Latest EBAday News: Finextra Research

EBAday 2022: Empowering women in payments

A report published by McKinsey in 2021 read that in the US, the payments industry has the lowest share of women at entry-level, manager, and senior-manager level.

06 May 2022

News/payments

EBAday 2022: Anticipating the European Commission’s PSD2 review

Open Banking is set to receive its first ‘school report’ from the European Commission this year, setting out how the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is performing, along with consideration of progress being made toward Open Finance.

29 April 2022

News/payments

EBAday 2022: Headline speaker line-up revealed

The Euro Banking Association and Finextra have announced their headline speaker line-up for EBAday 2022.

22 April 2022

News/crypto

EBAday 2022: EU wrestles with digital euro privacy concerns in targeted consultation

Publishing its ‘Targeted consultation on a digital euro’ on the 5th of April, the European Commission outlined that it would need to establish laws across privacy and AML should the Union decide to issue a digital euro.

14 April 2022

News/payments

EBAday 2022: Rohit Talwar named as challenge speaker

Award-winning author, foresight researcher and CEO of think-tank, Fast Future, Rohit Talwar, has been confirmed as EBAday 2022’s challenge speaker.

08 April 2022

News/regulation

EBAday 2022: Why European FIs need to prepare for DORA

The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is on track to be agreed before the summer and firms need to prepare accordingly.

01 April 2022

News/payments

EBAday 2022: David O’Mahony tapped as headline speaker

David O’Mahony, chief operating officer of Erste Group, has been confirmed as headline speaker for EBAday 2022.

25 March 2022

News/payments

EBAday 2022: Why 2022 will be the year digital payments dominate

Technical advancements that emerge throughout 2022 will bolster uptake of digital payments brought about by the pandemic, with new trends such as buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) and heavy use of digital wallets likely to become mainstream.

18 March 2022

News/payments

EBAday 2022: What to expect from this year’s conference

EBAday 2022 is back, and both Finextra and the Euro Banking Association are ready to welcome guests in person, in Vienna, on the 31st of May and the 1st of June.

11 March 2022

News/payments

EBAday 2022: Fintech Zone applications now open!

The highly anticipated return of the in-person EBAday conference is just around the corner, with the annual conference taking place in Vienna on the 31st of May and 1st of June 2022.

18 February 2022

News/payments

Step2 to get upgrade to process payments in minutes and around the clock

EBA Clearing will upgrade its Step2 pan-European mass payment system later this year to process Sepa transactions around the clock, seven days a week, and to provide settlement results to participating banks in minutes.

18 January 2022

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments innovation and the benefits cascading down the waterfall model

EBAday 2021 has flown by, and the sessions throughout day three of the event served to build on the momentum from day one and two. Another punchy strategic roundtable addressed the need for industry-wide collaboration to drive payments innovation, while two boisterous chatrooms tackled the weighty subjects of Open Banking, CBDCs and stablecoins.

30 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Modernisation, a catalyst for payments utopia

With day two now under our belt, we are only just beginning to digest the eyewatering number of insights shared across six panel sessions, two roundtables, a lively chatroom forum and of course, non-stop networking on the EBAday platform.

29 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments transformation and the road to success

Finextra Research and the Euro Banking Association today welcomed the global banking community to EBAday 2021. Running from 28-30 June, the virtual conference is being led by some of the most influential leaders and practitioners in the financial services sector, and dives into the current and future trends of the European and international payments landscape – as well as the latest developments across digital banking, liquidity management, open banking, real-time payments, and more.

28 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: The next chapter for Open Banking in Europe

With the payments industry in a state of post-pandemic flux, it is difficult to predict what the next iteration of Open Banking will take across Europe.

18 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: new speakers announced

Finextra and the Euro Banking Association are thrilled to announce a fresh slew of speakers, guaranteed to draw out the detail and depth of European payments during EBAday 2021.

11 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Do we really need CBDCs?

The highly anticipated session scheduled for day two of the upcoming EBAday 2021, titled ‘Do we really need Central Bank Digital Currencies?’ is focused on answering this precise question.

09 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: full event agenda now released

The Euro Banking Association and Finextra’s full EBAday agenda is now live, boasting a jam-packed programme throughout the virtual event from June 28-30.

04 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Nick Ogden to spark intrigue as EBAday’s challenge speaker

The serial entrepreneur has been confirmed as the event’s highly anticipated challenge speaker. Nick Ogden founded Worldpay, ClearBank and more recently RTGS.Global and remains a leading voice in the payments, banking and fintech landscape.

28 May 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Request-to-Pay most useful in Customer-to-Merchant payments

Having been touted as the ‘missing piece of the instant payment puzzle,’ many are keenly interested in the potential Request-to-Pay holds for streamlining payments, improving customer experience, and optimising liquidity through better cash management and visibility.

25 May 2021