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EBAday 2024: The future of CBDCs, tokenised deposits and stablecoin adoption

Tokenised money is on the horizon in numerous countries. This week, the Bank of England’s Sarah Breeden announced that a discussion paper will be released in summer 2024 to draw on input from the private sector to complement the work being conducted on stablecoin regulation and retail central bank digital currency (CBDC).

22 April 2024

News/payments

David Birch confirmed as EBAday 2024 challenge speaker

Exploring digital money, digital assets, digital identity and the future of banking, David G. W. Birch has been confirmed as the keynote speaker for one of the most compelling sessions at EBAday every year.

05 April 2024

News/startups

EBAday 2024: Calling early-stage startups to showcase products

The 19th edition of EBAday, the largest annual European event for payments and transaction banking, will return on 18th – 19th June 2024 at CCL in Lisbon, Portugal.

15 March 2024

News/startups

EBAday 2024: Applications open for Fintech Zone

Finextra and the Euro Banking Association are inviting startups from across the world to apply to join the 2024 Fintech Zone at EBAday 2024 in Lisbon.

05 December 2023

News/payments

EBAday: The rise of Banking-as-a-service

The final session of EBAday 2023 covered the rise of Banking-as-a-service (BaaS). The PANEL looked at the benefits of BaaS and Payment-as-a-service (PaaS) for financial institutions and whether it will increase efficiency, or diversify revenue.

27 June 2023

News/payments

EBAday: Liquidity management is a balancing act that can be improved by instant payments

The penultimate session of EBAday 2023 covered the myriad of challenges currently being faced in liquidity management. The impact of regional conflicts and subsequent sanctions, as well as supply chain issues, have made the future volatile.

26 June 2023

News/regulation

EBAday: Preparing for the new European legislative landscape

The role of the legislation is a core part of any EBAday, and this was not missing from EBAday 2023. A session on the second day of the event aimed at highting how to prepare for the European legislative landscape of the instant payments regulation and the upcoming Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

26 June 2023

News/payments

EBAday: Collaboration and the future of fraud prevention in PaaS

The second day of EBAday 2023 started off with the hot topic of Payments as a Service (PaaS), and specifically some of the preventative measures which need to be undertaken to secure PaaS against cyber-attacks and fraud.

23 June 2023

News/payments

EBAday: Payments trends to watch out for in 2024

EBAday, the premier event for industry professionals across transaction banking and payments covers all aspects of the sector, in degrees of depth unseen at other conferences. The second day of the event saw senior executives listen in to sessions on instant payments, correspondent banking, regulation, innovation, Payments as a Service (PaaS) and models for public and private sector collaboration. Here’s a roundup of the most discussed themes and what to expect in 2024.

22 June 2023

News/sustainable

EBAday: Banks are seeking new approaches to level up sustainable strategies

In the panel ‘Sustainable finance: Assessing shades of green across payments and banking’, hosted by Finextra’s own Madhvi Mavadiya, speakers explored how the European banking landscape is adopting sustainable strategies.

22 June 2023

News/startups

EBAday 2023: iPiD announced as Fintech Zone winner!

During the past two days, 16 early stage, early growth fintech startups from across Europe and beyond pitched their proof of concepts or working products on the exhibition floor of EBAday 2023 in Madrid, Spain.

21 June 2023

News/payments

EBAday 2023: Customers expect instant payments today

The afternoon of EBAday 2023, day one, in breakout one got straight into a key theme of the event, immediate cross border payments.

21 June 2023

News/crypto

EBAday: CBDC is coming to Europe, but are we ready for it?

In the final session of the evening in breakout room 2 for EBAday day one, ‘What is the outlook for CBDCs in Europe?’, a panel of experts discussed where CBDCs are heading in Europe and what possibilities could arise for banks, merchants, and consumers in the future.

21 June 2023

News/cloud

EBAday: Banks exploring new strategies in AI, data, and cloud

The afternoon of the first day of EBAday kicked off with the panel ‘How new technologies are transforming banking’ in breakout room 2. Panelists Cal Corcoran, vice president and global head of banking at Microsoft, Simone Lofgen, managing director of payments platforms at Commerzbank, Andre Martins, head of banking innovation and open finance at NTT Data, and Simone Satan, global head of digital market management and treasury services at BNY Mellon discussed AI, cloud computing, and innovative automation technologies being used to transform the payments industry in a session moderated by Graeme Jeffrey, partner at Bain & Company.

21 June 2023

News/people

EBAday: Banking leadership needs just as much innovation as banking technology

For this year’s EBAday Challenge Speech, Claudia Olsson, CEO and founder, Stellar Capacity and Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, provided new perspectives in understanding technology’s impact on society, people and leadership.

20 June 2023

News/payments

EBAday: How Deutsche Bank, BBVA and JP Morgan handled the Russia/Ukraine war

Tackling the core subjects to be covered at EBAday 2023 in Madrid, Spain, Marc Recker, global head of product, institutional cash management, Deutsche Bank; Raouf Soussi Laghmich, head of strategy for enterprise payment, BBVA; and Renata Vilanova Lobo, head of global clearing, JP Morgan, participated in a strategic roundtable, led by Anita Hawse, Europe editor, The Banker, Financial Times.

20 June 2023

News/payments

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

EBAday 2023: Keynote topic announced!

EBAday is just days away, both Finextra and the Euro Banking Association are gearing up to welcome guests in Madrid on the 20th to 21st June

16 June 2023

News/payments

EBAday 2023: Fintech Zone finalists announced!

EBAday, the annual event for payments and transaction banking executives, will return on 20th to 21st June 2023 at The IFEMA in Madrid, Spain.

09 June 2023

News/payments

EBAday 2023: EU and UK as global leaders in AI regulation

Earlier this week, the European Union and the United States announced they expect to draft a voluntary code of conduct on artificial intelligence in the coming weeks, with the hope that other democratic nations would sign on to the code.

02 June 2023