Latest Embedded Finance News: Finextra Research

Payments Innovation will be Threefold: Embedded, Cross-Border and GenAI

In this PREDICT 2025 interview, Gautam Pillai, Head of Fintech Research at investment bank Peel Hunt, looks at the bigger picture and takes into account how the payments industry is transforming alongside consumer trends. Buzz and excitement surrounds three developments, which are embedded payments, cross border payments and generative AI and the interview discusses how organisations working in these areas are already helping businesses transact easier, faster and in a way where they are not sacrificing security.

14 November 2024

Finextra TV/Sibos

How Will New Technologies Shape the Future of Payments?

In an interview with FinextraTV in the lead-up to Sibos 2024, Pilar Fragalà, Chief Commercial Officer of CBI, explores the impact of digital technologies and regulations on payment services. Highlighting the role of AI, APIs, and blockchain in enhancing security and speed, while PSD2 and PSD3 drive open banking and consumer protection, the discussion focuses on innovations like embedded finance and instant payments that offer transparency and flexibility. Addressing growing fraud risks, the interview examines how technology can prevent fraudulent transactions by verifying IBAN and beneficiary details in real time.

23 October 2024

Finextra TV/payments

How Open Banking will Enable Embedded Finance

At EBAday 2024, Afonso Eça, Appointed Executive Board Member, Banco BPI, expands on the future of open banking and embedded finance and how these two trends are transforming the financial industry. While regulatory pushes such as PSD2 led to more uptake of open banking, financial institutions continue to take advantage of what is occurring in the fintech space and move forward. The conversation also turns to how open banking is the catalyst for embedded finance and through open payments, customers and businesses alike will be able to simplify the payments journeys of small business operators.

19 July 2024

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Embedded finance, card programmes, and scaling payments solutions

Join FinextraTV at Money2020 2024 as Marcin Glogowski, UK CEO and European SVP/Managing Director, Marqeta, chats about their recent office opening in Warsaw, Poland, the opportunity that the company see in the European Union, and expanding their product offering. A lot of this change is due to demand for embedded finance solutions and the different interpretations of the technology capabilities involved, as well as how advancements in card programmes are enabling businesses to launch and scale their payment solutions more effectively. The industry must explore the potential value that exists behind their technology, grow embedded finance beyond tradition, and utilise the pockets of new use cases that open up.

09 July 2024

Finextra TV/payments

Securing digital transactions: The global shift towards embedded payments

Jennifer Marriner, Global Head of Acceptance at Mastercard, discusses how tokenization and embedded experiences are enhancing the digital checkout process in the year ahead. Focusing on the global rollout of solution technologies, such as Mastercard’s ‘Click to Pay,’ we tackle the concerns raised from fragmented customer experiences and how they are being addressed. We hear how physical payments are shaping the standard for online transactions, and how innovations like biometric authentication are refining seamless payments and strengthening security in the upcoming year.

25 January 2024

Finextra TV/cloud

Building the digital banks of the future

Carlton Hopper, UK Managing Director of GFT, and Sam Everington, CEO of Engine by Starling, review the impact of new banking platforms and implementation strategies for successful bank modernisation. They discuss GFT and Engine by Starling's collaboration that utilises cloud-native, modular, and API-based technologies to empower clients worldwide to deliver next generation digital banking.

17 January 2024

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Agile digitalisation for future-focused issuers

Jos Veendrick, the Regional Head for Continental Europe at TSYS, a Global Payments company, assesses the challenges issuers face with legacy technology and the growing demand for convenience and personalisation in digital transactions. Our discussion covers cloud-based services and API-centric approaches, addressing industry needs and anticipating future growth in the digital payments landscape.

22 November 2023

Finextra TV/payments

Leveraging digitalisation for an optimised future

Alex Jimenez, Managing Principal, Financial Services Consulting, EPAM Systems, Inc., highlights the importance of digital transformation and optimisation for retail banks amidst economic uncertainty and technological advancements, in the lead-up to Money20/20 2023.

11 October 2023

Finextra TV/Sibos

Unlocking the Power of Generative AI in Financial Services

At Sibos 2023, Kanika Hope, Chief Strategy Officer, Temenos, and Tyler Pichach, Executive Director, Global Business Solutions, Microsoft, discuss how generative AI will impact banks, transforming operations and value propositions, and the role of cloud technology in enabling embedded finance.

05 October 2023

Finextra TV/payments

Lloyds & Finastra: The Shifting Payments Market & The Power Of Collaboration

In the second episode of this 4-part FinextraTV series, Stephen Everett, MD Cash Management & Payments, Lloyds and Roy Marsh, Global Payments Director at Finastra, discuss the significant changes happening in payment solutions as a result of Open Banking, Embedded Finance, shifting digital solutions and regulatory changes. We hear how ISO has been a major diversion for all banks in recent years, what will be the impact going forward, and the role of partner collaboration in enabling banks to maintain their competitive edge within these rapidly changing payments landscape.

11 July 2023

Finextra TV/cloud

Empowering Business with Embedded Finance

Speaking at TCF 2023, Robert Wint, Senior Product Director, Business Banking, Temenos, discusses the key trends in SME banking, the benefits small businesses can gain through embedded finance and how technology enables banks to provide better services to SMEs.

24 May 2023