ATMIA’s 2008 Africa ATMs conference promises to be the best-ever ATM conference in Africa. Join the world’s only global ATM trade association in the beautiful city of Cape Town, South Africa, for three days of workshops, keynote address, presentations, bank case studies and breakout sessions.

Entitled “Risk Reduction and Business Optimisation”, the conference brings the ATM and payments industry of South Africa and beyond together. 

The event, ATMIA’s 5th annual African conference, takes place between 25-27 June, 2008 at the newly renovated Southern Sun Cape Sun in the picturesque and thriving city.

ATMIA is privileged to bring the head of the World Bank’s Payment System Development Group in Washington, Massimo Cirasino, to South Africa to look at payments developments in emerging markets around the world.  In addition, Dave C Mitchell, Head of National Payment System Department of the South African Reserve Bank will address the conference on “Payments Behaviour - Key Trends and Observations”.

Other features include:

1. FinMark Trust will present highlights of the FinScopeT SA 2007 research study: Key Financial Habits and Consumer Behaviours.
2. Tumi Monale, Director of Self Service Banking at Standard Bank, will look at Changing ATM Customer Profiles and Expectations from a major bank's perspective.
3. First National Bank will draw case study lessons from expanding the reach of ATMs, looking at the story of the FNB ATM installed on the top of Table Mountain.
4. Leading pioneer South African ISO, Steve Kark, Managing Director of ATM Solutions, will cover the A-Z of the ISO ATM business.
5. The African ATM Technology Enablement Forum will launch best practices for governance of payment systems with special attention to challenges of emerging payments markets in Africa. Payment network governance is the key issue to get right in expanding ATM networks and payments systems.
6. ATMIA, in association with the South African Fraud Prevention Service, SABRIC and the Global ATM Security Alliance, will address the key risk areas of preventing identity theft and application fraud and ATM crimes and scams through best practice as well as security solutions and strategies which work.
7. Hannes Venter, National Director of G4S in South Africa will share critical success factors for an end-to-end ATM solution.
8. Mike Lee, CEO of ATMIA, will present a professional futures studies research-based forecast for the future of cash
9. Well-known industry veteran, Jim Baird, will condense 20 years of experience into pearls of wisdom as to the current state of Africa's growing love affair with self-service technology. 
10. See a complete schedule of events on our website:
    http://www.atmiaconferences.com/Events/Africa/ 

Be there for the future of your ATM business in Africa with its myriad fast-growing emerging ATM markets! 

Register Today!