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Unlock the Vision: How will technological, regulatory, and societal trends shape the future of financial services?

Join us for a forward-looking webinar on the key insights from the Fintech 2040 report.

We’ll explore how emerging technologies are transforming financial services, disrupting the order-to-cash (O2C) value chain, and redefining the role of traditional banks. Discover actionable strategies to help your business thrive in a rapidly evolving fintech landscape—by leveraging innovation, managing risks, and meeting the expectations of tomorrow’s consumers and regulators.

Why attend:

✅Get ahead of industry disruption
✅Learn how emerging technologies will redefine your business models
✅Understand how consumer expectations will reshape your strategies
✅Discover new opportunities in platform-based, cross-sector ecosystems
When
Thursday, May 15, 2025 · 12:00 p.m. Amsterdam (GMT +2:00)
Agenda
  • The diminishing role of traditional banks and rise of digital-first challengers
  • The seamless integration of consumption, investment, and savings
  • Autonomous, AI-driven financial services and personalized consumer experiences
  • How DeFi and P2P finance are setting new industry standards
  • Cross-industry convergence: embedding finance into e-commerce, mobility, healthcare, and beyond
  • Empowered consumers and the future of data sovereignty in financial ecosystems
Presenters
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Andreas Barth
CEO at Riverty
Andreas Barth is CEO at Riverty, the innovative fintech arm of the Bertelsmann Group. 
Appointed to the role in June 2024, Barth brings two decades of management experience.
As a highly experienced Bertelsmann executive, Barth has also been central to the company’s ten-year AI journey. Embracing how technology can empower customer service agents to exceed customer expectations with faster, smarter interactions. Indeed, by 2027, he aims to see AI built to elevate and amplify customer experience boost productivity by 15% across Riverty’s operations. Barth - who holds a Diploma in Business Administration - is also a Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA Group Committee Member.
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Roland Frank
Professor of Digital Leadership at the Mediadesign University (MD.H) in Berlin
His research focuses on digital transformation, disruption of consumer markets and trends and future research. He currently holds workshops and seminars on the question of how AI can be integrated into companies' workflows and innovation processes to create new digital products.
Before taking up the professorship, Roland Frank was responsible for the banking regulation section of the Börsen-Zeitung in Frankfurt.
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Douwe Lycklama
Vice President at Innopay
Douwe Lycklama co-founded INNOPAY in 2002 and is one of the thought leaders of digital transactions, like paying, billing, identity, data sharing, and the applicable regulation. His drive is to bring innovation in these areas to financial institutions, startups, businesses, and governments and help them innovate to make opportunities in digitisation a reality.
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Mireia Llambrich Anto
Policy Assistant in the Financial Services team at BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation
Mireia Llambrich Anto is a Policy Assistant in the Financial Services team at BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation, which represents 45 national consumer groups across 31 European countries. She is in charge of the team’s work on Open Finance and also covers payments, digital euro and cash, as well as other retail finance topics. Before joining BEUC, she completed a double bachelor’s degree in Law and Business Management at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. During her studies, she participated in an international exchange in Switzerland, earning a Certificate in Transnational Law from Université de Genève, and later obtained a Certificate in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in Slovenia.

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Mélisande Mual
Publisher and Managing Director at The Paypers
Mélisande Mual is the publisher and owner of The Paypers, the global leading source of news and intelligence for professionals in payments, fintech and digital commerce. Prior to The Paypers, Mélisande held several leadership positions in leading B2B Publisher (Wolters Kluwer) and Telecom (KPN) companies.
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