Following the sell-out success of our 2022 and 2023 events, AusPayNet is excited to announce that this year’s Summit will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the International Convention Centre (ICC), Sydney on Thursday, 12 December.
The theme of this year’s Summit is ‘Making it Happen’.
A key event in the industry’s calendar, the Summit will bring together decision-makers, innovators, experts, and regulators for insightful and stimulating discussions on the future of payments in Australia and how the industry can ensure the payments system remains secure and customer-focused, facilitates competition and encourages innovation.
Event highlights:
Program
The program includes several commentators participating in a dynamic series of interviews and panel discussions. Session themes include the future of payments, security threats and responses, fighting economic crime, the evolving regulatory landscape, threats and opportunities of AI and the modernisation of legacy payments systems.
Our platinum sponsor
We're excited to announce Thales will return this year as our Platinum sponsor. Thales – responsible for approximately 80 per cent of payment card transactions worldwide – has a track record in securing the digital transformation of the payments industry by supporting all major payment applications including technologies such as host card emulation, secure element provisioning, mobile point of sale (POS) and mobile payments security.
Event sponsors
ACI Worldwide, an original innovator in global payments technology, delivers transformative software solutions that power intelligent payments orchestration in real time so banks, billers, and merchants can drive growth, while continuously modernizing their payment infrastructures, simply and securely. With nearly 50 years of trusted payments expertise, we combine our global footprint with a local presence to offer enhanced payment experiences to stay ahead of constantly changing payment challenges and opportunities.
Technology is our how. And people are our why.
For over two decades, we have been harnessing technology to drive meaningful change. By combining world-class engineering, industry expertise and a people-centric mindset, we consult and partner with our customers to create technological solutions that drive innovation and transform businesses.
Working side by side with leading brands, we build strategies, products and solutions tailored to unique needs, regardless of industry, region or scale. From ideation to production, we support our customers through every step of their digital transformation journey, creating dynamic platforms and intelligent digital experiences across various industries.
Fitzgerald Jenkins specialise in recruitment services for the Banking, Wealth Management, Payments & Technology sectors. Within these markets, we recruit contract and permanent roles across Projects, Strategy, Risk & Compliance, Finance, Operations, and IT.
We combine 40 years recruitment experience, servicing roles with blue chip firms across Sydney and Asia. FJR possess excellent networks and an in-depth understanding of the financial services employment markets of Sydney, Melbourne & Singapore.
FJR was established to further a know your client & candidate approach while servicing roles from Graduate up to Director level. FJR believe that in a continually evolving and tech-focused work environment, clients and candidates will always prefer a personalised approach when dealing with their respective career and employment challenges.
MessageXchange is an innovative cloud B2B integration service provider. MessageXchange’s Payment Gateways simplify and securely handle the exchange of payment files and data across companies, banks, and with payment networks. It maps between any API, protocol, and format, ensuring effortless interoperability. The service seamlessly utilises emerging formats like ISO20022, while mediating between various standards and bespoke formats, ensuring easy compliance and efficient communication.
MessageXchange unlocks seamless payments: Bridging formats, boosting efficiency and delivering flexibility.
Monoova moves money with speed and efficiency, resolving common pain points in how you receive, manage, and pay funds. Through our API, we enable real-time and trusted traditional payments, including PayTo, PayID, BPAY, direct debit, and more, plus automated reconciliation.
As the first and only initiator of PayTo at production-level volume (June 2024), we are leading the payments field. We take pride in delivering exceptional service and support—just ask our clients! It’s a level of service that’s hard to beat.
Whether you’re a start-up or an established enterprise, managing payments shouldn’t be a challenge. At Monoova, we ensure payments are fast, automated, secure and simple – just as they should be.
Quest Payment Systems is an Australian-owned and operated payments technology company providing a diverse and secure range of end-to-end payment solutions for businesses and financial institutions, both locally and globally.
