Reporting/compliance

News/sustainable

Standard Chartered signs five year carbon credit agreement with Brazilian state

The initiative supports the COP30 Presidency’s goal of accelerating climate finance for forests and developing economies. Brazil, as host nation, is placing strong emphasis on halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation by 2030.

08 August 2025

Long read/Reporting/compliance

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

11 ways fintech can help postpone Earth Overshoot Day

24 July 2025

Finextra TV/payments

Cross-Border Payments: How To Evolve From Slower, Domestic Roots

Discussing cross-border payments priorities, Damien Dugauquier, Co-Founder and CEO, iPiD and Alex Johnson, Chief Payments Officer, Nium join FinextraTV at Money 20/20 in Amsterdam. Bringing up the evolution of payments to a faster, international experience amongst a history rooted in domestic payments, Dugauquier and Johnson establish a need for better payment rails and verification services. Across the importance of reframing compliance and regulation, developing better experiences, and battling fraud, Johnson and Dugauquier emphasise the importance of a full-service unification.

22 July 2025

Finextra TV/regulation

How ISO 20022 is Aiding a Frictionless Future

Attending EBAday 2025 in Paris, Vitus Rotzer, Chief Product Officer - Financial Messaging, Bottomline, took some time out to speak to FinextraTV about the state of the payment industry in 2025. Referring to ISO20022 as "the glue in the middle of everything", Rotzer describes an industry that is evolving, rather than just changing, with a focus on better compliance, reduction of friction, and a progression towards a cashless society. Rotzer also describes how, in finding an answer to their current challenges, customers are looking for a SaaS solution that allows them to manage multiple rails and fraud initiatives from a more holistic, interconnected position.

21 July 2025

Finextra TV/regulation

How Instant Payments Regulation Will Boost A2A Payments

Joining the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025 in Paris, Nuria Mohedas Yamayo, Director of Payments and Digital Banking, Cecabank and Julio Cesar Fernandez Ramos, Director of Business Development and Operations, Cecabank discussed the development of instant payments regulations and cash contingencies. Explaining how new regulations help to boost A2A payments and the growth of organisations as a whole, beyond just a smaller portion of banks, Yamayo and Ramos also emphasised the need for improved efficiencies and collaboration.

18 July 2025

Finextra TV/identity

Verification of Payee: The role of RVMs & Conformance

Joining the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025 in Paris, Paulo Barbosa, COO, Banfico helped to provide an understanding of what a routing and verification mechanism (RVM) is and how it is impacting the verification of payee landscape. Barbosa provided an up-to-date look at what is currently evolving ahead of the October deadline, whilst sharing clarifications around the role RVM's play alongside banks to provide greater speed, experience and compliance.

02 July 2025

News/crypto

Kraken issued crypto licence in Ireland

Crypto exchange Kraken has become the first company to be awarded a Markets in Crypto Assets (Mica) licence from Ireland's central bank.

27 June 2025

Research/Reporting/complianceImpact Study

Case Management: The key to revolutionising cross-border payments

25 June 2025 300 downloads

Finextra TV/cloud

The 4 Key Conversations Contributing to Greater Consumer Opportunities

Joining the FinextraTV studio at a busy EBA Day 2025, Thomas Warsop, President and CEO, ACI Worldwide set out his 4 key topics that he sees regularly in circulation: digitisation, cloud, fraud and AI. Giving his opinion on each, along with some of the historical growth of each, he provides an insightful perspective.

24 June 2025

Finextra TV/regulation

How Flexible is ISO20022 and What are Hybrid Addresses?

Whilst at EBAday 2025 in Paris, Paul Ruskin, Business Development Director, Trace Financial joined the FinextraTV studio to give his insights what will happen beyond the ISO20022 November deadline. As well as providing clarity that January is the most important, firmer deadline, he also provided a helpful insight into the development of hybrid addresses and the impact on unstructured data.

20 June 2025

News/markets

World Bank calls for "radical" restructuring of national debt reporting in new report

The World Bank released a report outlining how countries should redefine how they disclose debt due to more complexity in the current financing environment.

20 June 2025

News/retail

NAB charged $751,000 in penalties for breaching consumer data protection rules

National Australia Bank (NAB) has paid A$751,000 in penalties after being issued four infringement notices from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for not complying with the Consumer Data Right (CDR) Rules.

20 June 2025

Finextra TV/regulation

Changing Regulatory Perceptions: Towards Strategy & Collaboration

Joining the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025, Liliana Fratini Passi, Managing Director, CBI shared her insights surrounding a key conversation at the event: regulatory compliance. Fratini Passi shared a belief that the perception of regulation is moving toward one of a strategic driver as opposed to an obstacle or inconvenience. Touching on Instant Payments in particular, Fratini Passi said that the approaches have drastically changed in recent times but that, in her opinion, the most successful ones tend to be those a collaborative nature.

18 June 2025

Finextra TV/regulation

Cross-Border Fragmentation: To Innovate Without Risk, It Must Be Interoperable

Discussing interoperability in the face of fragmentation within cross-border operations, Susana Delgado, Global Head of Market Intelligence & Engagement, Swift joined the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025. Quoting a collaborative study between Swift and The Economist, she mentions how fragmentation could lead to heightened costs and lower global GDP. While acknowledging that diverse approaches can foster innovation, Delgado emphasized that interoperability is critical to managing the associated risks and ensuring sustainable progress.

18 June 2025

Finextra TV/retail

Where are Banks Prioritising their Tech Investment?

Providing insights into a recently released survey of over 400 bank executives, Isabelle Guis, Chief Marketing Officer, Temenos joined the FinextraTV studio at Temenos Community Forum 2025. She explains what the results tell us about banks’ priorities when investing in technology, and how they are looking to adopt Generative AI.

17 June 2025

Finextra TV/regulation

Why A Common Standard Is More Important Than A Common Technology

In this FinextraTV interview at the 2025 EBAday in Paris, Tsvetanka Nankova, Managing Director, Global Head of Sales Institutional Cash & Trade Finance, Deutsche Bank visited the studio to discuss the future of data. Comparing the popularity of data conversations to those of AI, Nankova emphasises the importance of not taking data at 'face value' and instead interrogating its origins, compliance, accuracy, and relevance. On top of this, she explains the two-fold benefit of regulation like ISO 20022, explaining how a shared standard should be prioritised over a shared technology.

16 June 2025

Finextra TV/regulation

Instant Payments Regulation: Facing the Skeletons in the Closet

Joining the FinextraTV Studio during EBAday 2025 were Serge Wagener, Member of the EBA Board and Chair of the EBA Practitioners Group on Instant Payments and Annick Moes, Head of Industry Issues, Cooperation Initiatives and Communications, EBA. Both Wagener and Moes pointed out ongoing challenges in implementing the Instant Payments Regulation (IPR), such as delivering Verification of Payee for bulk payments. Referencing their newest publication, they stressed how EBAday gave experts the opportunity to bring out the skeletons from the closet and discuss their implementation concerns with peers.

16 June 2025