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How Overcoming Payment Complexity is a Balance of Innovation & Stability

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How Overcoming Payment Complexity is a Balance of Innovation & Stability

In the middle of EBAday 2025 in Paris, Bana Akkad-Azhari, Head of Treasury Services, BNY joined the FinextraTV studio to provide insights into the growing complexity in the payments industry, especially in what is now a 24/7 world. Explaining how banks need to not only advance their own processes, but find the partners that can enable the technological agility they need to keep up, Akkad-Azhari emphasises the need for the technology to be scalable and, eventually, automated. While seeing the end goal being the heightening of the customer experience, Akkad-Azhari also mentions that banks need to know how to balance innovation with stability.

Why It Is Critically Important to Sustain Correspondent Banking

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Why It Is Critically Important to Sustain Correspondent Banking

Inside the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025 in Paris, Jean-François Mazure, Global Head of Cash Clearing Services, Societe Generale emphasised the critical importance of keeping correspondent banking alive amongst the modern innovation of alternative solutions. Explaining its benefits, Mazure describes how it can help to create a frictionless future and contribute towards financial inclusion and provides an alternative opinion on what impact instant payments will have on correspondent banking.

How Successful Have Most Banks Been at Modernising?

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How Successful Have Most Banks Been at Modernising?

Speaking to FinextraTV at EBAday 2025 in Paris, Sathish Padmanathan, Head of Payments and Cash Management, Tietoevry Banking discussed a recently released report and the progress of banks on their modernisation journeys. Describing a mixture of banking approaches, including those more focused on compliance and others more centred on transformation as a whole, Padmanathan gave his thoughts on how successful banks have been with moving towards this new future.

How To Improve Interoperability Without Eliminating Positive Fragmentation

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How To Improve Interoperability Without Eliminating Positive Fragmentation

Joining FinextraTV at the EBAday 2025 in Paris, Sean Devaney, Vice President of Strategy for Banking and Financial Markets, CGI added to the ongoing conversations surrounding cross-border payments. Mentioning CLS (continuous linked settlement) and Swift, Devaney describes the differences across initiatives while still emphasising the benefits of a fragmentation of offerings. Devaney describes how having different initiatives for different needs is positive, but there needs to be an increased level of interoperability to bring them all together.

Cross-Border Payments: How The Passion of The G20 Drives Improvement

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Cross-Border Payments: How The Passion of The G20 Drives Improvement

Providing insight into the G20's objectives and progress, Katja Lehr, Europe Product Head & EMEA Payments & Industry & Advocacy Lead, J.P.Morgan joined the FinextraTV studio at EBAday. Providing insights into why the G20 is so important to the progression of cross-border payments and a collective standardization, Lehr spotlights the hard work and passion of the people within the task forces.

A2A Regulation: Prepare For Compliance Deadlines, Without Losing Modernisation

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A2A Regulation: Prepare For Compliance Deadlines, Without Losing Modernisation

Whilst joining the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025, Craig Ramsey, Head of A2A Payments, ACI Worldwide helped to both define the fundamentals of account-to-account payments, as well as sharing his insights into the current landscape. Touching on recent regulation obstacles, Ramsey described how modernisation projects have been stopped to strategically meet regulatory standards. In his eyes, this may lead organisations to be on time to meet regulatory deadlines but lacking in readiness for the iterative innovations needed in the current market.

How Cloud-Native Platforms Can Transform Siloed Payments

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How Cloud-Native Platforms Can Transform Siloed Payments

Erich Litch, General Manager, Payment Software, ACI Worldwide joined the FinextraTV Studio at EBA Day 2025 to discuss how cloud-native platforms are transforming the payments industry. Explaining the complicated nature of siloed payment systems with their own unique needs, Litch believed cloud-native platforms can help to unite these challenges into opportunities.

Instant Payments: Accessibility Is Equally As Important As Speed

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Instant Payments: Accessibility Is Equally As Important As Speed

Joining the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025 in Paris, Daniel Stanton, Global Head of Transactional FX, Cross-Border RTP & Clearing at Bank of America, explained why we can be optimistic about the global banking and payments landscape. He also discusses the drivers of continuous innovation, and in terms of instant payments, points out there are other advantages besides the preoccupation with speed – accessibility, interoperability, transparency, and lower costs.

The Key Questions to Ask When Adopting New Cloud Technologies

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The Key Questions to Ask When Adopting New Cloud Technologies

Stepping away from a busy EBAday 2025 in Paris, Daniel Hurst, Head of Products & Services, Enterprise Payments, FIS Global joined the FinextraTV studio to provide his thoughts on how cloud and payments transformation has evolved. Explaining his experience with cloud solutions, Hurst outlines some of the ways in which it perfectly connects with the wider payment industry and some of the key questions organisations need to ask when adopting new technologies.

The 4 Key Conversations Contributing to Greater Consumer Opportunities

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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.

Changing Regulatory Perceptions: Towards Strategy & Collaboration

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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.

Instant Payments Regulation: Facing the Skeletons in the Closet

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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.

Cross-border Operations: The Cost of Doing Nothing is Higher

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Cross-border Operations: The Cost of Doing Nothing is Higher

In the middle of a busy EBAday 2025, Anastasia Serikova, VP, Head of Visa Direct Europe, Visa joined the FinextraTV studio to discuss current models within cross-border operations. Listing some of the alternative options to enable financial inclusion - mobile wallets, local currencies etc - Serikova explains the way that cross-border solutions are growing and giving more organisations the capability to participate. Amidst such innovation, she says, the cost of doing nothing is higher than the cost of the project itself.

EBA Collaboration Driven By a Practitioner Focus

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EBA Collaboration Driven By a Practitioner Focus

As Hays Littlejohn, CEO, EBA Clearing and Thomas Egner, Secretary General, EBA joined the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025, they discussed the industry benefits of their collaboration and how EBA has evolved over the past 40 years. Driven by a practitioner focus, Egner and Littlejohn discuss some of the key priorities for the journey ahead.

EBAday 2025: What is the implementation feasibility of VoP and instant payments?

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EBAday 2025: What is the implementation feasibility of VoP and instant payments?

At EBAday 2025, two expert panels explored the challenges of Verification of Payee and fraud prevention, as well as how growing volumes of instant and real-time payment systems impact PSPs and their customers.

EBAday 2025: Solving for low-value cross-border payments

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EBAday 2025: Solving for low-value cross-border payments

The panel session ‘Evolving Business Models in Cross-Border Payments”, explored the complexity and evolution of modern cross-border payments.

EBAday 2025: Are we ready for ISO 20022?

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EBAday 2025: Are we ready for ISO 20022?

Is the market ready for the end of the coexistence of ISO and MT messages? What remains to be done in the next few months to realise ISO 20022’s full benefits?

EBAday 2025: What's next for instant payments?

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EBAday 2025: What's next for instant payments?

Two expert panels at EBAday 2025 explored what makes an effective implementation plan, the persistent global and regional challenges, and the growing benefits of instant payments.

EBAday 2025: How can banks achieve excellence in payments?

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EBAday 2025: How can banks achieve excellence in payments?

Big banks are facing challenges in innovating payments strategizing while keeping up with the pace of the industry. In an EBAday 2025 panel, leaders in banking explored what avenues incumbents are pursuing to revolutionise payments services.

EBAday 2025: Authologic wins the Fintech Zone

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EBAday 2025: Authologic wins the Fintech Zone

EBAday 2025 hosted 16 pioneering startups to present their proof of concepts to a panel of judges in Paris, France.

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