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Marc Gratacos

Marc Gratacos Founder and Managing Partner at TradeHeader

Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) - your compliance SatNav and regulatory lane assist

Digital Regulatory Reporting can ensure that you adopt common interpretations of the regulations. Like lane assist in cars today, DRR will keep you on track and sound an alarm if you begin to stray off course. Destination compliance As is well understood by now, the only constant in regulatory compliance is that regulation updates endlessly. F...

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Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

Streamlining Task Management: Can One Tool Fit All?

Throughout my career, working in both financial institutions and fintech companies, one consistent theme has been the use of "Task Managers" (or "Case Managers"). At their core, these systems function as task inboxes, assigned to one or more employees and often following a structured workflow. Despite their importance, you mig

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Mayank Sharma

Mayank Sharma Sr Product Marketing Manager at Innovative Systems

What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Stay in Vegas: Money20/20 Highlights Open Banking and Instant Payments

Returning from Money20/20, it’s clear that the future of finance is rapidly evolving, with key trends pointing towards a world of open banking, instant payments, multi-rail ecosystems and the growing prominence of stablecoins. These innovations are shaping how we think about payments, fraud prevention, and compliance. Here’s a breakdown of the bi

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Anna Antimiichuk

Anna Antimiichuk Head of Communications, PhD at Corlytics

Regulators are intensifying their scrutiny of digital banks

Digital banks have transformed the financial industry in recent years bringing an attractive wave of innovation that reshaped customer expectations, prioritising user-friendly digital experiences, low fees, streamlined services and many other irresistible add-ons. These banks have leveraged technology to fill gaps left by traditional institutions,...

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Guy Harrison

Guy Harrison CEO at Quantios

The single constant that unites our industry: worry

There’s much that divides our industry. We’re competitors. We’re customers and providers. We’re based across the country. We’re businesses of different sizes. We’re leaders and followers. But there’s one powerful emotion that unites us all: worry. Like Atlas, we have the weight of the world on our shoulders. Although in the case of trust and corpor...

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Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

Streamlining Task Management: Can One Tool Fit All?

Anna Antimiichuk

Anna Antimiichuk Head of Communications, PhD at Corlytics

Regulators are intensifying their scrutiny of digital banks

Francesco Fulcoli

Francesco Fulcoli Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Flagstone

National Payments Vision 2024: The UK's Vision for a World-Leading Ecosystem

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Research

Impact Study

2024 Fraud Trends in Banking, Insurance, and Beyond

How generative AI is boosting fraud protection in an increasingly complex environment. As technology progresses, so do the capabilities of institutions to secure data and systems. Over 2024, the fraud landscape has been complex, and organisations must push the boundaries of innovation while maintaining a high security bar as the availability and democratisation of AI increases as we're going into 2025. The tidal wave of incoming regulation in the financial sector is an aspect that will help banking and insurance companies to safeguard their customers and data in the best way possible. Yet regulation alone does not address fraud – it’s up to individual organisations to leverage the potential of technology, and review their solutions, processes, and thus ensure compliance and safety. As fraud and regulation increase in the space, technology is one of the key factors that will help banks and insurance companies to address these increased fraud risks. Generative AI enables organisations to deliver hyper-personalised customer experiences, and combining these capabilities with carrier network insights can not only help them significantly reduce authentication fraud, but also ensure regulatory compliance. This impact study, produced in association with AWS and Vonage, examines the current fraud landscape across financial services, banking, and insurance, highlighting how generative AI and network APIs can help prevent fraud while enhancing the customer experience. Explore: Fraud trends in 2024 The impact of regulation Why data is the new gold How organisations can innovate with generative AI Best practices

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Managing Fraud Risks with Synthetic Data

