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Samantha Pelosi joined BAFT in 2016 as a Senior Vice President to define its payments and innovation strategies and increase its visibility in financial crime compliance. Samantha currently focuses on application of innovative technologies like blockchain in banking, faster payments systems, and reversing the worldwide decline in correspondent banking relationships. Samantha came to BAFT from the payments from the Federal Reserve Board. As a manager in the payments systems division, Pelosi formulated U.S. public policy and led all initiatives related to retail payments. In the consumer protection division, she wrote regulations implementing the Dodd-Frank Act at the height of the 2008-2009 financial crisis as a senior attorney. Before the Federal Reserve, Pelosi served as global head of regulatory compliance at Travelex Global Business Payments (now Western Union Business Solutions).

Mr. Hugo Verschoren is an independent consultant and owner of goVer Trading Technologies Ltd (www.govertradetechnologies.com). He joined ING (Formerly – Banque Bruxelles Lambert) in the Letter of Credit Operations Department in Antwerp, Belgium in 1987. After several occupations within BBL and ING in Financial Markets, Payment Sales and Corporate Clients, he moved to Amsterdam in 2010 as Senior Product Manager Trade Finance Services for ING Group. Afterwards, he moved back to Belgium to be the Chief Expert Trade Finance Services and Manager of the Middle Office, Trade Finance Services. He is involved in a number of ICC activities as member of the Dutch and (now) Belgium National Committee, Technical Advisor to the Banking Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce and member of the ICC Trade Register Group, the ICC Regulatory Group and the ICC Financial Crime Risk and Policy Group. He is also a member of the Consulting Group for the ICC Rules for Digital Trade. Mr. Verschoren is a Regular provider of trainings and presentations, and a frequent speaker at conferences world-wide.