Wednesday, 07 May, 2025
1 pm CET

Reimagining Partnerships: Building Embedded Finance Ecosystems with Telecoms

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Why attend

The embedded finance opportunity in telecom is real, but it won't be unlocked through fragmented vendor stacks or transactional partnerships. To drive recurring value, telcos and financial technology providers must rethink how they collaborate, building trust, integration, and shared outcomes into the core of their partnerships.

This session will bring together ecosystem leaders from telecom and fintech to explore what it takes to launch embedded credit and financial services with telcos, not just for them. From aligning incentive models and governance, to ensuring compliance in multi-party environments, the panel will unpack the structural and cultural shifts required to succeed.

Whether you’re launching lending-as-a-service or embedding credit into telco apps, this discussion will help you shape partnerships that last and scale. Join this conversation to benchmark your approach, learn from pioneers, and uncover practical strategies for successful co-creation.

The key take-aways

What a scalable, embedded finance partnership model between telcos and fintechs looks like

How to align revenue sharing, compliance, and tech integration from the start

Common failure points in telco-finance collaborations and how to avoid them

Actionable steps for financial product teams to engage, co-build, and co-deliver with telecom partners

The webinar panel

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Renaud Tilmans, Enterprise Services & Partnerships Lead | PROXIMUS

With over 30 years of experience leading large teams in the fast-moving telecom industry, I am dedicated to enhancing customer operations and driving innovation. At Proximus Group, my teams and I put customer-centricity at the heart of everything we do, leveraging AI and data analytics to continuously improve the customer experience for all customer segments.

As the head of Enterprise Telco Services & Operations, I bring together enterprise telco expertise and robust operations to deliver top-tier telco products and industrialized IT solutions.

Beyond telecom, I am passionate about e-Health, e-Education, and digital inclusion: key drivers of societal progress. Reducing the digital divide and expanding digital education are priorities, alongside our commitment to sustainability. We have launched multiple initiatives to reduce our carbon footprint, particularly in logistics, and will continue to push forward.

A firm believer that success comes from embracing change, empowering teams, working with agility, and taking smart risks, I apply the same mindset to my personal life. As a sportive and dynamic person, I value resilience, discipline, and continuous improvement – qualities that drive both professional and personal growth.

By combining technological excellence with a strong human-centered approach, I’m convinced that we can make a real difference for our customers, our teams, and society as a whole.

Fredrik Christofferson, Head of B2B Financial Services | TELIA FINANCE

Experienced business and results-driven leader in a wide range of banking and finance-related areas. In recent years, the focus has been on the Payments area and the management of products and IT-organizations in transformation. Management of strategic issues such as development and divestment. In previous years also Head of Corporate Products and extensive business experience from being Area Manager in Western Sweden, Branch Manager for three corporate-heavy Handelsbanken branches. Several board assignments in both commercial and systemically critical companies.

Imran Vilcassim, Chief Commercial Officer, Digital Platforms | BPC BANKING TECHNOLOGIES

Imran Vilcassim is a veteran of 23+ years in the technology industry having worked for global companies such as Microsoft, Temenos & is currently contracted as Solutions Director for Digital Platforms for Banking & Governments at BPC AG, one of the largest digital payment companies in the world, headquartered in Switzerland. A specialist in Technology-based innovation & growth, Imran spent 13+ years with Microsoft in Sri Lanka and in Southeast asia in the areas of Technology Strategy, Sales, Channels & Marketing in enterprises & SMEs and was the Country Manager for Microsoft in Sri Lanka & Maldives from 2013 – to 2015. He also played a key role in Southeast Asia emerging markets in scaling & growing Microsoft’s Cloud Business for Office365 & Azure in Enterprise & SME.

Imran, having left Microsoft in 2017, joined Temenos in 2018 ( World’s No.1 Banking Software Company) to setup its Sri Lanka operations as Country Manager for Sri Lanka & Maldives. He contributed to significant growth in these markets within a short period of time through the acquisition of new customers for Core Banking, Digital Banking, Risk & Compliance Platforms in Sri Lanka & Maldives. Later, as the Head of Sales for South Asia for new business, he helped drive further growth in these markets for Temenos. Having left Temenos in 2022, Imran is currently a Global Solutions Director for Digital Platforms at BPC AG, a worldwide leader in Digital Payments with 400+ customers in 120+ countries.

Imran also has a keen interest in Blockchain and is heavily involved in building awareness and communities in Blockchain applications for Financial Services & Governments. Some of these include Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), Blockchain-based payments, National eKYC Platforms, Self-Sovereign IDs (SSID), National ID Platforms, Trade Finance, Digital Assets (Cryptocurrencies & NFTs), and Decentralized Finance (Defi), Custodian Services for Digital Assets & creating immersive applications in the emerging world of the Metaverse.

Imran was also part of the committee appointed by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to advise and formulate a policy for Open Banking. Imran also sits in the board of two companies in HR Technology & Biometrics. He is also an advisor at a start-up in the space of Web3. Imran believes that the future is in Decentralization and the power of Blockchain enables this. Countries will benefit significantly by incorporating blockchain in their strategy to drive economic growth.

This webinar is in partnership with

BPC BANKING TECHNOLOGIES

Founded in 1996, BPC is a proven industry leader that is shaping the world of transactions with quick, safe and easy payment processing. With a focus on exceptional technology development and customer service, BPC helps tier-1, tier-2 banks, fintechs, SMEs, governments, national switches and businesses to deliver innovative and best-in-class proven solutions that fit with today’s consumer lifestyle when banking, shopping, or moving in both urban and rural areas.

With more than 500 customers across 140 countries, BPC collaborates with all ecosystem players to deliver services for the digital world. Its core product SmartVista suite comprises cutting-edge banking, commerce, and mobility platforms that enable innovative solutions for digital banking, ATM and switching, payments processing, card, and fraud management, financial inclusion, merchant portals, sofpos, transport, and smart cities.

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