AMSTERDAM, December 10 /PRNewswire/ -- On 31 March & 1 April 2009 the 8th International EPCA Payments conference will be held in Berlin. Focus of the conference will be 'Break down the walls: the opportunity of financial logistics'. The conference program addresses key issues in payments and the financial supply chain for strategic professionals involved in payments (bankers, cash- & treasury managers, payments professionals, CFO's, vendors and specialized consultants)

    With breaking news and strategic visions from amongst others:

    - Jan Krahnen: Professor of Finance, Goethe Universitat Frankfurt and
      Director, Center for Financial Studies

    - Irmfried Schwimann:Acting Director for Financial Services (in
      Directorate D at DG Competition)

    - Bo Harald: Chairman to the EU Expert Group on Electronic Invoicing

    - Charles Bryant: Senior Advisor Euro Banking Association

    - Dave Rietveld: General Manager, Equens

    - Maarten Mol: Head Transaction Banking, ABN AMRO

    - Piet Mallekoote: CEO Currence and brand owner of iDEAL

    - Christophe Uzureau: Senior analyst, Gartner Banking Industry Advisory
      Services

    - John Bullard: Global Ambassador, IdenTrust

    - Christian Westerhaus: Director Transaction Banking, Deutsche Bank

    Some of the key issues are:

    - E-invoicing - why does it take so long to make the obvious happen?
    - E-Identity: making business out of KYC
    - E-Payments: challenging 'the old stuff'
    - Credit crisis: transaction banking the way forward?
    - What are the key technology drivers in payments?
    - Where is the money to be made in mobile payments?
    - SEPA is live: what has changed for customers?
    - Card payments: how to cope with the changing credit situation?
    - Cards revolution still pending?
    - PSD: who's opportunity is this?


    The latest program can be found at http://www.epcaconference.com
    About the organization

The European Payments Consulting Association (EPCA) is a pan-European association of independent payments consultancies. The annual EPCA conference is organized by Innopay and Smorenberg Corporate Consultancy. EPCA Conference is for financial professionals, by financial professionals.

Note for editors

Please put this conference on the event calendar or conference agenda for 2009. A conference banner can be downloaded at: http://www.epcaconference.com/bannerepca

http://www.epcaconference.com

SOURCE Innopay