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Kyrylo Reitor

Kyrylo Reitor Chief Marketing Officer at International Fintech Business

Upgrade of SPI License to API License in Poland

As of 2024, the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) has established clear guidelines for Specialized Payment Institutions (SPIs) looking to upgrade to Authorized Payment Institutions (APIs). This transition aligns with the demand for processing higher transaction volumes and delivering a wider range of services, reflecting the financial s...

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Ruoyu Xie

Ruoyu Xie Marketing Manager at Grand Compliance

Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR): Retail Portfolio Diversification

The latest updates to the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), published on November 12, 2024, introduce significant changes to retail exposure diversification. These changes, developed by the European Banking Authority (EBA) under the mandate of Article 123(1) of the CRR, aim to enhance financial stability across the European Union. The updates ...

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Kyrylo Reitor

Kyrylo Reitor Chief Marketing Officer at International Fintech Business

Future of SPI in Poland

The evolving regulatory landscape and increasing competition present both new opportunities and significant challenges for SPIs in Poland. Opportunities: Niche Markets: SPIs can successfully compete with large banks by targeting specific market segments, such as youth, small businesses, or by providing specialized services (e.g., for travelers). In...

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Matt Riggall

Matt Riggall Head of Commercial Lending Vertical, Cap. Markets at FIS

Generative AI agents and the future of work in commercial banking

The future of work for commercial banking RM's is set to be transformed by the integration of generative AI agents. As the financial services industry evolves, AI will become an essential tool, automating tasks and enhancing productivity. Here’s how AI will revolutionize key activities for RM's: Portfolio Management: AI agents will help relations...

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Kyrylo Reitor

Kyrylo Reitor Chief Marketing Officer at International Fintech Business

10 mistakes when registering international companies and how to avoid them

Expanding a business internationally can be a lucrative venture, but it's essential to navigate the process carefully to avoid common pitfalls. Here are ten mistakes companies often make when registering internationally and how to prevent them: Inadequate Market Research: Failing to conduct thorough market research can lead to costly mistakes. Unde...

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Kyrylo Reitor

Kyrylo Reitor Chief Marketing Officer at International Fintech Business

Upgrade of SPI License to API License in Poland

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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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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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What should European Banks prioritise in their payments modernisation journeys?

Payments modernisation is no longer a luxury for financial institutions. Dramatic shifts in consumer appetite, complete overhauls of financial regulation and a need to prioritise resilience mean that banks have little choice but to rethink their systems to operate in this brave new world.  European banks have a particularly challenging task ahead of them. ISO 20022, open banking and API enablement initiatives, and the introduction of real-time, cross-border payments makes modernisation of legacy systems ever more complex.  This Finextra report, produced in association with Volante Technologies, explores the current European banking landscape and answers:  What European deadlines are impacting banks’ payments modernisation plans? How are European countries progressing toward payments modernisation? Will Payments-as-a-Service help firms push payments modernisation ahead? And much more. Download the report today to discover more. 

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The State of US Instant Payments Adoption

In this PREDICT 2025 USA interview, Reed Luhtanen, Executive Director, U.S. Faster Payments Council, talks about industry expectations for instant payments in the US for 2028 – the year in which between 70-80% of financial institutions are expected to receive instant payments, and 30-40% will have the capability to send instant credits.

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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...