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NextGen Nordics 2025: Live updates from Stockholm

What’s next for Nordic payments? Follow the conversation at NextGen Nordics 2025.

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The 150 leading organisations confirmed to attend NextGen Nordics 2025

The Nordic region has long stood at the forefront of digital payments, open banking, and financial technology. This legacy of innovation continues at full pace with the return of NextGen Nordics, a premier event gathering the most influential players in the financial services ecosystem. Set against the dynamic backdrop of the Nordic fintech scene, the 2025 edition of NextGen Nordics on 29 April 2025 at the Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden promises to be the most impactful yet.

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Inside the tech behind the transformation: Sponsors announced for NextGen Nordics

Ever wanted to be in the same room as the senior executives leading payments innovation across the Nordics and Europe? NextGen Nordics on 29 April 2025 at the Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden, is your chance to hear from the technology vendors that are supporting financial institutions expertly navigate a convoluted web of regulations, at a time when fraud is at an all-time high and consumer experience must be kept front of mind.

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16 game-changing startups to pitch at EBAday’s Fintech Zone in Paris

EBAday, the premier conference for payments and transaction banking executives, set to take place on 27-28 May 2025 at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, will yet again feature a dedicated Fintech Zone where 16 innovative startups have been selected to showcase their products to senior decision-makers in the European payments industry.

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Tackling fraud: Learn how to build smarter defences at NextGen Nordics

As real-time payments gain momentum, financial institutions are faced with attempting to deliver seamless digital payment experiences while also mitigating against sophisticated fraudsters. This year’s NextGen Nordics event at the Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden, on 29 April 2025, will spotlight how the industry is redefining fraud prevention in the era of instant payments.

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M&T Bank and Mass Fintech Hub: Competition and collaboration now a synonymous positive

As the industry has evolved rapidly, it has created a unique blend of challenges for both traditional banks and fintech firms that make a symbiotic relationship between the two more critically important. Looking at the history of this evolution and towards the future, there is a growing realisation that a fierce rivalry is long gone and, in its place, partnership and friendly competition.

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U.S. Bank on the 'dirty little secret' of applied foresight and 'future safaris'

Living in our current world occasionally seems like a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it society. In such climates, the idea of futurism becomes less of a sci-fi piece of terminology denoting flying cars and spacesuits and more of a true and necessary reality for progress. What does that process entail though? And what is a future safari?

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Exciting lineup revealed: Meet the first 10 speakers for NextGen Nordics

The Nordic payments ecosystem is among the most innovative and forward-thinking in the world. As digital payments continue to evolve and transform the financial landscape, it is crucial to have experts who can guide and shape this transformation. The following individuals — confirmed speakers for NextGen Nordics 2025 at Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden, on 29 April 2025 —are recognised leaders in the Nordic payments industry, and their expertise makes them the best speakers on trends within this space.

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Lloyds Banking Group patents AI-powered cybersecurity tech

Lloyds Banking Group has secured a patent for the Global Collaborations Engine (GCE), that uses intelligent algorithms to identify cyberthreats instead of false positives.

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BIS names Beju Shah as new head of Toronto innovation hub

The Bank for International Settlements has appointed Beju Shah as the new Head of the Toronto Innovation Centre.

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NextGen Nordics 2025 agenda to cover DORA, VoP, CBDC, instant payments, fraud, and GenAI

Give the future of payments the green light at the Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden on 29 April 2025 where the stage will be set for a transformative shift in financial services. NextGen Nordics will gather core decision-makers, stakeholders, and experts within the payments sector to focus on digital resilience, advanced technologies, regulatory frameworks, and set a course of action for the financial ecosystem of tomorrow.

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AdviserSoftware and InterGen Data uncover key risks of DeepSeek

AdviserSoftware.com, part of FTRC, has collaborated with Robert Kirk, founder and CEO of InterGen Data, an AI-based financial lifetime events prediction service, to identify risks and recommendations for navigating DeepSeek.

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HTX explores impact of Trump policy on the crypto industry

HTX, a digital asset exchange, released their 2025 crypto outlook, reflecting on the key developments in 2024 and highlighting developments to watch in 2025.

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Putin orders Russian bank to cooperate with China on AI

Sberbank, Russia’s largest financial institution, has been told to work with China on the development of AI-based services.

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PalmPay and Jumia partner to develop Nigerian digital payment ecosystem

In an attempt to grow the use of the cashless economy, operator of Nigeria's most used mobile wallet PalmPay has partnered with African e-commerce giant Jumia.

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Thoughtworks partners with AWS to accelerate generative AI adoption

Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy, has entered into a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help enterprises implement generative AI (GenAI) solutions and tackle industry challenges in Asia Pacific.

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Why sustainable finance needs more consistent policies

Following the 2022 Biodiversity Conference of Parties, the world has been trying to follow the ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework agreement. Recently, they reconvened for the COP16 event in Cali where the focus was on further agreements, resources and plans to ensure the GBF’s success by 2030. At the event, there were some successes and some pitfalls.

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US explores feasibility of settlement network for multi-asset transactions

The proof-of-concept of what has been dubbed the Regulated Settlement Network (RSN) showcased the potential of shared ledger technology to upgrade multi-asset and cross-network transaction settlement for domestic users of US dollars and regulated securities.

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NextGen: AI: AI’s impact on regulation, operational resilience and customer experience

With standards like the EU AI Act coming to the fore, and with the drive towards digital not slowing down, the last panel of the day discussed AI’s impact on regulation and customer experience.

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NextGen: AI: Busting five AI myths

The next afternoon panel was moderated by Debi Bell-Hosking, with speakers consisting of Dr Janet Bastiman, chief data scientist, Napier AI; Stuart McDowell, UK CIO, Societe Generale; and David Tracy, head of data products, Smart Data Foundry.