27 November 2012 | Tuesday

8.00am

Registration

9.00am

Welcome Address – Managing Director, Knowledge Group of Companies

9.05am

Official Opening & Keynote Address

9.20am

Morning Refreshment & Tour to the Exhibition Hall

9.55am

Chairperson’s Remarks

10.00am

What Are Banks' Biggest IT Budget Challenges for 2012?

• Where will they focus their technology spending?
• What are the top areas of IT investment at bank in 2012?
• What does the banking industry want from technology providers?

10.45am

IT Benchmarking Strategies

• Developing a more reliable understanding of the cost and performance benchmarks of banking technology
• Strategic business and technology directions taken by the region's top banks
• How are banks able to justify their technology spending?
• Business decisions, costs and factors that drive IT investments of financial institutions across Asia

11.30am

Managing Banking Technology Risk in Today’s World

• Discover the perception of technology risk management and its regulation on the banking industry
• Anticipating and identifying threats that could harm the bank’s systems or its operating environment
• Tackling Technology Migration Risk - Process and technology issues that can cause migration problems

12.15pm

Basel III - New Rules and Implications for Banks in Asia

• Why is Basel III fundamentally different from Basel I and Basel II?
• Exploring the challenges faced by banks to comply with the New Regime
• The challenges when meeting the new liquidity requirements
• What new risks do Basel III brings to the financial markets?
• Risk Management Strategy under Basel III

1.00pm

Networking Lunch & Tour to the Exhibition Hall

Stream One

Technology Risk Management

& Compliance: An Operational Approach

Stream Two

Bank Fraud, Money Laundering

& Financial Crime Prevention

2.15pm

Session 1a

Consistent Approach to Managing Technology Related Risk

• How to maintain effective technology risk management in an ever-changing environment
• Trends in risk management approaches & Increased bankers spending on risk management technology
• Process and technology issues that can cause migration problems
• How to get your job done while maintaining the existing service levels and minimizing costs and risks?

Session 2a

Smarter Way to Manage Anti-Money Laundering

• AML approaches in combating money laundering in the region
• Risks faced by financial institutions face when not complying with AML regulations
• Updating your AML monitoring system to improve efficiency of financial crime prevention and investigation actions
• Implementing effective fraud and AML detection, prevention, and security systems has become a critical part of a firm’s ability to control operational risk.

3.00pm

Session 1b

Risk Management on Alternate Channels

• Risks on providing their valuable services using alternative channels
• Factors influencing banks considering as risk before they decide on a Channel
• Strategies to mitigate the risk of fraud on electronic and mobile banking channels

Session 2b

Cyber Crime: A Clear and Present Danger

• Is Your Bank’s Web Site Safe?
• The key to fighting cyber crime and its impact on the online and mobile banking
• Cyber Crime remains a major area of Information Security risk
• Technical challenges involved in fighting cybercrime and cyber attacks

3.45pm

Afternoon Tea & Tour to the Exhibition Hall

4.15pm

Session 1c

Integrated Risk and Compliance Management - Why is this Important?

• Can all risk and compliance needs be met on a single platform
• Is there a central system that users across locations can access to record, manage, review, evaluate and access risk and compliance information?
• Integrated corporate governance, risk management, and compliance processes leads to significantly lower compliance and governance costs

Session 2c

Protecting Your Organisation from Financial Crimes

• Cyber criminals are leveraging innovation at a pace which many target banking organisations and security vendors
• Cyber crimes pose the most potentially damaging threat to IT-related activities, transactions, and assets
• How can we make consumers aware that their mobile device is a handheld computer with an operating system vulnerable to malicious software?
  
  

5.00pm

Closing Speech