SEPA Payments

Accelerating cross-border payments through electronic invoicing in a new European payment landscape

In the Chair:

Herman Segers, Secretary General

EUROPEAN PAYMENTS COUNCIL 

In your eminent Speaker panel:

Pether Jonsson, Group Manager Accounts Payable

ABB LTD. 

Peter Pollaert, Head of Sales

BNP PARIBAS FORTIS 

Jo Germeys, Head of Product Development Cash Management

BNP PARIBAS FORTIS 

    Marc Pomes Bordedebat Senior Manager Payments Markets 
    Banking Initiatives EMEA SWIFT
 

Professor Stephen Regan, Senior Lecturer - Economics

CRANFIELD SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT 

Daniela Umstätter, National Expert - Retail Issues, Consumer Policy and Payment systems

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Event Summary:

The Euro-zone provides multinational companies with tools to harness on the full potential of electronic invoicing to accelerate cross-border payments. SEPA enable larger companies to swiftly collect cash and manage cash throughout various subsidiaries in a near future. To harvest the capabilities of electronic invoicing – the treasurer needs to take a look at the cost saving opportunities to automate and simplify cash management procedures.

By adopting electronic invoicing, companies are able to maximise global cash management operations to improve internal processes for the payment system. With a SEPA change programme, the company are able to review its cash management practice from accounts receivable to accounts payable in various countries. Electronic invoicing, the next wave of SEPA, provides the corporate treasurer with tools to improve efficiencies in business processes to increase the company’s profit margins in a challenging market.

This international flagship event will provide your company with a platform to deploy electronic invoicing to successfully save cost and time in a new European payment landscape. Our senior cross-industry speaker panel will present the steps required to roll out electronic invoicing and improve your cash management operations throughout the SEPA zone.

This event will tackle key issues such as:

• Building an EU-wide payments infrastructure to promote the usage of SEPA across Europe
• SWIFT versus XML: Choosing the right path to manage SEPA payment instruments
• How do you simplify and your treasury processes to manage cross-border payments through SEPA
• Streamlining SEPA payment processing to lower your transaction costs
• Automating payment processing to accelerate your cash flow through SEPA capabilities
• One communication channel: How to optimise your payment operations
• Examining current status and future initiatives to deploy SEPA
• E-Invoicing: The next wave of SEPA?

Target audience and Job titles:

Presidents, Chief Executive Officers, Chief Financial Officers, Vice Presidents, Directors and Heads within:

• Group Treasury

• Treasury & Payment Systems

• Corporate Finance Informatics

• Corporate Finance & Capital Markets

• Treasury Operations

• Debt & Equity Capital Markets, Global Treasury,

• Cash Management

• Treasury Services

• Global Cash Management and Systems Harmonisation

• Operations Support

• IR & Treasury

• Finance & Controlling

• Global Cash Management

• Treasury

• Operations & IT

• Global Treasury Operations

• Financial Management Information and Treasury Support

• Cash Management Operations

• In-House Bank

• Financial Shared Service Centre

• Payment Factory

• Dealer

• Business Development

• Consultants