Liliana Fratini Passi

Liliana Fratini Passi is the Secretary of ACBI, the Italian Interbank Corporate Banking Association. ACBI, created under the auspices of ABI (Italian Banker's Association), owns the governance of the CBI Service, which is a system developed to facilitate the corporate management of electronic multibanking connections.

Currently the CBI Service enables over 700.000 companies to access payment services offered by more than 680 Banks (>90% of Italian Banks). Since 2002, Liliana has coordinated the project for the complete renewal of CBI services, in order to improve/extend the range of CBI payment services; in fact, CBI services now include XML based payment and document management services such as electronic invoicing, SEPA Credit Transfers and (in the next future) Direct Debit. New CBI services will also include the “Invoice Financing Request”, whose business model and XML messages have been recently registered by ACBI into ISO20022 Repository.

Liliana is a senior industry expert on payment industry: she has more than ten years of experience on payment services for banks and corporates, including Global Payments and Clearing Infrastructures (ACH, EBA, SWIFT, TARGET etc.). She is member of ISO20022 Registration Management Group, TBG5 Working Group , EPC SPS Standards Task Force, European Commission Expert Group on E-invoicing and Italian Committee for SEPA migration. She also sits at the Network & Standards Subgroup of the mentioned Expert Group.

She is also active in payments-related industry Forum and coordinates the Italian Bankers’ Association Consultation Forum, created to cooperate with companies for the realization of the SEPA payment services and for the evolution of the CBI functions.