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Sara Costantini

Sara Costantini Regional Director for the UK and Ireland at CRIF

Open banking: Are Brits still too sceptical or is bank communication the key to increasing uptake?

There is reason for cautious optimism when it comes to people’s personal finances at the moment. Inflation in the UK is beginning to ease, with similar pictures in the US and a number of other European economies. This has obviously not been the case in recent years. During these difficult times, we’ve seen consumers across Europe turn to their bank...

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Saurabha Sahu

Saurabha Sahu Senior Solution Consultant at Wipro Limited

Data Colonization and It’s Effects

Today I will be discussing on a topic which is relate to all living organisms, how data, information and data insights are affecting our life, as well as creating a threat as well as opportunities to innovate and growth. However, it also teaches us to think for our future. As we are aware, all living organisms tends to live in a group, where they ...

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Nkiru Uwaje

Nkiru Uwaje Chief Operating Officer at Mansa

Explained: The Tokenisation of Financing

The tokenisation of financing, or in plain language the provision of real-world loans using blockchains, is a shining example of the utility of blockchain technology. This financial revolution is slated to boost accessibility, efficiency and transparency throughout the financing ecosystem, but few understand the technology enabling this shift. W...

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Dirk Labuschagne

Dirk Labuschagne Chief Information Security Officer at Direct Transact

Financial Shutdown Risk Mitigation

Six cybersecurity tactics for financial services to prevent disaster Anyone who has seen the apocalyptic cybercrime thriller Leave the World Behind will know just how terrifying a nationwide digital shutdown could be. Some shocking recent cybercrime statistics add plausibility to the risks posed by cybercrime: South Africa has the fifth worst cy...

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Alexander Boehm

Alexander Boehm Chief Executive Officer at PayRate42

How MiCA Will Transform Crypto Payment Providers: What You Need to Know

The MiCA regulation (Markets in Crypto-Assets) is about to reshape the entire crypto landscape in the EU, and it's not just about exchanges and token issuers. Crypto payment providers—those specializing in enabling payments through cryptocurrencies—are also facing major changes. So, what exactly will MiCA mean for these businesses? Crypto Payment ...

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Melissa McKeown Marketing Manager at Segpay

Karol Andruszków

Karol Andruszków CEO at Ulan Software

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Sam Afemikhe Programme Director at ikOOba Technologies

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Greta Ranonyte CEO at Fintech Hub LT

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White Paper

Beyond Tomorrow In The Capital Markets

Technology has long been transforming the capital markets industry, but the tides are changing for what is considered success. Now more than ever, firms need to prioritise operational resilience.  Technological advances are indisputably reshaping how firms in the capital markets operate, however, as the reliance on technology grows, so does the impact of glitches and outages when they occur. Take the CrowdStrike global outage, for example, which caused an estimated $1.15BN and $140M in financial losses for the banking and financial sectors respectively.  The consecutive outages expose the fragility of technical infrastructure and underscore a need for better operational resilience across the capital markets. It also reiterates the importance of preparing for the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), implementing uniform operational resilience rules for financial entities throughout Europe, and its equivalents elsewhere.  This Finextra whitepaper, produced in association with CJC, explores:  The challenges in the capital markets industry;  How institutions can address these challenges;  Ensuring future resilience by bridging the skills gap;  Real-world case studies;  And more. 

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Microservices Architecture: Future-Proofing Payments Technology

It is high time for banks to move away from legacy thinking and embrace modernisation to remain competitive in the industry.  Financial institutions have long been threatened by innovative, tech-savvy fintech firms that do not have to maintain decades-old back-office systems. Core banking systems within banks have evolved, but with additional pressure from incoming regulation and subsequent reporting, progression and modernisation has not kept pace with industry developments.  In the US alone, the real-time payments market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 31% until 2030. An institution’s success in scaling their payment processing in response to this shift will rest heavily on how their systems are set up.  Cloud-native payments processing is the most viable option to keep pace with innovation demand and competition; enabling banks to build upon flexibility, at low cost and risk. These enablers also make cloud infrastructure – both public and private – attractive for banks that have struggled to streamline, maintain and upgrade their legacy infrastructures.  This Finextra research paper, produced in association with Diebold Nixdorf, explores the opportunities of microservices architecture. It discusses:  Then & Now: Monolithic vs. microservices architecture  Overcoming microservice challenges  The benefits of a micro-approach  Real-world examples and cases studies  And more. 

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White Paper

APIs, Automation, and AI

An Arsenal to Defend Against Card Transaction Fraud Fraudsters are no longer individuals who are looking to infiltrate gaps or weaknesses in how our businesses are set up. They are expert technologists and strategists that steal customer data, take over accounts and break into tough security measures. Between 2023 and 2027, merchants are expected to lose a total of $343 billion to online payment fraud, driving home the point that the time is now for technology to be leveraged to reduce card transaction fraud, which is growing in numbers and complexity. APIs, automation, and AI are all integral to an effective fraud mitigation strategy in 2024. This Finextra whitepaper, produced in association with Mastercard, discusses how these technologies – if used in the right way – can support financial institutions evolve to emerging threats with increased speed and accuracy.

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Technology, the Catalyst for Banks to Evolve into Competitors

FinextraTV and Gabriela Giannattasio, VP of EMEA, Veritran, tap into how banks should be prioritising streamlining user experiences, enhancing seamless payment systems, making them secure, and ensuring compliance with upcoming regulations all at the same time. In this new age of financial polyamory, individuals and businesses are no longer married to just one bank, and banks should view collaboration as the silver bullet solution to these challenges and actively leverage available opportunities to connect with technology partners.

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Kirstie McDermott

Kirstie McDermott Senior Content Editor at Amply

AI skills are more likely to land you a job interview in the UK

According to research from the Industrial Skills Strategy Council, 20% of the UK workforce could be significantly under skilled for their jobs by 2030. With other data showing that 27% of UK workers feel they don’t have the right digital skills for their job role, a disconnect between what employers want, and what employees can deliver, is emergi...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

What is hybrid cloud?

Hybrid cloud is a computer programming architecture used by IT teams to reap the benefits of both the private and public hosting environments. These work in tandem to run an organisation’s workload and applications. Uses of hybrid cloud An example of a firm within the financial services industry which might find use for the hybrid cloud environm...

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Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

AI is eating up our energy – how will sustainable ambitions survive?

It has become clear to everyone that uses the internet that artificial intelligence (AI) is the next big thing. Nearly every company is releasing an AI chatbot/AI product/AI service to enhance their customer experience and improve efficiency of their products. It is true that AI can improve the lives of customers in many ways, such as facilitating ...

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