Innovation

Long read/Innovation

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Why are orchestration tools essential within today’s payments arena?

26 August 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

How Technology Has Democratised The Wealth Management Sector

Speaking with FinextraTV at the Communify Insights Experience, Andrew Bresler, CEO, Saxo shared his opinion on how wealth management is experiencing evolving transformation. Discussing how technology has helped to democratise wealth and provide more inclusivity, Bresler also describes AI as a company's exoskeleton: everything they can do but faster, better and more intelligent.

22 August 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

How Key Trends Are Redefining Wealth Management in 2025

Attending the Communify Insights Experience in London, Rupert Baron, Former CEO, Investment Management, Rathbones joined the FinextraTV studio and gave his perspective on what 'wealth' actually means in an industry of growing complexity. Defining wealth as a merge of investment and financial planning, Barron provided overviews on consolidation, private equity and AI, what it is that has driven such change, and how firms can move forward in the modern era.

21 August 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

How to Drive Engagement and Clarity Around Investment Decision-Making

Speaking to FinextraTV at Communify Insights Experience in London, Holly Mackay, Founder and MD, Boring Money explained what a 'bad' wealth decision is and how the industry can become more engaging. From storytelling to AI, Mackay shares her what she hopes will evolve within the industry across the next few years.

21 August 2025

Finextra TV/markets

How the City of London Is Growing Its Identity as a Global Fintech Hub

Attending the Communify Insights Experience in London, Howard Dawber, Deputy Mayor for London, Business & Growth joined the FinextraTV studio to share details on London's identity as a growing hub for Fintech and how it compares to other global cities.

20 August 2025

News/payments

Mastercard and Zand launch cross-border payments solution in UAE

UAE-based fintech Zand has announced a collaboration with Mastercard Move’s money solutions to power cross-border payments.

14 August 2025

Research/InnovationEvent Report

Modern onboarding: Optimising KYC through data integration and AI

04 August 2025 122 downloads

Research/InnovationEvent Report

The Outsourcing Imperative: The strategic importance of partnerships for cloud-based payments

30 July 2025 81 downloads

Finextra TV/ai

AI & Wealth: How to Build Trust Through Impact & Personalisation

Whilst at Money 20/20 in Amsterdam, Bahadir Yilmaz, Chief Analytics Officer, ING joined FinextraTV to provide some data insights in relation to growing AI conversations. Describing the challenge of taking data from its origins into actionable, presentable insights for clients, Yilmaz explains how a succesful, easy process will help to increase client's comfort with sharing larger, useful portions of data. Yilmaz, while speaking to AI use cases, says that clients are not interested in what happens behind-the-scenes, they care more for faster services and experiences where they can personally notice the change.

29 July 2025

News/retail

Citizens delivers open finance payment features and direct deposit tools

In an exclusive interview with Finextra, Chris Powell, head of deposits and customer engagement at Citizens, reveals how open finance has powered simpler switching and streamlined mobile payments.

28 July 2025

Research/InnovationEvent Report

Modern payments excellence: Exploring diversification of channels, orchestration, and regulation

25 July 2025 156 downloads

Finextra TV/ai

How Partnerships Can Give Banks More Technological Agility

At the FinextraTV studio during Temenos Community Forum 2025, Monty Bhatia, EVP, Global Alliances and Partner Ecosystem, Temenos and Sudip Lahiri, Executive Vice President & Head - Europe & UKI, Financial Services, HCLTech spoke about core modernisation and AI implementation. Explaining the benefits of working with trusted partners, Lahiri and Bhatia explored how banks can effectively transition to an agile, modular architecture that enables fast implementation of AI-driven services.

21 July 2025

Research/InnovationEvent Report

Cross-border payments as the next fintech frontier

18 July 2025 499 downloads

News/people

AIB promotes CTO to COO amid tech reorganisation

Graham Fagan has been named as the new chief operating officer (COO) at Irish bank AIB.

17 July 2025

Finextra TV/retail

How Rip-And-Replace Alternatives Help to Reimagine Banking

Sitting down with FinextraTV, Keith Redding, CRO, Universal Banking, Finastra discussed what it means to Reimagine Banking and why having the right technology is crucial in this new world.  As well as providing real-world examples, Redding describes how the future is more about progressive transformation than 'rip and replace' and how this approach can help banks turn challenges into opportunities.

17 July 2025

News/crypto

Wall Street names announce stablecoin plans

Two of the biggest names on Wall Street are seemingly about to enter the stablecoin market based on comments made by their senior executives.

16 July 2025

Finextra TV/ai

How to Drive Banking Innovation with Generative and Agentic AI

Whilst speaking at Temenos Community Forum 2025, Erik Johnson, Global Head of Product Design, Temenos joined the FinextraTV studio to talk about the areas he's most excited about within the development of AI. Discussing product ideation and compliance across both GenAI and Agentic AI, Johnson passionately positions his belief that AI is a tool that enables banks and partners to focus on more innovative and 'fun' day-to-day tasks. Beyond this, Johnson also describes the inherent connection between AI development and co-design.

16 July 2025

Finextra TV/payments

How Overcoming Payment Complexity is a Balance of Innovation & Stability

In the middle of EBAday 2025 in Paris, Bana Akkad-Azhari, Head of Treasury Services, BNY joined the FinextraTV studio to provide insights into the growing complexity in the payments industry, especially in what is now a 24/7 world. Explaining how banks need to not only advance their own processes, but find the partners that can enable the technological agility they need to keep up, Akkad-Azhari emphasises the need for the technology to be scalable and, eventually, automated. While seeing the end goal being the heightening of the customer experience, Akkad-Azhari also mentions that banks need to know how to balance innovation with stability.

15 July 2025

News/regulation

JP Morgan to charge fintechs for customer data

Fintechs wanting access to banks' customers' data may have to pay for the privilege, according to a report from Bloomberg on US bank JP Morgan.

14 July 2025