On May 8, Akshay Mathur, Director, Research and Analysis, Gateway House, participated in the The SWIFT India and Subcontinents Regional Conference 2018. This conference is dedicated to exploring the challenges in the current banking space in India and its sub-region, especially with respect to the future of Digital Payments.
He spoke on the panel, ‘Digitisation towards SAARC regionalisation and trade’, along with co-panelists K. D. Ranasinghe, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka; Dilip Asbe, Managing Director & CEO, NPCI; Arfan Ali, Managing Director, Bank Asia, Bangladesh; and Mohan Tanksale, Ex- CMD, Central Bank of India & Ex-Chief Executive, IBA & SWIFT Consultant. The panel was moderated by Eddie Haddad, Managing Director, APAC, SWIFT. They spoke at length about the implications of the current market trends on the payment systems and the innovation imperatives for banks undertaken across SAARC to improve trade.