Christopher Fischer, assistant general counsel at Western Union, spoke with Finextra at EBADay 2009 in Vienna about the challenges in preparing for the upcoming Payments Services Directive (PSD) in Europe.
Hans-Jörg Nymphius, EBA chairman and director of market infrastructures at Deutsche Bank Global Transaction Banking, spoke to Finextra at EBAday 2009 in Vienna about corporate appetite for the single euro payments area (Sepa), setting a deadline for migration, and building a business case for investment.
Kevin Gillick, executive director of smart card industry association GlobalPlatform, spoke to Finextra about bridging the public sector and telco and financial industries, the development of national ID card schemes and implementation standards for biometrics.
Philippe Robeyns, head of Société Generale Securities Services - Clearing Services, spoke to Finextra about recent changes in how sell-side and buy-side firms approach outsourcing. Particularly in the area of clearing services, he describes the impact of fragmentation and price wars among European clearing houses, and how post-Lehman Brothers court rulings in France and Germany are affecting contracts with prime brokerages and trustees.
The world's banks should take advantage of the downturn to redefine their business priorities and at the same time modernise their patched up and ungainly core banking systems, says the Boston Consulting Group.
Rachel Hunt, European banking research manager at Financial Insights, spoke to Finextra about why banks are now trying to do things differently and better with existing products, processes and customers rather than adding new things to their business.
Financial risk managers could learn a lot from the study of bio-engineering and natural sciences says Andy Haldane, the Bank of England's head of financial stability.
Mark Greenaway, director of the financial services practice at Adobe, spoke to Finextra about why this is a good time for banks to be improving customer experience and process innovation.
Stephen Townend, CEO of Mobank, spoke to Finextra about how his experience at Egg and First Direct led him to co-found Mobank, a new mobile payments company launching next month in the UK.
Günther Gall, head of the transaction services department at RZB, spoke to Finextra about industry consolidation and payments outsourcing, product innovation, the Payments Services Directives and the challenges and opportunities of operating in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
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Darryl Twiggs, service manager for TLM OnDemand at SmartStream, spoke to Finextra about making automated reconciliation available to smaller businesses. He says with TLM OnDemand they can achieve similar efficiency gains and costs savings to those ejoyed by larger firms, without investing huge amounts of time and money up-front.