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Changes in domestic and cross border payments

Jerry Norton , Head of Strategy, Financial Services, CGI, talks at EBAday 2018 about the top areas of discussion within the industry today, how the payments market is changing international and domestically, and what considerations need to be had when creating an API.

06 July 2018

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Putting cross-service alignment at the top of the strategic agenda

Erwin Kulk, Head of Service Development and Management EBA CLEARING, speaks at EBAday 2018 about changes within the industry's infrastructure layer and what impact the roll-out of instant payments will have on large-value payments.

02 July 2018

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Coping with the increased volume of digital payments

Cristina Astore, International Director, SIA, talks at EBAday 2018 about the key factors are to face the payments market beyond innovation, what new approaches banks are taking due to an increased demand for digital payments and whats next on the agenda in the Eurozone.

02 July 2018

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Payment processing across APAC

Alistair Brown, Global Head of Payments, EPAM, talks at EBAday 2018 about the main challenges within the banking sphere today, how to make a relationship with a fintech successful and whether APAC is a consolidated marketplace or overly a fragmented.

02 July 2018

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Oracle to locate European fintech hub in Brussels

Big tech company Oracle is to locate a new 'Fintech Innovation Programme' in Belgium, teaming up with local startup supporter B-Hive.

02 July 2018

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Banking trends in Latin America

Michel Bouffier, CIO, Banco Multiva, speaks at The Temenos Community Forum: The Digital Revolution, about banking trends in Latin America, how their digital strategy is shaping and how they are using technology to create better digital customer journeys.

20 June 2018

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Instant Payments: Rip and Replace

Mark Munne, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at equensWorldline, talks at EBAday 2018 about the different implementation strategies for Instant Payments across the globe, more specifically how smaller communities are handling this in comparison to Europe.

19 June 2018

News/Brexit

UK launches £2.5bn startup initiative

The UK government has launched a series of initiatives designed to attract more foreign fintech experts to work for UK startups and to encourage those same startups to remain in the UK rather than uproot to an EU-based neighbouring jurisdiction.

13 June 2018

News/Brexit

Live: EBAday2018, day two

Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Munich this week for EBAday 2018, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.

13 June 2018

News/Brexit

Live: EBAday2018, day one

Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Munich this week for EBAday 2018, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.

12 June 2018

Finextra TV/Brexit

Who pays the true cost of financial crime?

Che Sidanius, Global Head of Financial Regulatory & Industry Affairs, Thomson Reuters discusses the critical challenges around Financial crime in 2018 so far, how these challenges have impacted governments, companies and individuals, and what they are doing to address the problem.

29 May 2018

News/Brexit

Government appoints Wales and Northern Ireland fintech envoys

Wales and Northern Ireland are getting their own financial technology envoys as part of a government effort to ensure that the UK maintains its position, post-Brexit, as Europe's top fintech dog.

17 May 2018

Company update/Brexit

UK professional classes want second vote on Brexit

Research from global professional services recruiter Morgan McKinley reveals that the UK working population are not happy with the Brexit vote, with 58% of professionals wanting another vote to determine the UK’s future.

09 May 2018

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Brexit, cyber-resilience, Open Banking to the fore at Swift London forum

The Swift Business Forum London recently took place at the city's Tobacco Dock. With a record 1,300 registrations, the key themes of the day included innovation in financial services, community collaboration, and cyber resilience. And of course, being hosted in the UK, Brexit and its potential impacts also came up in discussion

02 May 2018

News/Brexit

UK fintech sector calls on Government to tone down hostile immigration policy

With the UK's 'hostile' policy towards immigration claiming its first political casualty in the shape of Home Secretary Amber Rudd, Innovate Finance has waded into the debate warning about the threat to the fintech sector from a tightening of the rules on overseas workers.

30 April 2018

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Certainty and security with instant payments

Gerhard Bystricky, Head of Product Management Payments Germany, UniCredit Bank AG, talks about the progress of pan-European instant payments since it launched, what some of the practical experiences are what else needs to be done to grow the volumes and value of these payments.

24 April 2018

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Swift Business Forum London - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Business Forum London 2018. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry, exploring how far and how fast the transformation of financial services will take place in the UK and beyond.

24 April 2018

Company update/Brexit

EU regulators warn of cyber-threats and Brexit risks

The securities, banking and insurance sectors in the European Union (EU) face multiple risks, the latest report on risks and vulnerabilities by the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) shows.

12 April 2018

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Digital Drive in Energy Trading

Doug Pollock, Global Head of Business Development for Financial and Risk in the Energy Practice Group, Thomson Reuters, talks about how the energy trading sector is coping with the drive towards digitalization, why data and technology are hailed the core elements to digitalization for the energy trading sector and what areas of risk in particular, should the energy sector be concerned with.

10 April 2018

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Taking correspondent banking to the next level

Simone Del Guerra, Global Head of Transactional Sales, UniCredit, talks about how the correspondent banking marketplace is reacting to the issues of compliance restrictions, how it is reinventing itself using new technologies and initiatives, and how banks are responding to, and leveraging this to improve the payments services they offer to their clients.

09 April 2018