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Olivier Lens

Olivier Lens Head of Sub Sahara Africa at Swift

Accelerating Africa: The power of global standards to transform cross-border payments

When we send messages to the other side of the world with the click of a button, it’s only natural to expect to send payments with the same speed. Being able to make payments safely and efficiently is critical for supporting economic development. In recent years, financial institutions and major organisations have increasingly recognised how vital...

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Amey Prabhu

Amey Prabhu Solution Architect & Head of Trade Finance Product at Veefin

Smarter Banking for Corporate Treasurers

Corporate treasury has evolved significantly, shifting from a mere cost center to a pivotal player in shaping business strategy and driving growth initiatives. This transformation requires treasurers to focus less on routine activities and more on leveraging data for timely, informed decisions that optimize working capital. With 70% of corporate t...

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Amey Prabhu

Amey Prabhu Solution Architect & Head of Trade Finance Product at Veefin

MSME Lending - Technology and Policy are Redefining Access to Finance

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are the lifeblood of economies worldwide, contributing significantly to employment and GDP. In India, the government defines MSMEs based on annual revenue: micro enterprises earning up to ₹5 crores, small enterprises between ₹5 and ₹75 crores, and medium enterprises between ₹75 and ₹250 crores. Despite ...

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Amey Prabhu

Amey Prabhu Solution Architect & Head of Trade Finance Product at Veefin

Transaction Banking Transformation

As the "Everything Real-Time" era emerges, transaction banking is adapting to align with customers' expectations of seamless, real-time, and personalized services. Corporate Treasury, in particular, is shifting towards a strategic role, demanding decision-making insights and advanced capabilities from their banking partners. This shift u...

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Amey Prabhu

Amey Prabhu Solution Architect & Head of Trade Finance Product at Veefin

Digital Trade - A New Frontier For Financial Institutions and Product Vendors

Digitalisation of Trade The digitalisation of trade has emerged as a strategic priority for regulators, industry bodies, and financial institutions worldwide. This concerted effort is driven by the recognition that digital tools and technologies can significantly enhance the efficiency, transparency, and security of global trade processes. As the ...

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Amey Prabhu

Amey Prabhu Solution Architect & Head of Trade Finance Product at Veefin

Smarter Banking for Corporate Treasurers

Amey Prabhu

Amey Prabhu Solution Architect & Head of Trade Finance Product at Veefin

MSME Lending - Technology and Policy are Redefining Access to Finance

Amey Prabhu

Amey Prabhu Solution Architect & Head of Trade Finance Product at Veefin

Transaction Banking Transformation

Amey Prabhu

Amey Prabhu Solution Architect & Head of Trade Finance Product at Veefin

Digital Trade - A New Frontier For Financial Institutions and Product Vendors

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UK Open Banking API Performance 2023-2024

In this fourth annual report, APIContext evaluated the performance of UK Open Banking APIs from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024. The UK’s Open Banking system is arguably the most advanced in the world, having been in place since at least 2018. The time in market for this ecosystem offers lessons and best practices to other countries that are looking to implement similar API-driven financial systems; as well as banks and financial institutions that seek to differentiate through quality customer experiences. In this updated report, APIContext evaluates the performance of Open Banking APIs provided by various types of financial institutions in the UK. These include the major “CMA9” banks (the nine largest banks required by UK law to provide Open Banking services), traditional High Street banks, credit card companies, building societies (similar to credit unions in the United States), and new digital banks, often called neobanks. All the data in this report are based on real API calls, having tested the APIs in real-world conditions using the same process that consumers would go through. These calls followed the FAPI (Financial-grade API) standards, which are specifically designed for securely sharing sensitive financial data. The report includes: Key analysis of the UK's Open Banking API performance 2023 - 2024 Availability and reliability of API endpoints Latency metrics (DNS, TCP connect, SSL handshake, processing, and total time) Performance by cloud provider (AWS, IBM, Azure, and Google) Comparative analysis between different bank types (CMA9, traditional, and neobanks) Cloud provider comparison and other detailed findings Key takeaways and recommendations for various players in the ecosystem

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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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White Paper

UK Open Banking API Performance 2022-2023

The UK continues to be at the forefront of the global Open Banking revolution thanks to the proactive attitude of regulators.  As the most advanced Open Banking market in the world, the UK provides an example of best practices in the implementation of API-based Open Banking that other jurisdictions can use as a model.  In this report, we study the performance of the Open Banking APIs exposed by the large CMA9 UK banks, traditional High Street banks, credit card providers and building societies, and new entrant banks (neobanks). Some of our key findings include:  There continue to be significant API performance differences between banks; There is a significant difference in total latency between the fastest and slowest banks; Cloud choice makes a huge difference in performance; And more. Download our analysis of Open Banking API services today to learn more. 

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FinextraTV

Immediate Generative AI Use Cases in Banking and Financial Services

Roshan Shetty, BFSI & Public Services Head – Americas, Tech Mahindra and Michael Ruttledge, Chief Information Officer, Head of Enterprise Technology & Security, Citizens Bank, join FinextraTV to opine progress since ChatGPT was launched two years ago. Despite dominating headlines, only 6% of the banking, financial services and insurance industries have truly leveraged generative AI algorithms for business models, while 46% are merely passive observers. Work is being done in terms of concepts being considered and pilots being pushed through, but the reality – as the pair explain – is that these sectors are heavily regulated and change management and data privacy must be prioritised to ensure the appropriate guardrails are in place so that the industry can indeed move forward from this test and learn era of generative AI.

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Rajashekara Maiya

Rajashekara Maiya VP at Infosys

Corporate lending: Creating, delivering, and realising value

This piece has been co-authored by Ram Devanarayanan, associate vice president, senior industry principal at Infosys Finacle. Between 2015 and 2019, while the gap in bank lending to small and medium enterprises in the Eurozone shrank from 6% of GDP to 3%, a quarter of European SMEs still faced great difficulty in accessing finance. In 2022, amid ...

Paige McNamee

Paige McNamee

Why did SVB collapse?

In a spectacle brimming with action more compelling than anything seen at the Oscars, Silicon Valley Bank’s dramatic and total collapse over the weekend continues to unleash plot-twists on the beleaguered tech sector. The rapid downfall of the bank, a California darling, has dealt a terrifying blow to the industry, and the true fallout for the spac...

Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Which banks are at risk after the SVB collapse?

When Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed last week, a 40-year legacy born in the innovation and optimism of its namesake Northern California birthplace died with it. Now that the nearly $200 Billion deposit institution – which according to many analysts may have banked more than 50% of all tech companies at some point in their existence – is gone, wh...