Consumer Forum: Realising social change with open banking
Key players are collaborating and leveraging open banking data to breathe life into social change programmmes.
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About this event
The OBIE’s next Consumer Forum event will be focussed on initiatives within and adjacent to our industry – where key players are collaborating and leveraging open banking data to breathe life into social change programmmes.
On Tuesday 23rd March, from 1-2pm, join us for a sharp, informative panel discussion on open banking-enabled transformation we can all reach out and touch, including:
- Climate change, through the combination of environmental and open banking data
- Digital identity for inclusion
- Consumer protection, through continued adoption of Request to Pay and Confirmation of Payee
Register today to secure your place – additional speaker details will be released in coming weeks.
Maha El Dimachki, Chief Payments Officer at Pay.UK
Maha is the Chief Payments Officer at Pay.UK responsible for running the payments operations of BACS, Faster Payments, Image Clearing Services and related managed services.
Maha is an experienced international business leader with a strategic focus and a long term vision. She has extensive payments knowledge across the payments chain from systems to end user.
Maha’s career in payments has spanned multiple geographies since 1995, covering various markets in retail banking as well as wholesale and institutional cash management. Her payments knowledge includes acquiring, issuing, payables and receivables, liquidity management and working capital solutions. She has performed a wide variety of roles from sales, strategy and product to governance, risk and control. Maha has a keen interest in observing and participating in the many exciting changes that are unfolding in the payments environment.
Prior to joining Pay.UK, Maha was the Head of the Payments Supervision Department at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Maha joined the FCA to set up the first Payments Department and was responsible for crafting and implementing FCA supervisory strategy for the UK Payments Sector.
Maha is passionate about leading and motivating teams to high performance by creating a culture of positive challenge and continuous improvement. The heart of her approach is to be a champion of diversity in all its forms, with a focus on inclusion and a drive to contribute to meaningful change.
Claire Tracey, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer at Nationwide
Claire joined Nationwide in September 2019 and is responsible for Nationwide’s Strategy community including strategy delivery, innovation, venturing, disruptive business growth and acquisitions. She also leads the Society’s response to climate change. Claire chairs the Society’s Responsible Business Committee and Strategic Investment Committee. She was previously a Partner & Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group, specialising in marketing and customer-centric strategy.
Nicola Anderson, CEO of FinTech Scotland
Nicola Anderson is the CEO of FinTech Scotland, a strategic cluster management organisation that works across the private, public and third sectors, as well as academia to enable economic growth and inclusion in developing digital financial services.
Throughout her career Nicola has worked across the public and private sectors and her experience has involved leading business and organisational development with an emphasis on innovation, collaboration, customer focused strategies, risk and regulation.
She’s experienced in financial services and an advocate for consumers, people and inclusion. She has shaped the development of FinTech Scotland’s cluster, integrating businesses, consumers, citizens, and public agencies to build an inclusive network.
Initially joining FinTech Scotland as Strategic Development Director in 2018, she has progressed a range of collaborative initiatives working across the financial services industry, fintech, government, regulators, universities, legal and cyber expertise, as well as an advisory role with LawTech Scotland.
Nicola strives to build business success through diverse engagement and purposeful inclusive action. This approach has seen the development of FinTech Scotland’s consumer panel, which is enabling more fintech propositions to focus on prioritised and direct consumer needs, as well as helping to advance fintech consumer adoption and financial inclusion.
Before joining FinTech Scotland, Nicola was as part of the FCA’s leadership team in the Retail Banking Sector, where she led and contributed to the development of solutions needed to address industry issues following the financial crisis. This experience included Board and Executive level engagement on a number of retail bank transformational changes and complex regulatory issues, working in collaboration with HM Treasury, the Bank of England and other bodies.