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Value chain vs. supply chain: Redesigning the economy

Anna Poberezhna, Founder, CEO, Smart4tech, speaks at Sustainable Finance. Live about Green Finance through redefining the value of water through digitisation and integrated water resource management and redesigning processes & products through the lens of system thinking & tech to make the world a better place. She speaks about the Circular Economy and the efforts to build optimisation and innovations to re-design the way the economy works by addressing value chain versus supply chain.

18 December 2019

Finextra TV/payments

P27 in Action: Setting the pace for 2020

Lars Sjögren, CEO, P27 & Liz Oakes, EVP, Market Development, New Payments Platforms, Mastercard, speak at NextGen Nordics: P27 Momentum about moving the Nordics from a fragmented landscape into one platform to improve security and encourage collaboration, the ambition involved in creating this cross-border, multi-currency platform and the importance of transparency around conflicting interests between competitors.

17 December 2019

Finextra TV/sustainable

Sustainable Finance.Live: Designing a green commercial bond product

Adrian Sargent, Treasury Operating Officer, Virgin Money, speaks to Richard Peers, Founder, Responsible Risk about the good of Green Bonds and their increase in demand, some of the cost constraints of issuing bonds and the complexities that come with identifying green assets, the importance of being able to extract data necessary for organisations to confidently invest and how we need to simplify the process going forward.

13 December 2019

Finextra TV/sustainable

Agrimetrics: Beyond ‘greenwashed’ ideas and toward tangible results

Matthew Smith, Chief Product Officer, Agrimetrics, speaks about the issues around agricultural productivity and sustainability in the UK, how we can address the challenges in understanding and assessing data for products necessary in sustainable finance and how AI has become the booster for accelerating us towards actionable information. He shares with Hannah Wallace, Finextra what a Green Bond is and how banks and other large organisations' willingness and confidence to invest in sustainable projects is changing.

13 December 2019

Finextra TV/payments

Building a sustainable business model from the core

Alan McIntyre, Senior Managing Director Global Banking, Accenture, speaks at Infosys Finacle Conclave in Dubai about Digital Maturity, the challenges banks face when scaling up and the importance of developing a long term plan to ensure sustainable growth.

13 December 2019

Finextra TV/sustainable

Sustainable Finance.Live: Positive change through innovation and collaboration

Richard Peers, Founder of ResponsibleRisk sets the scene for Sustainable Finance. Live, the first in a series of events that sets out to provide actionable strategies, debunk the myth that value cannot be created by meeting sustainability goals and show how revenue can be generated through trustworthy implementation of ESG (environmental, social and governance) measures.

06 December 2019

Finextra TV/Innovation

The convergence of consumer and corporate product expectations

Bradley Garfield, Head of Commercial Cards Product & Brian Grech, Head of Consumer Payables Sales, Bank of America, speak at Money 20/20 USA about their approach to managing the proliferation of payments of choices, some of the new trends around innovation and how the convergence of consumer and corporate product expectations is shaping up.

12 November 2019

Finextra TV/Innovation

Disrupting from within: MUFG Union Bank's mindset

Pierre P. Habis, President, PurePoint Financial, Head of Consumer Banking, MUFG Union Bank, speaks at Money 20/20 about the Innovation Lab PurePoint Financial open to the public, the lesson that have been learnt from building the business, the challenges around building a hybrid culture and the mindset needed to disrupt from within.

04 November 2019

Finextra TV/Innovation

RegTech in the Middle East and North Africa

Richard Teng, Financial Services, Regulatory Authority, Abu Dhabi Global Market speaks at Money 20/20 USA in Las Vegas about how innovation can be promoted while ensuring security, how the RegTech space is shaping up in the Middle East and North Africa, what opportunities this provides for the consumer and the road ahead.

04 November 2019

Finextra TV/Sibos

Taking open banking beyond compliance

Tino Kam, head of transaction banking solutions, Nordea, speaks with Finextra about how banks can keep sight of their core objectives in the context of complex advancement in payments technology, the Nordea open-banking platform offering, and how banks should differentiate and decide between the best ecosystems in which to participate.

