ISO20022

News/payments

EBAday 2026 heads to Copenhagen: Early bird registration now open

The European payments and transaction banking community will gather in Copenhagen on 16-17 June for the 21st edition of EBAday, the continent’s leading summit for industry professionals. Hosted at the Bella Centre, EBAday 2026 promises two days of high-impact networking, strategic insight, and forward-looking discussion.

3 hours

Research/ISO20022Event Report

Faster & further: 2025 insights on the evolution of the Nordic payments landscape

03 October 2025 119 downloads

Long read/ISO20022

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Sibos 2025: Are new products fulfilling their hyped-up promise? Part 3: ISO 20022

02 October 2025

News/ai

FS giants test blockchain and AI to tackle $58bn corporate actions problem

A host of banking and capital market players - including Swift, the DTCC and UBS - have closed out the second stage of a Chainlink-led project to use AI and blockchain technology to standardise and streamline corporate actions processing.

29 September 2025

Research/ISO20022Survey

Payments 2030: What’s shaping the future?

25 September 2025 567 downloads

Research/ISO20022Future of Report

The Future of Cross Border Payments 2026: Strategies for Success

17 September 2025 742 downloads

News/payments

Bank of England and BIS develop off-the-shelf module for analysing ISO 20022 data

The BIS Inovation Hub and the Bank of England have developed a prototype analytical tool to unlock the richer payments data derived from the ISO 20022 payments messaging protocol.

05 September 2025

Finextra TV/payments

The Biggest Trends Driving Innovation in Payments Modernisation

Joining the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025 in Paris, Conor Colleary, Senior Vice President, Oracle Financial Services discusses ISO20022 developments. Describing the variations in preparedness - from fully prepared to more technically compliant - Colleary explains how the new messaging standards will enable massive data opportunities. Bringing Instant Payments into the conversation, Colleary also helps to contextualise how the payment sector is broadening out and enabling future innovations, such as QR codes, tokenisation in the back office and verification evolutions

08 August 2025

Finextra TV/ai

How to Handle AI Scepticism as a Banking Leader

Speaking to FinextraTV, Runki Goswami, Global Marketing Head & CMO at Newgen Software, and Varun Ghai, Associate Vice President (P&S), UK & EU, Newgen software discuss the use of AI and technology in banking against a backdrop of heightened customer needs. Explaining the different elements that are now available to banks, Goswami and Ghai also help to define what good leaders look like in this new era of technological change and scepticism.

06 August 2025

Finextra TV/payments

'Ask The Stupid Questions': How Payments Progress Requires Unlearning

Attending EBAday 2025 in Paris, Simon McConnell, Global Head of European Clearing, Citi Bank took some time to speak to FinextraTV about the changing clearing landscape and how in the pursuit of progress, some are essentially unlearning old habits. Coming towards the end of ISO migration, McConnell said that there has been a huge amount of work put into progress but that these changes have created an increase of costs and the focus is now on tangible, actionable cost-reduction opportunities. He further believes that payment professionals are struggling to understand where to place priorities and that, where they are still on a learning curve, they should get more used to collaboration that allows the "stupid questions" to be asked.

31 July 2025

Finextra TV/regulation

How ISO 20022 is Aiding a Frictionless Future

Attending EBAday 2025 in Paris, Vitus Rotzer, Chief Product Officer - Financial Messaging, Bottomline, took some time out to speak to FinextraTV about the state of the payment industry in 2025. Referring to ISO20022 as "the glue in the middle of everything", Rotzer describes an industry that is evolving, rather than just changing, with a focus on better compliance, reduction of friction, and a progression towards a cashless society. Rotzer also describes how, in finding an answer to their current challenges, customers are looking for a SaaS solution that allows them to manage multiple rails and fraud initiatives from a more holistic, interconnected position.

21 July 2025

Long read/ISO20022

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Is ISO 20022 still important for financial institutions and their clients?

21 July 2025

Finextra TV/payments

Cross-Border Payments: How The Passion of The G20 Drives Improvement

Providing insight into the G20's objectives and progress, Katja Lehr, Europe Product Head & EMEA Payments & Industry & Advocacy Lead, J.P.Morgan joined the FinextraTV studio at EBAday. Providing insights into why the G20 is so important to the progression of cross-border payments and a collective standardization, Lehr spotlights the hard work and passion of the people within the task forces.

07 July 2025

Finextra TV/payments

The Key Payment Trends to Maximise Business Value

Speaking to FinextraTV, Barry Rodrigues, EVP Payments, Finastra, explains how financial institutions can embrace the changing payment trends and leverage these to maximise business value. Looking towards the future of cross-border payments, ISO 20022, real-time payments, and the importance of a modern architecture, Rodrigues provides a holistic view of how to both provide value and generate revenue in an evolving time.

03 July 2025

Finextra TV/retail

How Open and Embedded Finance are Increasing Banking Accessibility

Vincent Brennan, an independent consultant within the banking industry, joined the FinextraTV studio at EBAday following the panel he featured on to reflect on the topics covered. As well as discussing the challenges for this autumn surrounding ISO20022, instant payments and verification of payee, he shares what he is most excited for within open and embedded finance across the next few years.

02 July 2025

Research/ISO20022Impact Study

Case Management: The key to revolutionising cross-border payments

25 June 2025 315 downloads

Finextra TV/regulation

How Flexible is ISO20022 and What are Hybrid Addresses?

Whilst at EBAday 2025 in Paris, Paul Ruskin, Business Development Director, Trace Financial joined the FinextraTV studio to give his insights what will happen beyond the ISO20022 November deadline. As well as providing clarity that January is the most important, firmer deadline, he also provided a helpful insight into the development of hybrid addresses and the impact on unstructured data.

20 June 2025

Finextra TV/regulation

Changing Regulatory Perceptions: Towards Strategy & Collaboration

Joining the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025, Liliana Fratini Passi, Managing Director, CBI shared her insights surrounding a key conversation at the event: regulatory compliance. Fratini Passi shared a belief that the perception of regulation is moving toward one of a strategic driver as opposed to an obstacle or inconvenience. Touching on Instant Payments in particular, Fratini Passi said that the approaches have drastically changed in recent times but that, in her opinion, the most successful ones tend to be those a collaborative nature.

18 June 2025

Research/ISO20022

PaaS, cloud and instant payments: Navigating the outsourcing question

09 June 2025 345 downloads

News/regulation

EBAday 2025: Are we ready for ISO 20022?

Is the market ready for the end of the coexistence of ISO and MT messages? What remains to be done in the next few months to realise ISO 20022’s full benefits?

29 May 2025