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Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder & CEO at UXDA

The CX Roadblock No One Talks About: Overcoming Self-Deception in Banking

Financial companies and banks worldwide are investing heavily to deliver the best possible customer experience and innovation to banking. They recognize the importance of meeting customer needs and staying competitive in a digital financial landscape. Despite these genuine efforts, many banks struggle to achieve the desired results. The culprit? S...

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Sergiy Fitsak

Sergiy Fitsak Managing Director, Fintech Expert at Softjourn

How Embedded Finance is Redefining Financial Services and Unlocking New Revenue Streams

Embedded finance is no longer just a buzzword—it's rapidly transforming the way businesses and consumers engage with financial services. By seamlessly integrating payments, lending, insurance, and banking into everyday platforms, it is streamlining transactions, enhancing customer experiences, and opening new revenue channels for businesses across ...

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Alexander Boehm

Alexander Boehm Chief Executive Officer at PayRate42

The Hidden Dangers of Tokenization: What You Need to Know

Tokenization is revolutionizing the way we think about assets—turning everything from real estate to art into digital tokens that can be traded on the blockchain. It promises greater accessibility, liquidity, and efficiency in markets that were once hard to enter. But while tokenization is full of potential, it also comes with hidden dangers that ...

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Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

Building Wealth for Everyone: How Banks Can Democratize Recurring, Low-Cost, Long-Term Investing

Active investing is challenging, often yielding less-than-desired results for the average investor. While professional investors with access to advanced tools, up-to-the-minute market information, and complex models might occasionally beat the market, for most of us, that’s a near-impossible feat. The efficiency of markets today means that any pu

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Prakash Bhudia

Prakash Bhudia HOD – Product & Growth at Deriv

Gold's new all-time high: Evaluating the asset’s long-term outlook

Gold prices (XAU/USD) surged past the $2,700 mark, reaching a new all-time high during Friday’s Asian session. The precious metal has maintained a strong uptrend over the past week, driven by a combination of central bank monetary easing, geopolitical risks, and a weakening U.S. Dollar. As global uncertainties persist, gold continues to shine as a...

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Alexander Boehm

Alexander Boehm Chief Executive Officer at PayRate42

Analysis: Fraud Challenges Facing Neobanks and Fintechs

King Leung

King Leung Global Head of Financial Services and FinTech at InvestHK

Frontier Tech is Set to Transform Global Finance

Matt Riggall

Matt Riggall Head of Commercial Lending Vertical, Cap. Markets at FIS

Generative AI agents and the future of work in commercial banking

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Managing Fraud Risks with Synthetic Data

A Practical Approach for Businesses Services Industry The financial services sector is in a constant state of evolution, and so too are the challenges it faces, particularly in the realm of financial crime. This mounting issue has become a significant concern for institutions, customers and regulators alike. The key to addressing this lies in our approach to data - its quality, management, and applications. Harnessing the power of synthetic data and AI tools has become a pivotal factor in business transformation, particularly in addressing the issue of financial crime. The ability to streamline operations and enhance efficiency is a major challenge businesses face, but the introduction of synthetic data offers promising solutions. Synthetic data provides a comprehensive view of all types of crime, a feature that is crucial for global banks often grappling with segmented fraud activity. This broader perspective enhances the institutions’ capability to effectively fight financial crime. This report summarises the discussion had during a Finextra webinar, hosted in association with Red Hat, and explores: The role of synthetic data in combatting financial crime Implications of new regulation How synthetic data enhances crime detection A practical apprach for managing fraud risk  

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The Future of Payments 2025 – Digital, Instant, Profitable?

