Bankers and financial services officials are getting together in Barcelona this week for BizzPay 7.0 – European Corporate and Retail Payments Forum, to be held on June 13-14. Continue Reading
Category Archives: Events
UPDATE – Top African bankers to speak at Accra’s Digital Banking Summit
Some two dozen speakers, about half of them top figures in African banks, are going to take the floor at the Digital Banking Summit in Accra on August 19-20. Continue Reading
UPDATE – Connected Claims Europe Summit to discuss digitisation of claims services
Numerous insurers, among them AIG, Generali and Zurich, are getting together in Amsterdam in September for a pan-European conference to discuss the digitisation of the claims function in insurance. Continue Reading
Californian city to host private wealth management conference
Senior business executives and consultants from all over the United States are going to delve into key investment and wealth preservation issues at the Private Wealth Management Summit, an event in Rancho Mirage, California, on June 3-5 organised by the marcus evans company. Continue Reading
Insurance Nexus: Machine learning, AI to have main impact on claims services in next 5 years
A survey by event organiser Insurance Nexus suggests that more than half of claims executives in insurance companies worldwide believe that machine learning and artificial intelligence will have the greatest impact on claims services in the next five years. Continue Reading
Sberbank: cybercrime to cost companies globally $2.5tn in 2019
By Andrei Skvarsky. According to Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, cybercrime inflicted total damages of $1.5 trillion on companies worldwide last year and will rob them of another $2.5 trillion in 2019. Continue Reading
High-powered financiers to discuss real estate investment at California event
Leading investors and top company managers are coming together in San Diego, California, on May 1-3 for a North America-focused conference on real estate investment. Continue Reading
Senior African bankers to meet over world banking digitisation
Senior African bankers are getting together for a conference in Accra this August to discuss the digitisation of banking across the world and issues it involves. Continue Reading
RenCap-hosted forum involves 150 meetings between Egypt companies and potential investors
By Andrei Skvarsky. Egyptian companies had about 150 meetings with foreign institutional investors owning assets totalling about $20bn during a recent conference organised by Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital. Continue Reading
UPDATE (quoting ticket price discount) – Florida’s Opal Exchange networking event to bring together investors, brokers, consultants
Investors, brokers, consultants and any other financial services professionals will have plenty of opportunity for one-to-one meetings during Opal Exchange, a networking event in Florida on March 31-April 2. Continue Reading
Insurance Nexus webinar to address challenges faced by innovative insurance solutions
The Insurance Nexus research and event company is going to host a webinar on February 1 that will address challenges faced by insurers in trying to have innovative solutions accepted by their current and potential customers. Continue Reading
Connected Insurance Europe to discuss startups, micro-segmentation
Dozens of companies are getting together in Amsterdam on May 15-16 for the fourth annual Connected Insurance Europe conference, a forum with an extensive agenda focusing on innovative product development and market penetration. Continue Reading
Moody’s, Fitch, S&P, bulge bracket banks to take part in CLO forum in California
Rating agencies Moody’s, Fitch and S&P and several bulge bracket banks will take part in the CLO Summit in Dana Point, California, on November 28-30, an educational conference on collateralised loan obligations for investors, issuers, underwriters, rating agencies, lawyers, and accountants. Continue Reading
California forum on marketplace lending, alternative financing to address wide range of issues
Subjects ranging from real estate opportunities to the use of blockchain and artificial intelligence in financial services will be raised at the Marketplace Lending & Alternative Financing Summit in Dana Point, California, on November 28-30. Continue Reading
Brock Pierce to be among 60 speakers at 4-day blockchain forum in Hollywood in December
High-profile cryptocurrency entrepreneur Brock Pierce will be the keynote speaker at the planned BWC South blockchain educational conference in Hollywood on December 2-5, which will hear about 60 other speakers and have a range of networking and entertainment activities on its programme. Continue Reading
World Blockchain Forum in New York to bring together over 150 firms
