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Ashley Groves

Ashley Groves CEO and Founder at Deaglo

4 Ways We Integrated AI Into Our Startup (And The Hurdles We Overcame)

The AI Awakening From day one, our startup has leveraged Machine Learning and Data Science. But 24 months ago, the birth of Large Language Models (LLMs) catapulted AI into human consciousness. Most of us have now had that "Wow! moment"—the experience that stopped us in our tracks. Maybe you wrote a poem with AI that moved a loved one to t...

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Jose Puccini

Jose Puccini AVP at BankTrade

📺 Today’s Episode: Neobank´s Saving Accounts

Today, we’re diving into a fintech battle: Europe vs. Latin America. Digital banks. High-yield accounts. Who’s got the best deal? Let’s break it down. Europe’s digital banks—think N26, Revolut, Bunq—are all about smooth UX, strong security, and solid regulation. You’ll get 2% to 4% APY on savings. Not bad, right? But here’s the catch: it’s predicta...

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Kyrylo Reitor

Kyrylo Reitor Chief Marketing Officer at International Fintech Business

How women are transforming FinTech

Every historical change begins with an invisible impulse - a quiet spark that eventually grows into a significant wave. A similar process is now occurring in the financial sector, where, contrary to familiar stereotypes, more and more women are entering FinTech and expanding the industry's horizons. According to a Deloitte report, women still make...

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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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Jose Puccini

Jose Puccini AVP at BankTrade

📺 Today’s Episode: Fail and Risk in NeoBanking

Welcome to FinTech-Bank Talks (Top European Pod on Spotify) I´m Jose Puccini, your host. Here, we dive deep into the latest trends in finance and technology. Today, we're addressing a crucial topic that often gets overshadowed by the excitement surrounding neobanks: the risks and failures associated with these digital financial institutions. What ...

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Research

Impact Study

Cross-border payments: How is the market addressing G20 targets?

This impact study explores how far along the G20’s cross-border roadmap firms have travelled; why cutting-edge technology platforms are imperative in today’s instant payments world; as well as how financial leaders can go beyond the G20’s objectives, in order to ensure prosperity for the coming decade.  The cross-border payments market is one of the fastest growing money movement markets in the world. It reached $150 trillion in 2017, and by 2027 is expected to reach $250 trillion – a rise of over $100 trillion in just ten years. There are several factors that have led to the increase in global remittances, be they wholesale or retail in origin, including expanding supply chains; globalised investment flows; international trade and e-commerce; as well as the increased global movement of people, resulting in more money being sent across borders.  While cross-border payments are booming, many financial institutions are still struggling to keep their technology platforms up to speed, and the drive toward real-time is having deep ramifications for organisations’ operations. To address these challenges, a gathering of some of the world’s largest economies, known as the Group of Twenty (G20), set out a roadmap in 2021 to improve cross-border payments.  Also providing impetus for widespread modernisation are mandated initiatives like new, and continually evolving, ISO 20022 message and data standards and the European Union (EU)’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) – forcing players in the highly-competitive payments space to invest in smarter services, customer centricity, and on top of that, become the engines of growth.  This Finextra impact study, produced in association with Temenos, explores:   A status update on the G20 cross-border targets;  The need for modernisation - an overview of other factors affecting cross-border payments;  A roadmap for change beyond G20;  Real-life case studies. 

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White Paper

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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FinextraTV

How CES Informs U.S. Bank's Continuous Innovation

Attending CES in Las Vegas, Don Relyea, Chief Innovation Officer, U.S. Bank, spoke to FinextraTV about why an electronics show like CES is so instrumental to banking. As well as noting the increase in financial firms attending, Relyea describes how technological innovation will intersect with the future of banking and financial services in 2025.

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Long reads

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...