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Certainty and security with instant payments

Gerhard Bystricky, Head of Product Management Payments Germany, UniCredit Bank AG, talks about the progress of pan-European instant payments since it launched, what some of the practical experiences are what else needs to be done to grow the volumes and value of these payments.

24 April 2018

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Changing lanes with innovation

James Maudslay, Senior Manager Solution Marketing, Equinix, talks about some of the practical implications for banks around Open Banking and how well positioned are they in dealing with them, how are banks managing their need to offer innovative digital services to their customers and whether legacy infrastructure is a constraint, and how strategic partnerships and collaboration with others will benefit banks.

13 April 2018

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Digital Drive in Energy Trading

Doug Pollock, Global Head of Business Development for Financial and Risk in the Energy Practice Group, Thomson Reuters, talks about how the energy trading sector is coping with the drive towards digitalization, why data and technology are hailed the core elements to digitalization for the energy trading sector and what areas of risk in particular, should the energy sector be concerned with.

10 April 2018

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Best Execution obligations of MiFID II in action

John Mason, Global Head of Regulatory & Market Structure Strategic Response & Propositions, Thomson Reuters, talks about the impact of RTS 27 and 28 coming into force, what challenges firms are facing with satisfying the Best Execution requirement in terms of data, how the market and clients will be effected and how post MiFID II implementation will the impact non-financial institutions.

09 April 2018

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Blockchain: beyond Bitcoin

Nicolò Romani, Head of Innovation SIA, talks about the extraordinary variety of business applications a permissioned blockchain infrastructure could lend itself to, the impact it will have in the financial sector and whether it represents a revolution at global level.

31 January 2018

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The long life of AI

Kyle Thomas, Head of Worldwide Sales, Saffron Technology, Intel, talks at Sibos 2017 about why financial institutions should invest in artificial intelligence to stay in business, how it has transformed the industry, and whether it will become mainstream in banks in order to meet regulatory requirements.

05 December 2017

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Brexit demands a ‘Match Fit Economy’

Jim Wadsworth, UK Product Director, Vocalink, a Mastercard company, talks about a ‘Match Fit Economy’, what it is and what it has to do with payments, why Brexit is such an important moment from a payments perspective and what the future looks like for the UK payments market.

29 November 2017

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The promise of open banking

Gunnar Berger, Head of Open Banking, Nordea, talks at NextGen Banking Nordics about whether we will notice any difference in January 2018 around PSD2, what success in open banking will look like for banks, and how can they measure it, and whether customers will really benefit from open banking.

28 November 2017

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Combining databases with blockchain

Henrik Hjelte, CEO & Co-founder, ChromaWay, talks about combining databases and blockchain, smart contracts in Sweden to avoid fraud and cybercrime and preventing corruption in India by increasing transparency.

27 November 2017

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Cloud for banks

Jonathan Charley, General Manager, FSI EMEA North, SAP, talks at Sibos 2017 about whether the banking industry has been slow to understand the benefit of migrating processing to the cloud, what the barriers and benefits of moving to cloud based solutions are and how this area of the industry will evolve in the future.

27 November 2017

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Making room for fintech collaboration

Erik Bennerhult, CTO, Näktergal Finance , talks about how having access to a fintech hub has helped fintechs interact and improve their business, what regulatory challenges fintechs still face and ways in which they can successfully collaborate with banks in the future.

27 November 2017

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Modernisation in South Africa

Chris Hamilton, CEO, BankservAfrica, talks at Sibos 2017 about the national payments system in South Africa, the modernisation programme being implemented, some of the challenges around open banking and distributed ledgers, and how financial inclusion will boost the region’s economy.

24 November 2017

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Spotting trends in the payments ecosystem

Bruno Mellado, Global Head of Payments and Receivables, BNP Paribas, and Christophe Vergne, Payments and World Payments Report Leader, Capgemini's Financial Services talk at Sibos 2017 about non-cash transaction volume worldwide, the impact of new key regulations and industry initiatives (KRIIs) and the emergence of a new payments ecosystem.

21 November 2017

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Forces working for and against blockchain

David Treat, Managing Director, Accenture, talks at Sibos 2017 about why blockchain is such a hot topic and exciting move forward for financial services, what the most prevalent uses of blockchain will be and what the challenges are preventing blockchain becoming a true reality for the future.

20 November 2017

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From strategy to implementation using process technology

Parviz Peiravi, CTO Financial Services, Intel, and Alessandro Petroni, Global Head of Strategy, Financial Services, Red Hat, talk at Sibos 2017 about how financial institutions can successfully make the move from strategy to implementation and what they see as the most influential technologies shaping the industry today, including blockchain, AI and cloud.

20 November 2017

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The benefits of shifting payments into the cloud

Francois du Toit, Global Head of Payments Solutions, Finastra, talks at Sibos 2017 about the main drivers behind the rapidly shifting payments landscape such as real-time, and what technologies banks can deploy to tackle the challenges that have arrived with this change.

15 November 2017

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Completing the last mile with AI

Gerry Gibney, Senior Strategist, Financial Services, OpenText, talks at Sibos 2017 about how AI is helping banks in the payments business by reducing cost and human inefficiency, whilst improving customer experience, and what the barriers are behind the benefits.

14 November 2017

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Uniting technology with steadfast strategy

Seshika Fernando, Head of Financial Solutions, WSO2, talks about how ready banks are for PSD2 and how they should be thinking about building their API strategy whilst fulfilling the expectation to move beyond compliance and discover new digital transformation opportunities using technology.

14 November 2017

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Data is the new oil

David Puth, Chief Executive Officer, CLS, talks at Sibos 2017 about the big picture trends shaping the foreign exchange market, what data and processing settlement challenges the market is facing, and the growing level of influence of blockchain and DLT.

09 November 2017

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Using AI to better serve customer needs

Teresa Connors, Head of Market Management, NatWest, talks at Sibos 2017 about the trends she has seen develop since last year’s event, including regulation, PSD2 and open banking, how banks are using AI to accommodate their customers and how banks can further drive digital transformation within the industry.

07 November 2017