Our next face-to-face Finance Community Event will showcase some of the top topics affecting our retailers right now. With discussions on tackling first party fraud, account to account transfer, online payment resilience, card fees and an update on national payments vision.
This event will give our Finance Community the opportunity to find out more about these areas, have productive discussions, highlight opportunities and challenges and network with those at the forefront of these issues as well as like-minded retailers.
We will invite policymakers, regulators, and industry experts to present and discuss these topics, allowing our retail members to hear first-hand the progress of each policy area and what this means for retailers. There will also be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and engage in the conversation. The event held at our Covent Garden offices and will end with networking drinks.
This event is exclusive to BRC Retail Members and by invitation only.
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speakers
agenda
11.45 - 12.30 Lunch and Networking
12.30 - 12.35 BRC Welcome
Chris Owen, Finance Policy Advisor, British Retail Consortium
12.35 - 13.05 Card Fees: Latest Insights from Market Reviews
Anthony Pygram, Senior Manager, PSR
Fiennes Davey, Group Head of Payments, Kingfisher
The PSR will present updates on the status of the card scheme market reviews, including their plans on potential remedies and interventions to drive down costs for retailers, and a discussion on other payment areas that impact retailers, including commercial cards. This will be your opportunity to directly pose questions to the PSR and share your experience as a retailer, to further help influence their work.
13.05 - 13.40 Open Banking Update: Progress and Key Changes Over the Past Year
BRC – Panel Discussion
Chris Owen , Finance Policy Advisor, BRC
Dan Moore, Head of Strategy and Intelligence, PSR
Jack Wilson, VP Policy & Research, Truelayer
The panel will feature industry and regulatory experts discussing the future of open banking as a driver of competition in the payments market, the opportunities, and challenges for retailers, and how it needs to be developed to ensure consumer uptake and retailer engagement.
13.40 - 13.55 Comfort Break
13.55 - 14.25 First-Party Fraud: Understanding the Issue and Exploring Solutions – Panel Discussion
Grant Shipway, Senior Operational Risk Manager, River Island
This panel discussion will focus on the BRCs work to tackle the rise in first party fraud, including updates on the current state of play, potential industry routes to mitigate the financial losses, and the Governments approach to tackling this.
14.25 - 14.55 Shaping the Future: A Vision for National Payments
Roisin Edwards, Senior Policy Advisor – National Payments Vision, HM Treasury
This presentation will explore the objectives of the recently published National Payments Vision, which sets out aims for the UK to be a world leader in payments and plans for retailers to have greater choice in how they make and receive payments by developing a trusted, innovative, and world-leading payments ecosystem. This will include a discussion on how a roadmap will be developed to deliver on the Vision's aims and how retailers and others can help shape and inform that.
14.55 - 15.00 Closing
15.00 - 16.00 Networking Drinks