Submit proposals on:
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Technology challenges
- Integration of payment services (UPI, BharatQR, RuPay, AePS)
- Handling failed transactions and offline transactions
- CDN and building infrastructure to scale
- Handling failures and breaches; redressal and response mechanisms
- Web standards for payments (Chrome payments API, Status code 402)
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Interoperability of payment methods
- Building PoS terminals to maximize acceptance
- Interchange and exchange fees
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Wallets, payment banks
- Scope for innovation and Over The Top (OTT) services
- Catching up to banking (Deposits, savings schemes, lending)
- Closed loop, semi-loop and open-loop wallets
- Authentication, security and fraud detection
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Credit & debit cards, IMPS and contactless payments
- New technology in payments
- Contactless payments (NFC, MSFT)
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Payments by design in infrastructure
- Transit cards
- NFC payments
- Building better infrastructure and handling scale
- Adoption issues of transit cards
- IoT in payments: vending machines, fuel pumps, toll booths etc
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Security and authentication
- KYC requirements, process and tech stack
- Security vs convenience
- PCI Compliance: Myths and Facts
- Data security and protection
- Fairness, Accountability and Transparency for ML in transaction data
- Preventing bias in data driven decision making
- Tackling socially engineered attacks, phishing and spoofing
- Compliance, bank mandates, ISO certifications on the cloud
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Building payment products and business models
- Just in Time lending
- Payment bots and automated payments
- Credit based on alternative lending data
- P2P lending
- Cross border payments and remittances
- Escrow services
- Recurring billing and subscriptions
- Building business models for Value Added Services
- Using AI and ML in FinTech
- Credit monitoring and personal finance
Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
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Technology challenges
- Scaling with blockchain
- Interoperability of tokens and coins
- Designing systems to handle price surges
- Distributed databases
- Ripple (RTXP vs RTGS), Hyperledger (Distributed ledgers and supply chain management) and digital asset management
- Digital identity
- Remittances and escrow
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Building products and business models
- Increasing user adoption and developing consumer awareness
- Cryptocurrencies in brick and mortar stores
- Building with distributed consensus technologies
- Where to use blockchain?
- Scaling challenges and optimizing transaction costs
- Hardware wallets and software wallets
- Financial inclusion and serving the underserved
- Invoice discounting
- Scope for innovation in blockchain based products
- Blockchain in the enterprise
- Blockchain on the cloud
- Blockchain for distributed storage
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Investments and alternate lending methods
- P2P lending and investments
- ICOs, alt-coins and investments
- Microlending
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Grievance redressal, Security and Authentication
- Security and safety of exchanges
- Anonymous payments
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Regulation and policy
- Navigating the blockchain consortia
- Regulating ICOs and token sale
- Navigating the Indian regulatory landscape for cryptocurrencies
Banking
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Building products and services:
- Cross border fund transfer and escrow services
- Remittances and clearing houses
- Central billing services
- Using technology as an enabler for inclusion
- Building banking products (cardless EMIs, deferred payments etc)
- Reaching marginalized, traditionally unbanked communities
- Lessons from blockchain in openness
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Technology challenges
- Challenges in IT deployment
- Overview of RTGS, NEFT - comparison to IMPS, UPI etc
- Direct Beneficiary Transfer - Challenges
- Security of banking systems
- Is compliance and regulations limiting scope for innovation in banking?
- Products based on using alternate consumer data
- Onboarding challenges - building for next billion
- Fully digital banking: dream to reality
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Security, authentication and scaling
- Data analytics and fraud detection
- Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in ML/DL
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History of banking
Payments space in India
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Regulatory challenges
- Increasing consumer participation - activated citizens
- Understanding regulations - Policy 101
- Framing regulations - Fin Tech policy wish list
- Lessons from South East Asia - building scalable payment products
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Technology challenges
- Building interoperable system
- Acceptance mechanisms
- Adoption of cloud and distributed technology stacks
- Future technology roadmap
- Localization and accessibility of digital products
This funnel is open round the year for meetups and smaller conferences in different cities. Submit right away!