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Helping Asian corporates settle in Europe

Emanuele Vignoli, Managing Director, Global Liquidity and Cash Management, HSBC, talks about what it takes to be a market leader in liquidity and cash management, the role of innovation, the evolving demands of corporates and how to make the life of an Asian corporate treasurer easier.

12 July 2017

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Going digital without leaving people behind

Chris Dunne, Market Development Director, VocaLink, talks about how to negotiate the ‘fuzzy zone’ between PSD2 coming into force and the regulatory technical standards being published, the impact on the UK market of the PSF agenda, and the challenges for established banks of managing the migration to digital while some customers still prefer analogue. Chris Dunne, Market Development Director, VocaLink, talks about how to negotiate the ‘fuzzy zone’ between PSD2 coming into force and the regulatory technical standards being published, the impact on the UK market of the PSF agenda, and the challenges for established banks of managing the migration to digital while some customers still prefer analogue.

12 July 2017

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Avoid tactical band-aids and move strategically

Robert Browning, UK Country Head and Leader, Product Management, and Gene Neyer, Head of Industry and Regulatory Product Management, Global Payment Solutions, Finastra (formerly D+H), share their insights from EBAday in Dublin, highlighting the challenge banks face in knowing they need to invest more in technology to deliver value and compete, while being constrained by regulatory spend, and emphasising the importance of capitalising on the opportunities today’s payments change creates to build for the future.

11 July 2017

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Corporates want everything simpler, faster, better

Lorraine Donnelly, Head of Global Liquidity and Cash Management, HSBC Ireland, talks about the impact of innovation in corporate banking, corporates’ desire for improved services, their interest in being part of the discussion between banks and fintechs, and their desire to find out how they can benefit from their banks’ investments in innovation.

11 July 2017

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More to do to make innovation industrial strength

Stefan Dierckx, Co-founder, The Glue, talks about the next steps for digitalisation in financial services and the evolving relationship between banks and fintechs.

11 July 2017

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The ramp-up of real-time payment systems

Mark Evans, Global Head of Payment Advisory, HSBC, discusses at EBAday in Dublin the impact of real-time payments and the opportunity for banks to develop products off the back of real-time to meet customers’ needs.

10 July 2017

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Real-time payments in euro available as early as November 2017

Hays Littlejohn CEO, EBA Clearing, talks about the upcoming migration to SCT Inst and emerging developments in the high-value payments area.

10 July 2017

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Digital Identity needs to be focused on

Paul Briault, Digital Security, Identity and API Management Director at CA Technologies, talks about the advantages of and barriers to digital identity in banking, and the opportunity to bring simplicity to consumers and banks.

10 July 2017

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Mastering trust services can be banks’ trump card

Carmine Auletta, Chief Innovation Officer, InfoCert, talks about the role of trust service providers in enabling regulation, supporting digital transformation and unlocking innovation.

10 July 2017

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PSD2 and GDPR coming like a tsunami

Gerard Barry, Founder, Priviti, talks about the challenges of protecting data in an increasingly digital age, and discusses solutions to ensure data privacy and security in a world of PSD2 and GDPR.

10 July 2017

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Digital and cultural change will drive innovation

David Watson, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Corporate Cash Management Americas in Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking talks about digital transformation in banking and how it drives innovation. How working with the fintech community and partnering with others will be the way banks innovate and develop future products and services. But this requires a cultural as well as organisation change and banks should be prepared to embrace this.

07 July 2017

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Virtual accounts enable new business models

Tim Martin, Product Manager, Cashfac, and Jeremy Light, Managing Director, Accenture Payments, talk about the rise of virtual accounts, how they enable banks to meet corporates’ evolving and individual needs, and how, alongside other key developments such as PSD2, they underpin exciting new business models.

07 July 2017

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Engaging customers through digital

Christian Westerhaus, Head of Product & Strategy, Institutional Cash Management, Deutsche Bank talks about the effect digital transformation has on traditional bank services and products. How the future is dependent on the use of digitalisation to enable banks’ to meet the demands of compliance and regulation, and use it to truly engage with their customers to meet and exceed their expectations.

06 July 2017

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Bringing cross-border payments into the modern age

Harry Newman, Head of Banking, SWIFT, talks about the challenges facing banks in the area of cross-border payments – including the need to balance ubiquity with the demands of compliance, and the role of collaboration between SWIFT, the banks, the fintechs and the national authorities to bring new correspondent banking solutions to market, and deliver a better, more predictable and more transparent service to corporates.

06 July 2017

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Instant payments cause for new testing approach

Volker Heinze, Head of Business Development, Unifits GmbH, tells us at EBAday in Dublin why rethinking your testing approach with instant payments is a good idea and how the additional features from instant payments makes it more difficult to test manually and needs IT support. Volker also explains how it is now different with ISO 20022 offering more opportunities with a reliable strategy for test automation.

06 July 2017

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The end game of liquidity

Joost Bergen, Managing Director, Cash Dynamics, and representing Reval, talks about solutions which enable corporates and banks to better understand and be more selective about their liquidity in the changing liquidity management environment.

05 July 2017

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How to make the most of PSD2

Christian Schaefer, Head of Payments, Corporate Cash Management at Deutsche Bank talks about banks' readiness to meet the requirements of PSD2. Banks are on course to deliver the first phase in Q1 of next year. They have more time to prepare to open up their bank infrastructure to third-parties and offer stronger authentication but they should be focused on this and the benefits it brings. There are new revenue generating services banks can offer, increasingly through partnerships with the fintech community.

05 July 2017

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PSD2 as a source of customer value

Alessandro Baroni, CMO, equensWorldline, talks about how PSD2 and access to accounts will impact banks’ revenue streams, customer ownership and competitive intelligence, the risk of viewing PSD2 as just a compliance exercise, and how financial institutions can turn PSD2 into an opportunity by embracing the move to open banking.

04 July 2017

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Banks capitalise on instant payments

Keith Esca, Global Account Manager at Montran Corporation, identifies both the pains banks have felt during the introduction of instant payments and the benefits they can look forward to in adopting them.

02 July 2017

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Reach and ubiquity necessary for instant payments

Carlo Palmers, Senior Manager, Market Infrastructures, SWIFT, talks at EBAday in Dublin about the European real-time payments landscape, and solutions to foster ease of access to multiple real-time systems.

29 June 2017