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Finextra's 2016 in review

As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2016, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 3 January 2017.

21 December 2016

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More consensus needed for faster payments

Sean Rodriguez, Senior Vice President, Faster Payments Strategy Leader, Federal Reserve System, summarises the US faster payments landscape, and what needs to be done to create a united faster payments solution.

29 November 2016

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Designing for what comes after Alexa

Tom Poole, Managing VP, Mobile Commerce, Capital One, discusses the explosion of channels out to the customer, the need to think ahead about how to take services to where the customers are, and how the umbrella term of digital wallet will likely evolve to reflect the different approaches of banks, retailers and tech firms.

23 November 2016

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Start-ups will help banks create the future

Andreas Lambropoulos, Head of Strategic Initiatives for BNP Paribas International Financial Services, talks about the bank’s evolving approach to working with fintech start-ups, his vision for partnership between banks and fintechs, and the need for any innovation initiative to create value for clients and for the bank.

22 November 2016

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Next wave of robo will be active

Jonathan Charley, Deputy General Manager, FS EMEA, SAP, talks about the drivers for the rise of robo advisors, how these businesses are likely to evolve, and how traditional wealth providers should be responding.

22 November 2016

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Fintech influence on banks good for all of us

Steve Pierson, President of Lovell Minnick Partners, gives an investor’s view of fintech, talking about why advice, insurtech and outsourcing are hotter investment prospects than blockchain right now, the likely evolution of digital lending beyond consumer and how banks are set to learn from – and acquire – fintechs going forward.

21 November 2016

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Data science is next phase of digital journey

Mayank Mishra, Managing Director, Global Head Online Banking & Connectivity Services, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi, talks about how banks are progressing with digitalisation, from the first phase of mobile channels through to the next which will leverage data science to improve customer experience and drive new efficiencies, and looks at the likely evolution of banks’ role in innovation.

18 November 2016

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Calculating the downside - and upside - of PSD2

Petri Syvänne, Head of Accenture Payment Services Nordic, talks about recent progress with PSD2, puts some numbers on the likely revenue losses and gains for Nordic banks as a result of the change and outlines some of the strategic options banks can consider to respond to the new regulation.

18 November 2016

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Embrace APIs and avoid data warehouse future

Mikko Pilkama, VP, Banking Services at CGI, discusses the findings of recent research into areas in which consumers and corporates are dissatisfied with banks, and talks about how banks can leverage the opportunity of open banking to better meet their customers' needs and fend off the threat of losing customer relationships to new entrants.

17 November 2016

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Bringing IoT and payments together

Paul Thomalla, Senior Vice President Global Corporate Relations & Development, ACI Worldwide, discusses the need to link payments more closely to the evolving Internet of Things, especially in the area of connected cars, and the potential for banks to play a leading role in the next wave of IoT-led transformation.

17 November 2016

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The race is on for PSD2 success

Anders Olofsson, Sales & Account Executive and Mikael Lindh, Head of Sales EMEA, Payment Solutions, D+H, talk about the growing demand among corporates for real-time payments and the emerging strategies of banks for PSD2, where some are focused on partnering with fintechs and others building inhouse, and some are emphasising compliance while others major on the business opportunities of open banking and open APIs

17 November 2016

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Omnichannel, ecosystem are transformation gaps

Sebastian Gyhlenius, Regional Executive, API Management and Solution Account Director at CA Technologies, talks about how far banks have come with digital transformation, what more they still need to do, and how they can leverage APIs and partnerships to bridge the remaining gaps in their transformation strategies.

16 November 2016

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PSD2 will make a treasurer’s life easier

Catherine Duchel, Product Manager, HSBC, summarises how PSD2 might impact corporates and European banking, and what treasurers could do to navigate this regulatory evolution.

18 July 2016

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Helping treasurers to complete automation journey

Jenn Doherty, Global Head of Commercialisation, Liquidity & Investment Products at HSBC, discusses how liquidity investment solutions can reduce manual effort and cost, and how treasurers can prepare for and get the most out of these automated off-balance sheet money movements by understanding their day to day activities in a manual environment in order to automate them going forward.

15 July 2016

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Real-time and open APIs connected – not separate

Warren Gardiner, VP Enterprise Payments Strategy, FIS, discusses the latest findings of analysis of instant payments schemes globally, which show an increase in initiatives from 16 to 28 in just three years, as well as a growing understanding that schemes need to be API enabled to act as a catalyst for true innovation out to customers.

15 July 2016

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Banks must see e-wallets as opportunity not threat

Avet Mnatsakanyan, CEO, WebMoney Europe, discusses the improving interactions between banks and e-wallet providers, the fast adoption of e-wallets across Europe and the fact that e-wallets can be the gateway to other services including crowdfunding and escrow services, as well as enabling instant payments

12 July 2016

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The business model implications of open banking

Vincent Brennan, EBA Deputy Chairman, talks about the new paper on open APIs from the Electronic Alternative Payments Working Group of the Euro Banking Association, which highlights the importance for market players to think strategically about leveraging open banking to source new propositions - and improve distribution of their own - in the post-PSD2 landscape.

11 July 2016

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IoT demands payments industry standards

Paul Thomalla, Paul Thomalla, Senior Vice President Global Corporate Relations & Development, ACI Worldwide, speaks about the Internet of Things and where it could fit into the payments industry.

11 July 2016

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Open banking: ID verification & collaboration key

Giorgio Ferrero, CEO, and John Broxis, Managing Director, PRETA, talk about why banks should be interested in offering identity verification, and how to offset the risk that fragmented solutions for access to accounts under PSD2 could undermine the digital single market

08 July 2016

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AI is a mature suite of tools for payments

Joe Lyske, Partner, Time Machine Capital, pinpoints how artificial intelligence (AI) fits into the payments industry, and which specific areas of banking are receptive to the technology.

07 July 2016