Wednesday, 9 November 2022
12 pm GST

Payments Transformation Journey for Banks

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Why attend

Banks' Payments Teams are facing tremendous pressures from a multitude of industry drivers and from the expectations of customers. These range from domestic, regional, and global payment initiatives with new traditional and alternative schemes/regulations, the countdown of the ISO20022 migration, conflicting timelines across initiatives, technology shift (Cloud and API first), and the customer demands – faster, cheaper, and better services with high competition from new players and non-banking financial institutions.

To deal with these challenges effectively, Payments Teams need to have intelligent, digital tools at their disposal to drive change for immediate and future needs. To facilitate changes forward thinking payments experts are looking beyond tactical solutions to architect a Payments Transformation journey. A journey where they can leverage technologies like Cloud, RPA, AI/ML, Blockchain etc. The goal? To drive down operating costs, offer greater innovation, decrease time to market and optimize payment processing capabilities.

This webinar panel discussion aims to bring together C-Level and Senior Payments Experts as well as Technology executives for an industry dialogue to discuss, share ideas and agree on what a good Payments Transformation journey looks like.

The key take-aways

Understand current payments initiatives and the challenges that comes with it

Realize how payments initiatives are aligned with the Payment Transformation journey

Focus on how the Payment Transformation journey aligns with the Bank’s overall digital transformation

Discover what steps a bank needs to take to develop a Payments Transformation Architecture

The webinar panel

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Ghita Erling, CEO | PAYMENTS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICA

Ghita has more than 20 years of experience in Corporate and Retail Banking ranging across relationship management, operations, strategy, product, innovation, and payments with a bias towards transform or build roles.

She is the CEO of the Payments Association of South Africa, the industry body mandated by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to assist it in managing the National Payment System in line with policy objectives.

In her last role, she was responsible for building out and operationalising the payments systems for the Discovery Bank start-up. She has served as a director on the boards of BankservAfrica and SBV Services and has been a regular speaker on payments topics.

She has a master’s degree in Engineering and a diploma in flute performance. In her spare time, she serves on the Board of a conservation NGO and plays in amateur orchestras and small groups whenever she gets the chance.

Marijke Guest, CIO: Corporate Investment Banking and Group Technology Executive: Enterprise Payments | NEDBANK

Marijke Guest currently serves as the Group Technology Executive accountable for all enterprise payment enablement as well as the CIO for Corporate and Investment Banking in Nedbank.

In her capacity as payment enabler she owns the technical transformation, innovation and maintenance of Domestic Payments, Global Payments, Card, Loyalty and Rewards, Nedfleet, Realtime Payments and Cash for all regions and segments.

Prior to leading this division Ms. Guest was the lead for Card Issuing and Acquiring enablement and the Authenticated Collections program in Nedbank.

Ms. Guest has been with Nedbank since 2002 fulfilling many roles; from serving as the lead process engineer on the SwissCard international program to implementing complex payment modernization and transformation capabilities across the bank as well as being a PASA Council member.

Ms. Guest holds an MBA and brings almost three decades of experience in Payments.

Fatima Alabdulkareem, Enterprise Applications and Payment Transformation Leader | SABB

• IT professional with experience in banking and health care industry.

• Working as head of development of payment and leading the payments transformation program and leading the implementation of sarie IPS and AFAQ GCC RTGS.

• Expert in managing team of technical resources.

• Expert in giving quick tactical solution to critical problems and at the same time initiating strategic approach.

• A quick learner of emerging business models and technologies.

Séba Daher, Lead Solutions Consultant, Payments | FINASTRA

Séba Daher, Lead Solutions Consultant, Payments at Finastra covering Middle East & Africa with more than 17 years in Financial Services and Technology industries across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Séba has extensive experience in payments, technology, cybersecurity and large transformation programmes with global and regional banks and led strategic payment opportunities in the Middle East region.

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