Registration and Morning Coffee

Conference Chair’s Opening Remarks

Opening power hour – Panel session

• What is current state of play of instant payments?
• What has changed since the inaugural Instant Payments Summit?
• What can be learnt from the early adopters?
• What is the current uptake of SCT Inst in Europe?
• Why banks and PSPs should adhere rapidly to the SCT Inst scheme in order to give it momentum and meet customer needs?
• How banks can optimize liquidity management and generate new cost efficiencies through TIPS ( TARGET instant payment settlement)
• What are the additional benefits TIPS services will provide to PSPs (payment service providers)?
• How banks can overcome the existing organizational inertia which is hindering the adoption of new payments platform?
• Does the existing regulatory framework help or hinder banks in embracing the new payment schemes?
• How banks can develop a cohesive transition plan from batch-mode to real-time transactions?
• Which technology banks exactly need to harness to automate elements of payment for instant payments implementation?
• How instant payments will solve the complexities of cross border payments boosting customer confidence with no room for mistakes contrary to the case under the traditional method?
• How long will it take before we see a mass adoption?
• With increased instant payments adoption – which payment instruments are expected to decline the fastest over the next 3-5 years?

The evolution of TIPS

Synopsis: After the Go-live of TIPS on 30 November 2018, the Eurosystem is considering possible enhancements.

• From a functional perspective, work is ongoing in view of deploying a Mobile Proxy Lookup solution for TIPS actors
• With the rails for pan-European reachability for instant payments set in place, what are the challenges still ahead?

Learn latest from the Dutch market

• Dutch Market is the only euro-zone market where Instant Payment is truly becoming the new normal fast.
• Production results & lessons learnt
• How to prepare for really big volumes: millions per day
• First reactions from the Dutch market
• Key issues to address as bank, in establishing REACH, in preparing for fraudsters,
• What’s next with IP in place?

Real-time capabilities bring new challenges

• What will be the challenges involved in moving to a real-time payment?
• What are the regulatory challenges in implementing Instant Payments?
• What are the technical considerations for instant payments implementation?
• Will instant payments implementation add to the burden of managing multiple IT environments with the resultant effect on costs, controls, maintenance, risks and security?
• Is a new front-end what is needed or should banks consider even more fundamental changes to their back-end operations?

Networking and coffee break