Bangkok--17 Jun--Brand Now
SWIFT marks 30 years in Thailand with a commitment to greater investment and connectivity in Asia Pacific.
SWIFT, the member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products, and services to connect more than 10,800 banking organisations, securities institutions, and corporate customers over 200 countries and territories, is organising the SWIFT Business Forum Thailand 2015; a vital event to support Thailand in the lead up to the beginning of the ASEAN Economic Community.
The Business Forum invites specialist speakers, all professionals within the financial services industry, including SWIFT, to highlight a wide range of topics relevant to Thailand today. Areas covered include, how innovative payment trends will impact the Thai economy; plans to lessen the cost burden of compliance whilst increasing effectiveness; best practices; the securities global and regional landscape; SWIFT’s strategy for greater support for corporates in terms of connectivity and business continuity, sharpening the competitive edge of businesses within Asia Pacific; and SWIFT’s plans for greater investment in the region, with integrated payment systems empowering individuals, businesses and ultimately, the Thai economy.
Keynote speaker, Eddie Haddad, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, SWIFT will open the Business Forum with an address to celebrate successful collaboration with financial institutions in Thailand for over three decades. The focus will be SWIFT’s milestones and achievements in Thailand and looking to the future growth of SWIFT in the ASEAN region. Strategies to promote safe, secure and sustainable financial integration to supportive regional community integration will be highlighted too; a community which, if it were one country, would be the seventh largest economy in the world.
A media briefing will also be held during lunch at the event.
Guest speakers, sharing crucial industry insights at the Business Forum are:
- Dr Kirida Bhaopichitr, Senior Economist, World Bank
- Michael Moon, Head of Payments, Asia Pacific, SWIFT
- Dr Rom Hiranpruk, Payment Systems Committee, Bank of Thailand
- Wanawit Ahkuputra, Deputy Executive Director, Electronic Transactions Development Agency
- Andrew Burlison, Director, Compliance Services, Asia Pacific, SWIFT
- Emmanuel Daniel, President, The Asian Banker
- Boontuck Wungcharoen, Chief Executive Officer, TMB
- Alexandre Kech, Head of Securities Market Infrastructures & Standards, Asia Pacific, SWIFT
- Philippe Dirckx, Managing Director, Head of Markets & Initiatives, Asia Pacific, SWIFT
- Bordin Unakul, Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Services Division acting Chief Operation Officer, The Stock Exchange of Thailand
- Utumporn Viranuvatti, Head of HSBC Securities Services, HSBC - representing the Custodian Club
- Joan Lee, Director, Corporate Markets, Asia Pacific, SWIFT
- Hemant Chandak, Technical Analyst, Sales Services, Asia Pacific, SWIFT“This Business Forum is a way for SWIFT to bring the financial community together to discuss the changing landscape in this market, and also support the continued growth of Thailand as it plans to enter the ASEAN community in 2015,” notes SWIFT Head of ASEAN, Sharon Toh. “We have been working with the Thai financial community for several years and look forward to continue serving them with a standardised payment and settlement system enabling them to realize their ASEAN ambition.”
The SWIFT Business Forum Thailand 2015 is providing a unique platform for representatives from financial institutions in Thailand, as well as multinational corporations, regulators and market infrastructures to share their professional expertise at a momentous moment in Thailand’s history; an invaluable opportunity to implement greater standardization to increase financial power for Thailand and the ASEAN Economic Community within the context of the wider global financial stage.
About SWIFT
SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect more than 10,800 banking organizations, securities institutions and corporate customers in over 200 countries and territories. SWIFT enables its users to exchange automated, standardized financial information securely and reliably, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating operational inefficiencies. SWIFT also brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest.
SWIFT has been operating in Asia Pacific for over 30 years, starting in Hong Kong and Singapore. Since 2005, SWIFT has opened three additional sales and support offices in Asia, bringing the total number of offices to nine across the region. This includes a Control Centre in Hong Kong and a new corporate services hub that opened in Kuala Lumpur in 2013.
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