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European Instant Payments Regulation: Are Banks Ready?

At EBAday 2024, Kjeld Herreman, Head of Strategy Advisory, RedCompass Labs, discusses the fast approaching deadlines and how financial institutions can be best prepared for the SEPA instant payments regulation. The conversation explores how the deadlines are short, with just nine months to ensure banks are receiving instant payments and 18 months to send instant payments. Further, ensuring Verification of Payee operates across all channels is a colossal task and with banks no longer able to charge for instant payments, the industry can expect hundreds or even thousands of friction-free transactions per second, but a lot of work needs to be completed before that point can be reached.

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2025 - 2030: Predictions for Real-Time Payments, ISO20022 and APIs

At EBAday 2024, Akshat Saharia, Head of European Financial Institutions Product and Propositions, Global Payments Solutions, HSBC discusses the biggest changes to occur across the cross-border payments landscape in the next five years. While 90% of cross-border transactions complete in 30 mins, the other 10% can be delayed, resulting in frustration and a lack of transparency. Robust change will be seen with real-time payment schemes opening up for cross-border payments. In turn, with ISO20022 being mandated from November 2025, banks in the world will be operating with enhanced data, standardised information and LEIs which will significantly enhance STP and reduce costs. Digital transformation through the use of APIs will also bolster end-to-end connectivity, paving the way for value-added services offering increased transparency and verification with Confirmation of Payee.

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Achieving Operational Excellence in Real-Time Payments

At EBAday 2024, Roland Brandli, Strategy Director, SmartStream and Zennon Kapron, Founder/Director, Kapronasia, explore their recently released report where findings revealed that in 2023 there were 266 billion real-time payments made around the world, which is a 43% increase from the year before, and represents a 27% of all payments. This surge in instant payments brings with it many complications, for example delays in managing exceptions can lead to additional costs and customer dissatisfaction. With this trend set to continue, how prepared are banks and what are they prioritising?

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Building the bank of tomorrow

At EBAday 2024, Tsvetanka Nankova, Global Head of Sales, Institutional Cash & Trade Finance, Deutsche Bank, discusses what banks need to do to stay in the game and the key trends driving transaction banking innovation. A new wave of technology and digitalisation is emerging, and with this, and the way in which data and analytics is leveraged is also changing. The discussion explores the critical technology of the future, which includes AI, cloud and blockchain settlement, in addition to the regulations that are setting the guardrails for innovation.

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Collaboration is key to achieving growth in transaction banking

At EBAday 2024, Bana Akkad-Azhari, Head of Treasury Services EMEA at BNY, discusses the innovations, client demands, and regulatory changes, like ISO20022 migration and T+1 settlement transition, that are reshaping transaction banking. Amid inflation and geopolitical instability, the conversation focuses on how collaboration is key to overcoming challenges and achieving sustainable growth.

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Cloud-based payments outsourcing: The strategic choice for banks

At EBAday 2024, Neil Clarke, Director of Payment Solutions at CGI, and Peter Hazou, Business Strategy Leader at Microsoft, discuss the transformative benefits of cloud-based payments outsourcing for banks. With regulators increasingly supportive of this approach, modernising payment systems with cloud-based solutions allows banks to do more with less. These services offer increased scalability, flexibility, and cost savings, enhancing data-driven insights and improving customer experiences.

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EBAday 2025 is coming to Paris!

In the final session of EBAday 2024 in Lisbon, Debi Bell Hoskings moderated a closing panel of speakers Thomas Egner, secretary general of the Euro Banking Association; Wolfgang Ehrmann, chairman of the board at the Euro Banking Association; Sophie Giorgi, head of payment system and infrastructure relationships at Credit Agricole; and Luis Simões, managing director / EVP, banking operations at Novobanco.

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EBAday 2024: Growing use cases for AI in banking and payments

During the last panel of EBAday 2024, Patricia Hines, head of banking and payments at Celent talked all things AI with Sara Amara, head of currency and clearing Europe at HSBC; Gurumurthy Palani, head of transaction banking at Gulf International Bank; Christian Sarafidis, chief executive EMEA financial services at Microsoft; and Andy Schmidt, vice president, global industry lead – banking at CGI.

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EBAday 2024: What does upcoming regulation mean for the payments sector?

