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Expert Discussion | Athens, October 2025
How Telco Data Strengthens Trust in Global Banking
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Current fraud and authentication challenges, new security standards, and regulatory impacts
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Enabling developers to embed network capabilities and data into the applications consumers rely on daily to lay the foundation for secure, seamless digital financial interactions that build trust
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Leveraging network data to transform banking beyond digital, enabling the creation of new solutions that secure every interaction
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The evolving partnership between telcos, aggregators, APIs and financial institutions to shape the future of banking and finance
Speakers
Pawel Kowalski - mBank
Peter Arbitter - Aduna
Andrzej Ochocki - Deutsche Telekom
David Darmon - Vonage
Expert Discussion | Athens, October 2025
Rip & Replace vs. Adaptive Modernization – What’s Actually Working?
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What are the true cost and risk of full core replacement—and who actually pulled it off?
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What hybrid models are emerging that allow banks to modernize without breaking everything?
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How are boards and regulators reacting to long-term transformation roadmaps?
Speakers
Davor Gasparac | Erste Digital
Michal Niwinski - Bank Ochrony Srodowiska
Spyros Arsenis | National Bank of Greece
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Financial Fraud: How to Protect your Bank?
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Prevention. Understanding your vulnerabilities as a first step of successful Risk Management
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Detection. Optimising the use of technology
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Response to cyberattacks & communicating it with clients
Payments: Navigating Another Year Of Digital Acceleration
Threats of the overglobalised world, Digital Currencies, Stablecoins and DLT in banking, what’s next in digitalisation and new trends in Payments to expect within the next few years, will Traditional Banking and Decentralised Finance merge? Incumbents and Challengers perspectives, digital payments on cash-heavy markets, tokenisation of everything, the Dangerous Fashion and good things that are coming from the
COVID-19 outbreak
Reimagining Customer Experience in the New World
The needs and "wants" of the modern customer, how do we bridge the gap between IT and business, current trend towards personalisation, simplification and integration, the Super Apps concept, The Love Brand, AI in UX and new battlefield banks are competing on.
Digital Money, Crypto, Regulation & CBDC
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Digital Currencies & the Future of Money
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Comparing different conceptions of digital money
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Impacts of CBDCs on commercial banks, regulators and customers
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What is the realistic future course of digital money?
Key Trends to observe
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Upcoming EU Regulatory Initiatives & priorities, current Macro & Political Context, Emerging Risks, increasing trend of Agility and Innovation Culture, today's and future challenges that banks are and will continue facing.
The discussion was also backed with a live poll where 135 banking experts from around the globe were voting in real time for what they think will be among the leading trends in Banking in 2023.
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