Quest offers both mass-market and custom solutions, including unattended, mobile payment terminal hardware, mobile POS solutions, countertop terminals, gift cards, contactless readers, and online payment solutions. Our products are utilized by some of Australia’s largest retailers across various industry segments, government agencies, transit systems, and charities.
As a market leader and innovator in payment solutions, Quest plays a key role in maintaining Australia’s position as a hub for payment innovation. We take pride in being Australian and developing and supporting all our solutions domestically.
We look forward to connecting with many of our industry peers at the 2024 AusPayNet Summit.
Swift is a global member-owned cooperative and the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services.
We provide our community with a platform for messaging, standards for communicating and we offer products and services to facilitate access and integration; identification, analysis and financial crime compliance.
Our messaging platform, products and services connect more than 11,000 banking and securities organisations, market infrastructures and corporate customers in over 200 countries and territories, enabling them to communicate securely and exchange standardised financial messages in a reliable way.
As their trusted provider, we facilitate global and local financial flows, support trade and commerce all around the world; we relentlessly pursue operational excellence and continually seek ways to lower costs, reduce risks and eliminate operational inefficiencies.
Headquartered in Belgium, Swift’s international governance and oversight reinforces the neutral, global character of its cooperative structure. Swift’s global office network ensures an active presence in all the major financial centres.
TNS is a global leader in providing full-stack, modern and secure payment and network solutions. As a leading provider of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions with more than 30 years’ experience, TNS has been offering managed service solutions to more than 1,400 organizations in over 50 countries. TNS’ comprehensive portfolio spans from cutting-edge payment terminals and online solutions to secure global network connectivity and seamless payment processing.
With TNS’ portfolio of industry leading services, customers can reduce the complexities of fragmented payments and connectivity with just one trusted managed service partner.
Trusted by Leading Organizations
From enterprise retailers, fuel and convenience stations, POS and ATM device deployers, through to acquirers, financial institutions and payment processors, TNS’ customers rely on secure and dependable solutions to accept, connect and manage their payments and network infrastructure environments, enabling them to focus on their core business operations.
The Complete Commerce Solution
TNS offers a complete commerce solution, eliminating the complexity with a single partner for payments and connectivity solutions, providing organizations with the complete reliability, confidence and security that customers expect.
Cuscal is a payments and regulated data services provider in Australia. For nearly 60 years, they have enabled Australian banks, mutuals, corporates and fintechs to better serve and connect with their customers through the implementation of innovative technology solutions.
Vision: Enabling the future.
Purpose: Powering seamless and secure connections for customers. Always.
Become a sponsor at the AusPayNet Payments Summit, our internationally recognized payments forum and gain unparalleled visibility within the industry.
Showcase your brand to key decision-makers, network with industry leaders, and establish yourself as a thought leader in payments. Sponsorship offers exclusive opportunities for product demonstrations, lead generation, and brand awareness.
Join us and position your company at the forefront of the payments revolution.
MC
Juanita Phillips is one of Australia’s best loved and experienced news presenters, and an accomplished MC and speaker.
For over two decades, she anchored the ABC’s flagship 7pm News in Sydney, making her the public broadcaster’s longest-serving prime-time female TV news presenter. Before this time, she anchored CNN’s morning news and business show in London for five years, and was one of the first Australians to present TV news on the BBC.
Ms Phillips has also worked for Channel Ten and Sky News, and has been a columnist and feature writer for The Bulletin magazine, News Corporation and Fairfax. She has written a series of children’s books, The Newspaper Kids, and is the author of a best-selling memoir about juggling work and motherhood, A Pressure Cooker Saved My Life.
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Juanita Phillips is one of Australia’s best loved and experienced news presenters, and an accomplished MC and speaker.
For over two decades, she anchored the ABC’s flagship 7pm News in Sydney, making her the public broadcaster’s longest-serving prime-time female TV news presenter. Before this time, she anchored CNN’s morning news and business show in London for five years, and was one of the first Australians to present TV news on the BBC.
