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As Head of Digital Payments and Services, Gian Battista is currently responsible for developing and positioning strategies for innovative payment and Open Banking solutions both for retail and business customers of Intesa Sanpaolo, the largest bank in Italy. This role exposes Gian Battista to several challenges every day in leading his team, dealing with a highly competitive market and negotiating with third party players such...

Mario is the Head of Open Banking / APIs and Digital Product Solutions for Wholesale Payments in EMEA, at J.P. Morgan. Mario partners with Sales to offer differentiated, innovative digital product solutions for our clients and drive new business growth. In addition, Mario works closely with the global Open Banking team to build out the API product catalogue, drive client adoption in the region and focus...

Elena Gomez is the Global Instant Payments Head at Citi, responsible for the global product strategy and commercialization of Instant payments at Citi. Elena has over 19 years experience in Financial Services. Since joining Citi in 2004 she has held a number of roles within the bank - covering Network, Operations, Project and Product Management, among other functions. Through these roles Elena has supported and led...

Javier Santamaría is the Chair of the European Payments Council since June 2012, and has been one of its members since its creation in 2002. During decades as a bank employee, Mr. Santamaría accumulated a broad and balanced expertise in the intertwined dimensions of payments – business-related, operational, technical – across different client segments and product lines, in the legacy and the innovative spheres, which...

Michael is Director Business Product Expert at Deutsche bank. He is responsible for driving delivery of Payment capabilities, innovating client proposition development for Retail, corporate, FI & NBFI client base, building Relationship; networking within intra-bank, corporate & industry fora within EMEA. He has deep knowledge of the complete end to end cash management value chain and related proposition and products...