OpenWay announces ‘Digital Banking Leadership Kenya 2017’ conference

OpenWay has announced that its event dubbed, ‘Digital Banking Leadership Kenya 2017’ will take place in the Sankara Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya on the 5th of September.

Per a press statement, the ‘Digital Banking Leadership Kenya 2017’ event is part of a series of events in East Africa, being launched by OpenWay.

“The events are seen as an opportunity to expand its footprint and bring the leading innovations in omni-channel digital banking to the region,” the statement added.

“It is an exclusive networking event devoted to the latest digital and omni-channel strategies, challenges in developing services for the unbanked and extending services for existing clients. OpenWay will showcase the best breakthrough payment innovations adapted by the leading financial institutions in Europe, Middle East, and Asia,” it continued.

C-level executives, directors of IT, retail banking, and digital innovations divisions of Kenyan banks, processors and payment providers will gather insights and lessons learnt from top-level business and technical experts from OpenWay and other valuable players of the payment industry.

The to be covered at the conference include:

Cost effective branchless banking:

• Case studies of leading banks using top-rated WAY4 solutions from around the globe

Challenges of digital era:

• Interoperability of financial services
• Digital identity
• New customer acquisition
• API banking
• Instant payments

Building a flexible omni-channel platform:

• Local and cross-border card issuing
• Agent banking
• Merchant acquiring
• Digital wallets (P2P, P2C, B2C, B2B, G2C, C2G)
• National payment switching
• e-Commerce payment gateway
• mVisa

Lifestyle banking:

• Messenger banking
• Tokenisation
• Mobile money

Fighting fraud:

• Security in mobile payments and e-commerce
• Biometrics
• Contactless
• 3-D Secure 2.0