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Adding extra to your instant payments

Craig Ramsey, Director of Product Management, Transaction Banking and Immediate Payments, ACI Worldwide and José Beltran, Director, Business Development, STET, talk at Sibos 2017 about the help banks need to keep up with the new instant payments landscape using cloud, faster onboarding and rapid deployment models for on premise solutions, and what opportunities this will bring to the further European market.

15 November 2017

Company update/Open APIs

Open Vector partners up with Volante for open banking

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of payments and financial messages on premise or as a cloud service, today announced its partnership with Open Vector, an advisory firm specialising in providing open banking consultancy services.

15 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Completing the last mile with AI

Gerry Gibney, Senior Strategist, Financial Services, OpenText, talks at Sibos 2017 about how AI is helping banks in the payments business by reducing cost and human inefficiency, whilst improving customer experience, and what the barriers are behind the benefits.

14 November 2017

Company update/Open APIs

Fidelity Investments makes it easier for customers to share data with third parties

Fidelity Investments today announced Fidelity AccessSM, a convenient and more secure way for Fidelity clients to see and use their Fidelity account information, such as balances and holdings, on third-party financial websites and applications that aggregate financial information, such as those used for budgeting, financial planning, analyzing spending, tax preparation, and generating portfolio advice.

14 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Uniting technology with steadfast strategy

Seshika Fernando, Head of Financial Solutions, WSO2, talks about how ready banks are for PSD2 and how they should be thinking about building their API strategy whilst fulfilling the expectation to move beyond compliance and discover new digital transformation opportunities using technology.

14 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Bringing clarity to PSD2 challenges for payments and retail operators

John Snoek, VP Product & Operations, Acapture & Payvision, talks about how the arrival of PSD2 will disrupt the marketplace and what business opportunities the industry can expect to see from the regulation.

14 November 2017

Company update/Open APIs

Nucleus Software to provide Adhaar enabled KYC for mobile lending platform

Nucleus Software, the leading provider of lending and transaction banking solutions to the global financial services industry, today announced that it has extended the digital capabilities of its award winning lending mobility solution.

14 November 2017

Company update/Open APIs

Token and Envestnet/Yodlee form strategic partnership

Token, Inc., a turnkey open banking platform provider, and Envestnet | Yodlee (NYSE: ENV), a leading data aggregation and data analytics platform powering dynamic, cloud-based innovation for digital financial services, today announced a strategic partnership to combine their expertise in PSD2-compliant payments and financial data aggregation.

13 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Channelling capital market flow to where it’s required most

Thomas Zeeb, CEO, SIX Securities Services, talks at Sibos 2017 about whether Brexit will spur on the development of a Capital Markets Union, what the post-trade landscape could look like in the future and whether seeking greater scale is the key solution to all pressures.

13 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Building an adaptive digital platform

Paul Fremantle, CTO and Co-Founder, WSO2, talks about digital transformation and how it is affecting the banking industry, why PSD2 is encouraging clients to build an adaptive digital platform using APIs and why having a technology strategy will help support the evolution of digital customer experience.

13 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

From tepid revenue to a doubling in growth

Patricia Hines, Senior Analyst, Celent, and Simon Paris, Deputy CEO, Finastra, talk at Sibos 2017 about the recently launched research paper on Connected Corporate Banking and what its statistics on revenue pools tell us about revenue opportunities in corporate banking, what their advice is for banks hoping to take advantage of those pools and what risks banks face in failing to invest in new technology.

13 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Sometimes it’s better to begin with a clean slate

Sophia Wikander, Head of Business Innovation, Transaction Banking, Nordea, talks at Sibos 2017 about what innovations corporate customers are looking for, how culture is a key component in this era of digital transformation and what examples there are where culture change has enhanced innovation.

10 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Entering an era of unleashed innovation

Tricia Balfe, Head of Services, XMLdation, talks at Sibos 2017 about how banks will need to allow access to account information to comply with PSD2, what they need to put in place to support the open banking ecosystem and what we can expect to see unleashed in terms of innovation.

10 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Breaking the rip and replace cycle

Nadeem Syed, CEO, Finastra, talks at Sibos 2017 about the challenges banks face today, how they can break the rip and replace cycle while they look for faster ROI and what is driving the gain in momentum towards open APIs.

09 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Data is the new oil

David Puth, Chief Executive Officer, CLS, talks at Sibos 2017 about the big picture trends shaping the foreign exchange market, what data and processing settlement challenges the market is facing, and the growing level of influence of blockchain and DLT.

09 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Empowering banks through fintechs

Jacob Tackmann Thomsen, CEO & Founder, INPAY, talks at Sibos 2017 about what is driving such close collaboration between banks and fintechs, the advantages of this, and what we can learn from industries that have been disrupted already.

09 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Banks look to utilise the richness of the cloud

Nadish Lad, Global Head of Payments Products, Volante Technologies, talks at Sibos 2017 about the growing trend towards payments as a service in the cloud, how easy it is to put a payments suite in the cloud, and what sort of services customers can expect to see being offered in the cloud.

08 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

A case of cultural change

Paul Thomalla, SVP Global Corporate Relations & Development, ACI Worldwide, talks at Sibos 2017 about the business cases around the imminent go-live of real time payments, whether banks are structurally ready for the changes the payments industry is facing and what’s next for real-time.

08 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Commercialising open banking from the core

Jesper Illum, Nordic Head of Financial Services, SAP, talks at Sibos 2017 about whether the industry is ready for the next steps in open banking and the implementation of PSD2, if financial institutions are struggling to satisfy regulatory requirements and drive new innovation and revenues at the same time, and how banks are becoming more willing to collaborate with third parties.

08 November 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Time to rethink strategies and business models

Laurence Leyden, General Manager, Financial Services, EMEA South, SAP, talks at Sibos 2017 about the role of APIs in securely sharing data across the industry and what new business models are likely to emerge in a world of open banking.

08 November 2017