DISRUPTING THE WORLD WE KNOW They made their money by using financial technology in online platforms ALASTAIR LUKIES Business Ambassador to British Prime Minister on FinTech MARCUS SWANEPOEL Co-founder and CEO, BitX PINAR EMİRDAĞ CEO Complymatic, Co-Founder, Fintechpark PETER RANDALL CEO, SETL WIM RAYMAEKERS Global Head of Banking Market, SWIFT ŞEVKET BAŞEV Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, Multinet Up
ISTANBUL TALKS 2016 CONFERENCE Istanbul TALKS is a conference series which aim to add value to Istanbul. The series embraces the EMEA region geographically as well as the topics concerned. Istanbul TALKS Fintech 2016 Conference will be held on May 24, 2016 at Ciragan Palace. Istanbul TALKS Fintech 2016 is a global conference, organised by the leading events management company Sipahiler Events. Fintech 2016 will host top financiers, fintech entrepreneurs, tech startups, banks, capital market institutions, insurance companies, technopark managers, venture capitalists, incubators, accelerators, angels, advisors, IT professionals and academics in an interactive environment. Turkey is a fertile valley for technology startups thanks to its young demographics, skilled workforce, robust mobile penetration, solid infrastructure and broad government support. Fintech is only a latest trend among the technology startups and the payment is by far the frontrunner. The Conference is a first and only in Turkey dwelling on the fintech landscape and opportunities. The theme of the Conference is Disrupting the World We Know and it aims to deliver a probe in the global emergence of fintech industry. The conference will inspire the people in technology and financial industries through best practices and create a platform where key players of the fintech landscape meet other peers. The discussion panels will cover key fintech topics and businesses in payments, startup banking, hi-tech capital markets, blockchain, bitcoin, P2P lending, crowdfunding, and insurance. Keynote speakers will share insights on the recent developments in the industry and deliver views on the future. Fintech 2016 presents an extensive program, where the participants will have the chance to meet the well known, successful speakers, as well as providing a comprehensive networking platform, suitable for development of new ideas, new partnerships and new alliances. SPEAKERS Alastair Lukies Business Ambassador to British Prime Minister on FinTech Alastair Lukies founded Monitise in 2003. Three years later, Monitise was recognised as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and in June 2007 he led the company s demerger from Morse and listing on the LSE's AIM market. In January 2014, he was first appointed as a Business Ambassador to the Prime Minister for the financial services industry by the UK Government, and today acts as the sole Business Ambassador for FinTech. Alastair Lukies will share his perspectives on how technology transforms the way business is done and the future of fintech industry.
Marcus Swanepoel Co-founder and CEO, BitX Marcus Swanepoel who has previously worked for Morgan Stanley, 3i and Standard Chartered Bank is CEO and Co-founder of BitX, a global crypto-currency platform, providing highly secure mobile wallets, institutional quality exchanges and various API s for merchant and other business integration. The customers around the world use this platform for faster and cheaper money transfers, buying online, and trading and storing their Bitcoin. His team built the first ever fully-integrated Bitcoin / Blockchain system for a major multinational bank. Marcus Swanepoel will share his perspective on Bitcoin with Istanbul TALKS Fintech 2016 audience. Pınar Emirdağ CEO, Complymatic Pinar Emirdag is a business development professional focusing on disruptive technologies and market structure. She is the founder of SciencePeers. She is also a founding member of the UK Digital Currency Association, and a member of the advisory board for SenaHill Partners, LP. She is the former head of professional business development at London Stock Exchange Group Plc. She was director of global business development at Citigroup Inc.in London. She was a founding member of the board of directors on the electronic platforms Turquoise and BOAT. She has played significant roles in electronic trading and marketplace landscapes across asset classes. She is a pioneer working on next generation technology enabled financial services- where finance meets digital age. Emirdag will be at Fintech 2016 Conference to share her experience on technological transformation of financial services. Peter Randall CEO, SETL Peter Randall was founding CEO of Chi-X Europe Ltd. and led the company from 2005 until 2009 which co-incided with its growth from an unknown platform to be one of the top 5 platforms in Europe by volumes traded. Subsequently, as CEO of Equiduct, he restructured the business and turned it into the fastest growing platform in Europe in 2012. Prior to these assignments he was COO at Instinet Europe Ltd. and Executive Director of FIX Protocol Ltd. He is currently CEO of SETL where he leads a very experienced team of finance professionals, technologists and market structure specialists. Peter Randall will share his thoughts on Blockchain with Istanbul TALKS Fintech 2016 audience.
