With a background mainly focused on the Microsoft Technologies field, Magnus has almost 20 years of experience in system and software development and architecture. His current work revolves around Seavus’ client within the financial sector.

Topic: “Nordics: Making the future of payments with P27, eKrona and R2P”

How Project 27 aims to establish a single pan-Nordic payment infrastructure for the 27 million inhabitants of the region. This new payments infrastructure, together with eKrona and transformation of payments with R2P(request to pay) will become the foundation for multiple initiatives and innovations in the Nordics.

His key role is to define and establish vendor governance and model at Erste Group IT Croatia. As a person responsible for IT vendor management, some of his main activities are related for vendor supervision, coordination, contract management, performance and relationship management.

With 15+ years of experience in IT (Telekom Austria Group, MOL Group, Erste Group), he has more than 10 years in project/portfolio and IT vendor management. Project, portfolio and vendor management experience within the multicultural environment on Group level.

Topic “The Importance of Good Partnership in Challenging Times“

For the past 10 years I’ve been responsible for architecture and product roadmap of the Cleverlance Digital Banking platform - having a strong focus on APIs, online sales and onboarding processes in the past few years. In almost two decades long architecture carrier I was helping several organizations with major transformation programmes in the field of multichannel customer care systems for banking and retail. My major technical domains have been adoption of concepts of SOA, BPM, APIs.

Topic: “What’s the role of Banking APIs in Digital transformation”

PSD2 legislation has put an effort into making the banking services more open and it has accelerated the process of making Banking APIs a common part of a bank’s system landscape. The lecture will elaborate on following questions: What have been the effects of PSD2 initiative on the Czech and Slovak market so far and what may come in the future; How banks have used the opportunity to make it part of their digital transformation or just dealt with it as with an isolated incident to fulfil the regulator’s requirement; How the approach they had taken correlates to the state of their IT and to the kind of business initiatives they pursue.

With over 20 years of professional experience, his expertise have evolved in the field of managing IT audit and security assurance in the Banking sector. Additionally, with the appropriate technical and business knowledge, he is able to effectively address any risks or deficiencies through recommendations that are logical, feasible, and business-focused.

Topic: “How is Modern Banking managing cybersecurity challenges / big data security breaches and what banks need to know about cybersecurity and fraud prevention”

This session will cover top issues and challenges in the online banking sector.

Online banking has seen significant development in the banking industry thus far. Despite the many benefits it provides for customers, there are also a number of concerns and challenges for marketers in the online banking sector.

The new reality, traditional banking habits, changes in regulations, the market demand for online presence and mobility, the lack of awareness for cyber threats, limited budget, and retention of trusted and knowledgeable experts are all major challenges that online banking needs to reconcile in order to succeed. Consequently, online banks may only advance and become successful if they strive to resolve their specific challenges especially in the field of cyber security.