Finastra Forum.
Asia Pacific.

12:00 – 12:15

Welcome: Regional Leadership

• Wissam Khoury, SVP and GM, International Global Sales, Finastra
• Luc Hovhanessian, MAAP Sales Vice President, Finastra
• Margaret Franco, Chief Marketing Officer, Finastra

Keynote: Accelerating Growth in the New World

As global economies and sentiment begin to edge upwards, institutions have emerged in a stronger position than analysts and economists first anticipated. But, with every crisis leading to an inevitable uptick in innovation, is the world they are reentering the same as it was, pre-pandemic? Join Eric Duffaut as he discusses what’s changed in financial services, and how to leverage the changes to ignite growth.

• Eric Duffaut, Chief of Sales & GTM Excellence EVPs, Finastra

Banking as a Service: The $7 Trillion Opportunity

Banking as a Service (BaaS) is set to rock financial services more than any other disruptive force seen this decade. BaaS providers, embedders and orchestrators debate on the importance and impact of BaaS on financial services. Who is leading the charge? What are the steps to play and win? How will you survive and thrive?

• Margaret Franco, Chief Marketing Officer, Finastra
• Angus Ross, Chief Revenue Officer, BaaS, Finastra
• Jeannette Kescenovitz, Senior Director, Solution Management, BaaS & Orchestration, Finastra
• Kelvin Tan, Managing Director, Global Head of Standard Chartered nexus
• Shailesh Naik, Founder and CEO, MatchMove

13:15 – 13:25

BREAK

Welcome Back

• Margaret Franco, Chief Marketing Officer at Finastra

Banking as a Service: Technology as an Enabler

Technology is the facilitator of unbundled financial services, it will open the door for financial institutions to enter the BaaS realm. Angus's tech talk will discuss questions about tech stacks, data and partnerships to be successful. You’ll also see a demo showcasing Finastra’s new BaaS solutions.

• Angus Ross, Chief Revenue Officer, BaaS, Finastra

A greener cloud: Aligning your ESG strategy to sustainable technologies

The ever-present risks from climate change have made sustainability a key topic for financial institutions. Companies have historically driven financial, security and agility benefits through the cloud, and there is a clear ESG benefit to adopting a cloud first approach too. Our panel of experts will explore learnings from COP26, opportunities for the financial services sector and how cloud and managed services can accelerate a bank’s journey to net-zero.

• Jay Mukhey, Senior Director - ESG, Finastra
• Neil Budd, VP - Global Head of Managed Services, Finastra
• Michael Araneta, Associate Vice President – Financial Insights, IDC Asia Pacific
• James Elwes, Chief Operating Officer, HSBC Indonesia

Closing remarks

• Wissam Khoury, SVP and GM, International Global Sales, Finastra
• Luc Hovhanessian, VP - MAAP Sales, Finastra
• Margaret Franco, Chief Marketing Officer, Finastra

Breakout Session A

Orchestrating the Digital Trade Ecosystem

Breakout Session B

Fintech Showcase

Breakout Session A

Orchestrating lending in 2022: growth-hack

Breakout Session B

Cross Border Payments

Breakout Session A

Orchestrating cash & liquidity for corporate and commercial banking clients

Breakout Session B

Payments and the Partner Ecosystem

Breakout Session A

(Risk) Balance Sheet Optimization: Using innovation at the heart of your organization

Breakout Session B

Journey to the cloud and associated regulatory implications

Breakout Session A

Digital Treasury: easier said than done. Until now.

Breakout Session B

How should banks be preparing to leverage Crypto?

15:00 – 15:30

Orchestrating the Digital Trade Ecosystem

Orchestrating digital trade finance in a new regulatory landscape

• Carlos Teixeira, Strategic Sales Executive, Finastra

15:35 – 16:05

Orchestrating lending in 2022: growth-hack

The key trending impacting CLO (Commercial Loan Origination) automation is the digitalization of the borrower experience, the need to support a remote workforce and lenders’ embrace of APIs, all in response to the pandemic. The current market for CLO automation is estimated to be nearly $1 billion and this will grow to $2.5 billion by 2026 (AiteNovarica). In order to remain relevant, banks clients cannot continue to operate in a fragmented landscape with increasing costs and risks. Doing so will risk losing market share and falling short of ever-growing client expectations. To meet the needs of clients, banks require the ability to support multi-product origination with flexible workflow and customization capabilities, digitization through the lending lifecycle, the ability to manage complex borrower/deal structures, transparency throughout the application process and functionality to support the credit functions. The way forward is end-to-end lending, connecting and integrating the entire corporate loan process from loan origination through decisioning to servicing. All, seamlessly integrated.

