The Risks and Rewards of Real-Time Payments: The Brazilian Experience

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce of the SE are pleased to invite you to attend a virtual event that will explore lessons the United States can learn from the Brazil experience with implementing real-time payments.

The event will bring together a distinguished group of panelists to discuss the opportunities and challenges of a real-time payment environment when it comes to rebalancing convenience, risk management, and consumer protection. Experts from Brazil will share lessons learned from their experience with building and implementing instant payments, while policymakers and practitioners in the U.S. will share considerations that must be sorted out as the payments systems prepares to initiate and receive faster payments.

Panel discussion:

• Eduardo Chedid, Vice President of Financial Services at PicPay
• Tim Mills, Senior Vice President of Emerging Payments at Regions Bank
• Joao Manoel Pinho de Mello, former economist at the Central Bank of Brazil and Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University
• Jessica Washington, Assistant Vice President of Retail Payments Risk Forum at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• Moderated by Rodrigo Dantas e Silva, Principal and Americas Payment Leader at Ernst & Young.

Opening Remarks presented by Lucia Jennings, President/CEO, Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce of the SE, Brazil Consul General Ambassador Carlos Henrique Moojen de Abreu e Silva, and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Senior Vice President for the Supervision, Regulation and Credit (SRC) Doris Quiros.