EBAday

EBAday is the annual event for European payments professionals organised by Finextra and the Euro Banking Association. This community has been created to deliver a forum for EBA delegates to exchange views on instant payments, open banking and new developments in payments processing and technology.

Douwe Lycklama Founding partner at INNOPAY

E-identity is made too complex, payments can lead forward

E-identity and electronic payments are two sided markets. Meaning: they serve two distinct groups of customers. Payments are about payers and payees and e-identity is about respectively users and relying parties. So let’s keep on thinking about these two distinct customers groups of e-identity when we talk about e-identity. Let’s first put in some...

28 May 2012 /payments

Daniel Szmukler Director at EBA

EBAday 2012 community blog

The EBA is keen to get community input on the EBAday topics for 2012 and invite bankers, corporate treasurers, and infrastructure and service providers to provide their suggestions and feedback in the 'EBAday community'. We look forward to hearing your ideas on ways and means to help progress the payments business and to foster collaboration and i...

27 February 2012 /payments

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Love triangle drama in Payments Close

Just when you thought payments couldn't stir up a bit of intrigue, the payments space gives us a juicy bit of M&A love triangle drama worthy of the cheesiest, Susan Lucci-top billing, daytime soap opera (those in the US know what I'm talking about). The talk of this year's EBADay was "Who's going buy Fundtech?" A week or so later, we ...

27 July 2011 /payments

Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide

Knowledge-based innovation

All banks benefit from improvements to the payment market’s efficiency. This is where experienced software professionals can help the payments community achieve more in less time, particularly in complex global markets. Software partners are in a position to help deliver innovative services with their available proven solutions and tools. When a b...

20 June 2011 /payments /wholesale

Retired Member 

WiFi Sky High!

Having just returned from EBA Day in Madrid, I think that the 600+ delegates, exhibitors and organisers, would agree it was a roaring success, with only one slight cloud on the horizon - WiFi. Why is it in this day and age that the likes of Starbucks, Costa and numerous hotels and other places can provide free WiFi but that conference venues ch...

17 June 2011 /payments

Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide

Innovating to compete

The need to develop new customer propositions has become more important recently because of the new market entrants that many claim are eroding the traditional bank’s business in the payments space. It is a common topic of conversation at industry conferences, but in reality these new entrants invariably work with banks to deliver final settlement...

17 June 2011 /payments

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Retail banks get consumer happy

Innovation in the retail banking industry is surely a oxymoron! Never noted for out-of-the-box thinking sleepy bankers have always been very keen to protect what they have and just take the money. Not anymore if EBA Day is to be believed. It's very refreshing that with SEPA finally on the home straight, bankers have been looking to alternative reve...

16 June 2011 /payments

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

SEPA a rule of convenience

SEPA is going to get a firm date at last but where are the sanctions for countries who don't comply? I have said this many times before but rules without a penalty are not worth writing. It's of course the European way to be collaborative and well, just nice, but this is hardly a frightening prospect for great big hairy global bankers. However, le...

16 June 2011 /payments

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Global respect needed for Basel III or it will fail

So Basel III looms large but will it be in-step with the rest of the world? We all know that we are now in a global economy and financial services has to come to terms with a rapidly changing world and increasing demands of politicians, regulators, customers and technology but does Basel III have the scope to cover the world's markets and its nee...

16 June 2011 /payments

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

EBA Day and the road back

EBA Day has been quite something this year. It has grown enormously and now rivals SIBOS for quality of speakers, delegates and exhibitors. The concentration of top quality people in the payments space all able to mix and get down and dirty with all the days tough issues and find solutions and with the inclusion of expert suppliers makes this an e...

16 June 2011 /payments