DISRUPTING THE WORLD WE KNOW They made their money by using financial technology in online platforms ALASTAIR LUKIES Business Ambassador to British Prime Minister on FinTech BARBAROS ÖZBUGUTU Founder & CEO, Iyzico CHRIS LARSEN CEO, Ripple SONER CANKO CEO, BKM MARCUS SWANEPOEL Co-founder and CEO, BitX PETER RANDALL CEO, SETL
ISTANBUL TALKS FINTECH 2016 CONFERENCE Istanbul TALKS is a conference series which aim to add value to Istanbul. The series embraces the EMEA region geographically as well as the topics concerned. Istanbul TALKS Fintech 2016 Conference will be held on May 24, 2016 at Ciragan Palace. Istanbul TALKS Fintech 2016 is a global conference, organised by the leading events management company Sipahiler Events. Fintech 2016 will host top financiers, fintech entrepreneurs, tech startups, banks, capital market institutions, insurance companies, technopark managers, venture capitalists, incubators, accelerators, angels, advisors, IT professionals and academics in an interactive environment. Turkey is a fertile valley for technology startups thanks to its young demographics, skilled workforce, robust mobile penetration, solid infrastructure and broad government support. Fintech is only a latest trend among the technology startups and the payment is by far the frontrunner. The Conference is a first and only in Turkey dwelling on the fintech landscape and opportunities. The theme of the Conference is Disrupting the World We Know and it aims to deliver a probe in the global emergence of fintech industry. The conference will inspire the people in technology and financial industries through best practices and create a platform where key players of the fintech landscape meet other peers. The discussion panels will cover key fintech topics and businesses in payments, startup banking, hi-tech capital markets, blockchain, bitcoin, P2P lending, crowdfunding, and insurance. Keynote speakers will share insights on the recent developments in the industry and deliver views on the future. Fintech 2016 presents an extensive program, where the participants will have the chance to meet the well known, successful speakers, as well as providing a comprehensive networking platform, suitable for development of new ideas, new partnerships and new alliances. SPEAKERS Alastair Lukies Business Ambassador to British Prime Minister on FinTech Alastair Lukies founded Monitise in 2003. Three years later, Monitise was recognised as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and in June 2007 he led the company s demerger from Morse and listing on the LSE's AIM market. In January 2014, he was first appointed as a Business Ambassador to the Prime Minister for the financial services industry by the UK Government, and today acts as the sole Business Ambassador for FinTech. Alastair Lukies will share his perspectives on how technology transforms the way business is done and the future of fintech industry.
Barbaros Ozbugutu Founder & CEO, Iyzico Barbaros Ozbugutu started his career in the Telecommunication at o2 Telefonica before stepping in payments. He has more than 15 years of experience in the global payment and telecom segment. He worked in companies like Firstdata, TeleCash and Klarna. At the end of 2012, he founded his own payment company in Istanbul. He is now acting as co-founder and CEO of iyzico, one of the fastest growing startups in Turkey, offering the easiest way accepting payments online. Barbaros Ozbugutu will be at Istanbul TALKS Fintech 2016 Conference to share his views about how the payment industry has come to challenge the legacy systems. Chris Larsen CEO, Ripple Chris Larsen is CEO and co-founder of Ripple and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to Ripple, Chris co-founded and served as CEO of Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, and E-LOAN, a publicly traded online lender. During his tenure at E-LOAN, he pioneered the open access to credit scores movement by making E-LOAN the first company to show consumers their FICO scores. Chris serves at the Board and Advisory levels at numerous companies and organizations including: Betable, CreditKarma, and Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Chris Larsen will talk about his experience on developing fintech policies and practices and how he transformed innovative ideas into a large company. Soner Canko CEO, BKM Dr. Soner Canko graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Science, Public Administration Department. He also received master s degree and Ph.D from Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics. Dr. Soner Canko s career was commenced in Dışbank, then he took up managerial roles in Citibank, Alternatif Bank and Bank Kapital. Dr. Canko continued his career as Business Development Manager in HP Consultancy, CEO in Bilesim Payment Systems, Founder and CEO of First Data Turkey, and lastly Executive Vice President of Ziraat Bankası. Currently, Dr. Canko is working as CEO of Interbank Card Center (BKM), in which he previously took role as Board Member and Chairman during 2003 and 2007. Soner Canko will share his thoughts on next generation players in the world of payments and transfers and how they challenge the legacy system.
