Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

Bank Audi teaches Lebanon how to use less cash

Randa Bdeir, assistant general manager, group head of e-payment solutions and card services at Bank Audi, discusses the launch of a new mobile payment service, linked to credit cards, that aims to replace cash for low value payments in Lebanon.

25 February 2014

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The acceleration of digital money

Citi released its Digital Money Readiness Index at its second annual Digital Money Symposium in London at the end of January. Here Greg Baxter, MD, Citi global head of digital strategy talks about how the Index influences the bank's overall digital strategy, the importance of governments in accelerating digital currencies and the validity and future of crypto-currencies such as bitcoin.

07 February 2014

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Monitise and Visa: Convergence is the future

Monitise CEO Al Lukies and Visa Europe's Chief Commercial Officer Steve Perry discuss the partnership between the two firms and convergence as a way of delivering mobile wallets and digital payments.

05 February 2014

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Arguments for a smarter mortgage market in the UK

Michael Davison, Banking and Financial Markets, IBM and Kieran Colville, Smarter Workforce,IBM discuss how the UK mortgage industry is poised for growth and how focusing on human capital will enable a more prudent and efficient lending market, with reduced conduct risk and better outcomes for customers.

28 January 2014

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First Data needs to act like a start up

John Elkins, president, International Markets, First Data looks at the pace of change in the payments industry and how that change impacts the company's own strategies for growth.

17 December 2013

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Maximising Regulatory Data

Will Cawthorne, head of sales, Impendium Systems, looks at the thorny issue of finding meaning in big data. Originally published on Finextra.com on:

16 December 2013

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Focus on the real-time customer

Giles Nelson, VP at Software AG, discusses the changing needs of the retail banking customer, how banks access and handle their data and the real meaning behind 'omnichannel'.

03 December 2013

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What's affecting the banking industry?

Penny Hembrow, head of banking at CGI, discusses trends in retail and commercial banking, the effects of generation Y and its implications on IT.

20 November 2013

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Crowd commerce on Level 42

Francesco Gatti and Francesco Fumagalli, co-founders and managing directors of Crowdrooster, which officially launches on Nov 14th, discuss the evolution of crowdfunding and the start-up's graduation from the Level 39 FinTech accelerator space to the high growth space at Canary Wharf.

07 November 2013

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Bullish on bitcoin

Richard Brown, executive architect, IBM thinks the future for crypto-currencies looks very bright.

22 October 2013

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The Italian NFC experiment

Massimo Arrighetti, CEO, SIA, discusses the results of SIA's recent mobile payments pilot, issues with NFC and retailers, Sepa and T2S.

18 October 2013

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Mobile payments: Sibos's holy grail?

Tushar Chitra, senior director, product marketing at Flexcube, Oracle, discusses where mobile technology is headed, the retail ecosystem and mobile payments. Originally published on Finextra.com on:

07 October 2013

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The challenges of global transaction banks

Saket Pabby, VP, Oracle revenue management and billing, discusses the challenges facing global transaction banks and how analytics is shaping transaction banking.

04 October 2013

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Innovation in transaction banking

Lars Millberg, head of transaction banking at SEB, talks about innovation in transaction banking and the innovative new projects that are underway at SEB.

03 October 2013

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Working with the innovators

Jeremy Suddards, vice president of financial services and Ilse Himpe, account general manager, both of HP, discuss the recent collaboration with the Innotribe Startup Challenge and HP's Bristol innovation lab.

02 October 2013

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Brown Brothers Harriman empowers mobile

US investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman expects to have abandoned traditional desktop computing within two years as employees move to mobile working, says CIO and partner Christopher Remondi.

02 October 2013

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Kiwi start up wins Innotribe challenge at Sibos

KlickEx founder Robert Bell talks about the start-up's origins in the South Pacific and plans for the future, post their Innotribe Start-up Challenge win.

01 October 2013

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Startups, banks and being happy

Eric Van der Kleij, head of the Level 39 accelerator space in London, judges the Innotribe Startup Challenge and wonders whether bankers should be concerned with 'happiness'.

01 October 2013

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Digital driven transformation

Frédéric Lhostte, director, Belgian Mobile Wallet Initiative, Belgacom, Scott Bales, chief mobile officer at Moven and Juan Pedro Moreno, managing director, Global Banking Industry, Accenture discuss and debate digital transformation in banking and financial services.

27 September 2013

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Re-connecting to the personal side of banking

Lance Gourlay, director, corporate accounts at CR2, discusses how banks re-connect with their customers, innovations in self-service banking, and CR2's activity in the self-service space.

25 September 2013