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EBAday 2023: Digital euro on unsteady ground

A final decision is yet to be made about the issuing of a digital euro by the European Central Bank (ECB). The earliest a CBDC could be released would be 2026, but as it becomes more of a reality more concerns are being raised.

26 May 2023

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EBAday 2023: Contribute to the payments and transaction banking conversation

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

19 May 2023

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EBAday 2023: headline speakers announced!

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

12 May 2023

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EBAday 2023: More banks than ever to attend the conference and exhibition

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

05 May 2023

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EBAday 2023: Speak at the new FinTalks stage!

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

02 May 2023

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EBAday 2023: Claudia Olsson announced as challenge speaker

An alumni of the Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum programme and founder and CEO of Stellar Capacity, Claudia Olsson has been confirmed as EBAday’s 2023 challenge speaker.

21 April 2023

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EBAday 2023: Meet the event sponsors for our biggest EBAday yet!

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

14 April 2023

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EBAday 2023: Agenda now live!

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

06 April 2023

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EBAday 2023: Apply for the Fintech Zone now!

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

31 March 2023

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EBAday 2023: What to expect from this year’s conference

EBAday is back again and both Finextra and the Euro Banking Association are gearing up to welcome guests in-person in Madrid on the 20th to 21st June.

06 February 2023

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EBAday 2022: Balancing smooth onboarding with sanctions screening

During her fireside chat on day two of EBAday, Sabine Zucker, head of trade finance and transaction banking, Raiffeisen Bank International addressed a range of factors influencing the connection between banks and corporates.

01 June 2022

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EBAday 2022: Going instant with ISO 20022 and liquidity management

Diving-in to day two, Joost Bergen, owner, Cash Dynamics, kicked off the ‘Real-time liquidity management’ session with the poll question: do we really need liquidity management close to real time?

01 June 2022

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EBAday 2022: Cloud is a core pillar of payments, but it’s not magic

Kicking off an afternoon of sessions at EBAday 2022 in Vienna on how technology can take payments to the next level, Patricia Hines, head of corporate banking research, Celent moderated a panel with Patrice Amann, regional business lead – EMEA financial services, Microsoft; Philipp Höfer, group product owner cash management, Raiffeisen Bank International; Jon Lloyd, head of customer success for Europe, Form3; and Steve Wright, principal commercial consultant, Lusis Payments and Consultant, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

31 May 2022

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EBAday 2022: Visible hurdles of invisible payments

It is well understood that evolving business ecosystems promoting a frictionless payment experience for consumers, but what are the trends regarding embedded payments? What new products, services, and transaction models enable next-generation payments? And importantly, what are the hurdles that financial institutions and fintechs are yet to overcome?

31 May 2022

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EBAday 2022: Preparing for the operational resilience ‘sea change’

Kicking off the EBAday session titled ‘Building Operational Resilience’, moderator Tom Zink, research director, IDC Financial Insights, posed a poll question to the audience, asking ‘how familiar are you with DORA?’

31 May 2022

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EBAday 2022: 71% believe the future of payments is yet to come

After two years as a virtual conference, EBAday 2022 is back in person for its seventeenth year in Vienna, Austria. The EBA and Finextra Research welcomed a host of board directors, chief executive officers, and payments and technology heads from Europe's leading banks, as well as selected fintechs to the conference.

31 May 2022

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EBAday 2022: Embracing the power of continuity

Launching in to EBAday 2022, Wolfgang Ehrmann, chair of the board, EBA, set the context for this year’s first in-person EBAday conference since 2019.

31 May 2022

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EBAday 2022: Racing toward net-zero

EBAday 2022 is fast-approaching, and as we edge closer to the conference’s kick off, we’re exploring some highlights across the agenda. A key stand-out is the event’s lunchtime session on day two, ‘Meeting the net-zero challenge: How can banks fulfil CSR expectations?’

27 May 2022