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

Blockchain no longer a concept

Peter Jameson, co-head of Product Management, GTS EMEA at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, talks about the immediate and practical benefits of blockchain and how the industry is beginning to move towards a common set of standards for the implementation of blockchain in trade finance.

22 September 2017

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ISO 20022: The common language of choice

Stephen Lindsay, Head of Standards, SWIFT, and Carlo Palmers, Head of Market Infrastructures, SWIFT, describe the state of play with ISO 20022 globally, the key success factors for adoption, and what market infrastructures specifically need from ISO 20022.

18 September 2017

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Setting the standard in an always on, digital world

Fabio Grignani, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, SIA, talks about how the increased volume of digital transactions and changing expectations of payments systems are impacting companies’ business continuity and demanding that they modernize their business architectures through innovation.

12 September 2017

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Experimentation and failure key for innovation

Nektarios Liolios, Co-Founder & CEO of Startupbootcamp, and Anton Tomic Global Head of Financial Services Business Development, SAP, talk at the SAP Financial Services Forum about innovation and how it requires both an acceleration in engagement and investment, as well as a joining of forces between internal and external efforts to innovate.

31 August 2017

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Brexit and Trump: Regulatory change

Alexander Robson, Thomson Reuters, talks to us about the direction the FCA is taking this year in respect to upcoming regulatory challenges such as Brexit, the changes in regulation we might see from Trump’s presidency, and further developments as a result of these issues.

08 August 2017

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Disruption in the Insurance market

Laurent Lemaire, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, elseco, talks to us at the SAP Financial Services Forum, about how disruption is currently impacting the insurance market and the role technology plays in it, the opportunities this disruption brings and the change in new entrants we will see in this market.

02 August 2017

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Cloud is a core functionality for clients

Dr. Marcus Winter, Head of Reinsurance Development, and Christof Reinert, Head of Risk Management Partners, Munich Re, talk at the SAP Financial Services Forum about how cloud and global co-creation are enabling organisations to create new business models that will meet changing client expectations, and the cyber risks that are transforming the insurance industry.

01 August 2017

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Leverage opportunity of MiFID II to transform data management

Olivier Mathurin, Head of Strategic Research, AIM Software, talks about the impact of MiFID II on data management, the challenges firms face in order to ensure accuracy and consistency of information, their need to rely on their data vendors to help them meet the challenging deadline, and the opportunity to repurpose data for multiple regulatory – and other – uses.

20 July 2017

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The challenge of adding value when not selling

James Eardley, Global Director – Industry Marketing at SAP | hybris, discusses the gap between banks’ belief that they are working hard to engage customers and the extent to which customers feel it (demonstrated in recent research with Finextra), the need for banks to increase engagement by educating customers to make more use of the products they have already, and how banks can exploit data to better know their customers – and better serve them in the periods when they don’t want to buy financial products.

09 June 2017

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Those living the life have best insights on inclusion

Julius Akinyemi, MIT Media Lab Entrepreneur in Residence, talks about how to tackle systemic problems, such as a lack of property rights and commodity financial markets, to boost financial inclusion in Africa – and share some of the innovative thinking required to incentivise change and secure win-win outcomes.

09 June 2017

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You need to listen to and work with the client

Graham Ray, Global Head of Product Management, Investor Services, Deutsche Bank, speaks about how the markets are responding to the evolving post-trade securities landscape, how current business models are changing, and what providers need to do to distinguish themselves.

28 April 2017

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Creating transparency with immediate payments

Carl Robinson, VP Sales, Immediate Payments, ACI Worldwide, discusses the impact of real-time payments on banks’ business customers, the importance of same-day ACH, and the effect these developments will have on risk management.

09 January 2017

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Your system must be ready to react

Marcel Bronmans, COO, SWIFT, defines the role of operational resilience and how Swift ensures it is carried out.

21 December 2016

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Agile implementation allows higher success rate

Anders Holm, Delivery Director, Nordics, Temenos, outlines the differences between agile implementation and other approaches, and its pros and cons.

19 December 2016

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PSD2 will transform the payments landscape

PSD2 is unravelled by three Deutsche Bank experts: Christian Fraedrich, Product Manager, Treasury Payments & Euro Clearing, Institutional Cash Management, Jan Lisaus, Head of Cards and Payments, Private & Business Clients, and Christian Schaefer, Head of Payments, Cash Management Corporates. They discuss innovation surrounding the directive, its implications for financial institutions, private individuals, and corporates, and how it will affect the EU market.

05 December 2016

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Open APIs drive big data progress

Andy Hirst, VP Banking Solutions, SAP, discusses the big trends in big data – unstructured, openness, machine learning – and explores the challenges banks still face in exploiting the value of their data to the max.

28 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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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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Building real-time business case for smaller banks

Leo Lipis, Managing Director of Lipis Advisors and Tom Hay, Head of Payments at Icon Solutions, discuss the findings of recent research into the challenges and opportunities for small and medium sized banks of connecting to instant payment systems, and explore options for smaller players to achieve their real-time goals via more cost-effective routes.

21 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