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More links between banks and start-ups to come

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We should not dismiss bitcoin

Jan Skoyles, Co-founder and former CEO, The Real Asset Co, and Marketing, Coinsilium, speaks about the hype around blockchain, the role of bitcoin in inspiring exploration into alternative approaches to the monetary system, and the support blockchain companies can receive.

25 January 2016

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We need customer advocacy

Jon Rutter, Director, EMEA Product Innovation & Partnerships, First Data discusses the role of a ‘customer-centric’ focus in innovation and how empathy is important in aiding customer success.

11 January 2016

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Competitive boundaries are blurring in banking

Ben Robinson, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Temenos, speaks about the key takeaways of the ‘Shifting Sands’ banking survey report, how fewer banks see fintech as a threat, and the current and future use of both cloud banking systems and data.

05 January 2016

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Fast followers build on early adopters’ know-how

James Aramanda, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Clearing House, and David Yates, Chief Executive Officer, VocaLink, speak about the new immediate payments climate in the US, the space in the US payments landscape which The Clearing House and VocaLink are working together to fill, and the key factors needed for interoperability between Europe, Asia, and the US.

05 January 2016

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Enabling new frontiers for banking efficiency

Alvaro Ruiz, Executive Partner, Europe GBS Banking & Financial Markets Leader, IBM Global Business Services, discusses the role of digital in leveraging efficiency and agility in banking and which technology areas banks should focus on to achieve efficiency gains.

27 December 2015

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Change in banking is a need to survive

Alvaro Ruiz, Executive Partner, Europe GBS Banking & Financial Markets Leader, IBM Global Business Services, outlines how the digital revolution has impacted traditional retail banking, the effect it has on how banks define their products and services, and what technology enablers have caused this change.

23 December 2015

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The point of no return for legacy systems

Keith Saxton, Chair, techUK Financial Services Council, at “Banking on the Future”, a seminar produced by Fiserv, Innovate Finance and techUK, talks about how the problem of banks’ legacy systems is not going away and must now be dealt with, and looks at some alternatives to rip and replace strategies, including exploiting the ‘as a service’ model and open APIs, and exploring new opportunities for utilities for non-differentiating activities such as reference data, account opening and aspects of regulatory compliance.

21 December 2015

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More help needed in marketing fintech start-ups

Ross Tappin, Co-Founder, Swave, speaks about the ability of innovation challenges to foster fintech creativity and the climate of support in the UK in encouraging this.

18 December 2015

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The holy grail of great service AND great value

Anthony Thomson, Founder, Atom Bank and Metro Bank, and NED of Agiliti, at “Banking on the Future”, a seminar produced by Fiserv, Innovate Finance and techUK, talks about how digital can enable the cost-effective provision of outstanding products and services to customers, the fact that new entrants such as challenger and shadow banks are changing the market in a way that incumbents must follow, and how the threat to established banks is not challengers per se but the rapid business model evolution being driven by digitalisation.

18 December 2015

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Problem of the lack of a savings culture in the UK

Krissy Bordas, Co-Founder, Swave, discusses her background in hedge funds, the space Swave aims to fill, and how working with Lloyds has helped the development of the app.

17 December 2015

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The big data advantage for digital challengers

Ricky Knox Co-Founder, Tandem, and Managing Partner, Hexagon Partners, at “Banking on the Future”, a seminar produced by Fiserv, Innovate Finance and techUK, discusses how traditional banks’ digital transformation is impeded by legacy systems, legacy profits and the difficulty of accessing and aggregating their data - and how digital challengers will exploit big data technologies to make their services more widely available while at the same time more closely identifying their ideal customers.

17 December 2015

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Payments go from magic to mainstream

Paul Thomalla, SVP Global Corporate Relations & Development, ACI Worldwide, takes a look back at payments industry developments in 2015, including the impact of new entrants, the varied progress on instant payments globally, and the growth in understanding of the potential of blockchain.

16 December 2015

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Driving enrichment in digital banking

Travers Clarke-Walker, CMO, Fiserv International, at “Banking on the Future”, a seminar produced by Fiserv, Innovate Finance and techUK, assesses the impact of the continued rise of challenger banks, and examines how the use of plug and play technology components – emulating the model of Uber – can enable both new and established banks to create better, richer and more engaging customer experiences.

16 December 2015

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Customer proposition central to real-time payments

Paul Thomalla, SVP Corporate Relations, ACI Worldwide, and Jeremy Light, Managing Director, Accenture Payment Services, discuss the findings of their new report, ‘Executive Guide to Immediate Payments’. The conversation and report is based on the reality that in five years’ time all mass payments will be real-time. Together they discuss the key features of a synchronous payment from the customers’ perspective and consider the business case at a higher level than just the banking perspective, to realise a digital world.

23 November 2015

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Use of crypto-technology beyond currency advancing

Lee Fulmer, Market Commentator, discusses the emerging application of crypto-technologies outside the currency space, and assesses how the blockchain is likely to be applied in the asset registry, application stack and asset-centric areas, by which players, over what timeframe.

18 November 2015

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Mobile payments the future for Poland

Roman Pogorzelski, Executive Business Development, SIA, outlines the different non-cash meth-ods of payment in use in Poland, and predicts future developments.

13 November 2015

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Inertia an issue in payments

Stefan Kawalec, CEO, Capital Strategy, speaks about the challenges of old-fashioned payment systems and how mobile-based payments will overthrow cards.

11 November 2015

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If banks want Gen Y then they need to focus on UX

Niall Hogan, Director, Touchtech Payments, speaks about getting on board with PSD2 early and how banks can attract Generation Y customers.

10 November 2015

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A need to develop enterprise platforms

Mannie da Silva, Global Product Portfolio Manager, Financial Crime Risk Management, Fiserv, explains the impact of real-time payments on payments fraud management and the role of analytics.

09 November 2015