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Shifting cultures as a result of technology transformation

Rhys Sharp, Solution Director, Solution Director, Rackspace, speaks about technology transformation, how banks are adapting both established and challenger, challenges along the way, how banks can keep the right balance between regulation, security and innovation and how this changing the culture within organisations.

08 January 2020

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More and more banks joining the ESG agenda

Jonathan Hughes, Co-Founder, Pollinate International, speaks at Sustainable Finance. Live about how Pollinate are working with banks to inform them and their customers about better buying decisions to help the environment, changing consumer views about their carbon footprint, the supply chain & impact of purchasing data and whether enough banks have enough of an appetite for Sustainable Finance.

18 December 2019

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Value chain vs. supply chain: Redesigning the economy

Anna Poberezhna, Founder, CEO, Smart4tech, speaks at Sustainable Finance. Live about Green Finance through redefining the value of water through digitisation and integrated water resource management and redesigning processes & products through the lens of system thinking & tech to make the world a better place. She speaks about the Circular Economy and the efforts to build optimisation and innovations to re-design the way the economy works by addressing value chain versus supply chain.

18 December 2019

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Sustainable Finance.Live: How best to design the report and reporting process

Richard Conway, CEO, Elastacloud, speaks at Sustainable Finance. Live about energy sustainability, whether the challenges we face with understanding data necessary for sustainable products and solutions can be overcome, the methodologies organisations need to explore around data going forward, the role of AI and how best to design the report and reporting process.

16 December 2019

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Understanding the Supply Chain with OceanMind

Together at Sustainable Finance.Live, Nick Wise, CEO, OceanMind & Richard Peers, Founder of Responsible Risk look to uncover solutions and get commercial banks to become more engaged in sustainable projects. Nick lends the case study of using the empowerment of fisheries authorities and seafood buyers to explain the emergence of supply chain data and the capability of and impact that smaller firms can deliver.

16 December 2019

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Sustainable Finance.Live: Designing a green commercial bond product

Adrian Sargent, Treasury Operating Officer, Virgin Money, speaks to Richard Peers, Founder, Responsible Risk about the good of Green Bonds and their increase in demand, some of the cost constraints of issuing bonds and the complexities that come with identifying green assets, the importance of being able to extract data necessary for organisations to confidently invest and how we need to simplify the process going forward.

13 December 2019

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Agrimetrics: Beyond ‘greenwashed’ ideas and toward tangible results

Matthew Smith, Chief Product Officer, Agrimetrics, speaks about the issues around agricultural productivity and sustainability in the UK, how we can address the challenges in understanding and assessing data for products necessary in sustainable finance and how AI has become the booster for accelerating us towards actionable information. He shares with Hannah Wallace, Finextra what a Green Bond is and how banks and other large organisations' willingness and confidence to invest in sustainable projects is changing.

13 December 2019

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Understanding Sustainable Finance risks and making data driven decisions

Mark Hodgson, Chief Business Officer, Cervest, speaks to Hannah Wallace, FinextraTV, at Sustainable Finance.Live about understanding sustainable risks and making data driven decisions in the context of climate change, the challenges in assessing the data necessary to build sustainable solutions, the role of AI and ML in tackling those hurdles and what this means for commercial banks.

11 December 2019

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Sustainable Finance.Live: Positive change through innovation and collaboration

Richard Peers, Founder of ResponsibleRisk sets the scene for Sustainable Finance. Live, the first in a series of events that sets out to provide actionable strategies, debunk the myth that value cannot be created by meeting sustainability goals and show how revenue can be generated through trustworthy implementation of ESG (environmental, social and governance) measures.

06 December 2019

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The key to scaling up:Design, data, automation & monetisation

Mohit Joshi, President, Infosys, speaks at Finacle Conclave in Dubai about how companies have embraced digital and now looking to scale up in order to be closer to their customers, changes in the customer journey, the importance of data and how this effects revenue.

06 December 2019

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Scale Digital: Tackling the transition pains

Sanat Rao, Chief Business Officer and Global Head, Infosys Finacle, speaks at their event in Dubai about the theme, Scale Digital and the thought behind it. We ask what banks need to consider as they scale digital, the challenges changing expectations present, the transition pains banks endure and where Infosys Finacle fits in.

05 December 2019

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Bank of America: Applying AI front and back of house

Gaurav Khanna, Head of Mobile Strategy & Digital Initiatives, Bank of America, speaks at Money 20/20 USA about emerging technologies and the application to clients to enhance their experience, where AI fits into this and the importance of leveraging AI at the back end as well.

18 November 2019

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Business solutions from the intersection of AI and Cloud

Scott Johnson, VP Head of Product, Western Union Business Solutions, speaks at Money 20/20 USA about the intersection of AI and Cloud, the benefits to the banks business solutions, where blockchain is being successfully implemented and the risks that banks need to consider around security today and in future.

08 November 2019

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Digital Banking Strategy for 2020 Fraud Challenges

Scott M. Clements, Chief Executive Officer and President at OneSpan, talks to Finextra TV about innovation trends in digital banking, the rise of identity theft and mobile fraud, and the need for banks to increase agility as the threat environment evolves rapidly.

06 November 2019

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FinextraTV @ Sibos2019 – The Big Themes #3: Regulation

FinextraTV reports from Sibos 2019 in London on the impact of Regulation on the industry. In this, final episode, we learn about how Banks are adapting to the changing regulatory landscape, whether the cost of compliance outweighs the value of innovation, what success in this space demands and whether regulation will be able to keep up with the pace set by the tech giants. Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, Nordea, LHV, KPMG and Crown Agents Bank are among the many leading institutions to share their views exclusively with Finextra Research.

18 October 2019

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FinextraTV @ Sibos2019 – The Big Themes #2: Leveraging Data

FinextraTV reports from Sibos 2019 in London on how the industry is Leveraging Data. In this, second of three Sibos reports, we learn about how Banks are increasingly looking to develop a more formal strategy to better manage their data, the challenges leveraging data helps overcome and some of the new and improved services that are coming to market as a result. Barclays, LLoyds, BAML, Natwest, SEB, DBS Bank, Westpac, JPMorgan, Standard Chartered, Société Générale, Nordea, ING, Emirates NBD, and Absa are among the many leading institutions to share their views exclusively with Finextra Research. Become a Finextra member now and be sure not to miss: Sibos2019 Big Themes: Regulation…

11 October 2019

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Sustainable Finance: Defining Green Activities

Elena Philapova, Global Head of ESG Proposition, Refinitiv & Member, Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, DG FISMA, European Commission, speaks at Sibos2019 about sustainable projects within finance, the role of data within these projects, the importance of common standards with regards to what is a green and when this taxonomy will come to market.

10 October 2019

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Identity is bigger than payments

Alessandro Baroni, CMO equensWorldline, speaks about the technological issues regarding online identity, the role of the financial services industry in determining the future of online identity and how identity should be considered a ‘big business’ concept for financial institutions.

08 October 2019

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Measuring the industry's tech- intelligence around data analytics

Martijn De Jong, Global Co-Head of Digital Channels and Data Analytics, Standard Chartered, speaks at Sibos 2019 about whether the financial services industry is technologically intelligent enough for the application of data analytics, how organisations are adapting to how data needs to be managed and what the opportunities are of harnessing information sources on a scalable and secure basis.

07 October 2019

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‘Now is the time to make the payments world real-time,’ SWIFT

Harry Newman, Head of Banking, SWIFT, explores the reasoning behind exploding demand for instant payments, how SWIFT and its community is meeting this demand, and how cross-border payments will evolve moving forward.

04 October 2019