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Who Should Join The EPA Asia Community?

A payment transaction is an increasingly undervalued event. In most countries around the world for example domestic payment transactions fees are under constant downward pressure and in some cases de minimis or even free.


But at the same time the value of payments is increasing, and research is showing that customers are willing to pay for payment transactions to be received in a more timely manner.


Cross-border transactions are still somewhat of a blackbox of payment transaction costs, and this remains very much the challenge for governments and regulators around the world to tackle. This is of focus in the IIF - EPA Global Payments Forum, the inaugural event held on March 16, 2021.


All of this complexity in a world that is only starting to wake up to the possibility of major changes in payments. We now seem to appreciate the value of payments and also of the diversity of credit transactions, as we have seen with the introduction for example of BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later).


Not only is the world waking up to the complexity in payments, but also understanding the impacts of payments. At a recent EPAA regulation Hot Top on March 10, Gay Santos spoke about the importance of Trust and Sustainability in finance. The implications are that now we better understand all of the fragmentation of the industry and in particular the actors.


EPA has drafted the following diagramatic representation of the users of payments. And these are all those parties who can and should have a voice in payments.

Some of these parties exist due to innovation in products and services, but some exist mainly because of the technology impact. For example accountants, who used only record and book entries and reports, now are involved in automating the payments, through value added services.


No longer is EPA Asia just about cards and paytechs, but now more payment professionals, and support service firms should also consider joining EPA Asia community.


Future Events

Register to get yourself more involved in payments.

  29

 Mar

“The Currency Cold War” and Digital Currency 

Webnair 

  30

 Mar

EPAA Fuse - Digital Currency

Roundtable 

  14

 Apr

Cross Border 

Workgroup

  21

 Apr

Digital Identity 

Workgroup

  28

 Apr

Regulation 

Workgroup

  29

 Apr

EPA@Home Sydney 

2 time Round Table and networking with fireside chat

  5

 May

Meet Her - Rewards and Loyalty Schemes

Roundtable 
EPAA_Fuse

EPA Fuse - Digital Currency on Mar 30 

   

What sort of events can I access through my EPA Asia memberhip?


Hot Topic Briefings (HTB) are presented as a panel discussion, hosted by EPAA, that brings together international thought leadership around emerging issues. These webinars bring together market experts to debate on a topic lead by an EPAA moderator.  


Before and after each session there is the opportunity to virtually network on our virtual platform, Airmeet. Airmeet has a visual top-down view, 2-D map comprising interactive roundtables. The platform uses video, audio, and chat functions to allow guests within the space to interact naturally in real-time, from anywhere in the world. You will be able to hop from table to table and meet new payments professionals or say hello to the ones you already know. There will be an opportunity to have those all-important one-to-one conversations on dedicated floors of the virtual space. You will also be able to see who is there and send them a private message. 

 
Hot Topic Briefings are available to members for sponsorship, with sessions open to the industry and a capacity of 100+ attendees. 

If you’d like to discuss the opportunity to create a bespoke Hot Topic Briefing event with EPAA, please contact Camilla Bullock.


Past Events

Press "Read More" to check our past event recordings, articles and related materials. 

 2

 Mar

EPAA FUSE – Fresh information Fast! 

Webinar

  3

 Mar

Digital Identity – the need for interoperability 

 Workshop

  13

 Mar

Regulation - APAC – Horizon Scanning 

Hot Topic Briefing

  16

 Mar

IIF – EPA Global Payments Forum  

EPA Forum

  19

 Mar

Open Banking - Proof of Concept in partnership with APFF and APIX 

Workshop

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In a world where online and digital collaboration is increasingly the norm EPA Asia projects are continuing to align more with the trends. Monthly working meetings are being held on the 3 operational projects, as follows :

  • Project Cross-Border APAC : second Wednesday every month
  • Project Digital Identity APAC : third Wednesday every month
  • Project Regulations APAC: fourth Wednesday every month
  • Special project - Meet-Her: This is arranged around the workshop events and is run on selected dates each month.  


