Eurogiro’s goals were threefold: To
contribute to an overview of key market
trends, communicate with members on
how Eurogiro could best support their en-
deavors to success and to offer members
a platform for networking and bilateral
discussions.
To achieve this, the conference touched on
aspects as diverse as:
• Introducing the new owner Inpay. Their
unique contribution to supporting Euro-
giro members by offering stability and
continuity and thereby providing means
for growth and innovation. In particular
two new additional services were intro-
duced:
o The Eurogiro Supermarket: allow-
ing members to attract additional
transactions through an innovative
platform.
o The Multilateral Framework 2.0 (or
MLF 2.0): providing the updated legal
framework for members and third
party transaction-providers.
• Investigating how the payments market
(and in particular Europe) is changing
and forcing financial institutions to
enable access to customers’ accounts to
third-party licensed institutions if they
were to remain relevant to clients.
• Getting inside information from a
FinTech expert on how blockchain, or
Distributed Ledger Technology, is
becoming a promising enabler in cutting
costs in the distribution of transactions,
settlement and other areas.
• How Payment Service Providers and
the posts might mutually benefit from
collaboration. Posts could draw on the
most advanced services of FinTechs.
Helping them to reduce their depend-
ence on banks and to increase the
profitability of their unique customer
relations. Participants were introduced
to a variety of FinTech companies and
their solutions.
Updates on settlement services,
compliance and IT services
Dr. Susann von Gunten, on behalf of the
Eurogiro single settlement provider for
euro, Deutsche Postbank gave an update
on Eurogiro Euro Settlement Service
(ESSP) and André Blum, the former chair-
man of the Eurogiro Compliance
Audit Group, gave an overview of the
different faces of terrorism compared to
FATF recommendations.
Mladen Perkov
ic
, COO at Eurogiro, took
the audience through current and upcom-
ing projects in IT such as an update on
statistics, discontinuing Orange, the need
for new routers and a SWIFT standards
update. At the same time, Eurogiro is
investigating the impact of the SWIFT
GPI program. Lastly, the “UPU-Eurogiro
technical bridge” was re-launched to the
audience.
Networking
Re-kindling existing relations and forging
new ones remains a top priority of the
Eurogiro Community meeting. The 2018
conference was very well appreciated
for its networking opportunities and the
discussions were lively from the early start
into the social events in the evenings. By
putting a face to the name, it becomes
much easier to strike a deal and make it a
success.
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Michel Stuijt
2018member conference in Copenhagen
Eurogiro’s annual Conference and Community Meeting was held on 6 – 8 June 2018 in Copenhagen, Denmark with
members frommore than 28 countries attending. This year, the conference aimed to shed light on the future after
Eurogiro joined forces with Inpay.
New members in 2017/2018
Wari
– connects to 35 African
countries
OmniPay
– connects to card
platform in the Asia Pacific
Rewire
– connects clients via any
channel to digital banking engine
I-remit
– connects overseas
workers through physical out-lets
and web-based channels
Inpay
– brings continuity, innova-
tion and growth opportunities to
all Eurogiro members
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