March 20-21 at Harvard in Cambridge, MA
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Volume 1, Issue 9

Innovation and Regulation can make strange bedfellows.

 

You know what we mean. On the one hand, regulation is critical for ensuring the safety and soundness of our financial system and the consumers and businesses that rely on it. On the other, it can kill good ideas by making it just way too tough (and expensive) for innovators to deliver better and cheaper alternatives to what 

exists today.

 

Raj Date, who until just a few days ago was the #2 guy at the CFPB, will lead a conversation with 6 industry CEOs about the reality of the payments industry regulatory environment today. He'll explore whether they exist because regulation has killed (or is killing) an existing aspect of payments and financial services or whether they have just made "lemonade" out of the existing regulatory environment in a more innovative and efficient way.

 

Tim Attinger, Head of Strategy and Corp Dev at Blackhawk Network, and formerly head of Visa's Global Products Group and no stranger to the innovation/regulation dichotomy, will join Date in leading this discussion. Together they will get to the real essence of how innovators and regulators can "all just get along" in an industry that is changing almost every day.

 

The CEO panel includes:

 

Gordon Baird | President and CEO | Independence Bancshares

 

Peter Gordon | GM | FIS PayNet

 

BC Krishna | CEO | MineralTree

 

Dan O'Malley | CEO | PerkStreet

 

Mark Troughton | President | Wonga Americas

 

Hank Uberoi | CEO | Earthport 

 

Click for the full panel brief. (And don't forget to register!)
It Takes A Global Mind: The Future Of Payments

Al Gore, Vice President turned entrepreneur, Apple Board member, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, will be joined by Gary Flood, President MasterCard Global Products and Solutions, to ignite a conversation about the Global Mind. It's a concept that Gore's been toying with for the last eight years or so, as he contemplated the answer to a simple question: What drives global change?

The duo will be joined by Roger Hochschild, President and COO of Discover, Jeff Jordan, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and former CEO of eBay, Michael Joseph, Director of Mobile Money at Vodafone, Karl Metha, CEO of Visa PlaySpan and White House Technology Fellow, and Troy Woods, President and COO of TSYS.

Click here for the entire panel brief and to learn more about what happens when technology connects people and information in ways that makes us, well, global - and pretty much inseparable.