?

• Malene McMahon, Senior Business Manager, Standards, SWIFT
• Adam Moulson, Head of Standards Implementation, SWIFT

With simultaneous translation to Japanese and Mandarin.

Wednesday 16 September, 16:00 - 16:45

This session will cover the technical aspects of Workers' Remittances outlining the technical components of the service, offering an overview of a typical implementation and integration project and explaining the tools and services available from SWIFT and vendors to assist banks in their technical projects

• Paulo Bastos, Director Multidomestic Products and Projects, Banco Comercial Portugues
• Thierry Chilosi, Senior Manager, Payments Initiatives, EMEA, SWIFT
• Artur Pereira, Managing Director Geral, ACOTEL SA - Sucursal Portugal
• Dr. Mohamed Sadek, CEO, Allied Engineering Group
• Christian Sarafidis, Head of Sales Services EMEA, SWIFT

Thursday 17 September, 09:00 - 09:45

Certainty about the identity and creditworthiness of your counterparties is a top priority in the wake of the financial crisis. SWIFT has a range of solutions to support you in better managing counterparty risk. In particular, find out how SWIFT’s Collateral Management solution can help you manage information flows related to this critical activity, ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of your collateral management function.

With simultaneous translation to Japanese and Mandarin.

Thursday 17 September, 10:00 - 10:45

How will the industry meet the milestones of the Exceptions and Investigations adoption plan that will lead to the decommissioning of FIN-related messages by the end of 2012? Our panellists will explode the myth that Exceptions and Investigations is a resource-intensive project. They will share their experiences in implementing newly developed off-the-shelf or remote applications that provide the users with the necessary return. They will explain why they believe every SWIFT member can benefit from a cost-effective solution and why, in the current crisis, it should be considered a priority project by financial institutions.

• Frank Behlmer, EVP, Chief Operating Officer, Bank Operations, The Bank of New York Mellon
• Louis-Etienne Berubé, Product manager, Expertus Technologies inc.
• Rafael Duarte, Director & Global Head International Financial Institutions, Grupo Banco Popular Español
• Carlos Perez, Managing Director, Global Head of Correspondent Banking, Global Transaction Services, Citi
• Yi Zhang, Senior Manager, Operation Management, ICBC

With simultaneous translation to Japanese and Mandarin.

Thursday 17 September, 11:00 - 11:45

Alliance Lite gives you the ability to make simple payment operations with the convenience of a single point of access. Since its launch at Sibos 2008, Alliance Lite has been deployed by hundreds of users and the benefits are clear: cost reduction, operational efficiency and ease of use. But what does it really do and who is it for? If you are an existing SWIFT member, can you benefit from Alliance Lite? What models are available to software providers and banks to build on it? These and other topics will be addressed during this session.

With simultaneous translation to Japanese and Mandarin.

Thursday 17 September, 12:00 - 12:45

Implementing messaging standards raises a number of business and technical challenges, from justifying the investment to dealing with the intricacies of syntax and connectivity. How do we ensure interoperability with the widest range of counterparts? How do we keep barriers to entry low, to build critical mass and achieve the efficiency benefits that standards promise? How do we retain flexibility, while keeping costs contained? What are standards bodies doing to help implementers, and how could they do more? In this session, a panel of industry experts drawn from financial institutions and technology providers share their experience confronting these questions and provide insights into some of the answers.

• David Bannister, (Moderator) Editor, Banking Technology
• Toni Friedrich, Executive IT-Architect Payment Systems, IBM
• Irene Mermigidis, Senior Vice President - Product Management Core Products, Clearstream Banking
• Andrew Owens, Managing Director, Global Payments, SUNGARD
• Theodore Rothschild, Executive Director Treasury and Securities Services division, J.P. Morgan
• Paul Shetler, Senior director, Technology and Capital markets, Financial Services Global Business Unit, Oracle

With simultaneous translation to Japanese and Mandarin.

Thursday 17 September, 14:00 - 14:45

This session explores SWIFT's solution for authenticating corporate-to-bank transactions at a personal level. Banks have increasing security requirements to protect electronic banking channels with their corporates. They need a cost-effective mechanism to authenticate individual corporate representatives in a non-repudiable way. Corporates need a simple multi-bank solution to sign data sent to their banks over various messaging channels. SWIFT's solution relies on PKI-based tokens that corporate representatives can activate with SWIFT, register with each bank independently and use with these banks to sign transactions sent over any channel.

With simultaneous translation to Japanese and Mandarin.