FSI World Congress 18-19th November

Posted: 5th November 2008

Innovation in the financial services industry continues at a breakneck pace, and institutions are pulling out all stops to put these breakthroughs to revv up their bottomlines. According to a financial market research, the global spending on IT products and services will grow to US$386.7 billion by 2009.
Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, once said, “Technology has the shelf life of a banana”. This means technology and innovation has to be upgraded, improved, challenged and increased constantly to remain useful.
Today, many financial institutions are faced with challenges like highly involved service offerings, growing competition and ever-demanding customers. The key to the performance and growth in today’s financial institutions depends on its ability to offer cutting edge products and services, which should be able to depict and understand a client’s needs .The services and products should be able to integrate the demands and comfort of their core customers.
FSI World Congress is an initiative to address the latest and upcoming trends in financial service industry, to discuss what is hot and what’s the latest on the horizon. This is an event that will equip financial professionals to develop and leapfrog usage and level of connect that they can build with their customers and build technology into a strategic business partner.

Proteus Enterprise will be presented by Infogov Asia Representative David Pye and Silver Sponsors Genesis Networks (www.gen-net.com.sg).

Conference agenda & focus:
The congress features two-day conference that includes 4 streamed sessions:

• Stream One: Risk, Compliance and Governance
• Stream Two: Integrated Security
• Stream Three: Payments & Settlement
• Stream Four: View From the Top – The Way forward
• Stream Five: Risk, Compliance and Governance - Part Two
• Stream Six: Integrated Security - Part Two
• Stream Seven: Payments & Settlement - Part Two
• Stream Eight: View From the Top – The Way Forward - Part Two

• Keeping abreast and growing with the changing landscape of FSI sector
• Achieving a competitive advantage by blending technology, people and processes
• Ensuring technology meets evolving business needs
• Mitigating and coping with emerging risks in IT & Security and business as a whole
• Effectively combating financial crimes
• Reviewing the progress of BASEL II implementation and studying implementation challenges
• Eradicating barriers to aligning IT with business
• Measuring your ROI: Balancing vision and value
• Identifying the latest happenings in payments and align business strategy accordingly.
• Building a robust Disaster Recovery (DR) architecture
• Embracing and riding on latest tools and technologies to strengthen customer base and retention.