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NextGen: AI: Finding the right strategies to overcome AI limitations

The first afternoon panel discussed three of the major discussion points when it comes to AI: data, culture, and skills.

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NextGen:AI: Legislation should facilitate UK AI development - Lord Holmes

Kicking off Finextra’s inaugural NextGen AI conference at Convene Sancroft in London, was Lord Chris Holmes of the UK House of Lords in his headline keynote titled: ‘AI in 2024: At the Edge’.

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Robinhood: Bringing US Opportunities to a UK Audience

Growth is regularly on the mind of many companies, especially within the financial industry. It does, however, come with a multitude of potential risks and pitfalls. Robinhood, a trading and investing app based in the US launched in the UK earlier this year. In order to ensure their success, they approached the task with a growth mindset, but a local focus. As part of the Predict 2025 series, Finextra invited Robinhood’s UK president Jordan Sinclair to the virtual studio. Some of Sinclair’s key points were around greater global access to US information, a strong system of financial education and a customer-focussed process of development.

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NextGen: AI – Join Finextra in London next week

Join us in London on 26 November to explore the current AI challenges, opportunities, and the future of AI in financial services.

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Immediate Generative AI Use Cases in Banking and Financial Services

Roshan Shetty, BFSI & Public Services Head – Americas, Tech Mahindra and Michael Ruttledge, Chief Information Officer, Head of Enterprise Technology & Security, Citizens Bank, join FinextraTV to opine progress since ChatGPT was launched two years ago. Despite dominating headlines, only 6% of the banking, financial services and insurance industries have truly leveraged generative AI algorithms for business models, while 46% are merely passive observers. Work is being done in terms of concepts being considered and pilots being pushed through, but the reality – as the pair explain – is that these sectors are heavily regulated and change management and data privacy must be prioritised to ensure the appropriate guardrails are in place so that the industry can indeed move forward from this test and learn era of generative AI.

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NextGen: AI – OpenAI, others facing delays with training new LLMs

Join us in London on 26 November to explore the current AI challenges, opportunities, and the future of AI in financial services.

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UK Chancellor proposes pension and sustainable finance reforms

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves detailed the financial services strategy launching in March 2025, which will focus on bolstering growth, developing fintech and sustainable finance sectors.

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Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

What is automation in financial services?

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NextGen: AI – UK AI market poised to grow six-fold

Join Finextra at our inaugural London event at the end of November to redefine the role of AI in financial services and explore why the UK AI market is set to grow exponentially.

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2024 Fraud Trends in Banking, Insurance, and Beyond

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Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

Understanding AI for personalisation

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NextGen: AI – Meet the speakers

Join Finextra at our inaugural London event next month to redefine the role of AI in financial services.

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Latest Developments in Real Time Payments: Innovation and Interoperability

In an interview with FinextraTV in the lead-up to Sibos 2024 in Beijing, China, Peter Reynolds, Executive Vice President Real Time Payments, Mastercard, highlights how 2024 has welcomed a new era with 100 countries now with live real time payments systems, covering 87% of the world’s GDP. Exploring the substantial growth across account-to-account payments and the conversion of cash to digital payments, the interview examines how the financial ecosystem is opening with digital wallet payments, QR Code acceptance and the promise of interoperability.

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Sibos: GenAI will be more impactful than ecommerce and the internet, says panel

“There have been many fundamental shifts in the IT space, such as the internet and the ecommerce revolution. This is the biggest one,” warned Dorian Selz, CEO and co-founder of Squirro, at Sibos today. “Leadership in companies needs to be on top of this revolution.”

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AFP: Does the US need Faster Payments?

How much choice is too much choice? The second day of AFP in Nashville, Tennessee, saw BNY Mellon’s Sumner Francisco, Finzly’s Karuna Kathir, PTap Advisory’s Peter Tapling and Walmart’s Sarah Arnio, take to the stage to discuss the adoption and benefits of Faster Payments and the differences between rails such as instant payments, same-day ACH, and push-to-card transactions.

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Sibos: The future of ‘evenly distributed’ tokenisation

The National Bank of Kazakhstan will provide clients the “ability to spend crypto tokens” by the end of this year, announced Assel Marchenko, CTO and deputy of CEO, National Bank of Kazakhstan, at Sibos today.

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Embracing the Shift: Instant Payments and Infrastructure Transformation

Michael Engel, Managing Director & VP of Banking Software at Diebold Nixdorf, highlights the growing shift from traditional to instant payments, driven by increasing demand for speed and agility in transactions. While methods like SEPA and the digital euro gain momentum, the challenge of integrating these with legacy systems persists. Engel emphasises the importance of affordable, cloud-native, microservices-based platforms to boost scalability and security, especially in e-commerce. Success stories show banks launching new services within weeks, a dramatic improvement from the previous six to nine months. As consumer expectations rise, financial institutions must balance innovation with reliability.

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Why US fintech and banking is at an inflection point

Boston Fintech Week returned this week for its seventh instalment, welcoming industry experts and executives to a two day conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to discuss the state of banking and fintech at full throttle in the US, and explore what lies ahead.

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Techcombank implements DataBricks data and AI solution

Techcombank, one of Vietnam’s leading financial institutions, today announced that it has implemented the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to drive its data and AI transformation across the organization.

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Can Financial Institutions Keep Up with the $33 Billion Fraud Surge?

Reflecting on insights from last month’s Visa Payments Forum, Tareq Muhmood, SVP, Value Added Services, Europe, Visa, addresses the dramatic rise in global fraud—from $800 million in the early '90s to $33 billion in 2023. As financial institutions grapple with the increasing complexity of fraud in the digital age, the need for adopting advanced technologies like AI and real-time data analysis becomes clear. With a 50% boost in fraud detection through artificial intelligence, this interview underscores the urgency for banks and fintechs to evolve their security strategies. As fraud tactics continue to evolve, partnerships and continuous innovation are now critical for staying ahead of threats while maintaining seamless payment experiences.