Based in Brussels for the past 17 years, Monica Monaco is the founder and managing director of TrustEuAffairs. TrustEuAffairs advises its clients on Eu legislative relevant initiatives. Monica is a member of the Society of European Affairs Professionals (SEAP) since 2004, and served as a member of the SEAP Board from May 2012 to May 2015. Furthermore, Monica is Member of the Europol Virtual Currencies Taskforce and also Member of the European Commission Payment Systems Market Expert Group (PSMEG). Monica’s areas of focus are financial services, payment systems and technology, new payments means such as mobile and crypto, as well as e-commerce. Monica has been Senior Manager for EU Relations and Regulatory Affairs in the Legal Department of Visa Europe for more than ten years, being responsible for the relations with the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Council Working Group on Financial Services, as well as with various national regulators. Before joining Visa Europe she has been working as a Consultant for both Andersen, Deloitte & Touche and the OECD in Paris, dealing with a variety of financial services matters. She also worked for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, in the Committee on Parliamentary and Public Relations. Monica holds a Master’s Degree in Economics, European Law oriented, from L.U.I.S.S.- Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy.

Max is a partner in Sidley Austin’s Banking and Financial Services practice in London. He has over twelve years of experience advising firms across the payments sector on EU and UK regulatory issues, including licensing, conduct of business, interchange, data security, outsourcing, governance and AML. Max’s clients include issuers, acquirers, processors, payment systems, and money transmitters, as well as crypto asset platforms and other fintech and tech firms that provide or support the provision of payment services. He has experience advising on regulatory issues relating to a number of different industry verticals, including travel & hospitality, fuel and e-commerce. Max has advised on a number of cross-border transactions and strategic regulatory projects for leading international financial institutions. These have included M&A and restructuring transactions, as well as new products and partnerships. Max also advises on contentious and regulatory engagement matters for financial sector clients, and has worked with several international firms and trade associations in discussions with EU and UK policy makers and regulators.

Greg Toussaint is a Director at Edgar, Dunn & Company (EDC) based in the Paris office. He has more than 15 years of consulting payments experience with EDC in business strategy for financial services clients in Americas, Asia, Europe and Middle East markets.

Greg has worked in EDC London’s, Sydney’s and Paris’ offices and gained extensive knowledge in both retail and B2B payments, including card products, instant payments and alternative forms of payments.

Greg leads EDC’s B2B Payments Practice working with the whole value chain, including schemes, financial institutions, Procure to Pay providers and corporates. Greg is a regular conference speaker and chairman at events focused on payments and cards business such as Commercial Payments International, Merchants Risk Council and Trustech.

Greg holds a Masters in Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences from both Grenoble Institute of Technology in France and Barcelona Tech (UPC) in Spain.

Pranay is a senior payments executive with 15+ years of experience working with financial institutions, providing payments and transaction banking solutions globally. In his current role, Pranay runs the Global Business Payment Products organization for Amazon, which includes working with banks/NBFIs to build/run payment products to delight business customers shopping on Amazon. Previously, he has served as the CFO for Business Payments and Lending for Amazon, and in leadership roles for some of the largest European banks like Barclays and RBS. He holds an MBA from Glasgow University UK, and is a chartered member of the CFA institute, USA.

Jason Maude is a coder, coach, and public speaker. He has over a decade of experience working in the financial sector, primarily in creating and delivering software. He is passionate about explaining complex technical concepts to those who are convinced that they won’t be able to understand them. He currently works at Starling Bank as their Chief Technology Advocate and host of the Starling podcast.

David has over 20 years’ experience in the payments industry and was previously with a major UK Commercial Card issuer before being asked to join Visa Europe. He has held a series of senior leadership positions including Head of Commercial Card Products, Head of Government Services, Head of European Market Development and Regulatory Workstream leader. David established PaySavi in 2018 to develop payment optimisation, data and business development solutions for service providers and their clients. Based in London, PaySavi provides access to experts in business development, proposition development, research and data architecture based in Europe and Asia Pacific. In addition to working with issuer, acquirer, fintech, government and end user clients, PaySavi works with regulators and business associations. Its sister company, SaviCom, provides advisory and implementation services on GDPR, PSD2 and IFR.

Erwan is a commercial card products specialist with more than 15 years of experience in card sales, operations, and account management. He now leads client consultations on process and cash flow improvement using card payments and helps optimise card programmes for HSBC key customers.

David has over 20 years’ experience in the payments industry and was previously with a major UK Commercial Card issuer before being asked to join Visa Europe. He has held a series of senior leadership positions including Head of Commercial Card Products, Head of Government Services, Head of European Market Development and Regulatory Workstream leader. David established PaySavi in 2018 to develop payment optimisation, data and business development solutions for service providers and their clients. Based in London, PaySavi provides access to experts in business development, proposition development, research and data architecture based in Europe and Asia Pacific. In addition to working with issuer, acquirer, fintech, government and end user clients, PaySavi works with regulators and business associations. Its sister company, SaviCom, provides advisory and implementation services on GDPR, PSD2 and IFR.

Clara García Benedito works at BBVA, where she is Head of Global Solutions for Commercial and Corporate Banking which purpose is to create end to end treasury solutions for enterprises that operate worldwide

Clara has +15 years of business development experience in banking. She joined BBVA Group in 2006, participating in the Transaction Services in Spain After, in 2008 she moved on to the Global Product where she has developed different roles and initiatives

Her main achievements are related to the global customer implementation and experience over SWIFT and H2H, Payment standardization within BBVA, global cash pooling, global payment hub for corporates, cross-border payments over blockchain, SWIFT gpi, global supply chain finance, global expense management for commercial cards, among others.