Digital Payments 2020 - The future of Payments

This digital payment training program will examines the current state of the payments industry - from the complexity of the current payments landscape, the growing range of bank and non-bank participants, the ever-increasing range of payments methods, interfaces and systems, open banking, regulation and the future payments scene.

• The growing complexity of payments networks
• The effect of consumer preferences
• The threat from new entrants
• How banks are responding to the changing scene
• Open banking
• The future of global non-cash payments
• Current regulatory & industry initiatives

The aim of this webinar is to provide a comprehensive understanding of today’s payments infrastructures together with a considered view as to where the payments industry is heading.

Technology, innovations and new participants have changed payments forever. The pace of change is ever accelerating. What was big, bright and new yesterday is old-hat today.

Banks, non-banks and even big tech are all vying for a dominant position in this critical field, which lies at the heart of all activities that involve a payment. Regulators too have joined in the fray.

• So, what does the future hold? Join us and find out.
• Do you understand the full range of payments now available?
• Are you aware of all the new initiatives in the local and international payments space?
• What new features in mobile payments are available?
• Do you know who all the players are in the new payments world?
• What are the risk factors to all the participants in this new payments arena?
• How is regulation going to affect all the participants?
• What new initiatives are in the payments pipeline?
   

• Bankers
• Credit Unions
• Payments operators
• Credit card operators
• Multinational corporations
• Commercial firms
• Import/export firms
• Money managers
• Insurance companies
• Government and central banks
• Compliance managers
• Compliance analyst/investigators
• Risk managers
• Due diligence departments or individuals
• Financial intermediaries
• Finance officers
• Staff from the commercial and retail banks
• Foreign exchange dealers and brokerage companies

Stanley Epstein is a Principal Associate and Director of Citadel Advantage Ltd. Citadel Advantage works with banks, financial institutions and startups to make them safer and more profitable, through consulting and training in the banking and payments GRC (Governance, Risk Management and Compliance) areas.

Stanley has had more than 40 years of banking and IT experience, 33 of which were with the Standard Bank of South Africa. Additionally, over the years he has filled industry level roles, holding several key positions including that of Chairman of the Payment Association of South Africa (PASA) Risk Committee and representing South Africa at two sessions, in New York, of UNCITRAL (the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law).

He holds a Master Degree in Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (with Majors in Accounting and Economics), both from the University of South Africa, Pretoria.

Stanley has had extensive exposure to banking practice and banking operations in a number of countries including the USA, UK, South Africa, Europe and Australia. He has also acted as advisor to a number of central banks on payment systems, oversight, policy and payments risk issues.

More recently, he spent time in the high-tech sector as a payment systems designer and consultant to a global payments software developer.