Latest EBAday News: Finextra Research

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.

9 hours

Finextra TV/regulation

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.

04 July 2025

Finextra TV/cloud

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.

02 July 2025

Finextra TV/payments

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.

01 July 2025

Finextra TV/cloud

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.

26 June 2025

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

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

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

Finextra TV/payments

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.

13 June 2025

Finextra TV/payments

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.

13 June 2025

News/payments

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.

29 May 2025

News/payments

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.

29 May 2025

News/regulation

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?

29 May 2025

News/payments

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.

29 May 2025

News/payments

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.

29 May 2025

News/startups

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.

28 May 2025

News/payments

EBAday 2025: Digital euro emerging as a transformative force

At EBAday 2025, two expert panels explored how the digital euro and real-time data can transform finance and beyond — shaping future digital money, guiding PSPs, and helping corporates and SMEs enhance liquidity through automation.

28 May 2025

News/ai

EBAday 2025: Who’s afraid of agentic AI?

What potential does AI hold for the future of banking? What challenges and benefits do AI and GenAI-powered solutions pose? These questions were explored in an afternoon panel session at EBAday 2025.

27 May 2025

News/payments

EBAday 2025: Strategising for instant payments and financial crime

The afternoon sessions in the main stream focused on strategising for instant payments and financial crime.

27 May 2025

News/regulation

EBAday 2025: Building the banking ecosystems of the future

Wolfgang Ehrmann, chairman of the board, Euro Banking Association (EBA), kicked off EBAday 2025 in the historic Louvre in Paris with a welcome statement. Ehrmann reflected that today marks the 20 year milestone of EBAday as well as the fortieth anniversary of the EBA, and highlighted the event’s growth to over 1,400 experts in Paris today.

27 May 2025