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Elaine Mullan

Elaine Mullan Head of Marketing and Business Development at Corlytics

From bias to buy-in: the behavioural economics advantage in RegTech sales to financial institutions

The sale of regulatory technology to financial institutions is often a long and complex process, with multiple stakeholders, as is the norm for enterprise sales. But let’s look at how the principles of behavioural economics can shine a light onto this complex sales environment and perhaps provide some pointers to ease transactions, aka make sales....

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Susie MacKenzie

Susie MacKenzie Head of Legal and Regulatory Analysis at Corlytics

Regulating the Energy Wave in the Age of AI and Data

Growing focus on AI regulation The digitisation of society and industry continues to accelerate at an unprecedented rate. AI is opening the door to advances right across society, from healthcare to agriculture. Financial institutions are integrating and exploring AI models across the board, in areas such as cybersecurity, risk management and AML p...

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Gabriel Hopkins

Gabriel Hopkins Chief Product Officer at Ripjar

Gen AI: A helping artificial hand for compliance teams

Through complex algorithms, Generative AI (GenAI) has been reshaping how we create content, including imagery, music, text, and video; greatly simplifying data processing and task performance. This technological advance not only saves time, effort, and money but is also a game-changer in enhancing operational efficiency and fostering innovation ac...

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Steve Wilcockson

Steve Wilcockson Product Marketing at Quantexa

How a Data Fabric Delivers Better Financial Services Outcomes

Data Fabric: The Origination Story Throughout my career, enterprise data management paradigms have come and gone. Let’s briefly trawl some data management history to understand how data fabric emerged. Popular data management paradigms include: Data Warehouse Data Lake ETL, i.e. Extract, Transform, Load ELT, i.e. Extract, Load, Transform Data Lake...

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Michael Zetser

Michael Zetser CEO at Flyfish

From Innovation to Implementation: AI, Blockchain, and Fintech Regulation

AI is setting new benchmarks in the global fintech sector, significantly enhancing how companies interact with customers and streamline operations. This surge in AI-driven innovation not only improves service delivery but also pushes the boundaries of what technology can achieve in financial services. In a saturated market, AI and blockchain provi...

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White Paper

APIs, Automation, and AI

An Arsenal to Defend Against Card Transaction Fraud Fraudsters are no longer individuals who are looking to infiltrate gaps or weaknesses in how our businesses are set up. They are expert technologists and strategists that steal customer data, take over accounts and break into tough security measures. Between 2023 and 2027, merchants are expected to lose a total of $343 billion to online payment fraud, driving home the point that the time is now for technology to be leveraged to reduce card transaction fraud, which is growing in numbers and complexity. APIs, automation, and AI are all integral to an effective fraud mitigation strategy in 2024. This Finextra whitepaper, produced in association with Mastercard, discusses how these technologies – if used in the right way – can support financial institutions evolve to emerging threats with increased speed and accuracy.

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Impact Study

Payment Fraud in 2024: Who is Liable?

Fraud is a billion-dollar business in the Instant Payments era. Statistics show that ecommerce fraud is predicted to exceed $48 billion globally by the end of 2023 alone and could exceed $362 billion between 2023 and 2028.  In 2024, banks will not only contend with the changing liability landscape, but the upcoming adoption of ISO 20022 as well. Both represent a historical shift in the financial services industry. To prepare for a higher degree of liability in a data-rich environment, banks need to address the holistic landscape of fraud mitigation.  This Finextra impact study, produced in association with NICE Actimize, addresses the changing liability landscape and what banks need to do to prepare for regulatory changes and increased fraud protection.  We cover:  Shifting liability and the impact of new PSR regulation  ISO 20022’s impact on the financial industry  Financial industry priorities in 2024  And more. 

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Future of Report

The Future of UK Fintech - 2015-2035

An IFGS Special Edition UK Fintech Week 2024 With UK Fintech Week's flagship event - Innovate Finance Global Summit (IFGS) - returning for its 10th anniversary, Finextra and Innovate Finance have partnered to publish this report, which acts as your go-to-guide to everything you need to know about financial services and technology in the UK. ‘The Future of UK Fintech: 2015 – 2035: An IFGS Special Edition’ includes commentary from the brightest and best across the fintech ecosystem, discussing and debating the crucial issues facing the sector now and in years to come. This includes key insights from industry experts from Cogo, EY, Konsentus, Marqeta, Standard Chartered Ventures, and Zopa Bank. Scoping out the next decade to come, this report explores the agenda topics below and more: The Next Decade of FS and Innovation: What Lies Ahead Fintech Beyond FS Borders: How Fintech is Impacting other Industries and Sectors UK and the World: Keeping our Crown while Learning from Others Transformative Technologies: Opportunities and Risks Users of Tomorrow: The Next Generation of Consumers The Shifting Ecosystem: Who Will Lead?

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SEPA, ISO 20022 and the Road to Innovation and Resiliency

At EBAday 2024, Renata Vilanova Lobo, Head of Global Clearing, J.P. Morgan Payments, explores the cross-border impact of SEPA on European and global interoperability and why ISO 20022 is crucial for financial institutions. There is an urgency for financial institutions to transition because of deadlines, but also due to the great benefits this change can bring to the industry, being the biggest change in payments in the last 30 years. Resiliency plays a critical role in today's landscape and it is expanding its concept; as a result, and banks must consider geopolitics, economic downturns and unforeseen challenges on top of operational stability.

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Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

What the US open banking rule means for consumers, FIs, and fintechs

Interest is growing quickly - no doubt accompanied by some deep-seated indigestion as well - as US financial institutions, fintechs, and related service providers await the expected release of a key new US rule on Open Banking (Section 1033). While most agree it will bring positive advances for consumer data control and protection to the customer ...

Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

How US Inflation Reduction Act funds IRS high income taxpayer collections

As we continue to explore the potential outcomes of the US presidential election on financial institutions and fintechs, it seemed like a suitable time to take a second look at income taxes, one of the key components of every company’s financial planning and ongoing management. Turns out, a particular piece of two-year old climate change mitigatio...

Tahmid Majeed

Tahmid Majeed Associate Solicitor at SA Law

Key considerations for finance startups embarking on joint ventures

Joint ventures can be a profitable endeavour for startups wanting to break new markets, especially in a challenging global economy. A survey last year of global executives found 58% preferred joint ventures to mergers and acquisitions due to economic uncertainty. A joint venture is two or more parties coming together for a specific business purpos...