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Correspondent banking relationships: how can fintech resolve burgeoning issues?
Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Correspondent banking relationships: how can fintech resolve burgeoning issues?

Fintech can help resolve issues related to financial exclusion and make strides where the traditional financial services industry has fallen short. Ensuring technology is widely accessible to deliver meaningful change has allowed fintech firms to offer far more comprehensive solutions than legacy players and provided banking services for certain a...

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Cross-border payments: How innovation can emerge from chaos
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Retired Member

Cross-border payments: How innovation can emerge from chaos

It is an immutable rule that no matter how neatly you put a bunch of wires into a drawer, when you take them back out in the future, they will have become entangled. You could lock the drawer with a key, put up a forcefield around the house, and you would still find yourself disentangling those Christmas lights a year later. An actual law explains...

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Key factors to consider before transferring money from India
Priyanka Rao

Priyanka Rao Content Strategist

Key factors to consider before transferring money from India

In today's globalised world, the need for cross-border money transfers is more prevalent than ever, and residents of India are no exception. Whether it's for personal reasons like supporting family members or for business-related transactions, sending money abroad from India requires careful consideration around several key factors. From exchange ...

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How to drive consumer adoption of open banking
Tim Johnson

Tim Johnson Head of Strategy at Tyl and Payit by NatWest

How to drive consumer adoption of open banking

The rise of open banking Ever since PSD2 which set the wheels in motion in 2018, open banking has been growing at a rapid rate. In fact, by February 2023, over 7 million people in the UK had used open banking, representing over 10% of digitally-enabled consumers. The growth trajectory of open banking has continued in the UK, driven by a wider ava...

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How to maximise cross-border payments success
Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

How to maximise cross-border payments success

During our Finextra webinar, “Cross-border Payments: 4 Steps to Maximise Cross-border Payments Success” hosted in association with Bottomline, panellists explored the chequered past of cross-border payments and the attention that this business is garnering amid the modernisation of the movement of money. Charles de Rougé, head of SaaS solutions, B...

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NextGen Nordics 2023: What does successful, scalable innovation look like?
Finextra Research

Finextra Research Writer at Finextra

NextGen Nordics 2023: What does successful, scalable innovation look like?

NextGen Nordics 2023 kicked off with a panel on the challenges and opportunities in the road for harmonisation across transaction banking services. Finextra’s head of research Gary Wright was joined by Anders Olofsson, head of PaaS/SaaS, Tietoevry Payments; Ted Scheiman, head of Nordics and Baltics, Swift; Beju Shah, head of Nordic Centre, BIS Inno...

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Understanding the omni-channel approach to CRM in financial services
Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Understanding the omni-channel approach to CRM in financial services

Customer relationship management (CRM) is an evolving field in the financial services industry, and within that evolution, new information is being gathered and fresh data is being implemented to enhance current CRM services and streamline administrative processes in financial institutions. As new CRM solutions emerge, the discussion around managi...

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Correspondent banking relationships: how are they changing in 2023 and beyond?
Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Correspondent banking relationships: how are they changing in 2023 and beyond?

Correspondent banking is of paramount importance to the global payments system today, particularly for banks that would like to access financial services in different geographies and provide cross-border payments services to their customers, bolstering international trade and financial inclusion. Even payments solutions that do not require custome...

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What will the future of the merchant payments ecosystem look like?
Finextra Research

Finextra Research Writer at Finextra

What will the future of the merchant payments ecosystem look like?

Ahead of Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2023, Finextra caught up with Neira Jones, independent advisor and chair of the judging panel for the MPE Awards. The event, held from 28 – 30 March in Berlin, Germany, will also welcome startups to pitch their products at the Innovation Hub and Jones will moderate discussions on innovation in technology and ho...

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How blockchain can be used for improving security
Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

How blockchain can be used for improving security

At the heart of security within the financial services industry is the good old centralised Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Every central bank, financial market infrastructure (FMI), payment system, Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider, embedded finance provider, even the way in which we all connect to secured websites goes through a centralised ...

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Buy Now Pay Later: Is it time to say bye-bye?
Liz High

Liz High Practice Lead, Financial Services at Metia

Buy Now Pay Later: Is it time to say bye-bye?

Is the real threat to the poster-children of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) coming from rising interest rates and the attentions of regulators? Or will it be from the arrival of bigger, more trusted brands that can satisfy the craving of consumers for the instant purchase gratification they seek? It’s been a week (or three) for BNPL players It’s been ha...

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Nigeria election 2023: the impact on fintech and digital payments
Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Nigeria election 2023: the impact on fintech and digital payments

Some Nigerian citizens believe that outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) government has played an instrumental role in establishing a foundation for the likes of Flutterwave, PayStack and Interswitch to thrive. Others feel that the biggest contribution that the Nigerian government has made to the fintech and digita...

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