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Damien Dugauquier

Damien Dugauquier Co-Founder & CEO at iPiD

Why Banks need an Innovation/Partnership team!

If you are connected with too many payment geeks like I am, your LinkedIn feed has been flooded these days with highlights from Sibos. Next week, expect posts from Money20/20 in Vegas, the HK Fintech Festival, and the Singapore FinTech Festival, often from the same people. Have banks and fintechs become natural partners? Are banks now innovation l...

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Darren Capehorn

Darren Capehorn Director of Services at Icon Solutions

Sibos 2024: In conversation with Mark Brant

In 2024, Sibos is opening its doors in Beijing, marking the first time that China’s capital is hosting the event. Taking place 21-24 October, the event will bring together thousands of senior leaders from across the global banking industry to debate this year’s theme “connecting the future of finance”. It also marks the first year that NatWest and...

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Santosh Radhakrishnan

Santosh Radhakrishnan Chief Commercial Officer at XYB Limited

No 6. From Rip and Replace to Modernisation – The Approaches to Addressing Legacy Core Challenges

Why the time is right to modernise Nobody ever said that replacing a core system would be cheap or easy, and we highlighted this previously when we discussed the challenges of replacing core banking. Nevertheless, not all projects to replace core banking have been failures. Below, we discuss the different ways that banks have approached core bank...

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Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Three Tech Takeaways from Sibos 2023

Sibos 2023 is a great gathering of the financial industry and the place to take the pulse of what is exciting and challenging people. While the conference stages capture the limelight with industry visionaries, it is the grassroot opinions of the delegates roaming the conference floor, the foyers and – yes – the bars that are even more insightful...

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John Bevil

John Bevil Product Director, Capital Markets at Xceptor

Data, AI and Automation – SIBOS 2023

Sibos 2023 has come and gone. Again! As always, the days were packed with presentations, discussions, events and conversations covering topics ranging from ESG (top of mind for so many firms right now), to technology and AI, to the growth in digital assets, to everything between. What was clear is that data sits at the heart of global finance, and...

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Research

Future of Report

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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The Global Fight Against Trade-Based Financial Crime

Broken inside, broken outside: Uncovering the internal weaknesses and external pressures fuelling a $1.6 trillion challenge.  Trade-Based Financial Crime (TBFC) is a global issue, draining $1.6 trillion annually from economies—funds that could otherwise fuel development, build infrastructure, and stabilise financial systems. Instead, these resources are diverted into criminal networks that operate across borders, exploiting the very institutions meant to protect global finance. This is a crisis that goes beyond numbers; it strikes at the core of trust and stability in the financial world.  This global survey, conducted in the summer of 2024, revealed the alarming extent to which financial institutions remain unprepared in the face of the growing threat of TBFC and sheds light on the significant challenges, technology gaps, and fragmented risk management strategies that enable significant financial crime.  Input from leaders at ING and ITFA reinforces the critical role of technology in combating TBFC, while also acknowledging the operational challenges that remain. Implementing AI-driven solutions at scale is proving to be a significant obstacle for many institutions, with the timeline for action growing ever tighter.  Download this Finextra survey, produced in association with Eastnets, to explore:  Why TBFC is a growing global crisis What internal roadblocks institutions are facing An investigation into the external challenges of combatting TBFC Recommendations for what risk leaders should do next And more Click here to join us for the Finextra webinar, Global Trade Based Financial Crime: Where Trade and Payments Meet, and hear from our panel of industry experts discuss the finding from this survey and the current state of trade-based financial crime globally. 

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Future of Report

The Future of the Global Financial Ecosystem 2024

A Sibos Special Edition. Our world has experienced several unexpected and unprecedented events over the last few years, which show no signs of slowing down. This year’s Sibos aims to connect those in the financial services community who have experienced fragmentation, in the hope that tackling this will help with some of the biggest issues facing banking. The role that financial institutions play in the global environment will continue to be placed under the microscope as situations continue to develop. In light of this, there has never been a better time for those in finance to come together and have frank and open conversations about their future. This applies to not only environmental and social goals for banks, but also the adoption of and adaptation to new technologies. No longer can these issues be placed on the side and given lip service, they need to become an integrated part of each financial institution’s core policies and practices. However, ever increasing this challenge are the continuously changing global circumstances. Due to these circumstances, communication and collaboration are essential drivers for 2024. This Finextra report, produced in association with Swift, includes commentary from BBVA, BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, ING, JP Morgan, Lloyds, McKinsey, NatWest, SEB, Standard Chartered, UniCredit, and Wells Fargo.

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How Can AI and Collaboration Combat Rising Financial Crime?

In a conversation ahead of Sibos 2024, Laura Quevedo, Executive Vice President of Financial Crime and Resiliency at Mastercard, highlights the growing threat of financial scams in the digital age, with cybercriminals increasingly using AI to exploit consumers. Companies are stepping up their investments in cybersecurity and AI technology to stay ahead of evolving threats, as AI-powered tools like real-time fraud detection solutions become critical in preventing financial crime. Quevedo emphasises a three-pronged strategy: leveraging AI for fraud prevention, collaborating across industries to share insights, and educating consumers on emerging scams.

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Long reads

Dominique Dierks

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

AI, CBDC, and stablecoins: Trending tech in the payments sector

This is an excerpt from the Future of Payments 2025 report. Never has technology evolved as quickly as it does today, and innovation is ripe in finance and banking. AI, tokenisation, stablecoins, CBDCs and hyper-personalisation are all elements of discussion when it comes to making transactions more secure, streamline operations, reduce costs an...

Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

Tools for banks’ continued digitalisation journeys

This is an excerpt from the Future of Payments 2025 report. Financial institutions need to transform their entire business and operating model to achieve bespoke, modular digital solutions and improve profitability. So, how can open banking and embedded finance help with this goal? And which hurdles remain? Annalisa Ludwinski, head of corresponden...

Níamh Curran

Níamh Curran Senior Reporter at Finextra

EU payments regulations: What to expect from 2025

This is an excerpt from the Future of Payments 2025 report. There are a plethora of new EU regulations and directives on the horizon. Many of these will require banks and financial institutions to start making (or really have already started to make) big changes. Many will be aware of the impact PSD3 many have, and despite the timeline for this no...