50p proposals for round the year

Submit proposals on:

• 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)

• Interoperability of payment methods

  • Building PoS terminals to maximize acceptance
  • Interchange and exchange fees

• 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

• Credit & debit cards, IMPS and contactless payments

  • New technology in payments
  • Contactless payments (NFC, MSFT)

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Investments and alternate lending methods

  • P2P lending and investments
  • ICOs, alt-coins and investments
  • Microlending

• Grievance redressal, Security and Authentication

  • Security and safety of exchanges
  • Anonymous payments

• Regulation and policy

  • Navigating the blockchain consortia
  • Regulating ICOs and token sale
  • Navigating the Indian regulatory landscape for cryptocurrencies

Banking

• 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

• 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

• Security, authentication and scaling

  • Data analytics and fraud detection
  • Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in ML/DL

• History of banking

Payments space in India

• 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

• 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!