8:30 – 10:00

Opening Keynote
“The profits in transaction banking value chain”

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:30

In general, we expect to discuss:

1. Findings from The Asian Banker survey on transaction banking trends in the respective city
2. Cashing in on cash management: Are FIs investing enough to enable transaction banking to function optimally on its demands?
3. Increased focus on effective counterparty and nostro accounts management and its correlation with market confidence
4. Managing liquidity efficiently with greater visibility over cash balances
5. Shift in the corporate banking paradigm for domestic banks to support their global clients
6. Recommendations for improving data availability and statistical capability at the Federal level for regulators to perform stress and scenario tests to standardise transactional banking processes
7. Identifying new markets and overcoming challenges for operating within those areas
8. Updates on the Eurozone Pay Services Directives
9. Introduction to the Reminbi and access to Chinese bond markets
10. Strengthening the value proposition of the remittance business
11. Working with non-banks in the transactional services business
12. Collaboration and competition in the financial supply value chain

Additional city-specific agenda
In addition, we expect to cover the following possible topics that may be specific to the respective cities:

Dubai

1. Building greater transparency into the business processes of FIs in the Middle East in a climate when the region is open to new risks in payment, border regulation, counterparty and operations
2. Assessing the role of the Central Bank in bolstering the impact of the international crisis on the domestic banking sector
3. Realising business opportunities in the Middle East by understanding the impact on working capital of physical supply chain risks in post-crisis

Mumbai

1. Innovation in payment systems: Reviewing RBI-led initiatives like RTGS and benefits to the Corporate
2. Financial reporting best practices

Beijing

1. Overcoming the infrastructural difficulties in setting up a trade finance systems in China owing to regulatory, technological and domestic banking pressures
2. Centralising trade processing through integrated imaging and workflow
3. Cross-border Reminbi trade settlement

Hanoi

1. Automation in the cash and payments cycle: Centralisation of P2P processes to reduce errors in STP ratio, minimising operational and administrative costs
2. Reviewing the trade finance facilitation programme by the ADB for ASEAN states

12:30 – 14:00

Sponsored Luncheon