More than 150 companies are going to take part in the 4th World Blockchain Forum (WBF), a conference in New York on November 8-9, 2018, that will take up issues such as blockchain finance, cryptocurrencies and token economics. Continue Reading
London’s Connected Claims Europe forum expected to answer key questions re insurtech
The leitmotif of the Insurance AI and Analytics Europe conference in London on October 9-10, insurtech will be very much in the spotlight during Connected Claims Europe, a conference in London on October 29-30 that will mostly bring together C-level and other senior executives. Continue Reading
Brochure released with full agenda of Connected Claims Europe forum
The organisers of the Connected Claims Europe conference in London on October 29-30 have released a brochure with the complete agenda and speaker line-up for the forum, which is going to deal with the re-engineering of claims, innovative technologies and other key issues. Continue Reading
Cryptos, blockchain high on agenda for Aug 16 FinTech Canada forum
Big companies such as Google, IBM, MasterCard and Amazon will be represented at FinTech Canada, a conference in Toronto on August 16 with an agenda largely taken up by cryptocurrency and blockchain issues. Continue Reading
CORRECTION: Sept 11 Stockholm conference to discuss blockchain use in energy, real estate industries, media
(Correcting date to September 11 from November 11 in headline and lead). Experts, businesspeople and others specialising or interested in blockchain and cryptocurrencies are getting together at a planned conference in Stockholm on September 11 to discuss subjects including the use of blockchain in industries such as energy, real estate and newsmaking. Continue Reading
UPDATE 2: London to host two tech-focused European insurance forums in October
(Quoting changed codes for attendance fee discounts). Use of digital technology in insurance will be discussed in detail at two European conferences in London this October that are being organised by Insurance Nexus, a London-based intelligence company that is part of British-registered FC Business Intelligence. Continue Reading
Rhode Island hosting Opal conferences on cybersecurity, payment technologies
Newport, Rhode Island, is the site of two more financial conferences this week organised by Opal Group besides a family office event that has just ended – Cyber Security Summit 2018 and Financial Innovation and Payments Summit 2018, both being held on July 18-20. Friday’s agenda for the Cyber Security Summit includes panel sessions on… Continue Reading
Blockchain, cryptos to be among topics at Rhode Island family office forum
Blockchain and cryptocurrencies will be among a multitude of subjects to be raised at the Family Office & Private Wealth Management Forum in Newport, Rhode Island, on July 16-18. Continue Reading
Blockchain/crypto event to be hosted by crypto-friendly France
The blockchain/cryptocurrency theme, which has been discussed at numerous meetings across the world, is going to be raised again in a month’s time, this time round in an increasingly crypto-friendly country – at Blockchain and Bitcoin Conference France on July 18. Continue Reading
Over 150 insurtechs to get together at London conference on June 19-20
More than 1,000 people are going to gather at the Insurtech Insights conference in London on June 19-20 to hear what over 240 speakers from a bunch of companies including more than 150 insurtechs have to say about how their firms use modern technologies in their business. Continue Reading
Big-scale forum on cryptos to be held in New York
New York City will host a conference on cryptocurrency investment on June 11-12 that is going to be an outstanding event for the range of issues it will address. Continue Reading
BlockShow study: Switzerland Europe’s most cryptocurrency-friendly country
By Andrei Skvarsky. Switzerland is Europe’s most cryptocurrency- and blockchain-friendly country, according to a study carried out in the framework of BlockShow Europe 2018, a planned flagship conference on blockchain technology in Berlin on May 28-29. Continue Reading
BlockShow attendees to be able to use blockchain-based voting app
By Andrei Skvarsky. Those attending BlockShow Europe 2018, a planned conference on blockchain on May 28-29, will be able to use a blockchain-based application for voting to compile rankings of women executives and companies that have made outstanding achievements in blockchain development. Continue Reading
Cross-border pension plan among matters to be discussed at Europe pension forum
European Union officials, bankers, lawyers, academics and others are getting together at a pan-European conference on May 17-18 to discuss developments in and plans for Europe’s pension industry. Continue Reading