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Technology has now been proven…

Craig Ramsay, Global Head of Innovation, Global Liquidity and Cash Management, HSBC, talks about how the regulatory environment needs to keep up with the pace of technology advancements, how banks are now using and seeing the value of technologies such as blockchain, AI and biometrics, and how virtual reality will soon start to have an impact.

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PSD2 causes disruption to the status quo

Stephen Lemon, Co-Founder, VP Business Development, Currencycloud, speaks at the SAP Financial Services Forum about PSD2 in the context of open APIs – comparing the option of simply complying with the option of getting ahead by leveraging APIs for collaboration.

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Regtech to make compliance process more efficient

Richard Anderson, Richard Anderson, Head of Product Management, Regulatory Intelligence, Thomson Reuters, talks to us about the challenges of regulatory change and why automation is necessary to address these challenges, and why firms will start to use regtech to improve their compliance processes.

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Open platforms not a threat but an opportunity

Martin Haering, Chief Marketing Officer at Finastra urges banks to see open platforms as an opportunity rather than a threat and explains the positive impact they have on the industry’s key service providers and CMOs through more collaboration, improved revenue, cost and more efficient use of data thus better customer experience.

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Disruption in the Insurance market

Laurent Lemaire, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, elseco, talks to us at the SAP Financial Services Forum, about how disruption is currently impacting the insurance market and the role technology plays in it, the opportunities this disruption brings and the change in new entrants we will see in this market.

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Banks need to differentiate through data

Gerald Grattoni, Head of EMEA Financial Services Solutions, Intel, and Andy Hirst, VP, Banking Solutions, SAP, talk at the SAP Financial Services Forum about the drivers for banks and insurers to exploit data and analytics, how cheap storage and real-time tools are making data more accessible, the best use cases for machine learning to automate repetitive processes, and how firms must manage challenges around governance and data integrity, while finding the right balance in AI deployment out to customers.

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Disruption is coming… but we don’t know where from

Michael Leadbetter, Adjunct Faculty, Singularity University, talks at the SAP Financial Services Forum about exponential technologies, the opportunities – and challenges – they bring to financial services, and the need for education within the industry about how to leverage them, to prepare for the disruption that could come from a number of sources, including the GAFAs.

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Focus fintech on solving customer problems

Craig Ramsay, Global Head of Innovation, Global Liquidity and Cash Management, HSBC, talks about use cases for blockchain in domestic and cross-border payments, likely timeframes for implementation, how blockchain can add value for banks’ clients, how banks can leverage machine learning to tackle cyber threats and how to work with fintechs to solve specific problems.

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Blockchain drives up trust in business networks

John McLean, VP Blockchain Labs Services, IBM, talks about how close blockchain is to going mainstream in financial services, and how it can be deployed to transform complex, friction-heavy processes to deliver transparency and efficiency.

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Regtech now the driver of transformation for bank

Mathew Wells, Senior Manager, Wavestone, talks about how financial institutions can leverage regtech to accelerate change through the three key phases of reacting to, adapting to and optimising compliance with new regulations.

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Understanding the critical path to IFRS 17

Tamsin Abbey, EMEA IFRS Life Actuarial Lead Partner, Deloitte, discusses how insurers’ accounts will look different under IFRS 17, and how the increased transparency, consistency and clarity will aid the market’s understanding of insurers’ financial performances.

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Take a strategic approach to Open banking

Damian Richardson, Head of Innovation, Payments, NatWest, talks about open banking and its potential to challenge and change the way banks offer services and products to customers. Increasingly banks and third-parties will collaborate to offer new personalised services to their customers through a network of APIs and a culture of open banking. This will take time to adopt but banks should take the strategic approach now.

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Banks are transforming both digitally and culturally

Gerhard Kebbel, Managing Director, Digitalisation, Helaba, discusses the importance of digitalisation in financial services and the changes it brings. He talks about transforming the way banks both interact with, and respond to, their customers by engaging with them digitally to provide new innovative services and products. To achieve this banks have to undergo change embracing new technologies and cultural outlook.

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The future of Correspondent Banking and Cross Border Payments

Marc Recker, Head of Market Management, Institutional Cash Management, Deutsche Bank talks about the future of Correspondent Banking and Cross Border Payments in the Financial Institutions market. He offers his views on the need to look again at current business models, the issues of managing compliance, risk and transparency, the digital economy and and the imminent launch of Swift’s gpi initiative.

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AI opens up high-end next-gen automation

David Bannister, Principal Analyst, Financial Services Technology, Ovum, talks about the search for the killer app for voice processing technology, the cultural hurdles to be overcome on the path to AI adoption and how AI will work together with IoT and blockchain.

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The proliferation of ‘living services’

James Dickerson, Product Director, Financial Services, Accenture, talks about the digitisation of everything, liquid expectations, and their impact on the competitive landscape for banks.

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MiFID II biggest thing for trading since Big Bang

Peter Moss, CEO, SmartStream Reference Data Utility, talks about the reference data demands of MiFID II, the need for data to be blended for ease of use, and options for firms to access data in a form they can exploit without having to do all the work themselves.

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Banks are moving from systems of scale to systems of change

Mike Blalock, General Manager, Intel Financial Services, discusses the progress of digitalisation, the potential of AI, the need for banks to fix their data and their cultures to progress with both, and how technology can underpin banks’ transition to lifestyle companies.

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Real time data is differentiator under MiFID II

Thomas Kennedy, Group Head of Analytic Services, Thomson Reuters, talks about how MiFID II will impact transparency and drive innovation across asset classes.

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Leveraging Ireland’s three Ls…

Alan Duffy, CEO, Ireland, HSBC, talks about the strengths of Ireland in terms of law, location and language, the opportunities – and challenges – created for the country by Brexit, and the power of technology and digital to be gamechangers over the coming years.