UK Financial Advisers

On 21st May at 15:00 CET Hamish Chamberlayne, Manager of the Janus Henderson Global Sustainable Equity Fund, will explain why the time for sustainable and responsible investing is now and talk about his strategy’s positioning, performance and sector expertise.

PSD2 open banking kicks off in September 14 2019. But do we all understand the liabilities and the issues around this?

There are liabilities around ASPSPs supplying data and based on what checking? What liabilities do the checking services have to the ASPSPs?
TPPs have no contacts with ASPSPs, so what happens in the case of disputes with PSUs?

Where an API provider is involved, what liabilities do they have, what liabilities does a PISP/AISP provider have both in disputes and data breaches? Finally what if any liability does a PSU have?

Panel moderated by:
David Parker, Polymath Consulting

Panelists include:
Paul Meadowcroft, Konsentus
Kai Zhang, Associate Director, BCLP

Having a great product and a slick marketing campaign isn’t enough anymore.

In the age of Uber and order-ahead, customers crave convenience, and payment options and methods help companies attract and keep customers.

What is your payments strategy?
Does it involve hardware and software?
What can you do to be on the cutting edge in payments to assist with customer retention and increase profits?

AlignMoney is facilitating best in class Credit Card Onboarding experience and helping consumers to consolidate all Business and Personal Credit Cards in One Card or One Wallet that can be controlled through a Mobile App.

Presenters:
Rajesh Patil, Co-Founder of AlignMoney, Digital Align Inc and Rajeshwar Mitra, Co-Founder at Bee Wallet, Radiius Corp

We’re living in an increasingly mobile world.

Today, over 60% of total e-commerce sales worldwide are done on mobiles. By 2021, this is expected to be nearer to 75% (12.8% of total global retail sales). In 2018, 52.2 percent of all website traffic worldwide was generated through mobile phones.

Join Jeremy Nicholds to discuss how to best prepare for a rising consumer preference for mobile, the challenges of selling on the move, and the technology solutions that enable the best mobile checkout experience for your customers.

Join Jonathan Webster-Smith, Head of the Multi Asset Team, and Willem Klijnstra, Asset Allocation Strategist at Legal & General Investment Management as they explore fair value for Sterling/USD in a post-Brexit world.

Payments have evolved dramatically in the past five years, but for real transformation to be achieved in the next few years, consumer and business demand for lower cost, instant and secure global payments must be met.

A new global financial ecosystem is emerging around stablecoins, which have the potential to become the new medium for payments. From trading use cases, to offering financial institutions improved cross-border payments clearing and settlement, Token shares how this technology is driving new revenue generating business models across the payments value chain.

Presented by:
Marten Nelson, Co-founder and CMO, Token

Speakers will present trends in the E-Commerce, Mobile and Cross Border Payment Systems. The speakers will provide examples of these trends and present a view of where the market is going.

At the end of the webinar, the attendees will have be able to assess opportunities in the payments innovation space.

With the property sector continuing to grab headlines Marcus Phayre-Mudge will discuss why he remains positive on the majority of the sector, its continued importance within a client portfolio and where he sees the greatest opportunities for returns going forward.

Effectively managing cross-border payment compliance is one of the biggest challenges facing enterprises looking to expand globally.

Sending payments internationally requires adherence to multiple, often complex, payment regulations in both the originating country and the country in which the funds land.

Regulation continues to tighten, failure to comply is costly, and companies need guidance when navigating the many complexities associated with global expansion.


Yair will cover the biggest challenges facing companies looking to expand their business globally to high-reward markets like China, SEAsia, and India.

Payments have become such an important piece of merchant's strategies that Lyft even included a paragraph on payments in their S-1 filing (they must have some #paymentsgeeks working there). Merchants have an opportunity to reduce cost, increase conversions, and grow their business by optimizing their payments stack. But, as we know, payments can be confusing and create a lot of complexity for both consumers at checkout and merchants in their back office. Come listen to some of our favorite #paymentsgeeks teach you how to become one yourself, and learn why understanding payments is so important for your business.

Some questions we'll answer:
- Why should payments be top of mind for merchants?
- What are ways merchants can optimize payments to lower cost of transactions?
- How can payments become a competitive advantage for merchants?
- How are real-time payments going to affect merchant payment stacks?
- What are the newest trends in payments technology?

