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This months meeting will focus on:
The evolution of digital payments in Italy and the cooperation with market operators.
Introduction:
The main drivers of the retail payments area development of - challenges and opportunities of digitalization (macro trends related to market - e.g., changing in consumer preferences - and regulatory phenomena)
Topic 1:
Italian market trends also with reference to the European ones
- Macro-trends of the main payment instruments;
- Focus on innovation indicators (instant, cless and remote payments)
- Focus on efficiency and security indicators
Topic 2:
The importance of cooperation between authorities and market participants (focus on the Italian Payment Committee and its recent activities) :
Setting up of 3 thematic working groups.
Final note:
Quick mention to the other innovation facilitators managed by the Bank of Italy, with a focus on Milano Hub and the Third Call for Proposals.
Speakers
Francesca Provini
Head of the Retail payment instruments and services Division at Banca d'Italia
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Guerino
Ardizzi
Deputy Head of the Analysis and database Division at Banca d'Italia
Guerino Ardizzi is Director at the Bank of Italy, Retail Payment Instruments and Services Directorate, Deputy Head of Analysis and Database Division. He is Member of the Payment and Securities Oversight Working Group at the European Central Bank and of the Target Data Group - cross-border payments at the Financial Stability Board. He has been Member of the Italian Presidency Team in the Working Party of the European Council on the “Payment Legislative Package” (PSD2 and IFR). He follows the industrial organization issues related to the retail payments industry. He has been working at the European Commission Antitrust Unit for payment systems as a national expert. PhD in economics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", where currently he is visiting lecturer, and author of several scientific publications relating to the economics of payment networks. More recent research fields are related to using digital payment data to track the evolution of the economic activity, consumer confidence and behaviour.
Francesca
Provini
Head of the Retail payment instruments and services Division at Banca d'Italia
Born in Rome in 1969, in 1995 Ms. Provini graduated in Economics and Commerce at the university La Sapienza- Rome. In 1992 she started working for the Bank of Italy where she was involved in the main important reforms of the payments system. In particular she worked on retail payments playing increasingly responsible roles concerning modifications on both traditional (i.e. SEPA, and cheques dematerialization) and more innovative components tied to the digitalization of the industry (i.e PSD2 regulation, instant payment regulation, MICAR). In 2020 she was appointed Head of the Payment Instruments and Services Division. She now coordinates the activities of the Italian Payment Committee (CPI) and participates to national and international working groups: among others, she is a member of the Oversight Working Group of the Eurosystem and of the EBA’s Standing Committee on Payment Services.