28 October 2019

Finextra TV/Sibos

FinextraTV @ Sibos2019 – The Big Themes #3: Regulation

FinextraTV reports from Sibos 2019 in London on the impact of Regulation on the industry. In this, final episode, we learn about how Banks are adapting to the changing regulatory landscape, whether the cost of compliance outweighs the value of innovation, what success in this space demands and whether regulation will be able to keep up with the pace set by the tech giants. Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, Nordea, LHV, KPMG and Crown Agents Bank are among the many leading institutions to share their views exclusively with Finextra Research.

18 October 2019

Finextra TV/Innovation

Insights from The Temenos Value Benchmark Program

Kanika Hope, Strategic Business Development Director, Temenos, speaks at Sibos 2019 about the launch of The Temenos Value Benchmark Program, some of the key insights that the benchmark has revealed about the trends in the industry and examples of how the Benchmark has helped participating banks.

16 October 2019

Finextra TV/Innovation

Adapting to the Experience Economy together

Sumit Aggarwal, Head of Transaction Banking Services, Emarites NBD Bank & Robert Cummings, Global Head FSI Solutions, SAP, speak about the power of partnerships, how the industry is becoming less siloed, how SAP has transformed the Emirates brandin and the changing experience economy.

15 October 2019

Finextra TV/Innovation

Enabling layered services and deepening value in innovation

Michael Bellacosa, Global Head of Product Management, BNY Mellon Treasury Services, and Craig Young, Chief Information Officer, SWIFT, discuss the benefit of cloud-based solutions in the financial services industry, the challenges facing the industry in adopting cloud services and how SWIFT is helping its customers address these challenges.

14 October 2019

Finextra TV/Innovation

FinextraTV @ Sibos2019 – The Big Themes #2: Leveraging Data

FinextraTV reports from Sibos 2019 in London on how the industry is Leveraging Data. In this, second of three Sibos reports, we learn about how Banks are increasingly looking to develop a more formal strategy to better manage their data, the challenges leveraging data helps overcome and some of the new and improved services that are coming to market as a result. Barclays, LLoyds, BAML, Natwest, SEB, DBS Bank, Westpac, JPMorgan, Standard Chartered, Société Générale, Nordea, ING, Emirates NBD, and Absa are among the many leading institutions to share their views exclusively with Finextra Research. Become a Finextra member now and be sure not to miss: Sibos2019 Big Themes: Regulation…

11 October 2019

Finextra TV/Innovation

Sustainable Finance: Defining Green Activities

Elena Philapova, Global Head of ESG Proposition, Refinitiv & Member, Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, DG FISMA, European Commission, speaks at Sibos2019 about sustainable projects within finance, the role of data within these projects, the importance of common standards with regards to what is a green and when this taxonomy will come to market.

10 October 2019

Finextra TV/Innovation

Working with regulators is key to a healthy innovation journey

Barbara Patow, Head of Programme Management, Global Liquidity and Cash Management, HSBC, and UK SWIFT Board Member, discusses whether banks are moving fast enough to adopt new technology and ways of working, how banks strike the right balance between innovation and control, and the role traditional banks and bodies such as SWIFT will play in the future of payments.

09 October 2019

Finextra TV/Sibos

Identity is bigger than payments

Alessandro Baroni, CMO equensWorldline, speaks about the technological issues regarding online identity, the role of the financial services industry in determining the future of online identity and how identity should be considered a ‘big business’ concept for financial institutions.

08 October 2019

Finextra TV/Innovation

De-fragment payments innovation in Africa for financial inclusion

Guzide Koksal, Vice President of Product Management, Mastercard, and Chris Hamilton, CEO, BankservAfrica join to discuss milestones in the African payments landscape, how African financial institutions and technology providers are generating innovation, and the key benefits of collaboration and partnership in B2B payments.

07 October 2019

Finextra TV/Sibos

Data as an asset class: Nordea values innovation to drive returns

Patrik Havander, Head of Commercial Excellence, Nordea, speaks with FinextraTV about how Nordea and the financial services industry are equipped to deal with the changing transaction banking landscape, the outlook for Nordea’s ROI, and the areas banks are looking to for rewarding long-term investments.

04 October 2019