Swift Business Forum Romania

08:30-09:00

Registration & welcome coffee

09:00-10:15

Opening plenary

Welcome note

• Dr. Radu Graţian Gheţea, Romanian Swift Member Group Chairperson

The Romanian Banking System – facts and perspectives

• Sergiu Oprescu, President Romanian Banking Association

The Swift 2020 Strategy

• Michael Formann, Head of Swift Germany & Central Europe

Traffic & Pricing Update

• André Boico, Managing Director, Head of Pricing & Business Analysis, Swift

10:15-10:45

Keynote:  The experience of corporates on Swift

• Michael Formann, Head of Swift Germany & Central Europe
• Zoltan Szücs, CFA Head of Group Cash Management, MOL GROUP

Focus Financial Crime Compliance & KYC Registry update

• Julien Laurent, Head of Compliance Solutions CEE/BNL, Financial Crime Unit, Swift

11:15-11:45

Coffee break

Session:  Turning challenges into opportunities

• Michael Formann, Head of Swift Germany & Central Europe (moderator)

Reshaping the correspondent banking model: Swift’s global payments innovation initiative

• Marjan Delatinne, Business Director gpi, Banking Initiatives EMEA, Swift

The next level for payments in Europe

• Ruxandra Avram, Head of Department, National Bank of Romania

Future of standards - ISO 20022 adoption

• Evelyne Piron, ISO 20022 Business Development, Standards, Swift

Securities market developments

• Mihaida Meila, Head of Participants and Settlement Customers Department, Depozitarul Central

Lunch

Workshop: Swift Smart, the new e-learning platform

• Benoit Pirotte, Programme Manager eLearning, Swift

Focus: Swift on distributed ledger technologies

• Damien Vanderveken, R&D, Labs and User Experience, Marketing, Swift

Coffee break

Session: Driving the digital agenda

• Rodica Tuchila, Director, Romanian Banking Association (moderator)

Eliminating barriers in the adoption of end-to-end digital solutions

• Alina Florean, Senior Project Manager, Roland Berger Romania

Developing digital channels

• Cristian Mustata, Head of Digital Strategy, BCR Banca Comerciala Romana

Payments infrastructure developments

• Ionel Dumitru, Adviser to the CEO, TransFonD

Financial services on open technologies

• Sorina Bera, CEO Allevo
   

Wrap-up and Closing remarks

Swift’s CSR Programme will support the SOS Children’s Village in Bucharest with a contribution of EUR 3,000!