IBA
jointly with TFCI organized a one
day Conference on 'BANK CARD & ePAYMENT
2005' on October 26, 2005 at Grand Hyatt,
Mumbai. It was the largest industry forum
on Cards & Electronic Payments. The
exclusive forum aimed at improving the efficiency
of cash and card issues, ePayments, related
processes, direction on ePayments, arising
from huge domestic growth and globalization.
The
Chief Guest for the event was Ms.
Chanda Kochhar, Executive Director ICICI
Bank.
Keynote Speakers for the session
included Mr. H Srikrishnan, Executive
Director - YES Bank, Kaza Sudhakar, General
Manager (DPSS) - Reserve Bank of India;
Natasha Patel, Sr. VP & Head (Global
Payments & Cash Management) HSBC; Sanjay
Sharma, Corporate Head (IT) - IDBI Ltd.;
Tarun Makhija, Regional Sales Manager (Partnership
Business, West India) APC; Saurabh Tripathi,
Principal - The Boston Consulting Group;
A R Ramesh, Business Head (Merchant Services)
- ICICI Bank; Arun Pascricha, General Manager
(DPSS) - Reserve Bank of India and Parag
Rao, Head Marketing (Credit Card) - HDFC
Bank.
The
last session concluded with a Panel Discussion
on "Can new technologies help to
increase the payments and transactions efficiency
and reduce fraud? A good reality check!"
The Panelist included Kaza Sudhakar, General
Manager - Reserve Bank of India ; D.Ray,
General Manager (Payment Settlement Group)
- State Bank of India and Ravi Shankar,
Country Head (Direct Banking) - Yes Bank.
All the panelist responded to a volley of
questions from the participants.
The
total number of delegates were 148 from
the Banking & Financial Services Industry
and 19 delegates from the Banking Solution
Providers.
Presentations
