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.

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Time for a New Banking Index

Now that governments across Europe have part nationalised the banks perhaps we can get away from the hysteria in the media, which is focussing too much on the market value and not on the underlying. The nationalisation of banks has effectively removed the banks from normal company valuations because of the various terms insisted on by the governme...

15 October 2008 /retail

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Nationalisation has never been so popular

The UK government could never have foreseen that during their time in office, they would nationalise the high street banks and what's more with the support of the opposition and the City in general. We live in very strange times indeed. Although today's announcements from the UK Chancellor are somewhat short of real nationalisation, it is as close ...

08 October 2008

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Every man expects 'The House' to do its duty!

After the US Senate agreed the modified bill to pump a life saving $700b into the USA economy, the rest of the world waits with baited breath to see if the House of Representatives follows and brings the world back from the brink of a global recession. Readers will know that I abhor Government interference in free markets and always feel that the m...

02 October 2008

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Is London losing its position?

London is the biggest international financial market in the world according to established government figures. Financial markets make up approximately 28% of UK GDP and are a fundamental component of the European "Action Plan". Any dilution of "the City" as the dominant international centre will not only be bad for the UK gover...

24 September 2008

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

Download EBAday 2008 presentations

If you're in the payments business in Europe and didn't attend EBAday 2008 in Helsinki last week, you definitely missed out. For networking opportunities between banks, corporates and suppliers, and for identifying obstacles and driving progress in e-payments and the Sepa vision, the event is unrivalled. But if you didn't make it, all is not lost....

30 June 2008 /payments

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

For Sepa, the end is nigh

Well, not quite. But at EBAday in Helsinki there have been many calls for a mandatory end date for Sepa implementation - for a fixed date beyond which legacy national payment products within the eurozone will no longer be supported. December 2010 was the initial target date set when the Sepa plans were first being formulated by the industry, but t...

26 June 2008 /payments

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

Sepa on track, but is it at the right gauge?

After the opening afternoon of the EBAday 2008 payments conference and exhibition, some themes are already emerging. Euro Banking Association chairman Hansjoerg Nymphius opened the conference by reminding attendees that a new era of European payments had begun with the introduction of Sepa credit transfers in January. While it might seem like a sm...

25 June 2008 /payments

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

Do we need a recession to boost banking industry efficiency?

At a roundtable discussion this morning before the kick-off of the EBAday payments conference and exhibition, we had an interesting discussion on the topic of payments convergence - from ACH-card network linkages to retail consumers' expectation of simple, fast and convenient payment initiation regardless of what route a payment takes through a ba...

25 June 2008 /payments

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

EBAday gets its first high-profile visitor

We arrived late yesterday in Helsinki in advance of tomorrow's start of the annual EBAday conference and exhibition to find an impressive sight - the 115 metre long Pelorus, the world's 12th largest private yacht, moored right next to the conference venue at Katajanokka Quay. Formerly the property of Chelsea FC owner and Russian oil oligarch Roma...

24 June 2008 /payments

Retired Member 

EBAday just around the corner

If you're attending EBAday you might like to download our list of exhibitors and sponsors to get a feel for what you'll see when you get there. You can also download the latest agenda. EBAday takes place next week in Helsinki on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th June.

16 June 2008 /payments