Bo Harald, chairman, EC Expert Group on e-Invoicing, spoke to Finextra at EBAday in Helsinki about the progress being made by industry bodies to lay the groundwork for wider adoption of e-invoicing in the European single market. In this video he outlines some of the benefits for corporates, SMEs and banks in increasing financial supply chain efficiency, and describes the steps being taken to achieve standard processes and a common legal foundation for e-invoices in Europe.

Wondering what it's like at EBAday, the annual payments conference and exhibition run by Finextra and the Euro Banking Association? Review the video highlights played at the end of the closing plenary session in Helsinki 2008.

EBA Chairman Hansjörg Nymphius spoke to Finextra about current industry work to reflect corporate input on Sepa deployment, and drive regional e-invoicing. In this video he also discusses national implementation of the Payment Services Directive, and standardisation efforts.

John Goeller is director of portfolio and automated trading at Merrill Lynch, and also co-chair of FIX Protocol's Americas regional committee. He came by the Finextra stand at Sifma TMC in New York to talk about the new algorithmic trading definition language FIXatdl, working with order management system (OMS) vendors, and new areas that FIX Protocol is looking at to support the growth of electronic trading.

Tony Bishop, former senior VP and chief architect of Wachovia Corporate Investment Bank, and Richard Muirhead, CEO, Tideway, came by the Finextra stand at the Sifma TMC event in New York to discuss Wachovia's award-winning data centre project. In this video they discuss what they learned from the project to understand, visualise and optimise application performance and operations. They also comment on the power constraints that are driving data centre re-engineering projects across the financial services industry.

Liquidnet CEO Seth Merrin visited the Finextra stand at the Sifma Technology Management Conference in New York to discuss his views on how the quantity discovery provided by alternative block trading venues complements the price discovery of exchanges, leading to a "co-opetition" model. In this video he also discusses how technology trends are influencing the execution landscape, and how having built-in liquidity from day one is the real barrier to entry for new providers.

Omgeo CEO Marianne Brown visited the Finextra stand at the Sifma Technology Management Conference in New York to discuss paperless confirm disclosures, post trade efficiency in the derivatives market, and evolving infrastructures in emerging markets such as Brazil.

LCH.Clearnet CEO Roger Liddell recently spoke to Finextra about the clearer and CCP's efforts to get access to eurozone markets under the industry's voluntary European Code of Conduct for Clearing and Settlement. The code was created to help promote a level playing field and increased competition for financial markets clearing organisations, but Liddell says clearers are being constrained by obstacles at the national regulator level.

Chairman of the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSEC), Dr. Rong-I Wu, spoke to Finextra recently about the ongoing merger of TSEC with the country's futures and OTC exchanges, and the domestic clearing body. He also discusses the opening up of investment flows with mainland China under the island's new leadership, and the process of listing the new exchange group holding company, attracting foreign strategic investment, and refreshing the exchange's trading technology.

At this month's Cass-Capco Institute Risk Conference in London, Finextra spoke with David Aldrich, managing director, Bank of New York Mellon. In this video he discusses operational risk considerations for hedge funds, the role of regulators, and how the industry is reacting to the current liquidity problems.

In this video interview, SmartsStream CEO Ken Archer talks to Finextra about last year's aborted IPO plans, the acquisition by DIFC Investments, opportunities in the Middle East, and the increasing demand for hosted software offerings in the financial services sector.

Lee Hodgkinson, CEO, SWX Europe, talks in this video about the host of new competitors to traditional exchanges, such as Instinet Chi-X, Turquoise and Nyfix; the diminishing dependence of the buy-side on the sell-side for order execution; and the gradual seeping of transparent order flow into dark pools of liquidity.

Marc Bayle, T2S project manager at the European Central Bank, spoke at Finexpo about the benefits that Target2 Securities hopes to provide European market participants. In this video he outlines: the challenges for CSDs who will need to adapt their business models; the current reaction from banks and CSDs involved in the consultation process; Spain's first movements toward process harmonisation; and the challenges the ECB faces if it is to build the infrastructure to go live in 2013.

Anne Ambrose, worldwide director, brokerage, trading and investment management at HP, talks in this video about the change in mindset of capital markets firms regarding their environmental impact. She examines rising power costs and their increased visibility; the ergonomic, economic and green impact of new trading floor designs; and new developments in the data centre that promise to reduce the carbon footprint of financial markets firms

Phil Enness, global solutions manager for financial markets data management at IBM, previews his upcoming presentation at Finexpo City Technology Strategies. In this interview he talks about IBM's work to help clients achieve low latency and better reliability for critical data feeds, including the Options Price Reporting Authority feed, as well as investment priorities and key infrastructure challenges for capital markets front office operations.

Stavros Siokos, Citigroup's head of European AES, spoke to Finextra about how algorithmic trading is changing: sell side distribution models, the impact of MiFID in Europe, evaluation methods for algorithmic performance and the technical challenges of dealing with exponential data growth.

James Gardner, head of innovation and reasearch at Lloyds TSB, spoke to Finextra ahead of the Finextra Innovation in Financial Services forum being held on Thursday 8 November.

Video footage of the Fintech M&A panel discussion featuring the leading figures from the inter-dealer broking business: Lee Amaitis, CEO, BGC Partners; Grant Biggar, Head of Creditex Europe; Chip Carver, CEO, Swapswire; Patrick Combes, CEO, Tradition; and Mark Yallop, COO, ICAP.

John Slater is the founder and CEO of core banking system provider SlaterLabs. A former IBM employee, he started his own company, ICT, which took over the rights to a retail core system being built by IBM and the Spanish rural banks. He then sold the company to Temenos, and the system became TCB. After working with Temenos and completing his non-compete period, he started SlaterLabs in late 2005, with the ambitious aim of commoditising the banking industry by developing a system that allows banks to evaluate, purchase, implement, enhance and upgrade their software over the Internet.

Hansjörg Nymphius, chairman of the Euro Banking Association, spoke to Finextra at the EBAday event in Rome about the association's current activities, and its plans to be more inclusive of corporates and non-banks in its discussions about the evolving financial landscape in Europe.