Panel 1 – The status of regulatory landscape in Europe (PSD3, PSR, FIDA) and global regulatory trends
Speakers:
Ionut Horatau – Expert – Payments Oversight – NBR Payments Oversight Department
Ralf Ohlausen – president of the European Association of TPPs
Arturo Gonzales Mac Dowell – president of the Asociación Española de Fintech
Panagiotis Kriaris – Head of Business Development at Unzer
Moderator: Alin Iacob – Chair of the Financial Services User Group – European Commission, representing counsumers
Panel 2 – The state of digitalization in Romania
Speakers:
Sorin Florescu – Director – Integrated Supervision Department – ASF
Catalin Giulescu – MAI – Direcția Generală pentru Evidența Persoanelor
Iustina Macovei – Competition Council
Moderator: Nic Balaceanu – board member Rofin.Rech
Panel 3 – Making banking not just digital but personal
Speakers:
Radu Topliceanu – Executive Vice-President Masreq (EAU)
Tolga Banyocu – Deputy General Manager – Garanti BBVA Romania
Artem Didushko – Head of Digital Moldindconbank (Republic of Moldova)
Anca Nutiu – Executive Director Retail Customers Value Management at BRD
Florian Teleaba – Principal, Business Development Lead, Kearney
Moderator: Sorin Mirea – Commercial Director România & Moldova at Finshape
Panel 4 – Trends in digital payments
Speakers:
Ernest Puspok – Business Development Director CEE – Worldline Financial Services
Augustin Dobre – CEO SIBS România
Catalin Cretu General Manager, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia at Visa Europe
Balazs Polonkai – Sales Director – Banking & Payment Services THALES
Dariuzs Mazurkiewicz – CEO BLIK
Moderator: Daniel Nicolescu – CEO Symphopay
Panel 5 – Financial inclusion: how API-based banking can help?
Speakers:
Cosmin Cosma – CEO – Finqware
Mihael Mihaylov – Co-founder & COO Iris Solutions
Gabriel Pralea – Sales and Distribution Director & Transformation Program Business Director, CEC Bank
Emil Ciorîia – Financial Inclusion Coordinator, Romanian Post
Vladimir Pintea – VP Open Banking Engineering and Payments, Europe – Trovata
Moderator: Ana Maria Georgescu – board member Rofin.Fintech
Panel 6 – Next gen payments infrastructure
Speakers:
Panagiotis Chalkias – CEO, CEE at Transaction Systems
Igor Zganjer – Head of Merchant Acquiring CEE at Global Payments
Utku Ogrendil – CEO of Paypoint Romania
Velin Ganev – CEO of Danubius
Horia Grozea – Business Development Director Netopia Mobilpay
Liviu Anghel – Deputy General Manager Inform Lykos
Moderator: Claudia Chiper – Partner of WolfTheis
Panel 7 – Web 3.0 in finance: DeFi, digital assets tokenization, stablecoins, CBDCs, blockchain payments infrastructure
Speakers:
Samid Amnon – CEO of BitMint
Felix Crisan – CEO Netopia
Nikola Skoric – CEO Electrocoin
Eliad Saporta – CEO of Coriunder
David Birch – International Keynote Speaker, Global Advisor and Investor in Digital Financial Services
Moderator: Arjun Vir Singh – Arthur D. Little
Here is the official Banking 4.0 channel on youtube, where you can subscribe and find all video from the event.
Banking 4.0 – „how was the experience for you”
„So many people are coming here to Bucharest, people that I see and interact on linkedin and now I get the change to meet them in person. It was like being to the Football World Cup but this was the World Cup on linkedin in payments and open banking.”
Many more interesting quotes in the video below: