Unlocking Cross-Border Payments Success Through Instant Cloud Enablement
Temenos, Visa Direct and SWIFT discuss modernizing cross-border payments to drive accelerated revenue growth.
Our Payments Team sat down with Visa Direct and SWIFT to talk about the opportunity around modernizing cross-border payments and how important functional and technical transformations can enable key innovative services, leading to an expansion in product offerings and improvements in real-time customer experiences.
Key Takeaways
- What’s the opportunity in cross-border payments?
- Highly attractive margins, expanding target markets and added value services to name a few
- Why you need to modernize. Hint: It’s partly about aiming for accelerated revenue growth
- What is modernization? It’s not just one action, it’s a range of functional and technical transformations to support key capabilities
- Hear tips from Temenos, SWIFT and Visa Direct
Speakers
Mick Fennell, Business Line Director – Payments | TEMENOS
Mick Fennell is a business and market development specialist with a long, proven track record of successfully winning new business and growing market share.
He has deep knowledge of the global banking systems market, as well as the systems themselves, from core to satellite solutions, with particular expertise in payments, messaging, transaction banking, integration, and corporate e-banking.
Isabelle Olivier, Head of Business Development, Visa Direct, Southern & Central Europe | VISA
Isabelle has close to 30 years’ experience in cross border payments and financial services. She joined Visa one year ago to drive the business development of Visa Money Movement services in Europe. Before joining Visa, Isabelle worked at Swift where she held various Sales and strategic Project Management functions in Italy and Belgium. Isabelle started her career at Euroclear Bank Belgium where she held various Operations Management functions.
Lawrence Freeborn, Lead Analyst – Consumer & SME Payments and Trade | SWIFT
Lawrence Freeborn has worked as an independent analyst, strategy and intelligence exec across the payments and banking technology sectors for 15 years. At Swift he is focused on unlocking the opportunities created by new technologies, ecosystems and regulations as the payment industry continually reinvents itself in the face of rising expectations.
