Finextra Research: Latest fintech news, analysis, interviews, features and opinion by industry experts

The benefits of Open APIs and RTP for merchants

Thomas Sontheimer, Managing Director, Accenture, talks at EBAday 2018 about what makes open banking APIs and real time payments more attractive to merchants than credit cards, what the benefits are and what obstacles lie ahead.

06 July 2018

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Changes in domestic and cross border payments

Jerry Norton , Head of Strategy, Financial Services, CGI, talks at EBAday 2018 about the top areas of discussion within the industry today, how the payments market is changing international and domestically, and what considerations need to be had when creating an API.

06 July 2018

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Targeting prevailing pain points within the treasury sphere

Basir Shamsie, Deputy CEO, JS Bank, speaks at The Temenos Community Forum: Digital to the Core, about the prevailing pain points within the treasury sphere today and how Temenos has contributed to the treasury part of JS Bank.

03 July 2018

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Payment processing across APAC

Alistair Brown, Global Head of Payments, EPAM, talks at EBAday 2018 about the main challenges within the banking sphere today, how to make a relationship with a fintech successful and whether APAC is a consolidated marketplace or overly a fragmented.

02 July 2018

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Keeping up with today’s competitive marketplace

Philip Taliaferro, Head of Strategy, EMEA/ Asia-Pac, Broadridge, talks about the pressures capital market firms face with the evolving regulatory landscape and geopolitical change, which regulatory obligations are most impacting firms and what strategies are they implementing to overcome operational and business challenges.

18 June 2018

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Partnerships in AI

Naveed Hussain, AI Architect and Evangelist, Microsoft UK, talks at NextGen Banking London: The AI Revolution, about Mirosoft's view of AI and how it informs their engagement with banks, how their partnership with Atos and Dell EMCE on AI will develop and what sort of customer strategies are emerging at the moment around AI.

10 June 2018

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Reaping the rewards from robotic

David Bannister, Senior Analyst, Ovum, talks at NextGen Banking London: The AI Revolution, about the difference between robotic process automation and previous automation, the areas it have the biggest impact and what benefits banks can expect to see as a result.

10 June 2018

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Digital Drive in Energy Trading

Doug Pollock, Global Head of Business Development for Financial and Risk in the Energy Practice Group, Thomson Reuters, talks about how the energy trading sector is coping with the drive towards digitalization, why data and technology are hailed the core elements to digitalization for the energy trading sector and what areas of risk in particular, should the energy sector be concerned with.

10 April 2018

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Taking correspondent banking to the next level

Simone Del Guerra, Global Head of Transactional Sales, UniCredit, talks about how the correspondent banking marketplace is reacting to the issues of compliance restrictions, how it is reinventing itself using new technologies and initiatives, and how banks are responding to, and leveraging this to improve the payments services they offer to their clients.

09 April 2018

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Building the real-time rails

Paul Thomalla, SVP Global Corporate Relations & Development, ACI Worldwide, talks about real-time payments and the differences between Europe and the US, how real-time is likely to affect both businesses and consumers, and how schemes are likely to develop in the future.

19 January 2018

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The rising role of corporate treasury

Ritu Singh, Head of Market Development, Corporate Treasury, Thomson Reuters, discusses the outlook for corporate treasurers in 2018 taking into account the current state of geopolitical affairs, what the business role will look like short- to medium-term, which regulations are likely to most affect the industry and what will be the biggest challenges in the year to come.

07 December 2017

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Brexit demands a ‘Match Fit Economy’

Jim Wadsworth, UK Product Director, Vocalink, a Mastercard company, talks about a ‘Match Fit Economy’, what it is and what it has to do with payments, why Brexit is such an important moment from a payments perspective and what the future looks like for the UK payments market.

29 November 2017

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Data is at the core of AI improvement

Mattias Fras, Group Head of AI Strategy & Innovation, Nordea, talks at NextGen Banking Nordics about the hype around AI, what the industry is doing around this new technology and what will be the main challenges ahead.

28 November 2017

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The Nordic financial ecosystem

Matthew Argent, Founder & CEO, Stockholm Fintech, talks at NextGen Banking Nordics about the genesis of the fintech hub in the Nordics, expansion of business to Helsinki and Oslo, and what is so special about the Nordic financial ecosystem.

28 November 2017

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Cloud for banks

Jonathan Charley, General Manager, FSI EMEA North, SAP, talks at Sibos 2017 about whether the banking industry has been slow to understand the benefit of migrating processing to the cloud, what the barriers and benefits of moving to cloud based solutions are and how this area of the industry will evolve in the future.

27 November 2017

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Building platforms through partnerships

Rob Hetherington, Global General Manager for Financial Services Industries, SAP and Steve Everett, Managing Director, Head of Product & Propositions, Global Transaction Banking, Lloyds Banking Group, talk at Sibos 2017 about the drivers behind the influx of digital transformation within the industry, which of the technologies are having the most impact and why partnerships are so important for banks to keep up with the pace of developing technologies.

24 November 2017

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High expectations in the corporate market

Falk Rieker, Global Head of Banking IBU, SAP and Oliver Bussmann, Founder and Managing Partner, Bussmann Advisory, talk at Sibos 2017 about the need for change in the world of corporate banking, what corporates can expect from their banks in the future, what will disrupt this sector and whether banks are doing enough to improve the services they offer.

24 November 2017

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Collaboration between custodians

Cian Burke, Global Head, HSBC Securities Services, and Stu Taylor, CEO, Algomi, talk at Sibos 2017 about the importance of improving liquidity in corporate bonds, how collaboration between leading custodians increases value for clients, and how this market is likely to develop in the future.

24 November 2017

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Taking baby steps towards trade digitalisation

Farooq Siddiqi, Global Head Trade Finance, Standard Chartered Bank, talks at Sibos 2017 about the current state of play around digitalisation within trade, what barriers are stopping banks moving forward and how we can address these challenges, and what progress the industry is expected to make in this area.

23 November 2017

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Focusing on real-time opportunities

Jerry Norton, VP, Financial Services, CGI, talks at Sibos 2017 about the main themes discussed at the event from real-time gross settlement renewal to the implementation of real-time payments, and what the challenges are around these developments, as well as the opportunities bank’s expect to reap in the near future.

23 November 2017