Artificial intelligence

Finextra TV/markets

Why T+1 Is Just the Beginning: Reimagining Post-Trade for a Real-Time Future

At Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Danny Green, Head of International Post-Trade Solutions, Broadridge, discussed the global shift toward shortened settlement cycles, with Europe targeting T+1 by October 2027 and Asia to follow. He emphasised that this transition is not just a regulatory requirement but a catalyst for operational and technological transformation. Green highlighted the role of AI in optimising inventory management and predicting settlement fails, helping firms adapt to faster, more complex post-trade environments. He stressed the importance of balancing innovation with resilience, ensuring secure, 24/7 operations while embracing automation and digitisation. Success, he noted, depends on choosing the right partners who share a commitment to both progress and stability.

03 November 2025

News/ai

28m Brits use AI tools to help manage their money - Lloyds

More than half of UK adults have used artificial intelligence in the last year to help them manage their money – making personal finance the nation’s number one use of AI, according to research from Lloyds.

03 November 2025

News/Sibos

BNY executives on combatting CX fragmentation and integrating AI

At Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Finextra spoke to BNY executive platform owner of payments platform Isabel Schmidt, and executive platform owner for treasury services Carl Slabicki, on everything AI, blockchain, and cross-border.

31 October 2025

Finextra TV/payments

How AI and Digital Currencies Are Reshaping the Payments Infrastructure

At Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Ramon Villarreal, Head of Payments, Global Payments Industry Lead at Red Hat, discussed the evolving balance between innovation and reliability in the payments industry. He noted that while innovation has accelerated in recent years, trust and operational resilience, reinforced by regulations like DORA, are once again top priorities. Villarreal emphasised the growing need to simplify payment complexity, especially as banks prepare to integrate stablecoins and CBDCs. He predicted a surge in agentic AI use cases, including fraud prevention and intelligent routing, alongside the rise of interoperable faster payment networks. With digital currencies and AI reshaping the landscape, Villarreal called for efficient, scalable systems to meet the demands of a rapidly transforming market.

30 October 2025

Finextra TV/ai

Adopting New Technologies: Why Resilience and Reliability Matter Most of All

Speaking to FinextraTV at SBS Summit 2025 in Paris, Ragnhildur Geirsdóttir, CEO, Reiknistofa Bankanna (RB) explained how, regardless of the human aspect within technology adoption, the most important guarantee is resiliency and reliability. While it is important to still retain human touchpoints within technical processes and AI integration, she says development should be focused on the security and agility of systems in the face of unpredictable situations such as geopolitical frictions. As part of this focus, Geirsdóttir said it is more important to collaborate against rising external risks, such as intelligent fraud.

30 October 2025

News/ai

UK startups lacking AI expertise at board level

UK startups and scaleups are being urged to address an absence of AI skills within their boardrooms, according to a recently published report

30 October 2025

Long read/Artificial intelligence

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

The “immaturity” of AI – are banks prepared for AI data security?

29 October 2025

Finextra TV/ai

'The New Industrial Revolution': The Race Towards Explainabile & Relevant AI

At SBS Summit 2025 in Paris, Hani Hagras, Chief Science Officer and Global Head of AI, SBS discussed how AI is the new industrial revolution and spoke to how regulation, data and expectations will evolve alongside it. Explaining the key barriers to successful AI implementation, Hagras splits these into 3 parts: 1. Siloed data, 2. The need for Sovereign AI and 3. The need for AI explainability. Quoting statistics that outline AI’s impact on profitability, Hagras described how banks and institutions cannot afford to hesitate any longer and must accelerate further, with the knowledge that the future won’t be a competition of access and speed, but of trust, services, intelligence and relevance.

29 October 2025

Finextra TV/crime

Combatting the Rise of Well-Funded Financial Crime

Joining the FinextraTV studio at Sibos in Frankfurt, Matt Michaud, Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance, and Nattu Srikrishnan, Senior Director, Global Screening Strategy, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, address the proliferation of bad actors and AI misuse within financial crime. Helping to define some of the key risks from synthetic documents and document tampering, Srikrishnan explains how AI can be used to identify deepfakes or manipulation in order to combat bad actors within the financial ecosystem. In relation to innovations in screening, Michaud outlines why collaboration – with both customers and regulators – is key to meaningful innovation that addresses key priorities, reminding us, "if you have 47 priorities, you have none“.

29 October 2025