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The Blake Hotel
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| MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2007 (COLUMBUS DAY) | |
| 1:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Board of Directors Meeting |
| 3:00 – 5:30 p.m. | MTRA Committee Meetings as needed |
| TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2007 | |
| 7:30 a.m. | Registration open until Noon; reopens at 6:00 |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. | Morning Hospitality (continental breakfast) |
| 8:30 – 9:15 a.m. | MTRA Business Meeting/Elections (Member States Only) |
| 9:15 – 10:30 a.m. | Roundtable Discussion (Member States Only) |
| 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Industry Only Meeting Ezra Levine, Esq., Partner, Howrey, moderator Alan Cox, Assistant Director, FinCEN Gerard (Jerry) W. LiVigni, Senior Compliance Officer, U.S. Department of the Treasury, OFAC Don Temple, Director Forensic Services, KPMG LLP |
| 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. | Morning Break |
| 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Roundtable Discussion, Continues (Member States Only) Industry Only Meeting, Continues |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch on your own, Afternoon on your own AFTERNOON TOURS |
| 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Regulators Only Reception |
| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2007 | |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. | Morning Hospitality |
| 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Welcome and Opening Remarks
Joseph A. Smith, Jr., North Carolina Commissioner of Banks |
| 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Keynote Presentation James H. Freis, Jr. Director, Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Morning Break |
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Money Transmitter Receiving and Paying Agent Risks:
Are Both Regulators and Operators Missing the Mark? Experienced Compliance Officer Juan Llanos of Unidos Financial Services, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer Paul Dwyer of ViaAmericas will speak about the agent operating environment and risks. MTRA Board member John Bishop will provide the regulator’s perspective and moderate a question and answer session. John Bishop, MTRA Board of Directors, moderator Paul S. Dwyer, Jr., CEO, Viamericas Corp. Juan Llanos, Director of Compliance, Unidos Financial Services, Inc. |
| 12:15 – 1:45 p.m. | Luncheon |
| 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. | MBS Industry: Formation of MSB Coalition and Bank Continuance Update This discussion will focus on the current banking situation, including recent industry efforts to introduce legislation to relieve the accounts termination problem, discussion of new banking options, and increasing access to accounts by reducing agent risk profiles to satisfy banks and regulatory authorities. Joseph Rooney, MTRA Board President, moderator Scott K. McClain, Esq., Deputy General Counsel, Financial Service Centers of America, Inc. William Sellery, Government Relations Consultants, Sellery & Associates, Inc. Oscar Herasme, General Counsel, External Compliance Officer, Inc. |
| 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Remittances and the Problem of Control: A Field Experiment with Migrant Families in El Salvador and Washington, D.C.
While remittances have been shown to bring numerous benefits to households in developing countries, little is known about the extent to which remittance flows are reduced by the fact that migrants have no direct control over how remittances are spent by recipients. Migration creates changes in household structure that affect financial decision making, in large part by exacerbating information asymmetries. In particular, it is possible that migrants currently remit less than they would if they had better information on or more effective control over the uses to which remittances are put. This project investigates the importance of migrant control over the use of remittances via a field experiment with matched pairs of migrants living in the US and their origin households in El Salvador. Robert Venchiarutti, MTRA Board of Directors, moderator Dean Yang, Assistant Professor (on leave 2006-07), Ford School of Public Policy and Department of Economics, University of Michigan |
| 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. | Opening Reception – All Attendees |
| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2007 | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Morning Hospitality |
| 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Money Transfers and the Global Landscape: Trends and Patterns in the U.S. Outbound Corridor
The presentation reviews the main dynamics shaping migrants' remittances. It will give an analysis of how an estimated US outbound flow of 100 billion dollars (30% of global flows) is shaping a competitive, albeit nascent, money transfer industry, influencing economic growth in the home countries, implementing new payment technologies and bringing together business and development issues into the global agenda. Robert Venchiarutti, MTRA Board of Directors, moderator Dr. Manuel Orozco, Remittances and Development Program, Inter-American Dialogue |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Morning Break |
| 10:30 - Noon | Legal/Regulatory Issues Triggered by Prepaid Cards This session will address legal issues raised by various types of prepaid cards (closed-loop, open loop and payroll cards) including but not limited to licensure issues, disclosures, fees, expirations dates, anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act. Sonya Allen, MTRA Board of Directors, moderator Deborah S. Thoren-Peden, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Randall Rodriguez, Senior Corporate Counsel, Blackhawk Network, Inc. John Ricci, General Counsel, Green Dot Corporation (invited) |
12:15 – 1:45 p.m. |
Luncheon & Presentation
Charles Petty
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| 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | A Hacker’s View of Your IT Systems: Lessons Learned from Penetration Tests SecureWorks’ penetration tests have been developed and honed based on hundreds of tests and thousands of actual attacks. Learn about the most common vulnerabilities revealed by our penetration testers performing ethical hacking in real community banks. You’ll also learn the differences between a vulnerability assessment and a penetration test, as well as what hackers do with the information they steal. Randall James, MTRA Board Vice President, moderator Eric Petersen, VP of Professional Services, SecureWorks |
| 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Enforcement (details TBA) |
| 4:30 – 4:45 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
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