Thursday, 23 March 2023
3 pm GMT | 11 am EDT

International Payments: Build, Buy or Both

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Why attend

Building an international payments offering can be complex and confusing. Identifying the right partners to work with, or areas you are capable in building yourself, is no easy task. In this Webinar our panel of payments experts will explore the benefits and pitfalls associated with building or buying an offering, and how a hybrid of both can bring benefit to organisations on this journey.

Understanding the direction of the industry as it digitises, adopts new standards, and opens innovation opportunities is important as you decide on how to enter or increase share in a market and importantly whether to build, buy or both.

Key themes

■ Build an international network of correspondents or connect to a direct liquidity provider? Or both?
■ Compliance & AML considerations
■ Network/relationship management considerations
■ Customer experience i.e. front end UX design
■ Most bang for buck, one provider doing lots vs specialist providers
■ Validating a provider: Roadmap, funding, market perception

The key take-aways

Build an international network of correspondents or connect to a direct liquidity provider? Or both?

Most bang for buck, one provider doing lots vs specialist providers

Validating a provider: Roadmap, funding, market perception

Compliance & AML considerations

The webinar panel

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Oonagh McGrane, Director FI Commercialisation | LLOYDS BANKING GROUP

Oonagh is responsible for the development of the Cash Management & Payment Proposition Lloyds Bank offers to Financial Institution Clients as well as ensuring we have the coverage we need to service the International Payments & Trade needs of Lloyds Bank customers, managing our network of partners and working with Lloyds Bank product teams on the future roadmap.

Oonagh joined Lloyds Bank in 2015 and has over 25 years’ experience in the field of International Cash Management & Payments, covering a variety of roles in Operations, Client Service, Product Management , Account Management, Propositions and Network Management.

Oonagh holds a B.A. (Hons) Degree in Applied Languages from Dublin City University and is a certified Professional Scrum Master.

Mark Hewlett, COO | UNIVERSAL PARTNERS FX

Mark has been working with Banks, Regulators, Central Banks, FMIs and a whole host of related parties in excess of 20 countries over the last 10 years for Fintechs such as Ebury, Revolut, GC Partners, BVNK and others to grow and scale internationally. As COO at Universal Partners, he is bringing his experience to a fast growing organisation who put their client's growth in international trade at the heart of everything they do. That requires solid and trusting relationships. Lots of them.

Chris Stares, Senior Solutions Architect | VALANTIC FSA

Chris has spent the past 25+ years working in the financial services I.T. sector, specifically within the financial messaging integration and straight-through processing solutions domain, with the last 7+ years being largely focused on payments integration and orchestration products and solutions. During his career, Chris has worked for financial services software solutions vendors in the UK and Australia, specialising in low-/no-code financial messaging and integration development platforms, as well as spending 7½ years on the bank side in New Zealand working for Bank of New Zealand as a senior member of the Bank's Channel Services Integration team, where he was responsible for developing and implementing the message validation and transformation components for BNZ's Payments Gateway Hub programme. Chris returned to the UK in 2012, working once more within the vendor community in solutions pre-sales and consultancy roles throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa, specialising again in low-/no-code integration solution development platforms as well as payments solutions. Since his return to Europe, Chris has worked extensively with payments solutions and products, the most recent of which being valantic FSA's modular Payments Suite, built using valantic's low-/no-code development platform, X-Gen.

Lewis Ide, Head of International - Customer Success | FORM3

Lewis Ide leads on Form3's customer success and got-to-market initiatives for International Payments, bringing the benefits of Cloud technology and API's to the International Payments arena. Prior to Form3 Lewis held a number of roles in his 5.5 years at SWIFT, most recently leading the UK & Ireland, leading strategic initiatives and client engagement in order to achieve the vision for instant and frictionless international payments. Before SWIFT, Lewis held roles across AML, Sanctions and Financial crime supporting Tier 1 organisations on their compliance journeys.

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Form3 provides Banks and regulated Fintechs across the globe an end-to-end managed payments service that delivers complete payment processing, clearing and settlement to the universe of payment schemes through a single API. Our platform handles everything so you can focus more on serving your customer’s needs and less on managing payments infrastructure.

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