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How Digital Assets Are Leading Wealth Portfolios

Joining FinextraTV at Money 20/20 in Amsterdam, Waqar Chaudry, Head of Digital Assets, Financing and Securities Services, Standard Chartered explains the long-term outlook on digital assets in wealth portfolios. Providing examples of how cryptocurrencies, especially, have outperformed other asset classes, Chaudry describes how corporates, specifically, have become key drivers of this popularity. As part of this, he further explains how more traditional institutions can provide unique insights to this more modern innovation.

07 August 2025

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What Technological Frictions Exist for Clearing Customers?

Providing insights as part of the new Future of Wealth series, Emma Hagan, UK CEO, ClearBank joins FinextraTV at Money 20/20 in Amsterdam to describe the evolution of the clearing industry across the last decade. Explaining how clearing was later to the digital transformation wave, Hagen lists some of the technological frictions that exists for clearing clients and the solutions that are available.

01 August 2025

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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

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Cross-Border Payments: How To Evolve From Slower, Domestic Roots

Discussing cross-border payments priorities, Damien Dugauquier, Co-Founder and CEO, iPiD and Alex Johnson, Chief Payments Officer, Nium join FinextraTV at Money 20/20 in Amsterdam. Bringing up the evolution of payments to a faster, international experience amongst a history rooted in domestic payments, Dugauquier and Johnson establish a need for better payment rails and verification services. Across the importance of reframing compliance and regulation, developing better experiences, and battling fraud, Johnson and Dugauquier emphasise the importance of a full-service unification.

22 July 2025

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What To Consider When Working with AI & Real-Time Data

In this interview at Money 20/20 2025 in Amsterdam, Rishi Doerga, Senior Solutions Engineer, Confluent helps to define real-time data and how it can be safely and correctly utilised alongside AI. When discussing best use cases for AI, Doerga advised a need to take a step back and consider how to manage vast amounts of data, as well as how to approach the data input when working with Agentic AI tools. Doerga also helps to provide some insights to those that require real-time data but are more apprehensive of AI.

15 July 2025

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What Is Prompting The Growth in Demand For Pay by Bank?

While attending Money 20/20 2025 in Amsterdam, Todd Clyde, CEO, Token.io spoke with FinextraTV about Pay by Bank and what is driving its current growth. Defining what Pay by Bank is, Clyde showed how several initiatives and efforts across the world are contributing to a rise in its demand, how the technology itself has evolved, and what this might mean for the future.

11 July 2025

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Are Mobile Wallets the Future of Cross-Border Payments Modernization?

Speaking to FinextraTV while attending Money 20/20, Stanley Wachs, Director of Business Development and Head of France, Benelux, Switzerland, and Africa at Dandelion Payments, shared his thoughts on how mobile wallets are impacting the modernization efforts of banks and fintech's. Wachs positions mobile wallets as a key component of the future of cross-border payments and of progressing the modernization of payment infrastructure.

04 July 2025

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What is Non-Bank Access & How Is It Changing in 2025?

Speaking to FinextraTV at Money 20/20, Neil Hopcroft, Director - Head of Global Strategic Accounts, Form3 provided his insights into the key pressing topics in the industry. As well as regulation and verification of payee, Hopcroft helps to define what non-bank access is and why it is beginning to gain speed in 2025. Looking to the future, he also explains how some of the developing banking models and experiences could herald an innovative selection of solutions.

03 July 2025

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Is Flexibility the Main Driver of Growth for Identity Verification Solutions?

In this interview at Money 20/20 2025, Gus Tomlinson, Managing Director, Identity Fraud, GBG sat down with FinextraTV to discuss some of the progress being made when it comes to identity verification. Speaking about an increasingly fragmented landscape, Tomlinson explained how the history of technology has tended to encourage fragmentation, but that now it is important to focus more on finding solution that is designed not just for the industry, but for the end customer in mind. At the heart of all of this, Tomlinson holds flexibility up as being the primary driver of growth.

27 June 2025

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Tariffs: Just An Inconvenience or an Overdue Payments Push?

In the midst of a bustling Money 20/20 event in Amsterdam, Bill Deng, CEO and Founder of XTransfer, spoke to FinextraTV about how the current state of geopolitics — specifically, US tariffs — actually has a positive spin on the growth of the payments sector. While it may be inconvenient and troublesome for certain bigger companies, Deng believes it has created a level of speed, innovation and adaptability within more agile, smaller companies that may not have occurred otherwise.

24 June 2025

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ACH and The Importance of Routing Transit Numbers

As the years progress, ACH payments are increasing in popularity and in usage but when using such a payment method, it’s important to have the right data and information available. John Hutton, Global Head of Payments, LexisNexis Risk Solutions joined FinextraTV for this interview, exploring what ACH payments are and what risks can be involved. Hutton goes on to discuss both the simplistic detail of having the right routing transit number and how their organisation works in collaboration with Nacha to bring the right data to clients.

