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Venue

Auditorium National Bank of Belgium
Rue Montagne aux Herbes Potagères 61
1000 Brussels, Belgium

Format

Brussels

Date

Friday, December 9, 2016

In cooperation with

SUERF, Belgian Financial Forum (BFF) and Eggsplore will hold a joint one-day conference in Brussels on 9 December 2016 as part of the 80th Anniversary of the Revue Bancaire/Bank- en Financiewezen and the Revue de Droit bancier et financier/Bank- en Financieel Recht. The conference will feature a keynote session by Jan Smets, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium.

Program

Time
Friday, 9 December 2016
08:30
Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00
Opening and Welcome
Jean Hilgers, President of the Belgian Financial Forum, Member of the Executive Committee of the National Bank of Belgium
Urs W. Birchler, SUERF President and University of Zurich
09:15
2016 SUERF Annual Lecture

FinTech and Central Banks

Jan Smets, Governor of the National Bank of Belgium presentation
09:45
Session 1 - The Threats and Opportunities of Fintech: Is Fintech an Enablor and or a Disruptor?
Chair: Frank Lierman, Chairman Editorial Board of Bank- en Financiewezen/Revue bancaire et financière, BFF and Vice President of SUERF

Fintech or Tech for Fin?

Jürgen Ingels, Managing Director of Smartfin Capital, founder of Clear2Pay presentation

The impact of Fintech on the Retail Banking

Marc Niederkorn, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company presentation
10:45
Coffee
11:00
Session 2 - Testimonies of Fintech Startups and disruptive Financial Institutions
Chair: Wim De Waele, CEO of Eggsplore
Jean-Charles Velge and Quentin Colmant, Co-Founders & Directors, Qover presentation
Matthieu Remy, Co-Founder and CEO, Easyvest presentation
Stefan Dierckx, Co-Founder, The Glue
Boris Bogaert, Co-Founder and CEO, Xpenditure
Miriam Wohlfahrt, Founder and CEO, Ratepay
Wim Derikinderen, Co-Founder, Xpenditure presentation
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Keynote Speech
Peter Kerstens, Head of Financial Technology Task Force and Advisor on Cybersecurity, European Commission Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
14:15
Session 3 - Economic and Legal Vision on Fintech
Chair: Ernest Gnan, Head, Economic Analysis Division, OeNB and SUERF

The impact of technology on the economy

Geert Gielens, Chief Economist of Belfius Bank & Insurance presentation

The economic impact of Fintech

Alvaro Martin, Chief Economist on Digital Regulation of BVVA presentation

The impact of the upcoming Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on FinTech

Tanguy Van Overstraeten, Partner Linklaters presentation
15:30
Coffee
15:45
Session 4 - Vision of leading banks, insurance companies and asset management companies
Chair: tbc,
Rudi Peeters, CIO of KBC Group
Michael Anseeuw, CEO of Hello Bank, subsidiary of BNPParibas Group
Jörg Hessenmüller, Head of Group Strategy & Development of Commerzbank
Gunter Uytterhoeven, Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Transformation, AXA
Frederik Meheus, Global ex-US head of Retail Technology, BlackRock
17:00
End of the Conference
17:15
80th Anniversary of the Revue bancaire et financière / Bank- en Financiewezen and Revue de Droit bancaire et financier / Bank- en Financieel Recht
Frank Lierman, Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Revue bancaire et financière / Bank- en Financiewezen
Jean-Pierre Buyle, Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Revue de Droit bancier et financier / Bank- en Financieel Recht
17:45
Start of Reception
Tags:
AI, digitalisation and innovation Financial Markets and Institutions Financial Services and Business models

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