Moderating the panel discussing the upcoming PSD3, PSR and IP regulations, Daniel Hellmann, director, risk advisory, payments at Deloitte spoke with Simone Del Guerra, head of central institutions & international sales at Nexi Group; Nuno Epifânio, policy officer – retail financial services at the European Commission; Kevin Flood, director – payments ecosystem strategy at FIS; and David Malley, payment industry engagement lead at NatWest.

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EBAday 2024: Collaboration is key to fraud management

In one of the closing sessions of EBAday 2024 in Lisbon, panellists Marc Corbalan, VP of RTP analytics at Visa; Erwin Kulk, head of service development and management at EBA Clearing; Simone Löfgen, global head of payment platforms and managing director at Commerzbank; and Kannan Rasappan, founder and CEO of Banfico, explored innovations in cybersecurity in a panel titled ‘New approaches to fraud management’.

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Instant Payments and the Opportunity for New Technology Strategies

Daragh Kirby, Head of Sales & Marketing, Intercope, speaks at EBAday 2024, about how instant payments allows banks to no longer use cumbersome core banking systems to process transactions – whether it be SEPA, cross-border or RTGS payments. We explore how financial institutions are now looking to more suited technologies so instant payments can be made in a leaner way and with lower latency, to support meeting regulation timelines and reap the rewards that are available with faster transactions.

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EBAday 2024: Prioritising innovation in embedded finance

At EBAday 2024 in Lisbon, the second half of day two kicked off with a riveting discussion on open banking and embedded finance.

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EBAday 2024: Lune crowned as Fintech Zone winner

For the sixth year running, EBAday hosted a dedicated Fintech Zone, where 16 cutting-edge fintech startups from across Europe and beyond pitched their proof of concepts and working products on the exhibition floor in Lisbon, Portugal.

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EBAday 2024: 75% view instant payments regulation as their number one priority

Hosting the second roundtable of the event, Sulabh Agarwal, global head of payments at Accenture spoke with Simon McConnell, European clearing head, treasury and trade solutions at Citi; and Bruno Mellado, global head of payments and receivables at BNP Paribas about navigating the testing waters of transformation for banks.

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EBAday 2024: Success stories in collaboration

At EBAday 2024 in Lisbon, Finextra’s own Niamh Curran moderated a lunchtime session titled ‘Rising Stars’, with Luca Kotton, platform owner at Investec Bank; John Salter, chief customer officer at ClearBank; Jenny Winther, head of payment schemes at Handelsbanken; and Phoebe Zhou, head of emerging payments, GPS Europe at HSBC, discussing success and industry newcomers.

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EBAday 2024: Navigating the oxymoron of cross-border real time payments

The second day of EBAday 2024 in Lisbon kicked off with exciting panel sessions discussing real-time payments.

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EBAday 2024: Derisking correspondent banking and cross border payments

Taking to the stage on the second and final day of EBAday in Lisbon, Portugal were Erik Frantz, executive director, financial institutions – banks, CaixaBank; Roisin Levine, head of UK and Europe partnerships, Wise Platform; Rafael Linde, head, international development and global relationship management, Cecabank; Dean Sposito, head of institutional cash and trade finance, Western Europe, Deutsche Bank; and Gareth Lodge, senior analyst, payments, Celent, who moderated the session.

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EBAday 2024: Possibilities and boundaries of the OCT Inst scheme

Moderating the last panel of the first day of EBAday, Rita Camporeale, vice chair of the European Payments Council led a conversation on the OCT Inst scheme with Daniele Astarita, principal solution consultant of real time payments at ACI Worldwide; Damien Godderis, head of payments industry engagement - payments & receivables - cash management at BNP Paribas; Xavier Herrero, manager operations groups at CaixaBank; and Michael Knetsch, tribe lead instant payments, cash management at Deutsche Bank.

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EBAday 2024: Instant payments and generative AI will be the most impactful for the industry

Digitisation and the advantages that are available through modern technology were core topics for the afternoon sessions at EBAday in Lisbon, Portugal.

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EBAday 2024: Challenges and benefits of CBDCs

What is the future of CBDCs in Europe and what do experts expect from stablecoin adoption? These questions were answered at EBAday 2024 in Lisbon where leaders in digital currencies examined what the future holds for digital assets.