Moderated by Rene Pelegero, Founder, RPGC
Panelists: Brian Billingsley, Chief Revenue Officer at Modo
Rob Pfeifer, Chief Revenue Officer, Affirm
John Brown, Solutions Consultant, NS8

This webinar will do a deep dive into the opportunities and challenges faced by firms seeking to go global in their ecommerce strategies. E-commerce sales worldwide topped $1.9 trillion in 2016 and are forecasted to reach more than $4 trillion by 2020, representing about 15 percent of global retail spend.

If we look toward the future through a lens of commerce, we can see the global vision in culture and economies that we started talking about a few decades ago is now clearly in focus.

How will you grasp this opportunity to move your business forward?

Key takeaways for the audience:

* How partnerships in banking, technology, design, communications can remove complexity and provide the connections and support that retailers are looking for to move eCommerce to 2020 and well beyond.
* What retailers are looking for to help improve their cross-border capabilities, including data intelligence and monitoring.
* What factors or influencing retailers in being able to play in this space.
* How to achieve a solid UX and optimal customer experience to drive your journeys forward.

Early-stage or Angel Investing is a sub-category of Private Equity and a young and exciting asset class that sparks the interest of both individual investors and Family Offices.

In this 60-minute webinar, you'll learn why early-stage investing is an attractive asset class, explore what opportunities are there beyond financial returns, and how it allows you to unleash the power of networks through real case studies of two programs run by GoBeyond: Rising Tide Europe and NextGen.

All the content and learnings shared in this presentation derive from GoBeyond’s 10+ years of track record of investments in over 100 startup companies by its global community of 800+ Business Angels.

Maria Carolina has been working with GoBeyond for the past 5 years in different roles ranging from investor relations to product development to setting up partner programs and fostering the growth of local early-stage investing ecosystems in Europe, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. She is also a Business Angel herself, having invested in more than 10 companies.

This insightful webinar will help you learn how to track crypto transactions and funds helping crypto exchanges. Hear how payment companies can stay compliant with AML regulations while ensuring safety and transparency for its consumers.

Pawel Aleksander, CIO, Coinfirm
Paweł is a recognized fraud prevention expert in Europe. His previous experience includes positions as head of fraud investigations in major corporations such as ArcelorMittal; AML/KYC Project Manager at the Royal Bank of Scotland; and fraud investigator at Ernst & Young. He holds the titles of Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Internal Auditor.

Join me at 13:00 BST on the 23rd May for ‘Drugs, Gangs and Dirty Money - how to avoid laundering money for serious organised criminals, and funding drug traffickers and terrorism. Compliance, AML & KYC, screening payments – what are the risks, where are the gaps, what’s working and what’s not.

On the panel is Sukh Vairea, the resident Financial Crime Compliance boffin at Bottomline and Alex Tame who is Global Director of Partners & Content Integration at Dow Jones.”

With every transaction, merchants are learning more and more about their customers. And with those learnings come data and lots of it - a breach of that payments data is a nightmare for any merchant. Consumers are trusting you with their sensitive data, and losing that trust also equates to lost business. Is security simply a must-do, or can you turn it into a competitive advantage for your business? Listen in to information security and cybersecurity experts in the payments space as they discuss the minimum requirements as well as the next steps you can take to create a better customer experience while maintaining the highest levels of security.

Some questions we'll answer:
- What is the burden on merchants to maintain compliance?
- How are current security measures causing friction in the payments experience?
- What are some tokenization options for merchants?
- What are other measures past the minimum security requirements that will elevate your business?

Moderator to come*
Panelists: Matt McBride, CISO at Modo
Don McCoole, Solution Consultant, NS8

With rates of card-not-present payment fraud continuing to grow higher every year, payment and data security has never been a higher priority for organizations. Protecting customer data is of utmost importance, especially with governments and regulatory bodies increasingly turning their attention to these issues and producing legislation to implore companies to take additional security measures. Contact centers are a part of the organization particularly fraught with responsibility, processing mountains of payments and finding themselves to be a favorite target for hackers and fraudsters. Because of this, contact centers face a myriad of laws and regulations governing the way they treat this data, such as the PCI DSS for those taking payments, and the recently passed California Consumer Privacy Act, among many others.

Register now for an insightful webinar where you'll learn:
- The top data security regulations, laws, and standards bodies affecting contact center data governance, like the California Consumer Privacy Act and the PCI DSS
- How to comply with sometimes competing regulatory requirements and resolve conflicting stipulations
- How to achieve compliance more simply and cost effectively

Presenters:
Thomas Chisena, Associate, Foley & Lardner LLP
Thomas is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he advises on all matters involving intellectual property and technology transactions, including licensing, procurement, outsourcing, and other technology law issues affecting companies of all sizes.

