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Tackling digitalisation in bite-sized chunks

Paul Thomalla, Senior Vice President, Global Corporate Relations, ACI Worldwide, speaks about PSD2 as a forcing factor driving banks to digitalise and the challenges and opportunities of breaking an analogue business into pieces and reconstructing them for a digital world.

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Blockchain use cases need validation

Balazs Fejes (FB), Co-Head Global Business, EPAM, talks about the progress blockchain has made from hype to reality in the past year, the need for a pragmatic approach to implementation and the importance of establishing whether blockchain is the right solution for all the use cases being created.

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Simplicity and transparency key to robo value

Silvan Schumacher, Co-founder and CEO, Swanest, discusses the drivers for the growth of robo advice, and looks at the options for robo advisers to differentiate their services in a crowded market.

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Connecting digital islands in trade finance

Michael Vrontamitis, Global Head of Trade, Product Management, Standard Chartered, talks about the industry’s slow progress in digitalising trade finance, and the technologies – including blockchain, cloud and artificial intelligence – that could form a toolbox to enable the seamless connectivity of today’s digital islands.

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UK Bond Network receives FCA authorisation

UK Bond Network, the corporate bond investment and financing platform, has received direct authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority.

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SkySparc extends ECB consultancy contract

For the third consecutive time, SkySparc has been selected to provide comprehensive consultancy services to the European Central Bank (ECB), extending its role in maintaining the bank’s Wallstreet Suite (WSS) treasury management system by four years.

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Treasuries should be more transparent

Johan Trocmé, Head of Corporate Research, Nordea, outlines the use of KPIs in Nordic treasuries and what changes need to be made for them to become more visible.

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Payments have to be simple

Jan Pilbauer, Executive Director of Modernisation & CIO, Canadian Payments, talks about the progress of ISO 20022 for payments in Canada and the new roadmap for Canadian payments modernisation.

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Move to open banking is fundamental

Rob Hetherington, Global Head of Financial Services, SAP, outlines the innovative trends in transaction banking, and how new technologies such as blockchain have developed.

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Pan-European instant payment project well on track

Hays Littlejohn, CEO, EBA Clearing provides an update on the delivery of this new real-time payment infrastructure.

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SmartStream gains Swift certification for Corona Reconciliations

SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) specialist, today announced, that its Corona Reconciliations solution has yet again achieved SWIFT Certified Application status, something SmartStream customers have indicated is important when purchasing solutions and products.

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Commercial drivers for real-time in Nordics

Christina Friberg, Head of Cross Border Payment Solutions, Nordea, outlines the drivers for real-time payments in the Nordics, and explores the associated risks.

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Why open banking matters for banks

Vincent Brennan, Head of Group Operations & Payments, Bank of Ireland, discusses the recent activities of the Euro Banking Association in the context of open APIs and open banking.

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SEB to build Ripple-flavoured blockchain payments network

SEB is to use blockchain technology from Ripple to enable customers to make real-time intra-bank transfers between accounts in Stockholm and New York.

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Citi develops analytical tool to guide corporates through digital channel strategies

Citi announces the launch of a powerful new analytical tool for use by its specialists to advise global institutions and help them identify efficiencies in their use of banking channels and connectivity options for their treasury and shared service center operations, thus enhancing a company’s ability to manage their cash and risk, and providing valuable strategic input to develop a more secure and efficient treasury environment.

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Battle between fintechs and banks a nonsense

Daniel Marovitz, COO and President for Europe, Earthport, talks about how the trumped up story of conflict between banks and fintechs is resolving into a partnership approach, and discusses the regulatory, cultural and practical challenges for banks in implementing blockchain.

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China Foreign Exchange Trade System joins R3

Financial innovation firm R3 has announced the addition of China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), China’s official interbank market trading platform, to its consortium to design and apply distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to global financial markets.

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Digital transformation needs end to end thinking

Alan Trefler, Founder & CEO, Pegasystems, speaks about how the double whammy of regulation and more demanding customers is creating challenges for banks, and the danger of implementing multiple point solutions without thinking about how to plug them into a backbone to achieve a holistic approach to digital transformation.

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Focus on leading blockchain technologies

Philippe Ruault, Head of Innovation and Digital Lab, BNP Paribas Securities Services, speaks about the implementations of blockchain and what the associated issues may be in its application.

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Pace of change biggest challenge in regulation

Tim Lind, Global Head of Financial Regulatory Solutions, Thomson Reuters, discusses the factors contributing to regulatory fatigue within the industry, and explores how standards and collaboration can help to ease the burden of regulatory change.