16 December 2024

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Generative AI's Impact and Opportunities in Banking

Join FinextraTV as Shanker Ramamurthy, Global Managing Partner Banking & Financial Markets at IBM Consulting, and John Duigenan, General Manager Global Financial Services at IBM, unveil new global financial services survey findings. Explore the current state of generative AI adoption, the challenges and opportunities it presents, and the most impactful use cases revolutionising the banking industry. Delve into discussions on Open Banking, industry standards such as DORA, and trustworthy AI, and discover how financial institutions are set to leverage generative AI in the coming year.

02 October 2024

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Embedded finance, card programmes, and scaling payments solutions

Join FinextraTV at Money2020 2024 as Marcin Glogowski, UK CEO and European SVP/Managing Director, Marqeta, chats about their recent office opening in Warsaw, Poland, the opportunity that the company see in the European Union, and expanding their product offering. A lot of this change is due to demand for embedded finance solutions and the different interpretations of the technology capabilities involved, as well as how advancements in card programmes are enabling businesses to launch and scale their payment solutions more effectively. The industry must explore the potential value that exists behind their technology, grow embedded finance beyond tradition, and utilise the pockets of new use cases that open up.

09 July 2024

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Fintechs Transforming Payments and Investments

Join FinextraTV at Money2020 2024 as Galina Kersten, EMEA Head of Tech & Fintech Sales at Deutsche Bank, and Asya Karakus, Head of Banking Relations at SumUp, explore how fintechs are revolutionising payments and investments. They discuss the shift from cash to digital payments, including the impact of instant transactions. Discover how fintechs and banks collaborate to drive innovation and meet the evolving demands of consumers and merchants through advanced technologies like APIs and instant payment schemes.

05 July 2024

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How MiCA, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain are Key Drivers for the Fintech Industry

Join FinextraTV at Money20/20 2024 as Vedran Jankovic, Sales Head Virtual Asset Service Providers, Deutsche Bank and Lukas Enzersdorfer, Deputy CEO & Chief Operating Officer, Bitpanda, explore key trends shaping the financial industry and the role of fintech firms in reshaping these trends. The catalyst for this conversation is Deutsche Bank and Bitpanda's recent partnership to provide a cash management solution for the German market. This moment in time is a tipping point for the industry, with the incoming MiCA regulation, a harmonised framework that will provide banks with the guardrails they have been searching for to partner with fintech firms and virtual asset providers. This will also result in more efficient usage of Ethereum, Bitcoin and Solana, which will in turn, change the reputational view of blockchain.

04 July 2024

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The Future of Next-Gen Payment Services Providers

Moshe Winegarten, Chief Revenue Officer at Ecommpay, discusses the evolution of full-stack providers and why many payments services providers can no longer position themselves as full stack providers. The conversation highlights how as we enter an era of next-gen full stack providers, there is added pressure for PSPs to keep pace to deliver the solutions merchants need as the payments ecosystem continues to evolve at a rapid pace.

03 July 2024

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Global Payments and the Rise of Instant Transactions

Join FinextraTV as Jon Levine, Head of Institutional Banking at Banking Circle, delves into the pivotal role of payment providers in the globalisation of e-commerce. Discover how businesses are meeting the challenge of instant payments, the steps being taken to overcome infrastructure and technology investment barriers, and the progress being made in breaking down obstacles in cross-border payments. Learn how the industry is evolving to support seamless and efficient global transactions.

25 June 2024

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Banking with Responsible and Generative AI

Join FinextraTV as we talk with Ermes Dajko, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at Temenos, about the transformative impact of generative AI in banking. Discover how Gen AI is revolutionising decision-making processes with practical use cases. Ermes also delves into compliance strategies, discussing how banks can ensure responsible AI usage while navigating regulatory requirements. Learn how banks are leveraging Gen AI to enhance customer experiences and stay ahead in the competitive financial landscape.

19 June 2024

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Why Fintech Should Carve Out 20% of Their Strategy For Practical AI Applications

Join FinextraTV at Money20/20 2024 as Scarlett Sieber, Chief Strategy & Growth Officer at Money20/20, delves into the key trends shaping the financial industry. Highlights include the enduring relevance of open banking and the growing impact of AI, with 20% of this year's event focusing on practical AI applications. The discussion covers AI's integration in fraud prevention, KYC, and marketing automation, and reflects on the rapid advancements in the past year. The conversation also addresses Money20/20's commitment to evolving initiatives, including a new stage dedicated to major announcements and sustainable innovations, setting the stage for continued growth and industry leadership.

18 June 2024

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Cognizant, Rabobank, and Microsoft: Partnering to harness generative AI

Join FinextraTV as Gregory Verlinden, Vice President of Analytics & AI at Cognizant; Fred van Pouderoijen, IT Domain Manager for Payments at Rabobank; and Annette Harris, Head of Financial Services Netherlands at Microsoft, discuss the transformative impact of Generative AI on the financial services industry. Discover how engineers can leverage emerging technologies, how GenAI is reshaping the market for FSIs, and the benefits for SMEs. Learn about the role of strategic partnerships in navigating and responding to the complexities of the payments ecosystem.

05 June 2024