Olaf works at the Federal Association of German Cooperative Banks (BVR) as a adviser for the further development of online banking and card technology for the approximately 840 German cooperative banks. In addition to his experience in the production sector, Olaf, who holds a doctorate in business economics, is a professional in information technology. For BVR, Olaf was involved in the German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) in the development of bank signature and payment cards as well as in the standardization of the financial transaction standard FinTS and the NextGen API of the Berlin Group.

Peter is Head of Products at PSA (Payment Services Austria GmbH). PSA is a transaction service provider and the Austrian competence center for cashless payments and responsible for the processing of more than 3 billion transactions per year. Peter drives product development and innovation and has more than 25 years of experience in electronic payments and is active in domestic and international bodies such as EPC.

Thierry is Project Director Cash & Trade at Cash Management Competence Center for BNP Paribas Group in charge of the Global Channels. Thierry has extensive experience in the field of electronic banking due to his many years as advisor in large multinational companies. He has also participated to major IT and migration projects in order to develop the bank offer for corporates and to promote the digitalization of payments and signatures.

Jörg is Associate Director in the Banking Technology & Security team at the Association of German Banks in Berlin. He supports the activities concerning electronic banking standards for corporate clients in Germany. Besides that, he works on card security topics, cryptography and security issues of the digital transformation of banking systems and services. Jörg served as a former member of the EPC cards working group, as a former member of the governance committee of the German ATM & national POS system “girocard” and as a former member of the board of directors of the Euro Alliance of Payment Schemes (EAPS) in Brussels.

Hermann is Associate Director for Payment Services & Information Technology at the Association of German Banks (VÖB). At VÖB, he is responsible for electronic payments, including bulk and individual payments as well as interbank and instant payments. He has 20 years of experience in payment transactions and is involved in German digital projects (e.g. #dk) and European initiatives such as the Berlin Group. Hermann supported the development of EBICS in 2003 and promoted the standard in Europe.

Ivan belongs to the Partnerships and Interbank Relationships department at BPCE Payments Services (subsidiary of the BPCE group dedicated to payments). He represents BPCE Group in various bodies at French and European level, such as payment systems, Clearing and Settlement Mechanisms, schemes, or banking associations. He has a solid experience as project and program manager in the payment area for 20 years at BPCE Group.

Emmanuel is a Senior Advisor in the Interbank Relations Department at Société Générale. He is the French representative - or Société Générale’s representative - in various market infrastructure organizations at both the French and European levels. Emmanuel has extensive experience as a project manager in payments and interbank exchanges; in particular, he contributed to Société Générale’s SEPA implementation project as well as the implementation of the Instant Payment exchange platform.

Frédéric is a member of the Innovation, Strategy and Interbank Relations Department within the Payments Division of the Crédit Agricole Group.
He represents his institution in several industry bodies and has been actively involved for nearly 20 years in interbank standardization work, in particular in the area of corporate-to-bank exchanges.

Rainer is Senior Advisor for Corporate Payments an Strategy at Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband, the German Association of Savings Banks. He has a long experience in the key areas corporate payment solutions, strategy development and product positioning as well es market rollout. Rainer represents the German Savings Banks in the German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC).

Martin serves as the Head of Payment Standards at SIX Interbank Clearing, where they oversee Swiss payment standards, including EBICS market practices in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as well as implementation guidelines for interbank clearing. In this capacity, Martin represents the Swiss banking community on the Board of the EBICS SC and actively participates as a member in several working groups within the European Payment Council (EPC), the Registration Management Group (RMG) for ISO 20022, and the ISO Technical Committee 68.