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Finextra TV/ai

'The New Industrial Revolution': The Race Towards Explainabile & Relevant AI

At SBS Summit 2025 in Paris, Hani Hagras, Chief Science Officer and Global Head of AI, SBS discussed how AI is the new industrial revolution and spoke to how regulation, data and expectations will evolve alongside it. Explaining the key barriers to successful AI implementation, Hagras splits these into 3 parts: 1. Siloed data, 2. The need for Sovereign AI and 3. The need for AI explainability. Quoting statistics that outline AI’s impact on profitability, Hagras described how banks and institutions cannot afford to hesitate any longer and must accelerate further, with the knowledge that the future won’t be a competition of access and speed, but of trust, services, intelligence and relevance.

29 October 2025

Finextra TV/retail

Resilience, Trust & Data: Why Clients Are At The Heart of All Decisions

At SBS Summit in Paris, Raouf Mhenni, CCO, SBS spoke about how digitisation and modernisation have been topics in discussion for many years, but now that the tools are in place, it is time for efficiency and resilience to improve. Mhenni went on to say how software providers and banks should aim to be both trusted for money and for data, emphasising how AI is turning data into empathy. However, he cautioned that AI should not be implemented for the sake of AI; rather, all should have the client at the heart of any decision and be focused on real issues and whether AI is the right tool to solve those.

28 October 2025

Finextra TV/retail

Why Technology is No Longer a Challenge, and Strategy is the New Obstacle

At SBS Summit in Paris, Eric Bierry, CEO, SBS and Deputy CEO, 74Software joined FinextraTV to discuss how customer behaviour is changing. This behaviour, Bierry said, means that with evolutions in digital capabilities, technology is no longer a challenge but the mindset of the banks serving their customers is. Bierry emphasises that, within these strategies, the ability to retain a human element should be front-of-centre with a key part of this being hyper-personalisation. Here, Bierry describes the sometimes contrasting balance of customers need quality personalisation, whilst also requiring minimal KYC interruptions within their banking experience.

27 October 2025

Finextra TV/payments

Convergence Is Coming: How Data, DLT, and Stablecoins Will Reshape Payments

At Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, John Hutton, Senior Director Payments Efficiency, LexisNexis Risk Solutions emphasised the critical role of accurate data in improving payments efficiency and reducing failures. He highlighted how poor routing information and manual processes hinder straight-through processing (STP), leading to costly delays for banks and customers. Hutton also discussed the role of AI and automation in enhancing reconciliation and reducing errors, stressing that even the most advanced technologies are only as effective as the data they rely on. Looking ahead, he predicted a convergence of technologies, like DLT and stablecoins, tailored to specific use cases, ultimately empowering customers with greater choice and control.

23 October 2025

Finextra TV/ai

How Structured Data is Key to Leveraging AI in Core Banking

Joining the virtual studio for a FinextraTV interview, Barb Morgan, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Temenos helps to shine a light on how artificial intelligence is helping to evolve core banking processes. Discussing how these AI boosts have been implemented to keep up with evolving customer expectations, Morgan provided insights into how banks are focussing investment into having clean, high quality structured data.

07 October 2025

Company update/markets

TRG Screen buys reference data optimisation specialist Crizit

TRG Screen, the leading provider of market data management solutions, today announced the acquisition of Crizit, a New York-based fintech company specializing in reference data optimization.

06 October 2025

Finextra TV/crime

Why Data-Driven Fraud Calls for Smarter Solutions

Discussing the impact of AI-generated fraud threats across the digital world, Laura Quevedo, Executive Vice President, Fraud and Decisioning Solutions at Mastercard, joined the FinextraTV studio at their RiskX event in Rome. Quevedo also explained how AI can fight against it's fraud counterparts, organisations need greater, more detailed transaction information to match the sophistication of modern fraud threats.

29 September 2025

Finextra TV/ai

Can Open Finance & Agentic AI Enable a Future of Financial Freedom?

Discussing the role of Agentic AI and Open Finance in the future of financial services, Jess Turner, Executive Vice President, Global Head of Open Finance and Developer Experience, Mastercard joined the FinextraTV studio at Mastercard's RiskX event in Rome. Turner explains the importance of creating a comfortable developer experience to enable solutions that give AI agents autonomy to act safely and securely with consumers towards a freer, open finance future. As part of this, she describes the key challenges to overcome from data governance to agentic discoverability and consumer consent.

29 September 2025

Finextra TV/ai

The Importance of AI with Privacy at Its Core

Taking time out from Mastercard's RiskX event in Rome, Caroline Louveaux, Chief Privacy, AI & Data Responsibility Officer at Mastercard, joined the FinextraTV studio to talk about how to embed privacy into design solutions. Beyond this, Louveaux spoke to the use of synthetic data and called for more proactive governance, instead of reactive compliance.

25 September 2025

Finextra TV/ai

Navigating the Crucial Differences Between Public and Private AI

Helping to chart the evolution of AI across the years, from automated systems like algorithmic trading to more modern generative and agentic versions today, John Trapani, Industry Leader, Financial Services, Appian, recently joined the FinextraTV studio. Reflecting on this history, Trapani questions how important it is for organisations to understand the regulatory and privacy differences between public and private, as well as asserting his belief that we are still in a phase of needing to babysit the AI systems.

18 September 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

How to Turn Data Into Insight in a New Era of Financial Intelligence

Stepping away from a busy event, Leon Saunders Calvert, President & Managing Director - B2B, The Economist Group sat down with FinextraTV to discuss the role of data in a new era of financial intelligence. Describing how bigger data isn't as good as qualified data, Sanders Calvert helps to contextualise some of the key considerations when interoperating data in the current industry landscape.

20 August 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

How The Future of Data is Personalisation & Scalability

Stepping away from a busy Communify Fincentric User Experience 2025, Nicole Nakashian, Chief Operating Officer, Communify Fincentric spoke with FinextraTV on the process behind product development. Discussing security and customer protection, Nakashian explains how events help to contextualise the importance of products and how the future will feature higher data personalisation and quality data for heightened scalability.

15 July 2025

Company update/markets

CME Group to launch FX Tape+ to centralize FX price discovery

CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that it will launch CME FX Tape+ to provide centralized reference prices and a comprehensive view of FX market liquidity from its transparent central limit order book (CLOB) marketplaces, including FX futures, EBS Market, FX Spot+‌ and FX Link. FX Tape+ is set to launch later this year.

30 June 2025

Research/Reference dataImpact Study

Case Management: The key to revolutionising cross-border payments

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Finextra TV/regulation

Why A Common Standard Is More Important Than A Common Technology

In this FinextraTV interview at the 2025 EBAday in Paris, Tsvetanka Nankova, Managing Director, Global Head of Sales Institutional Cash & Trade Finance, Deutsche Bank visited the studio to discuss the future of data. Comparing the popularity of data conversations to those of AI, Nankova emphasises the importance of not taking data at 'face value' and instead interrogating its origins, compliance, accuracy, and relevance. On top of this, she explains the two-fold benefit of regulation like ISO 20022, explaining how a shared standard should be prioritised over a shared technology.

16 June 2025

Company update/people

GoldenSource appoints Terry Flynn as new MD

GoldenSource, a leading independent provider of enterprise data management (EDM) and master data management (MDM) solutions, has made its third senior leadership hire in a year as the company looks to accelerate its global growth ambitions.

07 May 2025

News/markets

Global spending on financial market data hits $44.3bn

Global spending on financial market data and news grew modestly in 2024, with revenues rising 6.4% - far slower than the previous year - to $44.3 billion.

04 April 2025