Industry CEOs, stakeholders converge on Lagos for eFraud confab

Top-notch Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of organisation from within and outside the electronic payment industry and other key stakeholders in the economy are set to converge on Lagos next week for this year’s edition of the Electronic Fraud Conference.

Already, the organisers of the event, the Electronic Payment Providers Association of Nigeria (E-PPAN), has announced over 15 top-notch CEOs and senior level government executives to speak at the conference holding Monday next week.

The 7th Annual Payment Systems and Fraud Conference, 2016 with the theme: ‘E-Payment Fraud: People, Process and Technology” is scheduled for Monday next week at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.

According to the Executive secretary and Chief Executive Officer (E-PPAN) Mrs. Regha Onajite, “The conference will convene and host close to 18 distinguished panelists and speakers and over 250 attendees including CEOs and senior executives from banks, government agencies and industry regulators who are dedicated in defining and protecting the integrity of the financial and payment systems in Nigeria.”

The confirmed speakers for the conference, according to her, include Kyari Bukar; Managing Director/CEO, Central Securities Clearing System Plc , Alice Etim Ph.D, Associate Professor of Management Information System, Winston- Salem State University, USA, Folakemi Fatogbe; Director, Risk Management, Central Bank of Nigeria, Dipo Fatokun, Chairman, Nigerian Electronic Fraud Forum and Director Banking and Payment Systems Department CBN, , Ade Shonubi; Managing Director / CEO, Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc,.

They also include Dele Adeyinka; Chairman, Committee of e-Banking Industry Heads, Opeyemi Adojutelegan; Chairman Committee of Chief Compliance Officers of Banks in Nigeria, David Isiavwe Ph.D; Chairman, Information Security Society of Africa- Nigeria (ISSAN) , Fatai Folarin; Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte Nigeria and Deloitte West African Region, Agada Apochi; and Managing Director/ CEO, Unified Payments Limited,

Others are Femi Williams; Group Managing Director, Chams Plc,Ade Ashaye; Country Manager, VISA International, Ogunmoyela Adeyemi Oluyinka; Chief Compliance Officer, First Bank Nigeria Plc, Robert Giles; Group Head, Transaction Banking, Diamond Bank Plc,Adewale Obadare; Chief Operating Officer, Digital Encode Ltd., Akeem Lawal; Division Chief Executive Officer, Interswitch Group, Tayo Oviosu; Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Pagatech Ltd, Osondu Nwokoro, Director, Eternal Affairs, NATCOM Development and Investment Ltd (owner of Ntel Nigeria).

“So far the Central Bank of Nigeria, Unified Payments, OLX and Global Accelerex has thrown their weight behind the 7th Annual Payment Systems & Fraud Conference. Unified Payments operates as a shared infrastructure for the banking community in Nigeria and Payments Service Provider within and outside and prides itself in Leadership & Innovations in Payments and has contributed significantly to the growth of electronic payments in Nigeria.

“On the hand OLX is the world’s leading classifieds platform which provides a platform for sellers to meet buyers while Global Accelerex is a leading provider of innovative payment and business management solutions that help empower organizations across economic sectors,” Onajite said.