Marcus Swanepoel Co-founder and CEO, BitX Marcus Swanepoel who has previously worked for Morgan Stanley, 3i and Standard Chartered Bank is CEO and Co-founder of BitX, a global crypto-currency platform, providing highly secure mobile wallets, institutional quality exchanges and various API s for merchant and other business integration. The customers around the world use this platform for faster and cheaper money transfers, buying online, and trading and storing their Bitcoin. His team built the first ever fully-integrated Bitcoin / Blockchain system for a major multinational bank. Marcus Swanepoel will share his perspective on Bitcoin with Istanbul TALKS Fintech 2016 audience. Peter Randall CEO, SETL Peter Randall was founding CEO of Chi-X Europe Ltd. and led the company from 2005 until 2009 which co-incided with its growth from an unknown platform to be one of the top 5 platforms in Europe by volumes traded. Subsequently, as CEO of Equiduct, he restructured the business and turned it into the fastest growing platform in Europe in 2012. Prior to these assignments he was COO at Instinet Europe Ltd. and Executive Director of FIX Protocol Ltd. He is currently CEO of SETL where he leads a very experienced team of finance professionals, technologists and market structure specialists. Peter Randall will share his thoughts on Blockchain with Istanbul TALKS Fintech 2016 audience.
SECTIONS Keynote The speaker will talk about the impact of innovation in financial services. He will share his thoughts on how the industry will look like in the near future. Turning Ideas Into Big Businesses This panel will be hosting key figures who have either involved in developing fintech policies/practices (globally or locally) or transformed an innovative idea into a large company. Nextgen Players Make A Case For The World Of Payments And Transfers This panel will focus on the fintech sub-segment of payment startups. Card innovators, microchip producers, money transfer whizs will discuss on how the payment industry has come to challenge the legacy systems. Fintech Bankers Or Bank Fintechers Low cost banking and account management is the motto of fintech entrants to the banking sector. Will they disrupt the conventional wisdom? The panelists will argue. Trading And Capital Markets Robo-advising is now a well-known topic appealing to modern portfolio theory. To some, online asset management and advisory platforms are to disrupt hedge funds and portfolio managers based on innovation and diversified clientele. Pre-IPO facilitators have emerged to enable investors to tap into share upsides before a business goes public. This session will put a spotlight on how capital market startups create an impact on conventional wisdom. Do Banks Feel Challenged? Given the imminent rise of fintechs, researchers now try to understand the new equilibrium in the financial services landscape. Surveys indicate that banks are not so much uncomfortable of the potential challenge posed by new entrants. The panel will dwell on the bankers perception on new technology and services providers. Do Capital Market Players Feel Challenged? Given the imminent rise of fintechs, researchers now try to understand the new equilibrium in the financial services landscape. Banks might be the immediate target to disrupt with. Fintech entrants however expand towards other segments of finance ie trading, wealth management, advisor, etc. The panel will tackle if the current infrastructure, brokers and asset managers feel challenged. Blockchain Turns Into An Industry Practice Distributed ledger is now in the air haunting legacy systems. This has not much to do with the emergence of Bitcoin which relies on Blockchain fabric. The new infrastructure is contested to be the new era of digitalization for governments, for businesses and financial markets. The panel speakers will enlighten the audience if Blockchain is panacea or treacherous road.
Is Bitcoin A True Disrupter Or Failure? Bitcoin is not only a digital currency. It is one of the ways to demonstrate how technology can innovate the money is produced and exchanged. To many, it is a revolution. It is doomed, also to some others given constraints. The panelists will bring details on how the system works and what are the opportunities and potential failures. Lending, Crowdfunding Next In Line Please! SMEs finance is a hot topic around the world given peculiarities of such businesses. Crowdfunding has become a buzz word to raise capital for early stage startups. Peer-to-peer lending has followed suit. Discussants of the panel will resonate how such modalities are competing with regulated markets and infrastructures. Are Insurance Giants Being Disrupted? Technology is creating the potential for insurance companies to serve low income consumers. The data generated by telematics allows for a finer assessment of risk and reduces insurance premiums. The growth of fintech will continue to drive change across financial services, and the insurance sector will not be immune from disruption. PARTICIPANTS Financiers Fintech entreprenuers Tech startups Banks Capital market institutions Insurance companies Technopark executives Venture capitalists Incubators Accelerators Angels Advisors IT professionals Academics Media and Press Public Institutions