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Anil Aggarwal, Founder & Chairman at Money20/20

Anil's Bio:

Anil Aggarwal has been an innovator and leader in payments and financial services for more than 15 years. He has raised more than $75m in funding from prominent investment firms for a series of ventures, all of which had successful exits, including to Google and TSYS.

Anil is currently the Chairman of Money20/20, an event he founded which today is the world's largest for innovation in payments and financial services. He is also a Venture Partner at Oak HC/FT, a $500m venture growth equity fund.

Previously, Anil was Global Head of Business Development for Google Wallet, which he joined following the acquisition of TxVia, a processing technology company for which he served as Chairman and CEO. Prior organizations that Anil has founded and led include Clarity Payment Solutions (acquired by TSYS), Prepaid Media--which created Prepaid Expo and Paybefore (acquired by Informa) and the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association (NBPCA) trade group.

A graduate of Boston University School of Law, Anil splits his time between New York City and London.

In 2016, global eCommerce sales are expected to reach just shy of $2 trillion; Africa represents only about 2% of this. What is driving the eCommerce environment in Africa however, is the continuing rise of mobile connectivity and the rapid development of FinTech products. Just over 80% of African adults do not have access to traditional banking, yet the continent boasts more than 220 million registered mobile money accounts. Tapping into this increasingly connected and tech-savvy market is the focal point for all eCommerce vendors.

From our findings at the 2nd eCommerce Africa Confex in February 2016 it was clear that the next step in our evolution would be to include a FinTech/mobile payments focus. Out of hours of discussion with numerous industry leaders, the eCommerce Africa Confex 2017, powered by Kinetic, will now incorporate Money Africa.

The rise of telecom-driven financial services has left many banks and financial institutions chasing the market. FinTech products are creating a cashless society, facilitating borderless transactions, and encouraging frictionless peer-to-peer financing.

In East Africa alone, over $3 million worth of transactions are expected to take place through FinTech platforms every hour, every day. The future of financial services and payments is geared towards customer service, driving loyalty, creating new revenue streams and services, and banking the informal trading sector.

Money Africa 2017 will examine how your existing business should align itself with this junction of mobile, retail and financial services, marketing capabilities, customer data and peripheral technology.

The eCommerce conference sessions will examine various aspects of development in the industry: how online and mobile retailers are capitalising on growth opportunities; how omni-channel retailers are moving into a digital space; where the consumer is driving their own experience; the realities and challenges of cross-border expansion; and overcoming fulfilment concerns and driving logistics in the real world. 

The Annual eCommerce Africa Confex, powered by Kinetic for a 3rd year, will again take place at the CTICC on 22-23 February 2017.

For more information, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit www.ecommerce-africa.com

 

 

Daniel Chatelain, the Managing Director of The BayPay Forum, will speak with other senior executives from the Banking and Fintech industry about

THE FINTECH REVOLUTION: How Can the Financial Services Industry Benefit from the Rise of Digital Disruption?

The Event is organized by ACG, the Association for Corporate Growth.

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THE FINTECH REVOLUTION:
How Can the Financial Services Industry Benefit from the Rise of Digital Disruption?

Guest Moderator:
Sean Minnihan, GCA Savvian
Managing Director and Global Head of Financial Technology

Expert Panelists:
Vishal Ranjane, Protiviti
Managing Director – Risk and Compliance

Edward (EJ) Achtner, Bank of America
Head of Digital Strategy, Innovation & Partnerships

Nima Ghamsari, Blend Labs, Inc.
Chief Executive Officer

Kaushal Pandia, Bank of the West
Head of Digital, Wealth Management

Daniel Chatelain, The BayPay Forum
Managing Director

 

Our expert panelists will discuss the opportunities, threats and the disruptive effects that dramatic technology change, shifts in customer expectations and the regulatory response to the financial crisis have had on the financial services industry. We will explore some of the considerations financial institutions should take into account to successfully position and compete with the new breed of hyper-competitive players. In doing so, we will cover innovation and its intrinsic correlation with agility as well as explore recent developments in growth markets. We will conclude with a few thoughts on the ingredients required for a stable financial environment, focusing more specifically on the role of regulators and the constant struggle to achieve the ideal balance between innovation and regulation.