Aaron Lumnah, Senior Manager, Demand Generation
Aaron is a member of the Semafone marketing team, where he regularly contributes to the Semafone blog and authors many types of content around payment security, PCI DSS, and GDPR compliance.

For decades the UK Equity Income sector has been the foundation of many UK investor portfolios and has hosted a number of our most celebrated fund managers.
However, the traditional approach to generating income from a UK equity portfolio has increasingly come under threat with a number of the large income-generating sectors becoming ex-growth.
Too often UK income investors find themselves reliant on a small number of high yielding businesses whose best days are behind them and where dividend payments look fragile.
All of this has come at a time when investors have prized growth over value and are shunning UK equities in the light of the chaos that is Brexit.

When we launched the TB Saracen UK Income fund in April 2015 we were determined to take a different approach in the light of such challenges.
We believe that valuation still matters and that equity income funds should provide investors with a high and growing income.

In this webcast we shall introduce the TB Saracen UK Income fund to a wider audience and outline why we feel the Fund is well positioned to meet the needs of income investors.

Some of the key themes we will address include:
- The outlook for UK dividend growth
- Why value strategies are still relevant in a changing world
- The importance of a focussed, ‘multicap’ approach

Presented by :
Scott McKenzie, Fund Manager , TB Saracen UK Income Fund
Ellie Sluys , Communications Manager, Saracen Fund Managers

XTBS Hold for Sara Lewis

What does the future of connected commerce look like? The changing need of the customer has meant that the shopping experience is changing and merchants, retailers, and payments companies need to future-proof their offerings.

Join this panel to discover:

-Current landscape and trends in the commerce industry
-How can AI revolutionise the customer experience and help organisations evolve?
-From PoS to multi-channel platforms, how can you provide a frictionless customer experience?
-What are the risk and compliance challenges that need to be at top-of-mind?
-How can we proactively prevent fraud rather than react when the damage has been done?

Moderated by:
Claudia Bate, Head of Technology, Director and Partner, FleishmanHillard Fishburn
Panelists include:
Melinda Roylett, Head of Europe at Square
Daniel Kornitzer, Chief Business Development Officer, Paysafe

Organisations are often challenged with finding the right balance between innovating and staying secure. How are cutting-edge advancements revolutionising the way we look at identity and authentication?

Join the panel to hear about:

-Understanding the digital identity landscape
-How to avoid drop-off during the verification process
-How developments like biometrics, AI, blockchain can impact identity and data management
-How to adapt and respond to new regulations like PSD2, Open Banking, and GDPR

Panel moderated by: Melisande Mual, Founder at The Paypers,
Berit Svendsen, EVP International Business at Vipps
Husayn Kassai, CEO & Founder, Onfido
Panelist to be announced

The Financial Services industry has a big target on its back when it comes to attacks by cyber criminals. How can financial institutions keep precious customer data safe whilst utilising technology to equip themselves with the tools to prevent fraud and financial crime?

Join this panel to hear:

- Lessons learned from recent breaches and hacks
- AI-powered strategies to protect your financial institution
- The unique security challenges of incumbent organisations vs. FinTechs
- Best practices to fight fraud and financial crime

Panelists include:
Andy Ramsden, Global Solution Sales Lead – Mobile Authentication, G+D Mobile Security GmbH

Customer on boarding can be complicated, especially within regulated industries like financial services. How can banks and new challengers ensure that this is accomplished in the most seamless way?

Join this panel to learn:

- Achieving speed and scalability whilst staying compliant
- Balancing security and risk with a good customer experience
- Common on boarding mistakes that both banks and fin techs are making

Co managers of the Strategic Bond Strategy, John Pattullo and Jenna Barnard, will expand on their thematic approach to bond investing and why this continues to deliver a differentiated and contrarian view of developed world bond opportunities. Having carved out the peak in US interest rates and bond yields in 2018, they will discuss portfolio positioning and the outlook for both credit and government bond markets.

The webcast session will also include a review of the performance of the Strategic Bond Strategy, highlights of current positioning and outlook for the medium term.

This webinar will discuss the evolving landscape that all businesses must work within, and help the audience understand how to navigate it with the most optimal outcomes.

We will be talking about:
- Creating structures for long-term sustainability
- Evolution & Complexities in Family Office Dynamics
- Selling the business