The Transaction Innovation Forum (TIF) is an exclusive high-end forum on key global developments in the financial logistics and B2B corporate payments environment.

Top policy makers, regulators and industry executives (from Banks/large Corporates) in roles of CFO’s, Treasurers, Cash Managers and CIO’s; but also solution providers and consultants) gather annually to exchange global best practices and share expertise.

TIF will take place on Monday, 20 November 2023.

TIF is a ‘for & by professionals’ Forum where senior executives meet and discuss key developments. We secure a top level agenda with essential briefings and debates around relevant topics and challenge in the payments space. Sharing the global expertise and supporting the ‘learning curve’ is our mission.

TIF has been initiated by two seasoned international payments professionals: Dr Michael Salmony and Harry Smorenberg. Dedicated to the developments and innovations in the Payments & Transaction space, they aim to fill the lack of structural exchange of international expertise in particular in the B2B (B2B2C) space. As seasoned experts and moderators they developed this annual program for APAC-region. TIF has focus on bringing top-content; commercial free and encouraging the content-focused debate amongst professionals.

We would be happy to discuss involvement and participation. For more information you are invited to connect directly with Harry Smorenberg (harry@smorenberg.nl)

Join us in Tokyo on 20 November 2023!

‘For-and-By’ professionals in the B2B2C transaction/payments space

Japan is facing new opportunities and is facing some unique challenges. Being one of the largest global economies, trade and financial logistics innovation is key to keeping the top-ranked position. Leveraging the real-time rails in APAC and globally will have great impact on the positioning of the financial services industry in Japan. Open Banking will secure more seamless transactions and make the back-office more effectives through the integration of crucial data.

TIF for short

The fast changing payments landscape has triggered many conferences. Mostly we see a focus on the changes effecting the retail markets and consumers. But we tend to forget the enormous opportunities and challenges in the Corporate/SME (B2B) space… A huge market where actually most of the money is being processed, handled and made… it is the area where real advantage can be quantified, where process improvements are really paid for, where there is ample need for improvement, where there is often a clear business case – and where most of the true money-making Fintechs are to be found.

Why participate?

  • TIF 2023 is a true professionals’ platform with a key focus on B2B & B2B2X.
  • Banks, (near)Banks and Corporates realize the need to accelerate and shift to real-time and employ data; and thus giving them and their customers flexibility to a.o. personalize product features and automate flows.
  • Customers also demand more digital experiences and capabilities as retail and B2B merchants need to create omnichannel experiences to meet their customer’s expectations.
  • To carry the new services we see a continuous need to modernize the backend, payments and trade infrastructures to enable faster, secure national and cross-border business, for consumers and businesses alike.
  • Proactively helping clients to optimize their working capital; strengthen liquidity management tools, such as virtual accounts and notional pooling, to provide advanced instant treasury efficiencies, to automate invoices and reconciliations, to predict and manage cash flows enabling customers to unlock their cash faster…
  • To serve the SME market – which typically makes up over 90% of a country’s economy – but which is chronically underserved by incumbents. The “democratization of digital financial services” finally allows SME access to advanced tools previously reserved for large corporates.
  • Better orchestrate financial ecosystems for global commerce and asset serving…
  • Upgrade core infrastructure for digital enablement and service externalization (exploring new partnerships with providers / outsource noncore activities).

These are some essentials why we would like to invite you to participate in TIF 2023 and learn, discuss and meet international peers at expert level. An annual gathering of true professionals around with a focus on Asia but learning best practices from around the world in a compelling in-depth program (see our detailed program).

To register: Go-To: https://www.transactioninnovationforum.com/registration-information/