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Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder & CEO at UXDA

13 Iconic Innovations to Future-Proof Your Digital Banking Service

Imagine the effortless satisfaction of a single-click purchase on Amazon, one tap Uber hail or the perfectly timed recommendations from Netflix—these aren’t happy accidents from generic experience. They have carefully enriched the digital experience, contributing to multi-billion dollar success. Thousands of banks and Fintechs try to tap into the ...

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Jose Puccini

Jose Puccini AVP at BankTrade

📺 Today’s Episode: The Fall of Skype

Madrid, April 6, 2025. In 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype, but it failed to evolve with the demands of collaborative work. While Skype competed with tools like Zoom, Slack, and Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, launched in 2017, absorbed Skype’s capabilities and reinvented itself as an integrated platform for collaboration and productivity by seamlessl...

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Andrew Abraham

Andrew Abraham Global Managing Director of Data Quality at Experian

Why the importance of robust data quality can’t be overstated

In today's data-driven business world, ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data is crucial for making informed decisions and driving growth. Latest research from Experian found the top three priorities for businesses over the next five years are enhancing customer experience and personalisation (49%), implementing technology (48%...

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Erica Andersen

Erica Andersen Marketing at smartR AI

Decoding the Vibe - AI's Impact on Developer Expertise

Thankfully, despite the Tech bros latest hype handle, 'Vibe coding' isn't yet a widely recognized or standardized term in software development. It is a hip but informal or colloquial expression but a dangerous one that is a danger to our western coding resource. Lose the skills in any industry or country and you lose the fundamentals and resilien

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Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder & CEO at UXDA

Trust in Digital Banking: From Basic to Strategic UX Integration

If we can land rockets on ocean barges, we can figure out how to make digital banking trustworthy. It’s not about just transferring money faster; it’s about creating an experience so seamless and transparent that customers feel as confident in their banking app as they would in a person standing across the counter. Modern financial technology’s gr...

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Research

Event Report

AI strategies for scalable, secure and compliant banking

Delving into effective strategies and tools for secure and compliant AI integration in banking, emphasising the importance of open-source models, the role of generative AI, the advantages of synthetic data, and the influence of regulatory frameworks. Integrating AI in banking involves more than just adopting new technologies; it requires aligning these technologies with specific banking use cases to maximise benefits and mitigate risks related to data security and compliance. Open-source models facilitate this transformation by offering a collaborative platform for innovation and transparency, essential for building trust and ensuring the safe use of AI in banking.  The journey from proof of concept (POC) to production in AI and machine learning is often lengthy and complex. This extended timeline highlights the challenges organisations face in integrating AI into their operations. Embracing new tools and technologies and learning to utilise them effectively is crucial for overcoming these challenges and applying AI to day-to-day operations, leading to significant benefits in efficiency and innovation.  When looking at other markets, the United States has become a hub for tech giants, focusing on fostering innovation, while regions like Japan remain cautious, reflecting their unique regulatory landscapes and societal risk appetites. This diversity in regulatory approaches presents both opportunities and challenges for firms operating globally, necessitating a nuanced understanding of each market’s unique dynamics.  This webinar report summarises the discussion of a Finextra webinar, hosted with Red Hat, by a panel of industry experts. Discover:  How AI is enhancing innovation, efficiency, and security;  Synthetic data and regulatory impact;  What factors are holding organisations back from fully adoption AI-driven services;  Balancing innovation and regulation;  And more. 

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Are you ready for CBPR+? Accelerating modernisation and efficiency through ISO 20022

Challenges and strategies for financial messaging professionals to be CBPR+ compliant by November 2025.  Financial institutions’ ISO 20022 for CBPR+ migration timelines vary enormously, yet the deadline is the same for all financial institutions – whether they have fully adopted ISO 20022 or are yet to make significant progress. By November 2025, ISO 20022 will become the sole globally recognised standard for interbank cross-border payments, and the new MX messaging format will fully replace the old MT messaging format.  Concerningly, adoption has not picked up as significantly since the co-existence period began in November 2023. In January 2024, the ISO 20022 adoption rate of the top 175 financial institutions stood at 19%. By December 2024, this number had grown to 32.9%. It’s clear that institutions need to significantly accelerate their migration efforts over the next few months – or risk the consequences of non-compliance.  ISO 20022 is not just a compliance update – the data-rich format enables organisations to enhance their analytical capabilities, improve their service offering, improve straight-through processing, strengthen anti-money laundering and compliance efforts, and more.  This impact study explores readiness for the impending ISO 20022 for CBPR+ deadline and features commentary from experts at Finastra and Visa. It answers:  What needs to happen between today and November?  What are the main challenges institutions have been facing?  How can they streamline successful strategies to hit compliance by November and beyond?  What happens in November 2025 for organisations that have not made the deadline?    Join the Finextra webinar, 'The ISO 20022 for CBPR+ deadline is looming: Are financial organisations prepared?', hosted with Finastra, to learn more.

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Impact Study

Bank Legacy Transformation: Exploring the Solutions

Where do banks stand with legacy transformation today? What are the market factors and changing consumer demands that make transformation increasingly crucial? Legacy transformation is not a new challenge for banks. However, as technology capability continues to advance, along with it the potential for innovation and new business models serving a digital customer base, the pressure of no longer being constrained by legacy infrastructure intensifies. Despite being the central nervous system for banks’ operations for decades serving a business purpose, legacy systems have become inadequate, and those trained to use them may lack the skills needed to meet sophisticated demands for real-time and seamless experiences. Here’s how banks can decouple their systems from each other to evolve and grow, untangle technology challenges to drive digitisation, and invest in technology and employees to ensure obstacles to rapid and gradual modernisation are removed. This impact study, produced in association with Veritran, will: Consider frameworks that prioritise initiatives based on their impact; Explore specific recommendations for each of these challenges; Propose strategies on how to integrate systems that will address data silos; Highlight clear ROI examples, efficiency gains, and enhanced customer outcomes; and Emphasise that there is no need for legacy system abandonment and modernisation can be conducted gradually without disruption.

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FinextraTV

How Knowledge Bases Enable Trusted Insights

During a quiet period at the 2025 Communify Fincentric Experience, Yaela Shamberg, Chief Product Officer, sat down with FinextraTV to give her outlook on the current technological landscape. From the innovation of componentization, data knowledge bases and brand differentiation, Shamberg discusses the main optimisms for 2025 in Fintech.

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Long reads

Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Quantum computing will reach its inflection point in 2029: How investors should prepare

In a recent discussion with Finextra, Anders Indset, a business author and investor based in Frankfurt, Germany, shares his insights on the future of quantum computing and its potential to revolutionise industries. He discusses the evolution of the quantum economy, highlighted the rapid advancements in quantum technology, and shares his thoughts o...

Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Microsoft's Majorana 1 quantum computing chip: Explained

17 years of research has led to Microsoft creating a new material and architecture for quantum computing. Majorana 1, the first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU), is powered by a hardware-protected topological qubit, and could have a substantial impact on the financial services and fintech industries. Here's how. What is quantum computing? Quantum com...

David O'Neill

David O'Neill COO at APIContext

Open banking: 4 application-specific recommendations for industry players

Our recent report analyses the performance of open banking APIs from 29 UK-based bank brands, grouped into CMA9 banks, neobanks, and traditional banks. APIContext monitored Financial-grade API (FAPI) compliant consent endpoints for each bank brand using its active monitoring platform, with around eight million API calls made between 1 July 2023, ...