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Andrew Ducker

Andrew Ducker Payments Consulting at Icon Solutions

Commercial Variable Recurring Payments (cVRP) and the implications for banks

Driving the mainstream growth of Open Banking payments continues to be a key talking point for the UK government, regulators and wider banking industry. With more than 10% of the UK adult population now using the technology, attention is turning to the opportunities that stand to be realised in the case of commercial Variable Recurring Payments (c...

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Anton Roe

Anton Roe CEO at MHR

Driving UK growth in 2025: Big steps to stimulate business productivity

In 2025 the UK economy is expected to grow modestly with GDP predicted to rise by 1.5%. While this marks an improvement from recent years, the UK continues to lag other major global economies such as the US and Germany. External factors and macroeconomic conditions have affected productivity and investment, contributing to this slowdown in growth...

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Adam Pemberton

Adam Pemberton Senior Digital Marketing Executive at Planixs

Is your LCR (Liquidity Coverage Ratio) fit for purpose?

In 2014, the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) was a much-needed response to the liquidity crises that exacerbated the global financial meltdown. The regulation requires banks to hold enough high-quality liquid assets (HQLA) to cover net cash outflows during a 30-day stress period, ensuring that banks have the means to withstand short-term liquidity ...

Konrad Litwin

Konrad Litwin Global General Manager - Testing at Perforce Software

Getting banking websites and apps ready for peak traffic over the holiday season

Though 2024’s Black Friday and CyberMonday have now passed, there are still some shopping milestones coming up, such as the December holidays and New Year sales. In turn, this leads to more banking customers logging into their accounts, checking available funds or whether the money for a returned item has been transferred, and other activities. T...

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Sara Costantini

Sara Costantini Regional Director for the UK and Ireland at CRIF

Financial providers must enhance their digital offerings without neglecting the personal touch

As services across our lives have become increasingly instant, it is logical that these expectations now extend to services with banks, insurers and other financial providers. When they engage with their financial providers, customers quite reasonably expect these interactions to be fast and convenient, with minimal delays in both processing appli...

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Steve Britain CEO at Monument Technology

Tej Sidhu

Tej Sidhu Chief Technology Officer at Genesis Global

Darren Carvalho

Darren Carvalho Co-Founder and Co-CEO at MetaWealth

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Piers Horak CEO at The ai Corporation

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Boris Bialek

Boris Bialek Vice President and Field CTO, Industry Solutions at MongoDB

Enhancing Digital Banking Experiences with AI

Barley Laing

Barley Laing UK Managing Director at Melissa

Reducing the impact of AI-driven fraud in 2025

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Impact Study

Catering to a new generation though unified card programmes

How Gen Z is changing the payments landscape, why operational costs are soaring, and how a unified card programme can help financial institutions to unlock a competitive advantage and drive growth. Globalisation continues to shape the market as money moves between banks, businesses and even countries quicker and in higher numbers than ever before. Both debit and credit cards remain vital in today’s payment experience but changing consumer demands and the surging popularity of neobanks leave traditional banks fighting for top-of-wallet status.  On one hand, traditional banks are battling surging operational costs. From a functionality point of view, the world is getting smaller. Today, there is not much perceived difference to the consumer between debit cards, credit cards, and prepaid cards. Yet behind the scenes, many banks run each of these products in different platforms and set-ups, each racking up its own costs.  Add to this mix services like personal loans/buy now, pay later (BNPL) schemes and increasing regulatory demands, you have created the perfect storm: Having to bolt on a new, disparate system every time the services are extended – which costs time, money, and adds high regulatory burden.  On the other hand, the consumer expectations of a new generations are shaping the market. Gen Z’s preference for digital, seamless payment methods is changing the financial landscape and traditional banks need to adapt their service offerings in order to match these new demands.  This impact study, produced in association with FIS, explores:  Increasing cost pressures: Why operational costs are soaring  How a new generation is shaping the payments landscape  Tackling change: The benefits of a unified card programme  Case studies: A practical approach to change    Watch the on-demand Finextra webinar with FIS - Unifying card programmes: The cost-reduction imperative  

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Sustainable Finance Live – Natural Capital Finance

