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Fergus McKie

Fergus McKie Marketing at Planixs

The liquidity challenge of SEPA Instant Payments: Why PSPs have to get their funding strategy right.

In part one of the series, we looked at the rise of instant payments across Europe and the impact this will have on treasury teams – and whether treasurers are ready to change their approach to liquidity to accommodate. Now we’re going to dive deeper into how instant payments through SEPA will impact PSPs’ liquidity management, namely in underfund...

/payments /wholesale Treasury Management

Glenn Fratangelo

Glenn Fratangelo Head of Product Marketing at Sardine

Technology’s Role in Modernizing AML/CFT

When Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John Hurley addressed industry leaders this month, his remarks resonated with both regulators and financial institutions. He acknowledged a truth that compliance officers, investigators, and executives know all too well: the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) is supposed to help law enforcement and...

/ai /crime

Glenn Fratangelo

Glenn Fratangelo Head of Product Marketing at Sardine

From Red Flags to AI-Driven Defense: Why Typology-Specific Models and Agentic AI Are the Future

The latest FinCEN notice (FMS-508C) is another clear signal: financial crime is evolving faster than traditional defenses can keep up. Typologies are becoming more complex, red flags are shifting, and regulators are moving from guidance to expectation with mandatory reporting requirements that echo what we’ve already seen in elder financial exploi...

/ai /crime

Erica Andersen

Erica Andersen Marketing at smartR AI

The Silent Workforce: A Deep Dive into AI's Impact on Jobs and the Future of Work

The seismic shift is underway. It’s not a revolution heralded by trumpets and banners, but a quiet, relentless evolution. The past year has witnessed a significant milestone: 150 Google Cloud customers collectively processed a staggering one trillion tokens through AI models. This isn’t just a technological achievement; it’s a harbinger of profou

/ai /people Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Each rung is a habit.. fascinating how LLMs understand

The migration to a data driven ecomony is mildly speaking a fascinating process. And overwhelming from time to time – especially as AI already is so important. Here my “chief simplifyer” message: we are now finally getting the “ladder” (strong rails to deliver verifiable credentials as rungs) to move up from the bottom floor (Internet) to the T...

/ai /identity Innovation in Financial Services

Sam Boboev

Sam Boboev Founder at Fintech Wrap Up

Deep Dive: How Worldline Is Trying to Rebuild — Without a Full Recovery (Yet)

I’ll admit, the first half of 2025 wasn’t kind to Worldline’s reputation. Back in June, an investigative series dubbed “Dirty Payments” accused the French payment giant of covering up fraudulent merchants to protect its revenue – including allegedly onboarding questionable clients in porn, gambling, and sketchy dating sites, then shuffling them b...

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Dr Ritesh Jain

Dr Ritesh Jain Advisor at WorldBank

India’s Fintech Movement: From Digital Access to Financial Dignity

India’s digital economy stands at a defining inflection point. As global capital flows into fintech startups and regulatory structures crystallise around digital public infrastructure (DPI), the narrative often swings between euphoric celebration and sceptical caution. But amidst the unicorn tallies and IPO buzz, we must ask—are we truly moving to...

/inclusion /predictions Fintech

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Simple explanation why linked data is so important

ChatGPT said: Because the world runs on connections, not isolated facts. Linked Data gives your data context, meaning, and machine-actionability. Here’s the crisp version: 1. Machines can finally understand what the data means A raw string like "12345" is useless. Linked Data tells the machine: • What this number is • How it relate

/ai /payments Transaction Banking

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Will EU be an isolated island?

The debate rages on. ChatGPT very good at expressing my opinion: VCDM + JSON-LD are not optional — they’re the gateway to interoperable trade, automation, and AI-ready trust. Europe is building the world’s most ambitious trust infrastructure: EUDI-wallets for citizens. EUBW organisational wallets for enterprises and public bodies. Rulebooks,

/ai /identity Innovation in Financial Services

Priyanka Naik

Priyanka Naik Fintech Professional

Insights from latest research on Fintech AI applications

AI is now moving from experimental deployments to core infrastructure across the financial ecosystem. As someone who has spent twelve years building large-scale products, I have been closely following the research that explores how AI will reshape financial services. Several recent papers map the economic, human and technological transitions unfol...

/ai /payments Fintech

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