Ms Phillips has also worked for Channel Ten and Sky News, and has been a columnist and feature writer for The Bulletin magazine, News Corporation and Fairfax. She has written a series of children’s books, The Newspaper Kids, and is the author of a best-selling memoir about juggling work and motherhood, A Pressure Cooker Saved My Life.
Managing Director, Head of Payments J.P. Morgan Australia and New Zealand
Bianca Bates is the Head of Payments, Australia and New Zealand at J.P. Morgan, responsible for driving business strategy and growth. The Payments business encompasses payables, receivables including merchant acquiring, liquidity, foreign exchange, account services, channels, escrow, and trade solutions.
In the rapidly evolving payments landscape, Ms Bates overseas product development and innovation, business P&L, client experience and overall business governance. She manages a team across sales, product, client service and implementations, and key partners including operations and technology.
Ms Bates has over 25 years of financial industry experience. She joined JP Morgan in 2013 and held several roles, including APAC Head of Business Transformation for J.P. Morgan Payments based in Hong Kong. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Ms Bates worked at Citi and UBS in Sydney and London.
Ms Bates currently serves as an AusPayNet Director and holds a GAID. She also sits on the Australian Advisory Board for Women in Payments.
Tiziana Bianco
VP AuNZSP Product & Solutions – Visa Customer Experience, Innovation, Product and Transformation Executive
VP AuNZSP Product & Solutions – Visa Customer Experience, Innovation, Product and Transformation Executive
Tiziana Bianco is a transformational leader with primary expertise in Customer Experience, Product and Innovation. She is a technology, product and management executive with 15+ years of global experience, having developed and launched business operations, new products, solutions and services for multinational brands. She is currently leading the Visa Product and Solutions team, having carriage for Visa’s core consumer and business solutions inclusive of Loyalty and Instalments, Risk and Data Services, Networks and Platforms and Digital Partnerships across the Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific markets.
Prior to this, Ms Bianco supported the expansion of Zip Payments outside of Australia through strategic acquisition and inorganic product and engineering expansion. She also created and led the global Innovation Lab network at CBA across Sydney, London, and Hong Kong.
Her ability to identify, test and drive new ways of working, emerging business models and new capabilities to help organisations future fit themselves, drive customer advocacy and establish sustained innovative cultures are her core passions.
Ms Bianco’s intrapreneurial mindset and leadership continues to be cultivated and curated with strong relationships and networks established through trade missions to Israel with the first Women Leaders Mission led by Lucy Turnbull AO and Jillian Segal AM and various visits to Silicon Valley, Europe and Asia.
Ms Bianco’s early days were spent in management consultant at Capgemini Australia, with primary expertise in large scale transformational programmes, ranging from strategy through to implementation within the financial services, retail and telecommunication sectors. Before moving to Australia, she spent time at ING DIRECT, Canada with a predominate focus on customer experience programs.
Chair, AusPayNet
John Brogden is an experienced Chairman, Non-Executive Director, Executive and former Member of Parliament with more than 30 years’ experience in the public sector, financial services, professional associations, and not-for-profit organisations.
From 1996 to 2005, John was the Member for Pittwater in the NSW Parliament and was Leader of the Opposition for over three years – the youngest person ever to lead a major political party at a state of federal level. After Parliament, his executive roles have included CEO of Manchester Unity, the Financial Services Council, the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and Landcom. He has chaired Abacus Australian Mutuals (now COBA) and Landcom (prior to being appointed CEO).
John is a leading Australian and international suicide prevention advocate and campaigner for suicide decimalisation. He has been President of LifeLine International and Chair of Lifeline Australia.
He is currently the Chair of AusPayNet, a Director of CFS’ superannuation fund AIL, and the Chair of Advisory Board of the Urban Property Group.
He holds a Master of Public Affairs (MPA) from the University of Sydney, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD) and is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).