Tuesday, 9 June 2020
12pm London | 2pm Riyadh | 3pm Dubai

The Path Back to Economic Restoration

Addressing Evolving Corporate Needs:
Key Actions Banks in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East Need to Take.

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Why attend

Until recently, Corporate Banks in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East have enjoyed a wave of healthy returns and have played a critical role in the region's banking sector, accounting for more than 60% of banking revenues.

Corporate banks are now taking an even more critical - and central - role in economic restoration, given today’s volatile landscape. A new environment is emerging, that is increasingly dependent on funding, reliant on better liquidity management, and facing rising credit risk. Clarity around working capital has become critical. And the need for capital clarity has shifted from driving growth and expansion, to now driving restoration.

This has placed a greater impetus on solving pre-existing legacy system limitations in order to deliver speed, efficiency and the insights that Corporates need right now. Transformation that was already taking hold in this region, will now accelerate further and in the process, expose critical gaps. But in this journey back to recovery, what are the key areas banks should be re-examining and strengthening?

The key take-aways

How to deliver faster, more diversified funding through an intelligent credit-decisioning framework

How to enable a much closer grip on liquidity and cash management through analytics-driven insights

How to build the right foundation through the right incremental payment modernization strategy

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The webinar panel

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Hariraj Subramanian, SVP & Head of Cash Management Products, Transaction Banking | NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK

Hariraj joined National Commercial Bank (NCB) in June 2019 as SVP, Head of Cash Management Product and he is responsible for developing and executing key strategy of the Bank to develop innovative propositions for their corporate clients encompassing from payments to liquidity management. Before joining NCB, Hariraj has worked with Gulf International Bank (GIB) and First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) and was instrumental in building regional proposition for the Bank including cash management products and corporate channels. Prior to shifting his focus to Middle East, he was with CIMB Group managing corporate clients across Asia Pacific in the Transaction Banking space. Hariraj has special interest around innovation / fintech collaborations and the impact on the corporate payment space. He was instrumental in first live implementation of Blockchain with Ripple for cross border payments in the region

Khaled AlBasias, Head of GTB, Corporate Investments | DEUTSCHE BANK

Khaled joined Deutsche Bank in 2015. He holds a Bachelor’s degree of Software Engineering as well as Master degree in Computer Science. With a long track record in cash management, Mr. AlBasias has been involved in several related strategic initiatives including product development and risk coordination for trade finance and supply chain products.

Phil Knowles, Partner | KPMG

Phil started his career with KPMG in Sydney and has subsequently worked with the KPMG offices in London, Dubai and East Africa before joining KPMG in Saudi Arabia over a year ago. He also previously worked for Standard Chartered Bank in Dubai and Singapore. A Fellow Chartered Accountant, Phil has specialised in the Financial Services industry for over 20 years. His particular focus has been in emerging and frontier markets, including the Far East, South Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa in addition to the Middle East. His clients have included global and regional banks, asset managers and central banks. He is a qualified auditor and consults to his clients on strategy, risk, compliance, controls and governance; and regularly talks on disruption of the industry brought about by technological innovations, and the imperative for change.

Parag Ekbote, Head Business Development - Corporate Banking for APJMEA | ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES

Parag is a proven leader and comes with over 20 years of banking technology experience. He has been responsible for building and rapidly scaling businesses for leading banking technology companies namely, Fundtech, Misys (both part of Finastra) and Intellect Design across APAC, ANZ, EMEA and South Asia markets. Parag comes with a deep domain understanding of the Corporate and Transaction Banking market and has been a regular speaker at industry forums such as SIBOS, The Asian Banker Summit, Euro Finance, and the ICC Summit among others.

He has a good understanding of Transaction Banking, Cash Management, the payments domain in Corporate Banking, and Retail Lending in Consumer Banking.

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Oracle Corporate Banking Solutions: Helping Banks Clear a Path to Capital Clarity
A fundamental approach of our Corporate Banking product suite is to equip banks with modern, componentized solutions that enable them to drive better working capital clarity, and in turn build impactful relationships with their Corporate customers.

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