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EBAday is the annual event for European payments professionals organised by Finextra and the Euro Banking Association. This community has been created to deliver a forum for EBA delegates to exchange views on instant payments, open banking and new developments in payments processing and technology.
Unsurprisingly, EBA Clearing's just-announced plans for a pan-European e-payments service - dubbed mybank - took up a fair chunk of EBAday's ‘innovation in online payments and e-services' session. The...
Brian Stevenson, Chairman of Global Transaction Services at RBS gave the best presentation of the day at EBA Day. He clearly described the many challenges facing banks in the world today within an eco...
Now e-invoicing is not really a name on anyones lips but at EBA Day we heard that perhaps it should be. The session was not vastly populated but us hardy soul were perked up by the hot lady from Swed ...
Part of the first session at EBA Day focused on the new entrants to the market, E-Money Institutions (EMI) and Payment Institutions (PI), facilitated by the introduction of the EU Payment Services Dir...
It's really strange to hear so much about competition at EBA Day from organisations that appear scared. SEPA is as much a process of change as it is about change. Banks for years have been expert in s...
It was encouraging to hear a strong commitment to the Sepa ‘project' from EBADay's keynote speaker, Soledad Nunez from the Treasury of Spain. A lack of political will is often cited as a factor in the...
SEPA has being having such a difficult birth, but EBA Day has highlighted that the Spanish are showing the way The presentation by Soledad Nunez, General Director of the Treasury and Financial Policy,...
The theme of this years EBA day was 'Advancing Thought Leadership' and it was refeshing to hear the welcoming speech from the chairman of EBA stressing the importance of banks in taking a more proacti...
SWIFT have been making lots of noise about getting corporates connected to their network. Sounds good and with SWIFT lite they appear to have a solution which has a cheap user charge for small or medi...
Banker's bonuses are still dominating the news during the results season. The banks one by one, will all declare massive profits that are virtually the same as before the banking crisis. "Crisis ...