March 12 - 14, 2014
Central Bank of Brazil, Sala Denio Nogueira
Setor Bancário Sul (SBS) Quadra 3 Bloco B - Ed. Sede
Brasília - DF, Brazil
The World Bank, the Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA) and the Multilateral Investment Fund (FOMIN) - a member of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB)- under the auspices of the Banco Central do Brasil, hosted a seminar on "Agent Banking - Expanding Access to Payment and Remittance Services. Achievements and Opportunities."
For the first time, this two-and-a-half day event discussed the best practices of agent banking across the Latin America and the Caribbean region, and in selected countries around the world, with a view to sharing lessons learned for evidence-based policy making. “Deep dive” sessions allowed participants to hear from agent banking “champions” from both the public and private sector about how different models work in reaching out to the financially excluded and their impact on delivery of payment and remittance services. In-depth discussions also covered critical topics such as leveraging agent banking for international remittances, the legal and regulatory framework, oversight models, risk management practices, and technological innovation, among others. The event concluded with the identification of practicable actions to scale up the agent banking model in the region.
AGENDA - English version. Spanish version.
PRESENTATIONS
Enabling agent banking: the legal, regulatory, and oversight framework
- Sergio Odilon dos Anjos, Head, Financial System Regulation Department, Banco Central do Brasil
- Viviana Garza, Director, Banking Regulation and Supervision, Banco de México
- Jorge Castaño Gutiérrez, Director of Research and Development, Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia
- Rajesh Chandra Gupta, Deputy General Manager, Department of Payment & Settlement Systems Reserve Bank of India
- Klaus Loeber, Head, Head of Secretariat, CPSS
The agent banking revolution: extending banking reach
- Francisco José Barbosa da Silveira, Deputy Head, Conduct Supervision Department, Banco Central do Brasil
- Katia Madeira Blaha, Advisor, Febraban
- Juan Camilo Velez Arango, Manager of Business Correspondents, Bancolombia
- Ernesto Pacheco, Manager, Electronic Banking, FEDECRÉDITO
- Kamisah Abd kadir, Deputy Director, Development Finance and Enterprise, Bank Negara Malaysia
Towards universal financial access: the role of agent banking
- Massimo Cirasino, Manager, Financial Infrastructure and Remittances, World Bank
- Vicente S. Aquino, Deputy Governor, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
- Zaira Badillo, Director, Access to Financial Services, Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores México
A snapshot of agent banking in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Maria Teresa Chimienti, World Bank
- Jesús Cervantes, Coordinator of the General Principles for Remittances Program, CEMLA
- Maria Luisa Hayem Breve, Access to Finance Specialist, FOMIN/ BID
Leveraging agent banking for international remittances
- Morgana Cristina Santos, Business Vice-Chairman, Banco Postal/Correios
- Sonia Gómez, Manager, Financial Systems, Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador
- Carlos López-Moctezuma, Global Director for Financial Inclusion, BBVA Retail Banking
- Marcelo Tangioni, Senior Business Leader, Product Management, International Markets, MasterCard
The role of the national clearing and settlement infrastructure in facilitating agent banking
- Joaquim Kavakama, General Superintendent, CIP, Brazil
- Livingstone Morrison, Deputy Governor, Bank of Jamaica
- Francisco Tur, Adviser, Payments and Market Infrastructure, ECB
Risk management strategies and governance models of agent banking
- Anselmo Pereira Araújo Netto, Advisor, Financial System Regulation Department, Banco Central do Brasil
- Sidney Passeri, General Manager, Banco do Brasil
- Mariachiara Malaguti, Sr. Legal Advisor, World Bank
- Nigel Bartlett, Sr. Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank
Realizing potential and accelerating impact through technology
- Fabiola Herrera, Director, Payment Systems Department, Banco Central de la Republica Dominicana
- Marcos Etchegoyen, President, MFS
- Marcelo Coelho, General Director, Mercado Pago
- Marco Nicoli, Remittances Specialist, World Bank