A Practical Approach for Businesses Services Industry The financial services sector is in a constant state of evolution, and so too are the challenges it faces, particularly in the realm of financial crime. This mounting issue has become a significant concern for institutions, customers and regulators alike. The key to addressing this lies in our approach to data - its quality, management, and applications. Harnessing the power of synthetic data and AI tools has become a pivotal factor in business transformation, particularly in addressing the issue of financial crime. The ability to streamline operations and enhance efficiency is a major challenge businesses face, but the introduction of synthetic data offers promising solutions. Synthetic data provides a comprehensive view of all types of crime, a feature that is crucial for global banks often grappling with segmented fraud activity. This broader perspective enhances the institutions’ capability to effectively fight financial crime. This report summarises the discussion had during a Finextra webinar, hosted in association with Red Hat, and explores: The role of synthetic data in combatting financial crime Implications of new regulation How synthetic data enhances crime detection A practical apprach for managing fraud risk  

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The Future of Payments 2025 – Digital, Instant, Profitable?

A Sibos Special Edition The global payments landscape is in a period of rapid transition, with technologies and regulations making a serious impact. Yet looking to the future of the payments industry, how can we ensure that it is digital, instant, and profitable? While consumer behaviours continue to evolve in tandem with this. Artificial intelligence (AI), tokenised assets, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), Blockchain, and even more pioneering technologies are shaking up the payments systems all in their own way. Adding to this atmosphere of flux, is an developing regulatory framework which promises to alter this situation further. Regulators are facing an uphill battle attempting to legislate on emerging technologies while keeping consumers safe, and providing the best outcome for payment service providers (PSPs). As we move towards milestones like open finance and more rapid payments, there is a chance the payment ecosystem could look quite different within the next few years. Under these growing pressures, global payments organisations will need to ensure that they are able to bend and adapt to the circumstance, or risk snapping. Never has it been more important for PSPs to collaborate with each other, and regulators, to ensure the best outcomes. This Sibos 2024 special edition report, was produced with contributions from Accenture, Deloitte, EBA CLEARING, Finastra, FIS Global, Investec, J.P. Morgan, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, PPI AG, Swift, and Wise. It explores: The evolution of instant payments in 2025; The modernisation correspondent banking and cross border payments; Preparing the upcoming EU payments legislation; The key to successful digitalisation; The technology innovations reshaping the payments sector.

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FinextraTV

Sustainable Finance Live Hackathon 2024 Winners: Emerging Category

Join FinextraTV as Richard Peers, Contributing Editor, Finextra and Founder of Responsible Risk, speaks to the winners of the Emerging Category for the Sustainable Finance Live Hackathon 2024: HSBC’s Nell Agate Tsui, University of Oxford’s Dr Nicola Ranger, and the Malaysian Youth Delegation’s Qiu Wong. This year’s event focused on all things natural capital, namely how to price and assess risk amid a variety of macroeconomic issues and new policies coming to the fore. The winning team’s solution – named Nature Delta – worked to connect nature risk in its multifaceted nature direct to companies, with the aim of ensuring that lending and target setting is conducted with risk in mind, as well as deciphering the jumble of complexity that comes with natural capital and leveraging actionable insights.

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Long reads

Chris Holmes

Chris Holmes Peer at House of Lords

UK National Payments Vision: What does it mean for fintech growth?

Late last week the government launched their National Payments Vision. Described as resting upon three key pillars of innovation, competition, and security it sets outs welcome detail on regulatory coordination and payment infrastructure upgrades, identifies Open Banking and fraud as priority areas and establishes a payments vision delivery commit...

Chris Holmes

Chris Holmes Peer at House of Lords

What the new Data (Use and Access) Bill means for the UK

This time last year I was writing about an important milestone in the digital economy, the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, which had just passed through its commons stages and was arriving with us in the Lords. Sadly, that bill was lost when the General Election was announced although it appeared to be revived, under a new name ‘the ...

Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

US 2024 Elections: What President-Elect Donald Trump’s win means for fintech

After passing the threshold of 270 electoral votes needed to win, former President Donald Trump is expected to return to the White House to take up his post for the second time, after beating Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris. After a nail-biting few months, Trump was elected with many of his voters citing inflation as the reason f...