• Carlos Teixeira, Strategic Sales Executive, Finastra
• Tim Tyler, Solutions Consulting - Senior Principal, Finastra
• James Mellor, Principal Solutions Consultant, Finastra

16:10 – 16:40

Orchestrating cash & liquidity for corporate and commercial banking clients

With many banks having had to accelerate their digitalisation journeys to support operational change over the last two years, is it now time to once again look ahead and see what the future can bring? We discuss where banks are on their journey to normalise the new, how they can enhance their cash and liquidity services and ask whether being a collaborator takes on a whole new meaning in an open world.

• Carlos Teixeira, Strategic Sales Executive, Finastra
• Tim Tyler, Solutions Consulting - Senior Principal, Finastra
• Joost Bergen, Founder and CEO of Cash Dynamics

16:45 – 17:15

(Risk) Balance Sheet Optimization: Using innovation at the heart of your organization

Although the size and complexity vary between local and global financial institutions, the balance sheet and its performance remain at the heart of every financial institution. Yet, due to its complexity and ever-increasing number of influencing factors, balance sheet management is still largely manual, with its performance driven by intuition and experience of the management. Fortunately, the latest advances in (cloud) computing and machine learning make it possible to crack the complicated optimization problems within a reasonable period of time. In this session you will learn how banks can use innovative technologies and AI to optimize their balance sheets and make the best decisions for both, their customers and the bank’s bottom line.

• Sudon Chang, Solution Consulting Director, Finastra
• Roni Saroniemi, Head of Business Development, Detech
• Thomas Krabichler, OST University

17:20 – 17:50

Digital Treasury: easier said than done. Until now.

Banks need to rely on systems in order to automate their business. Operational risk, scale and cost will not allow you to grow unless you automate and digitize. However, having systems come with many issues. On premises, large and complicated software packages can become a huge burden to banks, new functionality painful to implement, each $1 spent on a software license can mean another $10 to $20 spent to run and operate it. Meanwhile digital banks, without the handicap of the old, are very quick to market. In this session we will see how Finastra is leading the way on simplifying the architecture at financial institutions by bringing to life the “as a service” play. We will cover how Risk as a Service, Collateral as a Service and Regulatory Reporting as a Service can get you close, and faster, to having Treasury as a Service.

• Pedro Porfirio, VP- Capital Markets, Finastra
• Justin Taylor, Managing Director, Vector Risk
• Chris Rojek, Senior Director- Solutions Consulting, Finastra
• Ihyeeddine Elfeki, DXC

Fintech Showcase

An exclusive selection of Fintechs take the stage to showcase their innovative applications built on Finastra’s open platform FusionFabric.cloud – find out how their apps can enhance your core solution and bring innovation to your customers today.

• Rommel Aceron, Global Head - Solutions Consulting, Modefin
• Justin Taylor, Managing Director, Vector Risk
• Alexandre Guidou, Financial Services Alliance Manager, Net Guardians
• Nicola Young, Solution Marketing Lead, Finastra

15:35 – 16:05

Cross Border Payments

As ISO compliant real time infrastructures rollout across Asia, the use cases for real time cross border functionality are becoming a reality. Join us to hear how banks can turn their investment in instant payments profitable.

• Anders Olofsson, Industry Principal, Finastra
• David Brown, Senior Principal, Finastra

16:10 – 16:40

Payments and the Partner Ecosystem

Innovation is rarely a one person job. Finastra opens the door to a payments ecosystem that delivers the latest in technology developments and API driven tools. Join the conversation to discover how to tackle the industries' biggest challenges.

• Ajay Pundir, Head of Payments (Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific), Finastra
• Alexandre Guidou, Financial Services Alliance Manager, NetGuardians
• Chetan Parekh, Head of Financial Services (UK & Europe), Mindtree 

16:45 – 17:15

Journey to the cloud and associated regulatory implications

The session will discuss core banking migration to the cloud and related regulatory implications with our special guest panel. They will also discuss what are the key obstacles/challenges do financial institutions need to mitigate against when migrating to the cloud and examine the benefits of a platform-based ecosystem that can help drive digital innovation and customer engagement.

• Karim El Mourabet, Senior Manager, Solution Consulting, Finastra
• Srivatsan Venkataramani, Vice President, WiPro
• Connie Leung, Senior Director, Financial Services Business Lead - Asia, Microsoft

17:20 – 17:50

How should banks be preparing to leverage Crypto?

This panel discussion will discuss how should banks be preparing to leverage crypto and provide new services to retail and commercial clients. We will also explore how to remove friction and latency from existing payments and how FIs can position themselves as providers of trusted, secure, and user-friendly solutions for digital ecosystems and consumers.

• Hamid Nirouzad, Retail Banking Sales Head, Finastra
• Chi Tran, Liquid
• Max Rothman, Head of Digital Assets & Currencies, Checkout.com
• Zennon Rhodes Kapron, Director, Kapronasia