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Transaction Banking

A community for discussing technology trends, views and perspective in global transaction banking

189 opinions 43 members 29 January 2025

 

Electronic Bank Account Management

A group for discussion of how banks and corporates are moving towards standardisation and more efficient, automated processes for opening, maintaining and closing bank accounts.

10 opinions 10 members 18 September 2024

 

Social Banks

Social Banks is a group that aims to discuss trends and debate as the financial services take their first steps into social media. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc..debate all here.

55 opinions 21 members 11 January 2022

 

Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Payments systems visions, strategies, trends, pilots, forecasting, and planning for the short-, medium-, and far-term.

374 opinions 135 members 30 September 2025

 

XBRL Discussion Group

As XBRL becomes more recognised as a vitally important tool to reduce data costs and streamline communication in the financial services industry, the full opportunities need to be explored. To ensure a full and clear understanding by the financial services industry globally rather than just those countries where is has already been adopted, especially in light of the DTCC and SWIFT initiative.

9 opinions 6 members 20 March 2013

 

UK Faster Payments

A place to discuss and share information on the introduction of the UK Faster Payments scheme

25 opinions 26 members 05 August 2024

 

Trends in Financial Services

A community to discuss the future of financial services and any other interesting trends, strategies, ideas, views.

405 opinions 87 members 19 August 2025

 

EBAday

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.

102 opinions 33 members 09 June 2023

 

Financial Supply Chain

In the world of international trade, the process of exchanging payments, information and documents between buyers, sellers, banks, and other involved parties is becoming increasingly important for financial institutions. This community aims at presenting views and innovative ideas related to this financial supply chain space.

93 opinions 29 members 25 June 2025

 

Where are they now?

Tracking familiar names and faces from fintec, who may have either moved onto new arenas, or simply come back into the fold with a new logo on their business card.

12 opinions 7 members 13 March 2017

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