The Future of Payments and Collections Forum

The Future of Payments and Collections: Shaping the Future of the Fiscal Service
June 13-16, 2022 9:00-12:00 ET

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About

Fiscal Service provides numerous services to over 250 federal agencies, enabling federal agencies to focus on their core mission. Of these services, money movement, financial data, and effective customer service face a growing number of changes as the financial ecosystem adapts to the increasingly digital world.

In order to continue to sustain the track record of excellence and efficiency, Fiscal Service is starting to explore how the digital payments ecosystem and transforming landscape can impact us.

The Future of Payments and Collections forum brings together thought-leaders and decision-makers across government, industry, and academia to provide an in-depth look at the payment innovations and cross- industry challenges that are transforming the payments landscape. This event is a forum for a breadth of conversations with deep dives into the range of subjects central to the evolving world of payments. This forum will provide practical, actionable guidance that can be used strategically to advance the future of payments and collections at Fiscal Service.

Why Attend?

Influential speakers will also touch on hot topics driving payment trends globally, including:

Digital payments and the growing contactless revolution
The balance between regulation and innovation
Combating fraud and validating identity through digital means
Enabling financial inclusion
Frictionless payment experiences
Protecting customers in a digital world

Agenda

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June 13, 2022
9:00 AM	WELCOME BY BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE Matt Miller, Deputy Commissioner, Financing & Operations Linda Chero Assistant Commissioner, Disbursing / Debt Management Sandra Paylor, Assistant Commissioner, Collections
9:10 AM	OPENING KEYNOTE Albert Ko, Chief Executive Officer at Early Warning Services
9:40 AM	THE CURRENT PAYMENT LANDSCAPE: MEETING CONSUMER DEMAND FOR SPEED, CONVENIENCE AND FLEXIBILITY Bios for Panel 1 Nadir Z. Isfahani, Program Manager at Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Moderator) Daniel Baum, SVP, Head of Payments Product for FedNow at Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Miguel Diaz, Head of Toronto Centre, BIS Innovation Hub Joe Flaherty, Vice President, Working Capital Consultant, at U.S. Bank Leo Lipis, Chief Executive Officer at Lipis Advisors
11:00 AM	FRAMEWORK OF THE FUTURE: INTEGRATING DIGITAL PAYMENTS AND IDENTITY Bios for Panel 2 JoDee M DeVillier, Director of RCM's Business Transformation Division at Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Moderator) Margarita Alvarez, Senior Vice President, Strategy, Digital, and Innovation at Wells Fargo John Cowan, Chief Technology and Operating Officer, Payments Canada Jesse McWaters, Global Head of Regulatory Advocacy at Mastercard Alex Pentland, Founder and Director of MIT Connection Science

June 14, 2022
9:00 AM	OPENING REMARKS Lillian Cheng, Chief Counsel, Bureau of the Fiscal Service
9:05 AM	THE GLOBAL VIEW: GEOPOLITICS AND REGULATION OF DIGITAL ASSETS Bios for Panel 1 Megan Greene Council of Economic Advisors, Executive Office of the President (Moderator) Paul Nelson, Senior FinTech / Digital Finance Advisor at USAID Matthew Osborne, Payments Policy at Bank of England Julia Smearman, Deputy Director, International Financial Markets at U.S. Department of the Treasury Thomas Santoro, Financial Economist, Office of Macroeconomic Affairs, Department of State
10:30 AM	IMPACT ON CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION Bios for Panel 2 Xinxin Wang , Acting Director, Office of Consumer Policy at Treasury (Moderator) Robert Mahari, JD-PhD Student at Harvard Law School and MIT Rafe Mazer, Director of Consumer Protection Initiative at Innovation for Poverty Action Alexandra Rizzi , Senior Research Director of Consumer Data Opportunities and Risks at Center for Financial Inclusion

June 15, 2022
9:00 AM	OPENING REMARKS Matt Garber, Chief Customer Officer, Bureau of the Fiscal Service
9:05 AM	THE PATH TOWARDS PROMOTING FINANCIAL INCLUSION Bios for Panel 1 Esther Chibesa, Managing Director of Treasury and Trade Solutions at Citi Bank Ivy Lau, Global Public Policy and Research Lead Manager at PayPal Harish Natarajan, Lead Financial Sector Specialist, Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation at World Bank Chike Ukaegbu, Head of Crypto Strategy - Emerging Markets at Visa
10:30 AM	WHAT DO DISRUPTIONS IN THE FINANCIAL ECOSYSTEM MEAN FOR THE FUTURE? Bios for Panel 2 Paola Diaz, Office of Innovation, FDIC (Moderator) Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School at Tufts University Nathan Goodson, Supervisory Examiner, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Salah Goss, Senior Vice President, Social Impact, North America Center for Inclusive Growth, Mastercard Dominik Mjartan, President and CEO Of Optus Bank

June 16, 2022
9:00 AM	OPENING REMARKS Dan Vavasour, Managing Director, Management, Modernization, and Customer Care for ARC at Bureau of the Fiscal Service Justin Marsico, Chief Data Officer, Bureau of the Fiscal Service
9:05 AM	ESTABLISHING THE FUTURE OF THE FINANCIAL ECOSYSTEM BY BUILDING COALITIONS Bios for Panel 1 Brett Smith, Director, Payment Strategy and Innovation Division at The Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Moderator) Sunil Sachdev, Head of FinTech and Growth at Fiserv Colin Soutar, Managing Director at Deloitte Kenneth Tessem, Strategic Account Manager, BankID Howard Forman, Head of Digital Channels, Treasury Management Team at PNC
10:30 AM	CREATING A SEAMLESS EXPERIENCE THROUGH UNIFIED BUSINESS LINES: BRINGING TOGETHER COLLECTIONS AND DISBURSEMENT Bios for Panel 2 Tom Kearns, Attorney Advisor, Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Moderator) Brian O’Connor, Managing Director: Embedded Banking, eCommerce, and Cross Border Payments at JP Morgan Nitin Prabhu, Vice President, Enterprise Platform Integrations at PayPal Kashif Siddiqui, Senior Vice President, Payments Innovation at Bank of America
12:00 Noon	CLOSING KEYNOTE Fernando Martin, Assistant Vice President at Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Location:

Online (Virtual)

Duration:

Monday, June 13, 2022 to Thursday, June 16, 2022, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET

Cost:

Free

Hosted by:

Payment Management and the Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation

Point of Contact:

For questions, please e-mail Cindy.Good@fiscal.treasury.gov or Karthik.Yarlagadda@fiscal.treasury.gov.

Last modified 01/30/23