A Record from the Sustainable Finance Live Conference and Hackathon 2024  On 8 October 2024, Finextra Research and ResponsibleRisk held the annual Sustainable Finance Live hybrid conference and hackathon, in partnership with NayaOne.  The conference took place at Events@ No6 in London, and started off with a welcome from founder of ResponsibleRisk and contributing editor for Finextra, Richard Peers. Peers opened with an introduction outlining the themes and objectives of this year’s event: to understand natural capital risk, pricing, and trade.  The focus areas of the conference were natural capital, agriculture, supply chains, as well as regulation and reporting. The sessions also highlighted highlighting new technologies that are being used to collect nature-related data such as Earth observation and satellite reporting.  Richard Peers, contributing editor at Finextra and founder of ResponsibleRisk, moderated the conference: “What we wanted to do is to put on an event aimed at explaining the landscape of a natural capital transaction, with the associated data providers identified along the way. Ending the process in an asset management trading platform, taking into consideration all the steps that a regulated entity has to undertake, to prove to the financial industry that this can be an asset class, that is as tradable as any other.”  Download a Visual Record of the event below to discover key themes of the event’s panels, keynotes, and hackathon. We cover:  Natural capital trading from field to trade;  How nature financing can be achieved;  The role of data, economic profit, and policy for natural capital;  How to build a sustainable ecosystem using natural value;  Visions and results from the hackathon;  And more. 

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The Future of AI in Financial Services 2025

A special edition for NextGen:AI 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) has the ability to revolutionise the financial industry making id more efficient, enhance customer experiences, reduce costs, and create new products and services.  AI is transforming how institutions manage risk, intercept fraud or crimes, personalise customer experiences, improve efficiencies across their operations, make investment decisions, and many more use cases which are still being developed.  Some industries have already started to embrace AI and banks can be included in that, but financial services still has room to learn from the developments of other ecosystems. At the same time, the innovation in AI is now being driven by legislation. The EU AI Act came into effect in 2024 and is the most concrete piece of legislation, but other jurisdictions are developing their own and will continue to watch how the EU progresses.  With the new possibilities AI is opening for financial services, there are new risks. Biases, model issues, cyber security, and compliance issues are among some of the hurdles which AI presents to financial institutions. Adding to this are the serious sustainability issues which AI can create for financial institutions planning to use it long term.  This report has been written in collaboration with Box, Innovate Finance, and RedCompass Labs, and contributions from Globant, the United Kingdom House of Lords, ING, NatWest Group, Sumsub, and Smarsh. It explores:  How financial services can embrace AI;  Some of the key emerging AI use cases;  Global legislative outlook for AI;  AI sustainability and energy efficiency;  How AI can transform financial services metadata extraction. 

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AI in the Workplace: Upskilling, Ethics and The Fear Index

In June 2024, The City of London produced a report on The Future of AI, analysing its prospects and the roles and tasks associated. In this interview with FinextraTV, Madush Gupta, Lead Member for Innovation and Technology, City of London shares further insights into how that report remains relevant today and will continue to be. In it, Gupta addresses challenges surrounding upskilling, effective education and a shift in perception, referencing a decline in The Fear Index.

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Amanda Kavanagh

Amanda Kavanagh Contributor at Jobbio

UK tech jobs to look out for in 2025

If your workplace isn’t in a celebratory mood at the moment, you’re in good company. According to recent research from tech advisory firm TechMarketView, 56% of companies experienced poor or neutral business environments this year. However, good times are on the horizon. According to a new report, in 2025, 46% of hiring managers in the IT and tec...

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Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

How retail giants like Starbucks and Staples are handling cash

Despite the steady growth of debit or credit card transactions to a high percentage of their daily totals, retailers still must manage cash deliveries and collections for the remainder, other than the small number of items paid for via cheque or purchase order. That’s what a recent panel of three treasury leaders from leading retailers talked abou...

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Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

What the EU deforestation law delay means for fintech

The EU deforestation law was proposed in June 2023 to propel environmental efforts by curbing logging and deforestation practices in nations that export to the EU. The legislation was a move towards reducing EU consumers’ impact on global deforestation, however it saw pushback from multiple nations. What is the EU deforestation law? The law would ...

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