IDC & Temenos Webinar
Scaling Money Movement Business for Growth in MEA
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Join us for a focused discussion on modern approaches to money movement that enable growth, operational efficiency, and resilience across regional and cross-border payment flows.
Why Attend?
- Scale with Confidence – Learn how to support growing transaction volumes and new payment flows without increasing operational complexity.
- Modernize Faster – Understand practical approaches to replacing fragmented or legacy payment setups with scalable, future-ready models.
- Strengthen Control and Compliance – Explore ways to improve visibility, resilience, and risk management across regional and cross-border payments whilst maintaining compliance with continuous regulatory change.
- Stay Competitive in MEA – Gain insights into payment trends and strategies shaping the next phase of money movement across the region.
Discussion Areas
Understanding Money Movement in MEA
Explore key payment flows & systems
Challenges and Opportunities
What are the common pain points and growth strategies
Technology Driven Innovation
How modern cloud native platforms, AI, and API’s enable faster, smarter payments at scale
Future Outlook
Discussion on trends shaping the expansion of money movement and digital account services in the MEA region
Agenda
IDC & Temenos Webinar
One Day Event
Welcome Note
Dr. Christopher Lee Marshall
Vice President, Financial Insights, IDC
IDC Keynote: Scaling Your Money Movement & Management Business
This session explores the strategies, technologies, and operational best practices that enable organizations to scale sustainably. Industry leaders will discuss how to modernize payment ecosystems, optimize financial operations, leverage AI and automation, strengthen fraud prevention, and unlock new revenue opportunities while delivering faster, smarter, and more secure financial services.
Dr. Christopher Lee Marshall
Vice President, Financial Insights, IDC
Accelerating Growth in Money Movement at Scale
This keynote explores how organizations are modernizing payment infrastructure, embracing real-time payment capabilities, and leveraging cloud technologies, APIs, automation, and data-driven insights to support rapid growth. Attendees will gain perspectives on overcoming the challenges of scaling money movement while maintaining security, regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and exceptional customer experiences in an increasingly connected global economy.
Mick Fennell
Business Line Director, Payments, Temenos
Interactive Discussion
Dr. Christopher Lee Marshall
Vice President, Financial Insights, IDC
Tyoyila Aga
VP, Business Innovation and Growth, Interswitch
Mick Fennell
Business Line Director, Payments, Temenos
Ahmed Smadi
Chief Technology Officer, ZainCash
Summary & Closing Remarks
Dr. Christopher Lee Marshall
Vice President, Financial Insights, IDC
Speakers
Dr. Christopher Lee Marshall
Vice President, Financial Insights
IDC
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Dr. Christopher Lee Marshall
Dr. Chris Marshall is Program Vice President for IDC Asia Pacific, responsible for the Analytics, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence practice. Dr. Marshall’s core research coverage includes the development of Data Analytics and Machine Learning competencies and their implications – the threats and opportunities facing organizations as they seek to augment and automate their knowledge-based work.
Previously, Chris was a senior executive in IBM Watson Financial Services where he led their AI-enabled risk and analytics practice in Asia. Before joining IBM, he held senior business development and management roles in big data and analytics at KPMG, Oracle and UBS.
- MA in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University.
- MBA from University of Chicago
- Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School
- Professor of Computer Science at National University of Singapore.
- Co-Founder and Director of NUS Program for Research in Intelligent Systems
- Co-Founder and Director of NUS Risk Management Institute
- Author of widely used textbook on Operational Analytics
- Frequent speaker, presenter and moderator at industry conferences
Event Sessions
One Day Event 1:05 pm
Summary & Closing Remarks
One Day Event 12:35 pm
Interactive Discussion
One Day Event 12:05 pm
IDC Keynote: Scaling Your Money Movement & Management Business
This session explores the strategies, technologies, and operational best practices that enable organizations to scale sustainably. Industry leaders will discuss how to modernize payment ecosystems, optimize financial operations, leverage AI and automation, strengthen fraud prevention, and unlock new revenue opportunities while delivering faster, smarter, and more secure financial services.
One Day Event 12:00 pm
Welcome Note
Mick Fennell
Business Line Director, Payments
Temenos
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Mick Fennell
Mick started his career in financial technology in London 35 years ago, focusing on payments and financial messaging for the past 25+ years. He has run business development and sales across various territories in Europe, Middle East & Africa, as well as global responsibilities for payments. In that time, he has worked with hundreds of financial institutions, visiting over 70 countries. With senior roles for Misys and Volante, he has taken part in many events, panels, and contributed to numerous publications around the world. He currently heads up the Payments business line for Temenos.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 12:35 pm
Interactive Discussion
One Day Event 12:25 pm
Accelerating Growth in Money Movement at Scale
This keynote explores how organizations are modernizing payment infrastructure, embracing real-time payment capabilities, and leveraging cloud technologies, APIs, automation, and data-driven insights to support rapid growth. Attendees will gain perspectives on overcoming the challenges of scaling money movement while maintaining security, regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and exceptional customer experiences in an increasingly connected global economy.
Tyoyila Aga
VP, Business Innovation and Growth
Interswitch
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Tyoyila Aga
A seasoned digital payments enthusiast and veteran with over with 20 years industry experience spanning FinTech, Consulting and Banking.
He currently has oversight over Business Growth and Innovation for the Interswitch Group Technology Business helping to drive record-breaking revenue growth with expansion efforts across Africa .
At Finastra (formerly Misys) and Refinitiv (formerly Thomson Reuters), he drove efforts at digital transformation in top banks across Middle Eastern and African region, respectively.
Tyoyila also had a stint with the Treasury Division at Guaranty Trust Bank, a flagship subsidiary of Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO).
He is a fellow of The Association of Certified Chartered Accountants and an alumni of the Lagos Business School.
Ahmed Smadi
Chief Technology Officer
ZainCash
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Ahmed Smadi
Hosted By
Temenos
Known as a true pioneer in core banking software since 1993, we now serve over 950 core banking and 600 digital banking clients, giving financial institutions the power to make banking more accessible so their customers can live their best financial lives. Financial institutions of all sizes harness our technology – on-premises, in the cloud, or as SaaS – to create new services and AI-powered experiences that transform banking for their customers.
We constantly innovate to combine rich, trusted functionality with cutting-edge technology. We help our clients create new growth opportunities, drive efficiencies at scale and achieve cost-to-income ratios at half the industry average. Our commitment to innovation and our depth of banking expertise means the financial institutions who work with Temenos will control and own their technology futures.