Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

Real-time is a global phenomenon

David Yates, CEO, VocaLink, speaks about the key trends that have driven the payments industry this year, what opportunities real-time brings for US banks, and the results of The Millennial Influence research.

27 October 2016

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Fintech is a new friend for banks

Stephanie Wolf, Head of Global Financial Institutions, Public Sector Banking and Canada Sales, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, discusses how fintechs can help transaction banks to deliver products and services more quickly, the need for banks to be nimble to respond to the shifting global trade environment and the outlook for correspondent banking over the next 3-5 years.

27 October 2016

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Regional centres can nurture collaboration

Tim Newns, Chief Executive, MIDAS – Manchester’s Inward Investment Agency, talks about how UK cities such as Manchester are bringing together financial services firms and fintechs to deliver innovation into the banking business, and how the Northern Powerhouse vision could play out.

27 October 2016

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Biometrics go mainstream for payments

Ajay Ballah, President, Enterprise Risk and Security, Mastercard, discusses the pitfalls of passwords, and why the ability to implement biometrics at scale holds the key to improving identity authentication for payments.

26 October 2016

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Smoothing the corporate banking value chain

Laurence Leyden, General Manager for Financial Services in EMEA SAP, discusses how digitalisation can help banks shift their approach to corporate customers from selling product to delivering value-add, and what this means for banks’ core systems.

26 October 2016

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Customers want a path through uncertainty

Adam Raw, Head of FI Propositions, Global Transaction Banking, Lloyds Banking Group, discusses the regulatory, political and technology drivers creating an environment of uncertainty for transaction banks and their customers, and looks at how banks can help their customers by bringing improved speed and agility to product development through the implementation of cross-functional teams.

25 October 2016

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Community needs to act together on cyber

Alain Raes, Chief Executive, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Swift, reflects on the cyber discussion at Sibos and talks about the programme Swift is running to help banks, their counterparties and their wider communities to tackle the cyber threat collectively going forward.

24 October 2016

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Blockchain won’t be as disruptive as people think

Cian Burke, Head of Securities Services, HSBC discusses why big data and data analytics still dominate conversations, and the effect distributed ledger technology may have on post-trade and operations.

21 October 2016

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Digital a big opportunity for small banks

Astrid Stolbrink, Head of FSI EMEA Services, SAP, talks about smaller established banks’ advantages when it comes to providing banking anywhere, anytime, and how they can approach breaking down the silos in their organisations to realise this opportunity.

20 October 2016

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There is no one-size-fits-all to instant pricing

Trevor LaFleche, Dovetail, speaks about the findings of the Finextra and Dovetail research paper on the pricing of instant payments, and what banks should be doing in light of the changing climate.

19 October 2016

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The payments cake is growing

Jean-Francois Denis, Deputy Global Head of Cash Management, BNP Paribas and Christophe Vergne, Payments and World Payments Report Leader, Capgemini, talk about the double digit growth revealed in the latest World Payments Report and how this paves the way for banks to launch new instruments, and explore the transformational regulatory landscape and how banks need to react to corporates’ demands for more digitalisation of support functions.

19 October 2016

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Effectiveness key for financial crime compliance

Nicolas Stuckens, Head of Sanctions compliance services, SWIFT, talks about how the compliance discussion has evolved to place a real focus on better fighting financial crime, and on how to leverage utilities to access best of breed solutions, standards and market practice and achieve better quality and effectiveness.

19 October 2016

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Customer value drives changes in payments

Gene Neyer, Industry & Regulatory, Global Payments, D+H, talks about how ISO 20022, PSD2 and real-time are coming together to transform the payments landscape, and the growing recognition that collaboration is needed to deliver value to customers in the payments landscape.

18 October 2016

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Speed, safety and transparency drive innovation

Benoit Dessere, Head of Cash Management, Societe Generale, discusses how innovation is enabling banks to meet customer demand for anytime, anywhere, any device services, and talks about why digitalised information such as e-signatures and e-documents will bring more immediate and significant advantages to cash management than blockchain.

18 October 2016

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We need a sustainable cadence with fintech

Leda Glyptis, Director, Sapient, talks about how emerging technologies are driving evolution in the fintech climate, and how financial institutions are reacting.

18 October 2016

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No real clarity on API projects in Europe

David Bannister, Principal Analyst, Financial Services Technology, Ovum, outlines the progression of blockchain in the last year, and where APIs and immediate payments fit in.

17 October 2016

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Swiss fintechs think before they shoot

Alexandre Gaillard, Invest Glass, discusses the fintech scene in Switzerland, and how artificial intelligence fits into the industry.

17 October 2016

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Faster payments are taking over

Craig Saks, Group President, Strategic Products, ACI Worldwide and Paul Stoddart, Managing Director, Strategy, Products, Marketing & Business Development, VocaLink, discuss the faster payments space, and how the industry needs to respond to any challenges and opportunities that may arise in the future.

14 October 2016

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Blockchain is an enabler, not a disruptor

Gautam Jain, Global Head, Digitisation & Client Access, Transaction banking, Standard Chartered, speaks about how the role of fintech is continuously evolving, and how blockchain can change the industry.

14 October 2016

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Banking will be a funky place to work in two years

Erik Zingmark, Co-Head of Transaction Banking, and Patrik Havander, Head of Strategy & Communication, Transaction Banking, Nordea, outline the role of digitalisation in banking, how open banking can help financial institutions to stay relevant, and how collaboration with fintechs should be carried out.

12 October 2016