Efma’s largest symposium comes to London for the first time, bringing together leading distribution executives to discuss the financial services of tomorrow and address the major threats and opportunities of today.
Global retail banking organisation Efma will welcome 400 senior executives from across the world to its annual Distribution Summit in London on 13-15 April 2016.
The Efma Distribution Summit continues to grow and this year’s event is set to be bigger than ever, providing a wealth of networking opportunities and new formats to facilitate interaction with industry leaders.
Senior executives will be heading to the event to engage in an inspiring range of discussions, keynote plenaries, parallel sessions, fintech presentations, one-to-one meetings with speakers, enriching workshops and debates.Experts from outside of the industry will also be on hand to provide fresh ideas and inspiration.
“There is more sharing of distribution ideas between bankers than at any other financial services conference,” said Jim Marous, publisher of The Financial Brand and the Digital Banking Report, at the Efma Distribution Summit 2015.
A superb line-up of 60 keynote speakers from around the world has been announced, including:
- Nathan Bostock, CEO, Santander UK
- Octavio de Lazari Júnior, Executive Director, Banco Bradesco, Brazil
- Ray Ehscheid, Store Design & Merchandising Executive, Bank of America, USA
- Ollie Purdue, CEO, Loot Bank, UK
- Brett King, CEO and Founder, Moven, USA
- Michal Panowicz, SVP & Deputy Head of Digital Banking, Nordea Bank, Denmark
- Malgorzata Szturmowicz, Board Member and Chief Financial Officer, Idea Bank, Poland
- Pepper the Robot, Mizuho Bank, Japan
A wide choice of parallel sessions is set to deliver insight, inspiration and debate on a variety of hot topics. Among these, the Debate of the Century panel discussion will see key industry players Brett King, Michal Panowicz, JimMarous, and Chris Skinner, Chairman of The Financial Services Club discussing the best structure for tomorrow’s digital bank.
On 14 April a Fintech Awards Ceremony and gala dinner will highlight best-in-class fintech solutions chosen by a panel of recognised experts. Brought by Efma, Microsoft and Avanade, the ceremony includes the official launch ofthe Fintech Portal which provides a repository of leading fintech solutions and services for financial services organisations and a forum for networking and collaboration with fintech leaders.
To find out more about the Efma Distribution Summit 2016, visit: www.efma.com/distribution16
