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Kyrylo Reitor

Kyrylo Reitor Chief Marketing Officer at International Fintech Business

MSBs: What You Need to Know About Regulatory Requirements

MSBs operating in Canada are facing significant regulatory changes. According to a recent notice from Approved MSB Services, the Bank of Canada has introduced new regulations under the Retail Payment Activities Act (RPAA), requiring all MSBs to register within a specified timeframe. This regulatory overhaul is part of a broader global trend aimed ...

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Ruoyu Xie

Ruoyu Xie Marketing Manager at Grand Compliance

MREL and BRRD: EU Banks’ Progress and Remaining Shortfalls

The Minimum Requirement for Own Funds and Eligible Liabilities (MREL) and the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) are pivotal components of the European Union's strategy for financial stability. On November 27, 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published its 2024 MREL Dashboard, providing comprehensive insights into the progress ...

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Kyrylo Reitor

Kyrylo Reitor Chief Marketing Officer at International Fintech Business

How to avoid potential risks when working with correspondent accounts

The utilization of correspondent accounts has become increasingly prevalent in the financial services industry, particularly among fintech companies seeking to expand their global reach and access new markets. While these partnerships offer numerous benefits, they also come with inherent risks that must be carefully managed to ensure the integrity...

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Ruoyu Xie

Ruoyu Xie Marketing Manager at Grand Compliance

Counterparty Credit Risk Management Guidelines: Strategic Implementation Under Basel III

Formatted Text: Basel III Counterparty Credit Risk Management On November 20, 2024, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) issued a press release following its meeting in Basel. The committee reaffirmed its commitment to fully implement Basel III and finalized new guidelines to strengthen banks' counterparty credit risk (CCR) managem...

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Satyam Chaturvedi

Satyam Chaturvedi Digital Marketing Manager at Nimble AppGenie

How Open Banking APIs are revolutionizing Fintech?

In the current changing world for fintech operations, open banking APIs are creating a new space. The past decade has brought opportunities for the fintech industry. The global fintech market has been valued at USD 294.74 billion in 2023, which is projected to be worth USD 340.10 billion in the year 2024. Want to know the reasons behind this grow...

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Future of Report

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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UK Open Banking API Performance 2022-2023

The UK continues to be at the forefront of the global Open Banking revolution thanks to the proactive attitude of regulators.  As the most advanced Open Banking market in the world, the UK provides an example of best practices in the implementation of API-based Open Banking that other jurisdictions can use as a model.  In this report, we study the performance of the Open Banking APIs exposed by the large CMA9 UK banks, traditional High Street banks, credit card providers and building societies, and new entrant banks (neobanks). Some of our key findings include:  There continue to be significant API performance differences between banks; There is a significant difference in total latency between the fastest and slowest banks; Cloud choice makes a huge difference in performance; And more. Download our analysis of Open Banking API services today to learn more. 

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Impact Study

What should European Banks prioritise in their payments modernisation journeys?

Payments modernisation is no longer a luxury for financial institutions. Dramatic shifts in consumer appetite, complete overhauls of financial regulation and a need to prioritise resilience mean that banks have little choice but to rethink their systems to operate in this brave new world.  European banks have a particularly challenging task ahead of them. ISO 20022, open banking and API enablement initiatives, and the introduction of real-time, cross-border payments makes modernisation of legacy systems ever more complex.  This Finextra report, produced in association with Volante Technologies, explores the current European banking landscape and answers:  What European deadlines are impacting banks’ payments modernisation plans? How are European countries progressing toward payments modernisation? Will Payments-as-a-Service help firms push payments modernisation ahead? And much more. Download the report today to discover more. 

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B2B Procurement: Challenges and Opportunities for Innovation

Join FinextraTV as Romain Mialane, Direct to Corporate Lead, Visa, and Ritesh Jain, Business Head - UK and Europe Commercial Cards, Citi, explore Visa's recently commissioned market research on B2B procurement in Europe and the challenges and opportunities for innovation in this broader context of treasury. Further, the pair discuss how notable trends and patterns can lead to strategies to address emerging needs, such as Procure-to-Pay capabilities to streamline existing processes and reduce costs through consolidated software solutions or best of breed models. Educating viewers about the true definition of working capital, the conversation moves on to the role of treasury and suppliers and how the integration of enhanced transparency, advanced automation, and faster payment capabilities can bolster the relationships in the B2B procurement landscape.

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Rajashekara Maiya

Rajashekara Maiya VP at Infosys

Corporate lending: Creating, delivering, and realising value

This piece has been co-authored by Ram Devanarayanan, associate vice president, senior industry principal at Infosys Finacle. Between 2015 and 2019, while the gap in bank lending to small and medium enterprises in the Eurozone shrank from 6% of GDP to 3%, a quarter of European SMEs still faced great difficulty in accessing finance. In 2022, amid ...

Paige McNamee

Paige McNamee

Why did SVB collapse?

In a spectacle brimming with action more compelling than anything seen at the Oscars, Silicon Valley Bank’s dramatic and total collapse over the weekend continues to unleash plot-twists on the beleaguered tech sector. The rapid downfall of the bank, a California darling, has dealt a terrifying blow to the industry, and the true fallout for the spac...

Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Which banks are at risk after the SVB collapse?

When Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed last week, a 40-year legacy born in the innovation and optimism of its namesake Northern California birthplace died with it. Now that the nearly $200 Billion deposit institution – which according to many analysts may have banked more than 50% of all tech companies at some point in their existence – is gone, wh...