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Nicole Pienkos

Nicole Pienkos Head of Regional Banking at FIS

Is your bank merger ready?

Headlines anticipate a rise in bank mergers Banking industry observers agree that 2025 will show significant growth in bank merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. Recent headlines highlight the coming tide: “Bank M&A deal sizes poised to surge in 2025” American Banker “CEO confidence and stock market performance listed as top factors that ...

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Jacobo Weizenblut

Jacobo Weizenblut CEO Trading ADR at TradingADR

How 9 Israeli Companies are Revolutionizing Agriculture

In the heart of a region often defined by geopolitical tensions and limited natural resources, Israel has consistently demonstrated remarkable resilience. Despite persistent disturbances in the Middle East, the nation’s entrepreneurial drive, high-tech expertise, and innovative spirit have converged to revolutionize agriculture both domesticall

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Prakash Bhudia

Prakash Bhudia HOD – Product & Growth at Deriv

America first and AI: Could Trump engineer Intel's comeback?

In a dramatic turn of events that aligns perfectly with President Trump's "Made in America" vision, Intel Corporation's stock has surged over 16% as rumors circulate about a partnership with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). This potential collaboration represents a significant step toward returning advanced semiconduct...

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Igor Kostyuchenok

Igor Kostyuchenok Managing Director at IKFT

Munich Security Conference and the Future of Tech

Munich Security Conference was a shock for some of the Europeans, although it shouldn’t have been. The so called liberal values have contributed to the creation of the new virtual reality with tens of genders, slash of free speech and cancel of the political opposition. What has been preached by the global liberal elites through the US government...

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Dmytro Spilka

Dmytro Spilka Director and Founder at Solvid, Coinprompter

Trump's Trade Policy Changes: How Do Hedge Funds Prepare?

The impact of the age of ‘Trump 2.0’ on hedge funds remains as uncertain today as it did upon the day of the President’s resounding election victory on November 5, 2024. Could key trade implications lead to a widespread shift in Wall Street sentiment? Hedge funds have been quick to prepare for Trump’s second term in the White House, and while many...

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Nicole Pienkos

Nicole Pienkos Head of Regional Banking at FIS

Is your bank merger ready?

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Sustainable Finance Live – Natural Capital Finance

A Record from the Sustainable Finance Live Conference and Hackathon 2024  On 8 October 2024, Finextra Research and ResponsibleRisk held the annual Sustainable Finance Live hybrid conference and hackathon, in partnership with NayaOne.  The conference took place at Events@ No6 in London, and started off with a welcome from founder of ResponsibleRisk and contributing editor for Finextra, Richard Peers. Peers opened with an introduction outlining the themes and objectives of this year’s event: to understand natural capital risk, pricing, and trade.  The focus areas of the conference were natural capital, agriculture, supply chains, as well as regulation and reporting. The sessions also highlighted highlighting new technologies that are being used to collect nature-related data such as Earth observation and satellite reporting.  Richard Peers, contributing editor at Finextra and founder of ResponsibleRisk, moderated the conference: “What we wanted to do is to put on an event aimed at explaining the landscape of a natural capital transaction, with the associated data providers identified along the way. Ending the process in an asset management trading platform, taking into consideration all the steps that a regulated entity has to undertake, to prove to the financial industry that this can be an asset class, that is as tradable as any other.”  Download a Visual Record of the event below to discover key themes of the event’s panels, keynotes, and hackathon. We cover:  Natural capital trading from field to trade;  How nature financing can be achieved;  The role of data, economic profit, and policy for natural capital;  How to build a sustainable ecosystem using natural value;  Visions and results from the hackathon;  And more. 

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White Paper

Beyond Tomorrow In The Capital Markets

Technology has long been transforming the capital markets industry, but the tides are changing for what is considered success. Now more than ever, firms need to prioritise operational resilience.  Technological advances are indisputably reshaping how firms in the capital markets operate, however, as the reliance on technology grows, so does the impact of glitches and outages when they occur. Take the CrowdStrike global outage, for example, which caused an estimated $1.15BN and $140M in financial losses for the banking and financial sectors respectively.  The consecutive outages expose the fragility of technical infrastructure and underscore a need for better operational resilience across the capital markets. It also reiterates the importance of preparing for the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), implementing uniform operational resilience rules for financial entities throughout Europe, and its equivalents elsewhere.  This Finextra whitepaper, produced in association with CJC, explores:  The challenges in the capital markets industry;  How institutions can address these challenges;  Ensuring future resilience by bridging the skills gap;  Real-world case studies;  And more. 

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Future of Report

The Future of Digital Banking in Europe 2024

A Money20/20 Special Edition. In 2023, fintech investment in the EMEA region dropped to $24.5 billion, down from $49.6 billion in 2022 – a seven year low.  Macroeconomic and global political conditions are creating challenges for growth, with upcoming general elections around the world adding to the uncertainties in financial ecosystems. Despite these challenges, the outlook for European digital banking remains positive.  The region continues to lead in innovation within the financial sector. This Finextra report, a Special Edition for Money20/20 Europe, features interviews with key players in the European financial services and fintech industries. It includes insights from Vodeno, EY, J.P. Morgan, Swift, Tink, and TrueLayer, and explores the following topics that will be addressed in Amsterdam: Hyper-personalisation: Moving towards super apps  Embedded payments driving the Banking-as-a-Service revolution  Variable recurring payments: The next step in European open banking  Is Europe ready for MiCA? From Web1 to Web3, or Markets1 to Markets3  How European fintech is facing macro challenges 

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Robinhood: Bringing US Opportunities to a UK Audience

Growth is regularly on the mind of many companies, especially within the financial industry. It does, however, come with a multitude of potential risks and pitfalls. Robinhood, a trading and investing app based in the US launched in the UK earlier this year. In order to ensure their success, they approached the task with a growth mindset, but a local focus. As part of the Predict 2025 series, Finextra invited Robinhood’s UK president Jordan Sinclair to the virtual studio. Some of Sinclair’s key points were around greater global access to US information, a strong system of financial education and a customer-focussed process of development.

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Germany elections: What Friedrich Merz’s win means for fintech

Friedrich Merz’s fiscally conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU/CSU) won Germany’s national election this month, citing promises of uniting Europe amid challenges from Russia and the US, as well as a coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats to stabilise economic issues. A coalition with right-wing party AfD would also be possible, bu...

Emma Lovell

Emma Lovell Chief Executive at LSB

Flexible and efficient SME lending as a growth enabler in 2025

Emma Lovell, chief executive of the LSB (Lending Standards Board), explains why with the £25 billion raise in employers’ National Insurance contributions looming – coupled with a tough economic environment – business owners’ wants and needs for SME lending are changing. What trends are reshaping this landscape in 2025, and how can banks and lender...

Liam Xavier

Liam Xavier Media Producer at Finextra

How will tariffs affect fintech growth?

For a number of years now, we have been weathered by a series of destabilising events: Brexit, trade wars, cybersecurity breaches and global military conflicts. It’s an unsettling mix and the financial markets have needed to be permanently alert. This continues to be the case with the announcement that the new US President Donald Trump is ramping ...