2018 Canadian Lenders Summit

Canadian Lenders Association President and Chair welcomes participants and presents the agenda for the Summit.

Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance presents lessons and insights from 2018. CCAF is partnered with the CLA to drive world-class innovative lending analysis and policy nationally and globally.

The opening keynote by Mark Ruddock will set the stage for the day. Mark has over 20 years experience building mobile-first, customer focused businesses. Mark was CEO of 4Finance which has 3500 employees across 17 countries, generating $500MM.

Bringing a wealth of experience, Mark will talk about lessons and challenges in innovative lending space in Europe, Latin America and Asia.  He will start the day looking at growth strategies globally and discuss opportunities for the Canadian market.

Mini Keynote by Microsoft on innovative strategies to reduce Customer Acquisition Cost and then sit down to discuss strategies, learnings and successes with Linkedin, Progressa, Lendified and Thinking Capital.

30 minute coffee and shmooze sponsored by the AION.network.

Going beyond blockchain 101, Plaza Corp, CORL, MortageBlox, SVBS and SwiftSale deep dive into lending use cases. The panel is moderated by Soumak Chatterjee, Blockchain Lead at Deloitte.

Mini Keynote by Google on the “ROI in AI”

Panel: Frank Currie, Head of Customer Engineering for Financial Services joins Norm Cappell from Savvyy, Nick Seelert from Senso.AI and Edwin Fong Vice President, Financial Services Salesforce to discuss “Beyond the hype: how lenders can drive ROI?”  The panel is moderated by Carole Piovesan, Lead in Artificial Intelligence at McCarthy Tétrault.

Have lunch with colleagues in the main hall.

Alongside the networking luncheon, there will be optional interactive lunch session. PayNet and CLA have partnered to build a Suspicious Activity Database to allow lenders to better manage decisioning. Join PayNet in a Finding Suspicious Activity Workshop. 

Choose between one of the following topics:

• ROUNDTABLE A: Tips on Mid-Market Lenders Seeking Capital
• ROUNDTABLE B: Leveraging Machine Learning and Data to Drive Results

Choose between one of the following sessions with Ana Badour from McCarthy and Elizabeth Sales from Blakes. Both explore regulation, the changing landscape of the law and the impact of new technology:

Choose between one of the following topics:

• ROUNDTABLE A: Regulation, the changing landscape of the law for lenders
• ROUNDTABLE B: Technology, the changing landscape of the law for lenders

Quick 15 minute shmooze sponsored by Salesforce.

Innovative Lender of the Year Award presented by RBC Ventures

• Mini Keynote by Snap Chat on innovative strategies to drive engagement via social media.
• Joe Strolz sits down with principals from PayBright, Paays, Refresh and Borrowell to discuss lessons learned in the market: tips, insights and war stories.

Incumbent data verses new data: how do we work toward an open data economy?

Kirsten Thompson, who was recently appointed by Minister of Finance Bill Morneau to the Government of Canada’s newly-created Advisory Committee on Open Banking, moderates the debate.

A discussion involving actual war stories on arranging capital for Canadian alternative lenders.

Romit Malhotra, board member of the Canadian Lenders Association, moderates a panel of lenders and global institutional funders. The panel will offer key insights into the process of arranging capital for non-traditional lenders from world-class capital providers. Romit will provide first-hand insights and learnings from actual transactions.

Mark Lehman, Executive Director, Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada, Government of Canada congratulates innovative lenders nominees and the Innovative Lender of the Year 2018.