Latest EBAday News: Finextra Research

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.

11 July 2025

Finextra TV/retail

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.

08 July 2025

Finextra TV/payments

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.

08 July 2025

Finextra TV/payments

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.

07 July 2025

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

Finextra TV/payments

How the Commercial Payments Market is Evolving

At EBAday 2024, Wim Grosemans, Global Head of Product Management Payments and Receivables, BNP Paribas, sets the scene around how the commercial payments market is evolving. From an infrastructure perspective, the interview details how banks should make important moves to implement instant payments, ISO 20022 and cross border payments as regulation dictates, so there is a lot to do on the plumbing within a financial institution for tomorrow's payments. A staggering amount of digitisation is also incoming, which will result in digital payments soaring and with this, an ecommerce boom for B2C customers and B2B customers.

07 August 2024

Finextra TV/payments

Why Traditional AI should be used alongside Generative AI for Fraud Prevention

At EBAday 2024, Marc Corbalan, Vice President, A2A Risk Solutions, Visa, explores fraud detection advances and strategies. Generative AI is truly revolutionary and outperforms traditional AI when it comes to analysing text, voice, and imagery, namely describing when transactions are risky. However, Generative AI struggles with numerical data that includes patterns, which is what fraud analysts using search for. This is why traditional AI must be used alongside Generative AI.

01 August 2024

Finextra TV/payments

2024 Payments Trends and Adding Value

At EBAday 2024, Michael Whitehead, Head of Sales - Europe, iGTB, and Tapan Agarwal, Head of Payments Solutions, iGTB, Intellect Design Arena, focus on the range of payments trends that are circulating within the industry and what is pushing innovation forward. The pair pay close attention to European regulations that are mandating instant payments, as well as the One-Leg Out Instant Credit Transfer and the G20's bid to ensure payments get faster, cheaper and more transparent. Further, they explore how banks can build on value-added services using technologies such as Generative AI, DLT and IoT, which will evidently lead to an explosion of payments.

23 July 2024

Finextra TV/payments

How Open Banking will Enable Embedded Finance

At EBAday 2024, Afonso Eça, Appointed Executive Board Member, Banco BPI, expands on the future of open banking and embedded finance and how these two trends are transforming the financial industry. While regulatory pushes such as PSD2 led to more uptake of open banking, financial institutions continue to take advantage of what is occurring in the fintech space and move forward. The conversation also turns to how open banking is the catalyst for embedded finance and through open payments, customers and businesses alike will be able to simplify the payments journeys of small business operators.

19 July 2024

Finextra TV/payments

SEPA, ISO 20022 and the Road to Innovation and Resiliency

At EBAday 2024, Renata Vilanova Lobo, Head of Global Clearing, J.P. Morgan Payments, explores the cross-border impact of SEPA on European and global interoperability and why ISO 20022 is crucial for financial institutions. There is an urgency for financial institutions to transition because of deadlines, but also due to the great benefits this change can bring to the industry, being the biggest change in payments in the last 30 years. Resiliency plays a critical role in today's landscape and it is expanding its concept; as a result, and banks must consider geopolitics, economic downturns and unforeseen challenges on top of operational stability.

19 July 2024

Finextra TV/payments

What changes lie ahead for the future of real-time payments

At EBAday 2024, Paul Francis Walvik-Joynt, Senior Vice President, Real Time Payments, Mastercard, shares an outline of what changes lie ahead for real-time payments and what the proliferation of real-time payments means for the adoption of instant payments. It is evident that trust needs to be maintained as the industry grows and introduces new networks, ensuring organisations are remaining resilient and fraud is combatted. Further, with the advent of new real-time payments systems, opportunities are opening up for domestic and global payments, and for technologies such as AI to be leveraged.

17 July 2024

Finextra TV/payments

The global approach to solving payee verification challenges

Albert Sitelis, Head of Partnerships & Market Development at Banfico, discusses the hurdles of meeting the IP regulation compliance deadline for payee verification at EBAday 2024. With over 5000 PSPs in Europe, connectivity remains a major challenge, despite existing name check systems in several countries. Sitelis stresses collaboration among schemes, technical providers, and banks as crucial, and advocates for broader industry involvement beyond banks to combat APP fraud globally, suggesting the need for enhanced data analysis beyond name matching.

16 July 2024