Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

RPA and robo should be part of automation strategy

Bob Graham, Global Solutions Head, Banking and Financial Services, VirtusaPolaris, speaks about how robotics and AI are being further adopted in the payments industry and what needs to happen to ensure this continues going forwards.

01 December 2016

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How can tech create a better user experience?

Heikki Härkönen, Head of Business Development, Business Innovation, Nordea, speaks about the mega trends in the payments industry and how technology will evolve this space.

01 December 2016

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Digitalisation is about the business

Paul Thomalla, Senior Vice President Global Corporate Relations & Development, ACI Worldwide, outlines key aspects of the digitalisation discussion in the payments industry, where open APIs fit in, and how the banks are reacting to these changes.

30 November 2016

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Blockchain needs business standards

Stephen Lindsay, Head of Standards at Swift, discusses how the industry can best approach the development of the business standards needed to ensure that blockchain developments don’t create islands of automation that cannot interoperate.

29 November 2016

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More consensus needed for faster payments

Sean Rodriguez, Senior Vice President, Faster Payments Strategy Leader, Federal Reserve System, summarises the US faster payments landscape, and what needs to be done to create a united faster payments solution.

29 November 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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2017 will be the year of payments integration

Dean Henry, Director, Head of Global High Volume Payments, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, talks about the redirecting of fintech energy away from rivalry towards partnership, the challenges that globalisation presents for small, medium and large clients, the role of digital wallets to facilitate payments to parts of the world without robust traditional infrastructure, and how to tackle the proliferation of payments options now springing up.

24 November 2016

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Build innovation into organisational competencies

Amir Wain, Founder & CEO of i2c, talks about the challenges for financial institutions of the increasing pace of change, the need to innovate on an ongoing – not a one-off – basis, and the opportunity to go beyond cost-cutting and generate new revenues by integrating payments more deeply into the lives of customers.

24 November 2016

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Global SaaS platforms key to innovation for issuers

Lisa Fugate, Vice President Credit Processing, i2c, talks about the challenges legacy technology creates for issuers and how global software as a service platforms support creativity and the rapid roll-out of new programmes.

24 November 2016

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Neobanks are showing incumbents the way

Dr. Mircea Mihaescu, Chief Operating Officer at Moven, debunks the myth that new entrants will disrupt existing banks, discusses how incumbents will learn from and partner with innovative neobanks, and talks about the cultural challenges for established players of putting the focus on the customer, not the product or the transaction.

23 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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The big story of 2020 will be financial inclusion

Lee Vecchione, Director, Cash Management Corporates Sales, Deutsche Bank, discusses how an increasingly positive regulatory environment and banks’ embracing of the sector are driving US fintech growth, the excitement for cash managers about the intersection of fintech segments payments and marketplaces, and how the fintech scene will look by 2020.

23 November 2016

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Fintech not about tech but beautiful experience

Braden More, Head of Payment Strategy at Wells Fargo, talks about the need for banks to lean into innovation, the rise of fintech in the deposit and investing products space, and why the time when fintech valuations cool and fintechs have to come back down to earth is the tipping point to make change happen.

22 November 2016

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Start-ups will help banks create the future

Andreas Lambropoulos, Head of Strategic Initiatives for BNP Paribas International Financial Services, talks about the bank’s evolving approach to working with fintech start-ups, his vision for partnership between banks and fintechs, and the need for any innovation initiative to create value for clients and for the bank.

22 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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Fintech solving fundamental problem

Vikas Raj, Managing Director, Venture Lab, Accion, discusses innovations in emerging markets around the use of alternative and new data for credit scoring, and explores the role of fintechs in solving the ‘information asymmetry’ problem that leaves some 3 billion individuals and small businesses around the world without the financial services they need, by giving incumbent banks the data and infrastructure to serve these segments better.

21 November 2016

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Fintech influence on banks good for all of us

Steve Pierson, President of Lovell Minnick Partners, gives an investor’s view of fintech, talking about why advice, insurtech and outsourcing are hotter investment prospects than blockchain right now, the likely evolution of digital lending beyond consumer and how banks are set to learn from – and acquire – fintechs going forward.

21 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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Data science is next phase of digital journey

Mayank Mishra, Managing Director, Global Head Online Banking & Connectivity Services, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi, talks about how banks are progressing with digitalisation, from the first phase of mobile channels through to the next which will leverage data science to improve customer experience and drive new efficiencies, and looks at the likely evolution of banks’ role in innovation.

18 November 2016

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Measuring the value of innovation

Tim Bosco, Head of Innovation Strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman, talks about the challenges of measuring the return on investment of innovation initiatives by banks, and what banks can learn from start-ups when it comes to successful innovation.

18 November 2016