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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

News/payments

EBAday 2021 speaker line-up released

A blockbuster speaker line-up has been announced for Finextra and the Euro Banking Association’s upcoming EBAday event for 2021.

19 May 2021

News/identity

EBAday 2021: How a digital ID may shape the future of European payments

During October 2020, the European Council called for the development of an EU-wide framework for secure public electronic identification (e-ID), including interoperable digital signatures, to provide people greater control over their online identity and data, and to access public, private and cross-border digital services.

07 May 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Why privacy is key to progressing a digital euro

The European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde first told reporters in March 2021 that the delivery of a digital euro would be decided upon within months, and suggested that four years would be a realistic timeframe for the development and issuance of a digital euro. However, the decision to pursue it has yet to be made by the ECB Governing Council, which will base its decision on its own preliminary work, and recently released responses to its public consultation.

23 April 2021

News/payments

Apply for the EBAday Fintech Zone by 3rd May

Your final chance to apply for the EBAday Fintech Zone is fast approaching. Apply by Monday 3rd May for the exclusive opportunity to meet and collaborate with leading figures across financial services to drive visibility and engagement with your fintech.

22 April 2021

News/regulation

EBAday 2021: Will 2021 see proactive regulators eschew their reactive reputation?

Spurring a seismic shift in the way financial services operate and are supervised, the pandemic forced regulators to reassess strategy and increasingly adopt new technologies to modernise their processes.

16 April 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Finding European synergy in the transition from Open Banking to Open Finance

Pioneering a defined strategy in 2020, the European Commission outlined its intention to adopt a legislative proposal for a new Open Finance Framework by mid-2022.

09 April 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Will the European Council’s latest endorsement boost corporate instant payments?

The European Council recently backed the creation of an integrated and instant system for retail payments, interoperable across all EU member states.

01 April 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: The road to payments transformation

After the success of EBAday 2020, the event will again run in digital format on 28-30 June 2021 for its sixteenth year, welcoming a host of board directors, chief executive officers and payments and technology heads from Europe’s leading banks.

12 March 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2020: ISO 20022 catalyst for banks to harness connected data

The ISO standards roll-out and open banking will galvanise banks’ efforts to compete with data-driven big techs, despite “vagueness” about how best this might be accomplished.

30 November 2020

News/payments

EBAday 2020: Finding the killer app for Request to Pay

Request to Pay is in danger of being an answer without a question, unless the banking and payments ecosystem can come together with the corporate world to identify a killer use case that would encourage mass adoption.

26 November 2020

News/payments

EBAday 2020: Banks’ plumbing still needs work before ISO 20022 migration

Diving into the ‘Unlocking customer value through ISO 20022’ session on day three of EBAday 2020, Guy Moons, head of enterprise payments solution, FIS, believes that the migration toward ISO is as revolutionary to the economy as going from a black and white television to a smart TV.

26 November 2020

News/wholesale

EBAday 2020: Cash visibility still an issue for corporate treasurers in 2020

Today, non-bank entrants such as PSPs and TPPs are entering the payments space to tap in to the lucrative and stable business that is transaction banking. To remain competitive and avoid disintermediation, financial institutions must support legacy core banking infrastructure and a resource-intensive, scalable delivery model – success is tied to relevancy in the corporate market and ensuring clients’ problems are resolved.

26 November 2020