It is clear from all these interactions that the industry faces an unprecedented series of threats:

* New, agile and hitherto largely unregulated players are emerging and are disintermediating the traditional incumbents

* Regulation is making it harder to innovate and grow

* Legacy strategy, infrastructure and thinking are preventing the existing players from responding aggressively to these threats * Potential partnerships between  traditional banks and FinTech firms.

 

Here is an article to consider…
http://www.businessinsider.com/technology-is-changing-the-financial-services-industry-2016-1


Event Details:
Check-in/Networking: 5:00pm
Panel Discussion: 6:15pm
Closing Remarks: 7:30pm

Registration Fees:
ACG Member/Guests: $50
Early Stage Company Executives: Complimentary
Non-Members: $75


ASSOCIATION FOR CORPORATE GROWTH
For further information, please contact:
ACG San Francisco, Inc. - Rich Brown, Chapter Executive
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Tel. 415. 213-5729

Thad Peterson, Senior Analyst at Aite Group

Thad's Bio:

Thought leader with a proven track record of identifying and developing new opportunities and technologies in payments and financial services. Experience includes partner/managing director roles at strategy consulting firms, CEO for a database marketing organization and a POS loyalty startup, head of strategy for a loyalty company serving financial services, and CMO for a cross border remittance company and two retail banks. Accomplishments include development of successful long term strategies and successful launch of profitable new products and services in retail banking, payment card issuing and processing, mobile and online commerce, and loyalty. Acknowledged expert in mobile commerce and payments, the retailer’s perspective on commerce and the evolution of the user experience in payments and commerce.

Jennifer Hughes, Business Development - Americas at VIX Verify

Jennifer's Bio:

Jennifer has over 20 years of business, management consulting and information technology with global financial institutions; including JPMorgan, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Fidelity Investments, and GE Capital. She possesses deep expertise in client onboarding practices, financial technologies, and US market regulatory requirements.


Here are the links to the bios we received from the speakers and panelists. They are listed in the same order as the agenda for the event.




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John Perry, President & Chief Executive Officer at Bluefin Payment Systems

John's Bio:

John leads all aspects of Bluefin Payment Systems’ strategic planning, including spearheading key alliances and acquisitions. Prior to joining Bluefin, John served as CEO of iPay Technologies; EVP of Ruesch International; CEO of Spectrum; and President and COO of NOVA Information Systems.

Bluefin specializes in PCI-validated Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) integrated and stand-alone solutions for retail, mobile, call center and kiosk/unattended environments, and secure Ecommerce technologies including transparent redirect and tokenization. Bluefin is a Participating Organization (PO) of the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) and is headquartered in Atlanta, with offices in New York, Chicago, Tulsa and Waterford, Ireland. For more information, please visit http://www.bluefin.com/.

Shirish Arashanapalli, CEO and Founder at TrendBrew, Inc

Shirish's Bio:

Shirish has 20+ years experience as Entrepreneur, Executive and IT/Business Strategy Consultant.

Shirish has experience in Payments, Loyalty, Manufacturing, Distribution/Logistics, Retail, Telecom, Financial, Travel, Energy, Home Builder, Construction, HR, Healthcare and Education Industry domains for companies like GE Energy, CVSCaremark, T-Mobile, Chase Paymentech, Compucredit, Randstad, Academy Sports, etc.

Shirish was CTO for a NewYork based startup to build ‘Loyalty and Mobile Payments Platform’ and most recently launched TrendBrew. TrendBrew is a social commerce platform connecting shoppers with influencers and retailers in the context of trending products, best offers and to drive revenue for retailers. TrendBrew is set out to realize online to offline product discovery and frictionless payments.

  1. Panelist - Michelangelo Ho - Atlanta Technology Development Center (ATDC) - Bio
  2. A helicopter view of Consumer Payment Innovation
  3. Bios from our “Coming soon to a provider near you”: Faster Payment - What it is, where it is in the US and what it means to the payments eco-system going forward San Francisco, CA - June 9, 2016 event
  4. Moderator - Peter Ehmke - Edgar, Dunn Company - Bio

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