Finextra Research: Latest fintech news, analysis, interviews, features and opinion by industry experts

Redefining securities services

Satvinder Singh, Head of Global Securities Services & Head of Global Transaction Banking EMEA, Deutsche Bank, outlines how disruption is set to change the industry, and how banks should be responding.

04 October 2016

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Putting innovation in context

Christian Westerhaus, Global Head of Product & Strategy, Institutional Cash Management, Deutsche Bank, talks about how the gpi initiative from Swift is delivering value to corporates and banks.

30 September 2016

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Leveraging the benefits of T2S

Graham Ray, Global Head of Product Management, Investor Services, Deutsche Bank, discusses how firms are deriving liquidity and collateral benefits under TARGET2-Securities, and explores how the value of T2S can be further leveraged going forward.

29 September 2016

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Key for utility is to collaborate

Peter Moss, CEO, The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), speaks about challenges associated with reference data and why the area is suitable for a utility approach.

29 September 2016

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Cross-border focus for instant payments

George Evers, Head of International Product Development, Immediate Payments, VocaLink, speaks about where cross-border instant payments could go next, and what the key challenges will be.

27 September 2016

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The use of AI is a journey

Parth Desai, CEO and Founder, Pelican, discusses the findings of the Finextra report 'AI in payments: The last mile in efficiency', and the role AI can play in payments and transaction banking looking forward.

27 September 2016

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Banks clubbing together to tackle KYC

Steve Pulley, Managing Director, Risk Managed Services, Thomson Reuters, discusses how banks are currently managing their KYC challenges and outlines some innovative approaches to adoption.

22 September 2016

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Value chain goes real-time

Penny Hembrow, Senior Vice President, Industries & Practices, Global Leader Financial Services, Global Marketing, CGI, talks about the CGI Global 1000 Voice of Our Clients Program, and what the findings show about how corporate and transaction banking is changing, and how established banks are responding.

20 September 2016

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Digital consumerism drives change

Penny Hembrow, Senior Vice President, Industries & Practices, Global Leader Financial Services, Global Marketing, CGI, talks about the CGI Global 1000 Voice of Our Clients Program, and what the findings show about how capital markets are changing, and how buy and sell-sides are responding.

13 September 2016

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Banks need open source to stay bleeding edge

Jim Whitehurst, CEO, Red Hat, talks about how for banks open source has shifted from a viable alternative to a default choice, what banks can learn from other industries such as travel and betting about leveraging cloud to deliver richer customer experiences, and how major financial institutions are adopting containers.

30 August 2016

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Cultural change crucial in digital transformation

Jim Whitehurst, CEO, Red Hat, discusses the role of digital transformation and organisational shifts in financial enterprises, and what innovative approaches are being taken right now.

25 August 2016

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Business models transformed by digitisation

Kevin Poe, Vice President – Global Lead for Retail Banking, CGI, talks about the CGI Global 1000 Voice of Our Clients Program, and what the findings show about how retail banking is changing, and how established banks are responding.

27 July 2016

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PSD2 will make a treasurer’s life easier

Catherine Duchel, Product Manager, HSBC, summarises how PSD2 might impact corporates and European banking, and what treasurers could do to navigate this regulatory evolution.

18 July 2016

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Helping treasurers to complete automation journey

Jenn Doherty, Global Head of Commercialisation, Liquidity & Investment Products at HSBC, discusses how liquidity investment solutions can reduce manual effort and cost, and how treasurers can prepare for and get the most out of these automated off-balance sheet money movements by understanding their day to day activities in a manual environment in order to automate them going forward.

15 July 2016

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Robust corporate governance is a must

Demi Derem, General Manager, Investor Communication Solutions, International, Broadridge, outlines the business challenges the custodian and asset servicing communities are facing, and what solutions are needed to tackle these issues locally.

12 July 2016

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The business model implications of open banking

Vincent Brennan, EBA Deputy Chairman, talks about the new paper on open APIs from the Electronic Alternative Payments Working Group of the Euro Banking Association, which highlights the importance for market players to think strategically about leveraging open banking to source new propositions - and improve distribution of their own - in the post-PSD2 landscape.

11 July 2016

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Open banking: ID verification & collaboration key

Giorgio Ferrero, CEO, and John Broxis, Managing Director, PRETA, talk about why banks should be interested in offering identity verification, and how to offset the risk that fragmented solutions for access to accounts under PSD2 could undermine the digital single market

08 July 2016

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AI is a mature suite of tools for payments

Joe Lyske, Partner, Time Machine Capital, pinpoints how artificial intelligence (AI) fits into the payments industry, and which specific areas of banking are receptive to the technology.

07 July 2016

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Banks must figure out the ‘why’ of open APIs

Ronnie Mitra, ‎Director of API Design, API Academy, CA Technologies, talks about the impact of open APIs on banks’ customer relationships, the opportunity banks have to leverage accelerated interest in APIs due to PSD2, and the need for banks to work out why they are developing APIs – and for whom.

06 July 2016

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Private and public blockchains for trade finance

Gene Vayngrib, CEO & Co-Founder, Tradle, suggests that a private protocol over a public distributed ledger is an alternative to permissioned blockchains and centralised marketplaces in Trade Finance and Supply Chain, and predicts when startups will roll out mainstream products in financial services.

05 July 2016