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EBAday 2019: Is cashless across Europe attainable?

The message is clear at EBAday 2019: Sweden does not accept cash. While the ABBA Museum may prefer card or mobile payments, Frantz Teissedre, head of interbank relationships at Société Générale, believes that a purely cashless society across Europe may be ambitious.

19 June 2019

News/EBAday

Live: EBAday 2019, day two

Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Stockholm this week for EBAday 2019, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.

19 June 2019

News/EBAday

EBAday 2019: How to champion women in payments

EBAday 2019 takes a fresh look at diversity during a lunchtime debate on best practices in national and corporate work policies, culture and how to ensure that dynamic work environments work for all genders in this industry.

18 June 2019

News/EBAday

EBAday 2019: Banks can learn from Sweden’s Greta Thunberg and Vision Zero

At EBAday 2019, the Euro Banking Association’s chairman of the board Wolfgang Ehrmann posits that there is a lot to be learnt from Sweden’s Vision Zero initiative, but also Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg.

18 June 2019

News/EBAday

Live: Ebaday 2019, day one

Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Stockholm this week for EBAday 2019, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.

18 June 2019

Finextra TV/EBAday

Thriving in a hyper-connected world

Chris Jameson, Head of FI Sales, EMEA, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, speaks about the top topics set for this year's Sibos in London, EBADay and the topic of virtual account management, whether FIs are delivering benefits to their clients with this technology and how banks can unlock data to drive value to their clients.

17 June 2019

News/EBAday

EBAday 2019 to set the agenda for European payments industry

A host of board directors, chief financial officers and payments and technology heads from Europe's leading banks have confirmed their participation in the conference programme for the fourteenth annual EBAday, taking place this year in Stockholm between the 18th and 19th June.

24 May 2019

News/EBAday

Sixteen startups selected for EBAday Fintech Zone

Sixteen of Europe's top fintech startups have been selected to demo their products to a prestigious panel of senior banking executives at this year's EBAday symposium in Sweden.

17 May 2019

Finextra TV/EBAday

Reacting to disruption in the payments market

Simon Eacott, Head of Payments Innovation and Business Development, NatWest, speaks about the lead up to EBAady, their strategic roundtable, the fintech agenda, the key drivers shaping the payments market and how it's likely to look like in 2025.

13 May 2019

News/EBAday

Has Open Banking changed anything 15 months on?

13th January 2019 marked one year since the UK embarked on its Open Banking experiment. Despite the inevitable teething problems, the initial signs are encouraging, as banks up their game in the face of strong competition from innovative third party products and services.

26 April 2019

Company update/EBAday

Preta goes live with the pan-European Open Banking Europe directory to support PSD2 compliance

PRETA launched today the onboarding process for the Open Banking Europe (OBE) directory, a pan-European, centralised and machine-readable repository for active regulated entities that can perform access-to-account (XS2A) services across Europe.

02 April 2019

News/startups

EBAday 2019 zones in on fintech

Finextra and the Euro Banking Association are inviting startups from across Europe to apply for one of 16 spaces available to meet and network with banking executives attending EBAday 2018, Europe's leading payments and transaction banking event.

01 April 2019

News/startups

Financial services Rising Stars to be profiled at EBAday 2019

Academics, university alumni and graduates from financial industry schemes will gather for the inaugural Rising Stars session at EBAday 2019, taking place this year in Stockholm between the 18th and 19th June.

20 March 2019

News/payments

European payments chiefs to gather in Stockholm for EBAday2019

A host of board directors, chief financial officers and payments and technology heads from Europe's leading banks have confirmed their participation in the conference programme for the fourteenth annual EBAday, taking place this year in Stockholm between the 18th and 19th June.

01 March 2019

News/EBAday

2018: The future of banking in the spotlight as digital trends take hold

As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2018, we take a look back at our most popular news items and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2019.

21 December 2018

Finextra TV/EBAday

KYC, AML & Transparency for Crypto-Currencies & ICOs

Conor Coughlan, Global Head of Marketing, Fenergo, discusses the challenges facing institutions, issuers, exchanges, & investors in determining viability & suitability, for investing in crypto-currencies, ICOs and derived offerings so that this new asset class can mature, open up to institutional investors and play a more value adding role in the global economy.

14 August 2018

Finextra TV/EBAday

Facilitating SCT Inst migration

Hays Littlejohn, CEO, EBA CLEARING, explains how the system supports aggregators and other AS-PSPs in migrating to SCT Inst. The pan-European instant payment system welcomed six new participants in July 2018 – including LBBW and Helaba, which connected the German savings bank sector to the platform.

30 July 2018

Finextra TV/EBAday

Regulation, Brexit and cyber security, all front of mind in retail space

Veerle Damen, Head of International Product and Network Management, RBS, Natwest, talks about how network management is evolving within transaction services and how regulation, Brexit and cyber security are front of mind for financial institutions in the retail space.

26 July 2018

Finextra TV/EBAday

Traditional banks must follow global trends to succeed in the future

Adolfo Tunon, Regional Head of Product, Europe Global Liquidity Cash Management, HSBC, talks at EBAday 2018 about the current climate for transactional services in Europe, what is required of bank to succeed in this environment and whether they have what it takes to become successful despite the challenges it presents.

24 July 2018

Finextra TV/EBAday

Dialogue essential when faced with regulatory challenges

Martin Schorel, Founder/Owner of WTSS, speaks at EBAday 2018 about PSD2, the regulatory hurdles involved and how banks should be encouraging dialogue through working groups and committees to tackle the challenges.

23 July 2018