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Diederik Bruggink works at the European Savings and Retail Banking Group (ESBG) and at the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute where he is responsible for all payments topics worldwide. In that role, he analyses the multiple dimensions of the payments market, proposing and assisting in agreeing member positions with respect to their payments’ and related businesses. He is also advocates the associations’ positions on...

Joris Hensen is responsible for the Deutsche Bank API Program, which he co-founded in 2015. The Developer Portal of Deutsche Bank gives partners quick and easy access to more than 40 API products, enabling them to connect personalized apps and services and thus open up new areas of value creation. Joris Hensen sees himself as an intrapreneur and is dedicated to exploring how Open Banking and...

Wijnand Machielse is European Markets Director at SRC Security Research & Consulting and is an editor and moderator of Berlin Group openFinance. He has more than 25 years of experience and expertise in conception and implementation of complex transaction systems, in interbank (card) processing, clearing systems and scheme services, and in retail-banking IT standardisation at a European and international level. He holds a master‘s degree...

Successfully promoted use of electronic signatures and electronic business processes throughout Europe. Adviser and technical expert to European Commission for instituting Regulation 910/2014 (#eIDAS) on electronic identity assurance and the design and roll-out of European, cross-nation e-procurement platforms and operations. Implemented within the business model and the technical structure of CAs the European Telecommunications and Standards Institute (ETSI) standards for authentication, encryption, signing, time stamping,...

Pilar Fragalà has more than 20 years of experience as an educator, researcher, and consultant in the banking field. She has obtained over the years vast experience in the financial sector, with a profound knowledge of traditional and innovative business models in the area of Transaction Banking. Born in Rome in 1976, she graduated in Economics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" with a research...

Dr.-Ing. Torsten Lodderstedt is managing director of yes IDP GmbH with more than 15 years experience in running large scale consumer identity services. In his previous positions, he helped organizations in public, banking, railway communication, and telecommunication domains to implement highly-scalable and secure services. Torsten regularly contributes to identity standards, currently focussing on decentralized identity, eIDAS, and global identity networks. He is co-author of OpenID...

Max has a strong track record within Management Roles at NETS/Concardis GmbH as Chief of Staff to the CEO & Head of Risk Taskforce, as well as a background in consulting. His expertise covers in particular strategy, M&A, and risk management in Payments....

Claudia (Helbig) Wiese worked in digital banking for over 8 years. Currently, she is working as the Head of Transaction Banking Operations at SolarisBank in Cards, Payments, Reconciliations, and Card Fraud Management Operations. Before joining here, she was working as a Head of Banking Services at Fidor Bank in leading card management, fraud operations, and technical support teams. She has graduated from FOM University of...

Experienced & effective senior manager, with 20+ years international experience in Banking, Payments, Investments and Corporate Treasury. Strategic and well-versed in business transformation, with successful results in finalizing innovative projects, growing new & profitable businesses, addressing complex regulatory challenges, and building & leading high- performing teams. Slovenia - Led and implemented product & segment strategy for massive turnaround of Nova KBM (2nd largest bank) ▪ Simplified the product & segment structure...

As a Product Owner for API Banking, Sanja is responsible for driving API-First and Customer-First Strategies at Commerzbank. Together with her team she has been delivering more than 50 APIs, mainly in the Loans and Payments domains. Sanja is committed to drive the digitalization of various banking processes with the help of APIs in the online and mobile banking. One of the success stories includes...