Wim Raymaekers Global Head of Banking Market, SWIFT Wim Raymaekers leads SWIFT s banking initiatives worldwide, and is responsible for developing and driving value propositions across the banking community. In this capacity, Wim s mission is to help banks grow their business, in view of evolving customer needs, technology innovations, and market requirements. Since joining SWIFT in1991, Wim has developed several initiatives that help banks to achieve operational efficiency and reduce costs, as well as improve liquidity management. He is also responsible for thought leadership initiatives in the areas of correspondent banking, block chain technologies, person-to-person payments, RMB internationalisation, and assists banks with the implementation of these into their strategic product offering. More recently, Wim is leading SWIFT s global payments innovation initiative. Wim Raymaekers will share his perspective on the change in payments and transfers world. Şevket Başev Chairman, Multinet Up Şevket Başev is the Chairman and co-shareholder of Multinet Up, the leading new-generation financial technology & services provider in the region. Multinet Up is Turkey s largest and amongst the top three firms across Europe with an ecosystem that accommodates 75,000 businesses and more than 1,5 million end users and over 700 million USD in revenues. Şevket Başev is also one of the founding partners and the CEO of 3 Seas Capital Partners, the leading investment banking firm in Turkey, specializing in M&A. 3 Seas Capital Partners managed to sustain its leadership position since 2008 in the number of completed deals among all financial institutions in Turkey, while ranking the 78th place worldwide in the top 100 financial institutions listed in terms of the number of closed deals. Başev serves among the Board of Trustees for the nation s entrepreneurship foundation and actively partakes in the ecosystems through personal investments. Additionally, Başev has been lecturing two courses in the field of Mergers & Acquisitions at the graduate school of Bilgi University, since 2010. This distinguished section will help us understand the unique aspects of emerging market fintech companies and share their experience as industry leaders.
SECTIONS Keynote The speaker will talk about the impact of innovation in financial services. He will share his thoughts on how the industry will look like in the near future. Turning Ideas Into Big Businesses This panel will be hosting key figures who have either involved in developing fintech policies/practices (globally or locally) or transformed an innovative idea into a large company. Nextgen Players Make A Case For The World Of Payments And Transfers This panel will focus on the fintech sub-segment of payment startups. Card innovators, microchip producers, money transfer whizs will discuss on how the payment industry has come to challenge the legacy systems. Fintech Bankers Or Bank Fintechers Given the imminent rise of fintechs, researchers now try to understand the new equilibrium in the financial services landscape. Surveys indicate that banks are not so much uncomfortable of the potential challenge posed by new entrants. Low cost banking and account management is the motto of fintech entrants to the banking sector. Will they disrupt the conventional wisdom? The panel will dwell on the bankers perception on new technology and services providers. Trading And Capital Markets Robo-advising is now a well-known topic appealing to modern portfolio theory. To some, online asset management and advisory platforms are to disrupt hedge funds and portfolio managers based on innovation and diversified clientele. Pre-IPO facilitators have emerged to enable investors to tap into share upsides before a business goes public. This session will put a spotlight on how capital market startups create an impact on conventional wisdom. Blockchain Turns Into An Industry Practice Distributed ledger is now in the air haunting legacy systems. This has not much to do with the emergence of Bitcoin which relies on Blockchain fabric. The new infrastructure is contested to be the new era of digitalization for governments, for businesses and financial markets. The panel speakers will enlighten the audience if Blockchain is panacea or treacherous road. Is Bitcoin A True Disrupter? Bitcoin is not only a digital currency. It is one of the ways to demonstrate how technology can innovate the money is produced and exchanged. To many, it is a revolution. It is doomed, also to some others given constraints. The panelists will bring details on how the system works and what are the opportunities and potential failures.
Lending, Crowdfunding Next In Line Please! SMEs finance is a hot topic around the world given peculiarities of such businesses. Crowdfunding has become a buzz word to raise capital for early stage startups. Peer-to-peer lending has followed suit. Discussants of the panel will resonate how such modalities are competing with regulated markets and infrastructures. PARTICIPANTS Financiers Fintech entreprenuers Tech startups Banks Capital market institutions Insurance companies Technopark executives Venture capitalists Incubators Accelerators Angels Advisors IT professionals Academics Media and Press Public Institutions Platinum Sponsor Silver Sponsor Transportation Sponsor Media Sponsors Sectoral Publishing Sponsor Fintech Ecosystem Collaborators