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Arjeh Van Oijen

Arjeh Van Oijen Head of Product Management at Icon Solutions

EBAday 2025: Why Banks Must Focus on Resiliency, Flexibility and Consolidation

Shifting geopolitical dynamics and the demands of the always-on digital economy have reshaped the European payments landscape – driving the need for instant, secure and accessible transactions across the bloc. This transformation has been enabled by a wave of regulatory and technological initiatives that have imposed new requirements and overhaul...

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Prakash Bhudia

Prakash Bhudia HOD – Product & Growth at Deriv

Can industrial metals hold up if the US-China truce falters in H2?

Copper’s soaring. Silver’s holding ground. And a shaky 90-day trade truce between the US and China has markets breathing a little easier - for now. But under the surface, things aren’t quite so smooth. Copper’s been swinging wildly, smelters are running on negative margins, and silver’s safe-haven shine is fading fast. China’s buying big, but sto...

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Andrew Bonsall

Andrew Bonsall COO at AperiData

Open Banking for collections: How real-time data enables dynamic payment plans

Collections strategies have evolved. But many still rely on long-standing assumptions: that customers' ability to repay is stable, that financial circumstances remain unchanged, and that static repayment plans will work for most. Today, that approach is increasingly risky. Rising living costs and income volatility are widening the gap between what...

Rob Straathof

Rob Straathof CEO at Liberis

From Embedded Finance to Financial Co-Pilots: The New Era of Small Business Lending

The financial needs of small businesses have evolved dramatically over the past decade and so has the technology supporting them. Traditional lending models are broke, but how are they being fixed? From co-pilot models to fully autonomous financial agents, we’re entering a new era of AI-driven finance that will empower small businesses to thrive —...

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John Adam

John Adam Chief Revenue Officer at Aimprosoft

AI adoption in financial services and fintech in 2025

A few weeks ago, I visited several events in London over UK Fintech Week. I listened to a lot of speakers and panels and spoke to a lot of people in the sector—at established financial services companies, scaleups, those still early in their product journeys and other ecosystem participants. By far the most common use cases of predictive AI in f...

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Andy Greos

Andy Greos Vice President at Sageview Capital

Mike Trkay

Mike Trkay CIO at FICO

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Monika Kucharska Head of Marketing at Quod Financial

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Ranga Sathianarayanan Vice President at Oracle

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Business@EBAday 2025

Your Essential Guide to Payments Innovation: Business@EBAday 2025 is Here! Business@EBAday 2025 is your exclusive digital companion to this year's premier payments and transaction banking event. This comprehensive supplement provides the latest insights from the leading companies exhibiting and sponsoring EBAday, offering a unique perspective into the innovations driving our industry forward.   What's Inside? Inside, you'll find articles and thought leadership pieces covering the most critical topics in payments today, including: The Road Ahead for ISO 20022 Migration: Understand the challenges, opportunities, and strategic implications as the industry moves towards richer data. Strengthening Defenses with Verification of Payee (VoP): Explore the latest strategies and technologies in fraud prevention. The Transformative Power of AI in Payments: Discover how artificial intelligence is reshaping operations, enhancing security, and creating new possibilities. Unlocking Efficiency with Virtual Accounts and Instant Payments: Dive into cutting-edge solutions for streamlined liquidity management and real-time processing. And much more! Hear diverse perspectives on cross-border payments, regulatory shifts, building robust ecosystems, and achieving operational excellence.   This supplement is an invaluable resource for: Payments professionals seeking strategic foresight. Financial institutions looking for actionable insights. Fintech innovators exploring collaborative opportunities. Anyone keen to understand the future trajectory of the payments industry.   Get a head start on the EBAday experience and equip yourself with knowledge from the industry's thought leaders. Have a look inside!   Business@EBAday 2025 is produced jointly by EBA and Finextra Research.

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Why DevSecOps is key to navigating innovation and compliance

Explore how DevSecOps enable organisations to navigate economic uncertainties while treating innovation and compliance as complementary forces rather than competing priorities. A balancing act is underway within the financial services industry. Driven by client demand and fintech competition, institutions are increasingly obliged to innovate, while at the same time, ensure every step forward is secure and compliant. Often, it feels as though these two goals sit on either side of a seesaw – when one goes up, the other must go down. Many such challenges are born from the software delivery process, where countless organisations are struggling to source the expertise and capabilities necessary to deliver secure and compliant applications, at speed.  Much of the conflict stems from fragmented DevSecOps (a software development practice that integrates security throughout the development lifecycle) strategies which are built upon outdated infrastructure. Indeed, many financial institutions (FIs) today operate with disjointed security and development workflows – sometimes patching together between five to 10 separate tools that were implemented incrementally over time. While this approach worked five years ago, better options exist today. A simplified stack is conducive to both innovation and compliance – without either being compromised.  This Finextra impact study, produced in association with GitLab, explores:  How the evolution to a unified software delivery platform can deliver on both innovation and compliance;  reduce the risk of security incidents;  supercharge operational efficiencies;  amplify business agility and scalability;  and even support talent acquisition. 

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Navigating the Nordic financial landscape: 2025 challenges and priorities

As the Nordic financial sector faces new hurdles and opportunities, a variety of issues are front and centre for financial institutions, technology providers, and fintechs.  Our latest survey of 150 responses reveals how Nordic institutions across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden are navigating the current landscape and their strategic priorities for 2025. Providing valuable insights into areas such as the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), Verification of Payee (VoP), AI’s growing role in financial services, perspectives on central bank digital currency (CBDC) and stablecoin, and evolving payment trends such as Account-to-Account (A2A) and instant payments.  Analysis of our survey responses provides a comprehensive overview on how Nordic institutions are navigating transformation shaped by innovation, regulation, and evolving customer expectations, with progress and priorities varying by country.  We explore regional specific views towards:  Key priorities for 2025  Readiness for Verification of Payee (VoP)  Strategic AI integration for real impact  The rise of A2A, instant, and mobile payments  Attitudes towards central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and stablecoin  The impact of DORA 

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How payments modernisation can help the UK retain its fintech crown

In this FinextraTV interview, Helena Forest, EVP, Global Product & Commercial, Real Time Payments, Mastercard gives her opinion on the current state of the payments landscape in the UK. Modernisation, regulatory compliance, collaboration and the government's National Payments Vision all feature as reasons to be optimistic.

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Unmesh Pai

Unmesh Pai Vice President, Product Management & Development at Oracle

Branches transformed: Scaling engagement into sales growth

While the evolution of the bank branch as a powerful touchpoint for assisted service and seamless digital integration is not new, the true game-changer lies in transforming every branch into a point of engagement and sales. Scaling this reinvention, providing personalised guidance and complex problem-solving at every physical touchpoint is what wi...

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Lynn Housecroft

Lynn Housecroft Professional Support Lawyer at Squire Patton Boggs & SPP member

The quiet revolution of AI in pensions

A quiet revolution is happening in the pensions industry, as it starts to embrace the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for more than number crunching. AI has been used in pensions for several decades, but this has largely been for back office work, such as analysing large data sets associated with pension schemes, which have thousands of members...

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Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

How AML and fraud teams are collaborating to lower risk and fight financial crime

Financial institution (FI) fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) teams are finally starting to work together! 80% of them, in fact. Plus, 53% of institutions' AML and financial crime departments share part or all of the systems they use, and 100% of the FIs surveyed use artificial intelligence (AI) as part of their arsenal across many different u...

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