A Sibos Special Edition The global payments landscape is in a period of rapid transition, with technologies and regulations making a serious impact. Yet looking to the future of the payments industry, how can we ensure that it is digital, instant, and profitable? While consumer behaviours continue to evolve in tandem with this. Artificial intelligence (AI), tokenised assets, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), Blockchain, and even more pioneering technologies are shaking up the payments systems all in their own way. Adding to this atmosphere of flux, is an developing regulatory framework which promises to alter this situation further. Regulators are facing an uphill battle attempting to legislate on emerging technologies while keeping consumers safe, and providing the best outcome for payment service providers (PSPs). As we move towards milestones like open finance and more rapid payments, there is a chance the payment ecosystem could look quite different within the next few years. Under these growing pressures, global payments organisations will need to ensure that they are able to bend and adapt to the circumstance, or risk snapping. Never has it been more important for PSPs to collaborate with each other, and regulators, to ensure the best outcomes. This Sibos 2024 special edition report, was produced with contributions from Accenture, Deloitte, EBA CLEARING, Finastra, FIS Global, Investec, J.P. Morgan, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, PPI AG, Swift, and Wise. It explores: The evolution of instant payments in 2025; The modernisation correspondent banking and cross border payments; Preparing the upcoming EU payments legislation; The key to successful digitalisation; The technology innovations reshaping the payments sector.

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The Future of Embedded Finance in Africa 2025

Embedded finance is changing the payment landscape in Africa. The question now is: what will it take for embedded finance to truly scale across Africa? The global embedded finance market is set to grow beyond $228 billion by 2028 according to Juniper Research. As this market matures and consumer confidence in the technology grows, this will likely prove to be a significant chunk of global financial services. In Africa, this emerging trend has the potential to unlock new economic opportunities. As a less mature market, it is not as hindered by legacy payments systems, making it ripe for payment innovation from embedded finance. It has the potential to reshape the continent’s current payments landscape, broaden innovation opportunities, and drive financial inclusion. As a market Africa is very adaptable to different technologies, and embracing of newer, more agile services. A lot of the population to the majority of their banking through their mobile phones, making embedded finance fit seamlessly into financial worlds of the populace. Yet there are many factors which will alter and develop the ability for embedded finance to take hold. This Finextra report, sponsored by Kora, received contributions from Binance, Indelible Inc., Mojaloop Foundation, and Nikulipe. It explores:  Making embedded cross-border payments work in Africa; Unlocking the opportunities of embedded e-commerce in the African market; Embedded finance: Encouraging African financial inclusion; Why personalisation in embedded finance is the next step for African fintech; Regulating Africa to encourage embedded finance innovation.

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Why Cross Border Real Time Payments are the Next Big Thing

In an interview with FinextraTV in the lead-up to Sibos 2024 in Beijing, China, Ainsley Ward, Vice President Payments Solutions, CGI, explores the topic of instant mandates and the implementation of Verification of Payee (VoP) across Europe. Cross border real time payments as a concept presents a new era of opportunity for the financial services industry because infrastructure is at a point where it can support this form of money movement and nearing the end of the ISO 20022 rollout in November 2025, mandates are ensuring payments are instant across the SEPA inclusion zone. It is evident that change is afoot and that is not stopping any time soon; while the payment environment changes, traditional networks like Swift, Visa and Mastercard will have to fall in line to allow the blossoming of these new real time schemes.

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Dominique Dierks

Dominique Dierks Content Manager at Finextra

Pix Automático: Unlocking the potential of recurring payments in Brazil

Brazil’s Pix has been one of the most impactful success stories over the last decade. Created by the country’s Central Bank, the instant payments system purpose was to modernise Brazil’s payments industry by reducing consumers’ reliance on cash, lowering financial costs, and fostering financial inclusion – and it succeeded brilliantly. Launched in...

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Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Correspondent banking and cross border payments need modernisation

This is an excerpt from the Future of Payments 2025 report. The decline in the number of correspondent banking relationships globally has been widely noted, leaving many communities who rely on it for cross-border payments without many other choices. This is in part because of a heightened focus on high-risk jurisdictions, which is known as de-ris...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Instant payments will change the payments landscape in 2025

This is an excerpt from the Future of Payments 2025 report. Will the future of payments be digital, instant and profitable? What is for certain in 2025 is that the payments industry will increasingly become complex and multi-faceted due to the sheer number of players entering the market. New rails will be leveraged to settle a growing number of p...

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