Bank of the Future 2007... Confluence of Opportunities & Strategies

Date: February 15, 2007
Venue: Grand Hyatt, Mumbai

This conference was a series of panel discussions on futuristic and high priority areas for banks. Delegates witnessed the leading bankers and technologists share their ideas and insights on the following topics:

• Aligning Banking with Globalization and Entrepreneurship
• Branch Of the Future: Opportunities, B2B CRM, Physical Products (cards, pins, ATMS, Kiosks, statements, passbooks), Strategies: Attracting customers to profitable products, Value/Volume Quadrants
• Future of Payments: Stability, End-2-End STP Strategies, Integration, Optimization, Value/Volume Quadrants, Analyzing various Payment options, determining the Vision for payments
• Rural Banking & Micro Financing: Opportunities: Micro Credit, Micro Savings, Rural Mobile ATM, Strategies: Identifying suitable technologies, Creating Channel Partners
• Value Protection (Secure Banking & Fraud Prevention) Opportunities: Multi factor authentication, Integration security across the technology stack, Emerging standards, Strategies: Enhancing application security, Containing data theft
• Outsourcing: Opportunities: Creating a win-win scenario, Creating synergy between various outsourcing partners, Strategies: Compensation models, Assessing & outsourcing partner’s security, Rapidly adding & subtracting capabilities & competencies, Service Level Agreements
• Customer Relationship Management & Channel Optimization