Course Description and Details
The course is designed to equip banking professionals with the knowledge and skills to leverage cutting-edge technologies such as digital wallets, digital assets, AI governance, and privacy-enhancing technologies, ensuring they can drive innovation and maintain security and compliance in the evolving financial landscape.
Duration: 8 hours
Course Objectives
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Understand the functionalities and impact of digital wallets.
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Learn classifications and implications of various digital assets.
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Master AI governance principles for ethical AI use.
- Explore privacy-enhancing technologies in data partnerships.
- Analyze real-world case studies for practical technology applications.
Course Sessions
- Session 1: Digital Wallets
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Session 2: Digital Assets
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Session 3: AI Governance in Banking
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Session 4: Data Partnerships Enabling Technologies (Privacy Enhancing Technologies)
Resources Provided
- Course readings: A selection of articles and case studies.
- Access to no-code AI software tool for practical exercises.
- Asynchronous online sessions in MS Teams
- Students will have access to a variety of additional resources to support their learning.
Lecturers
Cédric Sieber, Customer Journey Owner Payments at PostFinance, Co-Chair of the Digital Wallet Expert Group at Mobey Forum
Cédric Sieber, commercial employee and business economist, is working for the swiss Bank PostFinance Ltd. in Bern since 2009. Between 2013 and 2021 he was the Product Manager for various products in the realm of payments and apps, such as remittance-Services like “Mobile Money Transfer”, “Western Union” or the digital loyalty Solution “ProfitApp”. He was managing digital channels to buy or gift digital vouchers or was working in innovation project like “PostFinance Benefit” a predictive-analytics Offeringplattform for merchants, integrated into the PostFinance e-Banking. For 4 Years Mr. Sieber was responsible for the swiss mobile payment Wallet “PostFinance TWINT”, bevor he started his current position as Customer Journey Owner Payments in 2021 where he is responsible for the customer experience for everything payments for the privat customers of the retail bank and occupying this role since 2024 as a teamleader. In 2022 he also joined mobey forum as a co-chair for the digital wallets expert group.
Kristian T. Sørensen, co-founder The Tokenizer
Kristian T. Sørensen is a respected expert in fintech with two decades of experience. He advises financial industry leaders on strategy and technology and is an established thought leader and conference speaker. In 2019, Kristian co-founded The Tokenizer, a leading platform for real-world asset tokenization. Kristian also serves as a Digital Wallet Strategy Lead at Nets eID Solutions and co-chairs the Digital Wallet Expert Group at Mobey Forum. With a master's degree in communication and psychology, he has dedicated 20 years to financial services and digital payments.
Amir Tabakovic, Bern University of Applied Sciences and Chair of the AI Expert Group at Mobey Forum
Amir Tabakovic is a founding partner at Experiens AI, a boutique consultancy specializing in supporting highly regulated industries like banking, insurances and healthcare in AI and PETs topics. Amir is also a lecturer at universities in Switzerland and Spain, where he's leading degree programs for managers with the objective to bridge the gap between the subject matter experts and AI/ML practitioners.
Amir is an honorary lifetime member and former board member of Mobey Forum, a prominent global digital financial services industry association where he serves as the Chair of the Expert Group on Data Privacy in the Age of AI.
His previous business experience includes holding an executive role at a pioneering machine learning platform company and prior to that serving in a leadership position focused on data-driven innovation at one of Switzerland's leading retail banks."
