Latest Correspondent Banking News: Finextra Research

EBAday 2024: Derisking correspondent banking and cross border payments

Taking to the stage on the second and final day of EBAday in Lisbon, Portugal were Erik Frantz, executive director, financial institutions – banks, CaixaBank; Roisin Levine, head of UK and Europe partnerships, Wise Platform; Rafael Linde, head, international development and global relationship management, Cecabank; Dean Sposito, head of institutional cash and trade finance, Western Europe, Deutsche Bank; and Gareth Lodge, senior analyst, payments, Celent, who moderated the session.

19 June 2024

News/payments

EBAday 2024: Turning European dialogue into solutions for the new payments era

Wolfgang Ehrmann, chairman of the board at Euro Banking Association (EBA) kicked off the first day of the 19th EBAday with a speech welcoming all delegates.

18 June 2024

News/payments

NextGen Nordics 2024: The current state of play of cross-border payments

Moderating the second panel of the day, Niamh Curran, senior reporter at Finextra, discussed real-time cross border payments with Patrik Havander, head of B2B Connect Europe at Visa, Christian Schwarz, director payments Europe at Finastra, Dr Hubertus von Poser, member of the management board at PPI, Colin Williams, global lead for clearing transformation at J.P. Morgan, and Jenny Winther, head of payment schemes at Svenska Handelsbanken.

23 April 2024

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NextGen Nordics 2024: 40+ banks registered to attend

NextGen Nordics returns to Stockholm on 23rd April, and at seven weeks away from the event day, 200 attendees have already registered.

01 March 2024

News/Sibos

Sibos head Jaime Lee confirms 2024 Beijing event will go full steam ahead

Jaime Lee took to the stage at Sibos 2023 in Toronto, Canada for a private session with exhibitors to explore the potential for a successful event in Beijing, China next year.

21 September 2023

News/Sibos

Sibos 2023: What’s next for low-value cross-border payments?

The challenges and opportunities associated with low-value cross-border payments was on the agenda at Sibos on Monday as a panel of industry players explored a host of models, from correspondent banking to DLT to interlinked national systems.

18 September 2023

News/payments

Sibos 2023: Swift announces Wise partnership

Swift has announced their collaboration with Wise to increase cross-border payment options for financial institutions and their customers.

18 September 2023

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CaixaBank launches cross-border payment ‘wallets’

CaixaBank will become the first Spanish bank to offer a virtual account service for currencies to all companies through the bank’s currency markets platform, FXNow.

03 July 2023

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EBAday: Future payments and banking challenges can be overcome with collaboration

Kicking off the 18th edition of EBAday – this time in Madrid, Spain – Wolfgang Ehrmann, chairman, Euro Banking Association, opened the show by gracing the stage and welcoming nearly 1200 practitioners from all corners of the payments and transaction banking ecosystem to discuss the latest trends and share different perspectives.

20 June 2023

News/payments

NextGen Nordics: Fintech firms and banks are now frenemies

Returning to the stage, Gary Wright, head of research at Finextra, stated that in 2023, we must address the unpredictability, high cost, low speed, lack of information and transparency issues associated with current networks to bolster international trade and financial inclusion.

25 April 2023

News/payments

P27 Nordic Payments withdraws second clearing application

The future of P27 Nordic Payments (P27), the largest regional, cross-border, instant payment project to be attempted in history, is uncertain.

20 April 2023

News/payments

Sibos 2022: Payments Processing as a Business to boom - Celent & Icon Solutions

Celent and Icon Solutions research released on the first day of Sibos 2022 has revealed that payments processing will soon no longer be perceived as a commodity, but instead as a business opportunity.

10 October 2022