Information available

https://www.emergingpaymentsasia.org/events/ 

and https://www.emergingpaymentsasia.org/project/

To join the EPAA Project Working Group projects@emergingpaymentsasia.org


PROJECT REGULATIONS

SPONSORED BY CORLYTICS

  • Regulation Hot Topic Briefing - APAC - Horizon Scanning was held on March 10 featuring speakers Dr Brad Pragnell, Maya El Dimackhi, and Gay Santos. Video here
  • The Payments Tracker is now live and EPAA members are being provided access to review. (email projects@emergingpaymentsasia.org for login access)
  • Monday.com will be used to track the priority in regulations.  All WG members have been granted access.
  • Regulatory reachout program connected with RBA (Crossborder Forum) and APEC finance and economic ministers (Open Banking POC)
Working Group Members are:

  • Dr Brad Pragnell (EPAA Ambassador)
  • Zennon Kapron (EPAA Ambassador)
  • Antony Morris (EPAA Ambassador)
  • John Byrne (Corlytics)
  • Mike O’Keefe (Corlytics)
  • Sean Peterson (AMEX)
  • Simone Joyce (FinTech Australia)
  • Steven Chan (PayPal)
  • Amrita Nair (PayPal)
  • Anurag Vasisth (ABP Australia)
  • Thomas Hind (DXC Technology)
  • Sarah Wood (AMEX)
  • Laura Hu (eBay)
  • Mailu Mizumoto (eBay)
  • Holly Dorber (PayPal)
  • Abraham Teo (AxiomSL)
  • John Ryan (Director General, EPAA)

For more information regarding EPAA Project Regulations


PROJECT CROSS-BORDER PAYMENTS

SPONSORED BY PAYPAL

  • IIF – EPA Global Payments Forum established with IIF which will run workshops and advocate.
  • Forum co-chairs signed up :
    • Stephen Grainger, Mastercard (UK/Europe)
    • Richard Clow, BoA (North America)
    • Aditi Sholapurkar, Nium (Asia Pacific)

  • First event on 16 March on Air-meet. Event recording available. 25 countries attending (watch the video).
  • Next event earmarked for early May 2021
Working Group Members are: 
  • Fannette Hsin (EPAA Ambassador/Project Director)
  • Amrita V Nair (PayPal – Project Sponsor)
  • Dr. Brad Pragnell (EPAA Ambassador)
  • Melissa Keir (Marqeta)
  • Kenneth Leung (SWIFT)
  • Laura Hu (EBAY)
  • Mishal Ruparel (Banking Circle)
  • Thomas Hind (DXC Technology) 
  • Steven Chan (PayPal)
  • Tom Alaerts (Swift)
  • Stephen Peters (FIS)
  • Lance Homer (Equinix)
  • Todd Latham (CurrencyCloud)
  • Mailu Mizumoto(EBAY)
  • John Ryan (Director General, EPAA)

For more information regarding EPAA Project Cross-Border Payments


PROJECT MEET HER - SHE KNOWS PAYMENTS

  • To date we have run 10 roundtables with over 100 female thought leaders. 
  • The next round table is taking place on 21 April on the topic of Rewards and Loyalty. U.S can be regarded as a leader in loyalty with more than 3.3 billion loyalty memberships. (Accenture) We are delighted to welcome California based Jill Gordon to set the scene for this discussion.
    • Rewards and Loyalty Schemes 5 May 
    • Presenter: Jill Goldworn Founder The First Club reward the world 
    • Moderator: Leanne Bradley EPA Asia Ambassador, Advisory Board 

Upcoming topics with associated round tables are: 

  • Blockchain 
  • Financial Inclusion

For more information regarding EPAA Project Meet Her - She Knows Payments

To join the EPAA Project Meet Her - She Knows Payments 


PROJECT OPEN BANKING

SPONSORED BY PAYPAL

SUPPORTING SPONSORS: SPLIT PAYMENTS, TRUELAYER, DXC TECHNOLOGY, REFINITIV, SWIFT, EQUINIX

  • The POC was conducted March 19,  in partnership with MAS backed APIX, and run in conjunction with APFF (Asia Pacific Financial Forum), focus on standardisation of APIs
  • Follow-up POC event to be planned with APEC regulatory group.

For more information regarding EPAA Project Open Banking


PROJECT DIGITAL IDENTITY

SPONSORED BY CITI & FICO

  • Workshop event held on 3 March 2021 
  • White Paper is planned for release mid-April 2021
  • Symposium planned for end of April 2021
Working Group Members are: 

  • Rajiv Madane (Project Director, Covr Security)
  • Victoria Richardson (Project Mentor, AusPayNet)
  • Richard Lomas (Citi)
  • CK Leo (FICO)
  • Ian Sorbello  (Transmit Security) 
  • Rob Allen(eftpos Payments Australia)
  • Desmond Lim Ching Hau (Ebay)
  • Mailu Mizumoto (EBay)
  • John Ryan (Director General, EPAA)


For more information regarding EPAA Project Digital Identity

To join the EPAA Project Working Group projects@emergingpaymentsasia.org


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