SWIFT Latin America Regional Conference (LARC) 2014 Unlocking the power of collaboration - Westin Santa Fe México City México D.F., México 28-29 ...
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SWIFT Latin America Regional Conference (LARC) 2014
Unlocking the power of collaboration
Westin Santa Fe México City
México D.F., México
28-29 May 2014
LARC 2014: By the numbers
6
20 sponsors
countries
7
exhibitors
302
attendees
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Jairo Namur, SWIFT, welcomed attendees and introduced Joaquín Alfaro and Ricardo Villanueva from Santander.
The SWIFT plenary included a conversation between Chris Church and Gottfried Leibbrandt on key challenges facing the financial services industry today. “A key trend around the globe - including Latin America - is “Latin America is an extremely important and the issue of financial crime compliance. Our members tell growing market for us. My objective is for us to get us this is an area where SWIFT can do more to help, much closer to our clients in the region so we can so we have been investing in services such as Sanctions keep our pulse on trends and changes that affect Screening and Analytics, which help customers meet our community.” Chris Church, Chief Executive regulatory requirements.” Gottfried Leibbrandt, CEO Americas
The Age of Compliance plenary agreed that the Latin American community could
benefit significantly from greater collaboration on compliance challenges, such as
international AML standards.
Javier Paulina David Jose Alberto
Perez-Tasso Morfín Cedeño Wildner Balbuena Balbuena
SWIFT CNBV BNY Mellon Banco Azteca 5
Javier Perez-Tasso provided an update on the latest new product developments and shared the roadmap towards SWIFT’s 2020 strategy.
Ed Adams led a discussion with Jairo Namur and Ruben Galindo on SWIFT’s progress in Mexico and what is in store for the region in 2014. “Mexico is the second largest market in Latin “We believe SWIFT has a continuing role to play in America for SWIFT following Brazil, with helping fuel Mexico's growth and development by message traffic in Mexico growing by a strong connecting Mexico with its counterparts in the region and 15% in 2013.” Ed Adams, Head of Business around the globe. Our new office in Mexico City is one Development step in this direction.” Jairo Namur, Head of Latin America
Jorge Jimenez from FRB Global moderated a discussion which highlighted the importance of
Market Infrastructures' supporting the evolving market landscape with initiatives such as person
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Raúl Morales, CEMLA
Jorge Jimenez, The Fed Francisco Javier Solís
Banco de Mexico
The Corporate Plenary challenged the financial community to identify a single
standard by which the Corporates could communicate with their Banks via SWIFT.
Liba Saiovici Carlos Ortega Ricardo Armendariz Felipe Borja
BAML Televisa Cemex BBVA 9
The final Latin American focused plenary discussed how regional
infrastructures can collaborate in the interest of the entire community.
Rossana Huerta Cado Álvaro Camuñas
DRC México BNP Paribas
Arturo Navarro Don Linford
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Indeval Deutsche BankThe day closed with Guillermo Guemez Garcia, Former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Mexico, sharing his thoughts on the evolution of money transfer to the present day.
In addition to plenaries there were 10 work sessions and 3 special
interest sessions which took place throughout the two days.
• What’s cooking in Standards?
• Trends in cloud computing
• Payment industry perspectives
• The growing importance of trade
• Manage your risk through insights leveraging
SWIFT Compliance portfolioWork sessions allowed attendees to further discuss hot industry topics
and provided updates on SWIFT’s offerings for the region.
• Evolution of SWIFT in treasury
• Business Intelligence – Insights into your unique
data
• The road to 2015: an update on SWIFT initiatives
• SWIFT Services Portfolio
• Spotlight on MexicoOverall event satisfaction results were 4.43/5.0 with comments such as “Excellent conference with great speakers! Information shared was clear and relevant.”
LARC2014 participants enjoying the networking at the Westin Santa Fe
The first LARC to take place in Mexico was well covered by the country’s Tier 1 business and finance press.
SWIFT opened its new office in Mexico City as well as rings the
“buzzer” at the Mexican Stock Exchange on Friday, 30 May 2014
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