Join us at a panel event organised by the Hellenic Bankers Association (HBA) UK on disruptive trends transforming payments with a focus on the regulatory framework around them on 18 May 2023.

Senior executives from the financial industry and academics will share their views on how technological innovation can help the financial markets and banking institutions navigate uncertain times whilst disrupting the landscape in which policymakers and financial intermediaries operate.

• Date: Thu, 18 May 2023

• Venue:The Hellenic Centre,16-18 Paddington St, London, W1U 5AS

• Time: 18:30

Panel discussion moderated by the Chief FinTech Advisor to Competition Authority in Greece, Chair of FinTech and Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School, Markos Zachariadis, with:

• Daniel Marland, General Counsel, Euronet Electronic Funds Transmission (“EFT”) Division

• Katherine Delikoura, Chief Compliance Officer, Council of Europe Development Bank

• Michael C.G. Charalambides, CEO ECOMMBX

• John Georgoulas, President at Association of Cyprus Electronic Money & Payment Institutions, NED at Swissquote Capital Markets

Complimentary refreshments, drinks and finger food to all participants - CLICK TO REGISTER

Daniel Marland

Daniel joined Euronet in 2011 as Legal Counsel for the Electronic Funds Transmission (“EFT”) Division. Since then Daniel has overseen the EFT Division’s legal and regulatory activities including the launch of all new products/markets in Europe, North Africa and LATAM. Daniel has worked with many central banks and regulators on the EFT Division’s product setup both pre and post Brexit and coordinated the strategy and implementation for handling the EFT Division’s approach to Brexit. In 2017, Daniel took over responsibility for the EFT Division’s compliance function and oversaw the reauthorisation of the UK e-money institution and handled the subsequent payment institution licence application with the Bank of Greece. Daniel sits on the Board of Directors for both of the EFT Division’s regulated entities in the UK and Greece.

Prior to joining Euronet, Daniel was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer with Squire Patton Boggs working on international deals most noticeably advising the sellers of Manchester City football club. Daniel lived and worked in Brussels and London prior to joining Euronet and read History at the University of Durham.

Katherine Delikoura

Winner of the world wide award "Chief Compliance Officer of the Year 2019, Small Medium Companies" for Private Sector Companies and IFIs.

C-level Risk and Compliance Executive with managerial experience in banking for over 20 years in CEE and SEE. Currently an IFI top executive, member of Risk, Finance and Project Finance Committees at the CEB, an IFI focused on social, environmental and viable job creation projects, Paris based.

Served as Group International Risk Head in EFG Eurobank Group, a leading Regional Banking Group in CEE Countries and Turkey. EFG's Representative in IFI's fora (SSM and Vienna Initiative), BoD member in Eurobank Tekfen AS, Executive Secretary of the EFG Group Risk Committee and Chairwoman of Risk Committees of EFG subsidiaries in Bulgaria, Serbia, Cyprus and Turkey.

Katherine holds an MBA and a Masters in Law, Athens Bar licensed. Data Protection Officer (DPO) Certified. Financial Fraud Investigator Certified.

Michael C.G. Charalambides

Michael comes from a banking background with solid academic and strategic foundation in macro-economics and politics. Since the dawn of the Fin-Tech industry Michael has become a part of many leading industry projects and regulatory bodies via contribution through his network of projects. He has successfully launched with his peers the ECOMMPAY brand, was part of the project that launched the first private POS payments terminal in Cyprus and now has taken on a new venture and created the family of ECOMMBX as an EMI regulated under the CBC.

John Georgoulas

John Georgoulas is a Certified Board Director in Banking from INSEAD, a Certified Professional Banker and Certified in Green and Sustainable Finance from the Chartered Banker Institute. He has founded several companies in the fields of corporate communications and technology and he is specialized in corporate governance, regulation in the financial services and new technologies. He has served on the board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission appointed by the Council of Ministers. Now, he is a Non-Executive Director of EcommBX, an electronic money institution , a Non-Executive Director of TFI Markets, a Non-Executive Director of FXCM and a non-executive director at Swissquote Capital Markets. He is the President of the Cyprus Association of Electronic Money & Payment Institutions,and a member of the board and Chairman of the Economic Growth Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Cyprus. He has served on several boards in the private sector and NGOs and he is an alumnus of IVLP from the Department of State of USA. He has an MBA, a BSc in Business Information Systems and a Diploma of Higher Education in Computer Sciences