8.30 – 9.00 Coffee and registration
9.00 – 9.20

Opening:

Prof. dr hab. Alojzy Z. Nowak, Dean of the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw

Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Kaźmierczak, Board Member at Narodowy Bank Polski

Dr Jakub Górka, FoM University of Warsaw, founder and organiser of the Payments Drift Forum

9.20 – 11.30

Session 1 “Open economy – interconnectivity in Europe”

 

Keynote Address: Dr Michael Salmony, Executive Adviser at equensWorldline SE to European decision making bodies, The Open Economy is the future 

Katarzyna Kobylińska-Hilliard, Policy Officer, European Commission, DG FISMA, Unit: Retail financial services, PSD2 readiness and roll-out of EU-wide instant payments

Frederick Liu, Visa President, Open Banking, Driving Secure Innovation

Discussion in session 1: “Entering the new era of API banking” (devoted to the API development for open banking, RTS on SCA and CSC coming live on 14 Sept. 2019, other challenges)

Moderated by Prof. dr Jürgen Bott, University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, PSMEG member at the European Commission

Dariusz Mazurkiewicz, CEO, Polski Standard Płatności (Polish Payment Standard, operator of the BLIK mobile payment system)

Dr Michał Szymański, Vice President of the Management Board at KIR (Polish National Clearing House), Member of the Board of Directors at EACHA

Dr Michał Grabowski, attorney at law, owner at Law Firm, expert on PSD2 and member of the Polish API law task force

Krzysztof Grzeszczuk, Open Banking Director, Alior Bank

11.30 – 12.00

Coffee break

12.00 – 13.45

Session 2 “Interchange fee reforms – experiences and outlooks”

Prof. dr Malte Krueger, University of Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg and PaySys Consultancy, Interchange fee regulation: a contentious issue

Dr Jakub Górka, University of Warsaw, Effects of regulating interchange fees in different countries based on the book Interchange Fee Economics. To Regulate or Not to Regulate?”, Palgrave Macmillan 2018

Discussion in session 2:

Moderated by Prof. dr Malte Krueger, University of Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg and PaySys Consultancy

Roeland Van der Stappen, Head of Regulatory Affairs for Europe at Visa

Lajos Bartha, Executive Director, Directorate for Financial Infrastructures and Banking Operations, Magyar Nemzeti Bank

Daniel Wicher, Pricing Team Manager, First Data Polska

Dr Jakub Górka, Faculty of Management University of Warsaw

Dr Carlotta Mariotto, Economist, European Commission, DG COMP, Chief Competition Economist Team 

13.45 – 14.45

Lunch

14.45 – 16.15

Session 3 “PayTech innovation”

Moderated by Iñigo Moré, Research Centre Remesas.Org, PSMEG member at the European Commission

Paweł Jaroszek, Board Member at ZUS (Social Insurance Institution in Poland), Is PayTech innovation helpful in making ZUS 4.0?

Dr Periklis Thivaios, Partner at True North Partners, IE Business School, Cryptos, digital currencies and the future of money, implications for central banks, commercial banks and individuals

Dr Udo Milkau, Chief Digital Officer, Transaction Banking at DZ Bank, Goethe University, The advent of machine payments: The right way to pay?

16.15 – 16.20

Closing remarks, end of conference