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UPCOMING EVENTS
Rahul Bhargava, Director, Payments Markets Initiatives, Asia Pacific, SWIFT and Laetitia Moncarz, Director, Payments Markets, ASEAN, SWIFT
Venue : Stamford American Auditorium (AmCham Office, 1 Scotts Rd, #23-03 Shaw Centre)
Date : June 23, 2016
Time : 7:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Price : $0.00
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Description
In this session, we will review some of the
current trends and innovation themes around payments & settlements systems,
elaborating the same further through a couple of key payments innovation
initiatives being undertaken by SWIFT. The latter includes SWIFT’s Global
Payments Innovation Initiative (gpii), which aims to deliver an improved
cross-border payments experience globally by addressing some key challenges,
and making payments faster, more transparent and more predictable for all
stakeholders. Another area we would explore is the ongoing innovation in Real
Time Payments. Real Time Payments Systems today are evolving to provide more
than just “faster” payments, by providing more open access, simpler addressing
services, support for overlay services and integration of more intelligent
messaging.
About
the Speakers
Rahul
Bhargava
Director,
Payments Markets Initiatives, Asia Pacific
SWIFT
Rahul Bhargava is a Director for Payments
Markets Initiatives for the Asia Pacific region, and is responsible for a range
of SWIFT’s strategic payments initiatives. During his previous career, Rahul
has undertaken various leadership roles across banking, payments, fintech and
consulting firms, and has had the opportunity to work across Asia Pacific, the
Middle East and Europe in diverse engagements.
Prior to joining SWIFT, Rahul was Head of
Asia Pacific Financial Services Practice and Strategic Projects for NTT Data,
where he was responsible for establishing the banking & payments related
product and service portfolio, and leading strategic regional initiatives
across APAC. Previously, Rahul has played a key role in regional core
transformation programs for banking clients as a part of Accenture’s ASEAN
Financial Services practice and also led Core Banking & Payments Consulting
Practice within CSC India (previously Covansys).
Rahul’s initial career included Product
Management for the online inward crossborder remittances portfolio for ICICI
Bank (India’s largest private sector bank). In continuation of his Banking,
Payments and Digital experience, he has also subsequently led the Retail
Banking & Digital Channels program portfolio for the Royal Bank of Scotland
in Dubai.
Rahul has an MBA in Information Systems &
Marketing.
Laetitia
Moncarz
Director, Payments Markets, ASEAN
SWIFT
Laetitia Moncarz is a Director for Payments Markets with the ASEAN countries.
Her main focus is on SWIFT’s strategic payments initiatives related to
Correspondent Banking, Renminbi internationalization and Intraday liquidity. In
this role, Laetitia partners extensively with the banking and financial
community to support the development of their cash and payments business.
Laetitia has undertaken various positions in
the banking and consulting industries. Prior to join SWIFT, she was the Head of
Correspondent Banking for Asia Pacific at BNP Paribas Singapore, where she was
responsible for correspondent services to the BNP Paribas Group in RMB, HKD,
and INR currencies as well as services provided by correspondent banks to BNP
Paribas Asian entities. Her main focus was on the RMB development where she was
represented BNP Paribas at the RMB working group organised by the Monetary
Authority of Singapore (MAS).
Previously, Laetitia worked for Coface, an
Export Credit Agency in Singapore where she was in charge of Marketing &
Commercial operations.
Before moving to
Singapore 9 years ago, Laetitia was consultant at KPMG and Atos Consulting in
Paris where she was handling organisation and finance projects for the public
sector and government entities.