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Hussam Kamel

Hussam Kamel Payments Architect at Icon Solutions

Payment Fragmentation Is Here to Stay, and Banks Must Adapt

For years, the payments industry has been on a seemingly unstoppable path toward global harmonisation, integration and alignment. The most recent poster child of this trend was the shift to the ISO 20022 messaging standard, which promised to unlock interoperability and seamless value movement across borders. That somewhat utopian vision has now co...

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Viacheslav Kostin

Viacheslav Kostin CEO at WislaCode Solutions

Neobanks vs Traditional Banks: Digital Innovation and Sustainable Finance Reshaping Banking

Digital-first banking is transforming financial services through sustainability, personalisation, and accessibility. Discover how neobanks are redefining customer expectations. The financial services landscape is experiencing a fundamental shift. Neobanks have emerged as agile, technology-driven alternatives that prioritise customer experience, ...

/payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services

Stanley Epstein

Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group

Do Stablecoins Really Serve a Purpose?

Why private digital dollars thrive where traditional currency and CBDCs still fall short. Do Stablecoins Serve a Purpose? The Answer Is Yes — but It Depends on the Context In financial debates, stablecoins often attract a deceptively simple question: “Do they really serve a purpose? And if they do, why can’t ordinary currency — or a state-issued di...

/payments /crypto

Nikunj Gundaniya

Nikunj Gundaniya Product manager at Digipay.guru

How ERA Simplifies Payment Reconciliation for Financial Institutions and MTOs

Cross-border remittances have almost become so regular like domestic transactions. Given that millions of people rely on these transfers every day to support families, fund businesses, or settle trade payments. According to the World Bank, global remittance flows reached over $860 billion in 2023. This itself shows how rapidly this ecosystem i...

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Shikko Nijland

Shikko Nijland CEO at INNOPAY Oliver Wyman

NO DRIFT=NO AI - (Agentic) AI Drift is inevitable cost of adaptability in random world.

My hypothesis: (Agentic) AI Drift is inevitable cost of adaptability in random world. Experts have spent years preparing for “AI drift,” usually defined as models losing accuracy over time. This definition made sense when AI was mostly predictive and static. But the industry is now entering a different regime: agentic AI — systems that observe, int...

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Konstantin Dubovitskiy

Konstantin Dubovitskiy Sr. Account Executive at Checkbook.io

ISO 20022, ISO 8583 and STP

This article will cover the message standards used to communicate information about payments. What kind of information can be included in those messages, what are the requirements, which operators are using this standard, who is lagging behind and why it might be important to you. Spoiler - it might not be important for your day-to-day w...

/payments /regulation Frictionless Payments

Shikko Nijland

Shikko Nijland CEO at INNOPAY Oliver Wyman

The Drift Paradox: Agentic AI will force FS to prepare for Continuous Realignment

The Drift Paradox: Agentic AI will force FS to prepare for Continuous Realignment Financial services has spent years preparing for “AI drift,” usually defined as models losing accuracy over time. This definition made sense when AI was mostly predictive and static. But the industry is now entering a different regime: agentic AI — systems that observ...

/ai /payments Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Chris Holmes

Chris Holmes Managing Director at PayTech Consulting

Are false declines costing you more than actual fraud?

False declines are legitimate debit and credit card transactions that are declined due to overly sensitive fraud detection methods and algorithms. This can be a big deal for merchants and banks alike. A recent JP Morgan Payments and Data Intelligence article reported that, while actual fraud loses represent an estimated 7% of the total cost of fr...

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John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

UK's Critical Turning Point in the Fight Against Financial Crime

Financial fraud has become one of the UK’s most damaging, persistent, and underestimated national threats. The appointment of the UK’s first Fraud Minister marks a decisive moment—one that could, if executed effectively, reshape the country’s economic resilience, restore its global leadership in financial services, and provide meaningful protectio...

/payments /crime The future of Payments in Europe

James Richardson

James Richardson Global Head of Solutions at Bottomline

The Clock Has Struck: Navigating the UK’s 'Failure to Prevent Fraud' Offence

The UK’s ‘Failure to Prevent Fraud’ offence, which took effect last month, introduces a new layer of liability for large organisations, including financial institutions and businesses. It holds them responsible for fraud committed by their employees, agents, or other “associated persons”, marking a fundamental change in how organisations must mana...

/payments /regulation Financial Services Regulation

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