About the Summit

This is the 4th in the series of global Mobile Payments & Banking Summit specially convened for the first time in Vietnam to address the importance of mobile payments & banking in the economic development of the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Greater Mekong Mobile Payments & Banking Summit 2010 will portray regulators perspective on how to structure the mobile payments and banking industry, showcase mobile payments solutions in the Asia, present how to successfully launch mobile payments solutions for local banks & to establish partnerships with mobile money issuers for microfinance (rural banks focus). The gathering will offer a serious two-day intensive platform for interaction, exchange of ideas, learning from successful models, and finding common solutions to current strategic challenges as well as boosting greater interaction and co-operation between the countries in Mekong region. At the Summit the delegates will learn about mobile payments and banking developments in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, China and other countries, explore the differences between cash money transfer customers and mobile money transfer customers and learn how to develop and pilot of a mobile micro payments solution for a bank. At the top of it, the Summit will evaluate the level of M commerce in the region, present mobile network operators’ perspective on mobile payments & banking developments, emphasize on the importance of the cooperation between the banks and mobile operators, as well as tackle the risk associated with mobile payments

Greater Mekong Mobile Payments & Banking Summit 2010 will involve leading regulators, mobile operators, financial institutions and practitioners from Asia , to come together to discuss challenges and issues of critical importance to the mobile payments and banking industry for the coming year.

Benefits of participating:
Network with and learn from like-minded colleagues
Find out about regulators perspective on how to structure the mobile payments and banking industry
Establish partnerships with mobile money issuers for microfinance (rural banks focus)
Explore the differences between cash money transfer customers and mobile money transfer customers
Development and piloting of a mobile micro payments solution for a bank
Discover benefits of mobile payments for financial institutions
Review mobile payments solutions in the Greater Mekong Subregion