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Myth-busting complex and commercial lending

Johanna Pugh, Global Head FusionBanking Lending, Misys, and Alex Kwiatkowski, Senior Strategist, Banking & Digital Channels, Misys, discuss legacy challenges in complex and commercial lending and how agility, adaptability and analytics can help to deliver a credit environment that creates value for corporates. banks and regulators alike.

03 March 2016

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Blockchain will transform payments ecosystem

Ruth Wandhöfer, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi, speaks about why movement towards a cashless society is slow and what the future may hold for the role of banks and money in the context of distributed ledger technologies.

18 February 2016

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Innovation in KYC and client on-boarding

Neil Jeans, Financial Crime Compliance & Risk Consultant, Thomson Reuters, discusses the need for innovation in KYC, and how regulators are responding to innovation in the financial services industry.

16 February 2016

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Simplification and innovation from blockchain

John McLean, CTO and Vice President, Software Group Europe, IBM, outlines the potential benefits of blockchain for financial institutions, what opportunities an open source approach allows, and what 2016 may hold for industrial blockchain development.

08 February 2016

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PSD2 and strategies for banks

Petri Syvänne, Head of Accenture Payment Services Nordic and Ilkka Ruotsila, Nordic Head of Accenture Strategy for Banking & Financial Services, speak about how banks should prepare for PSD2 and the strategies banks should adopt in dealing with the regulation.

03 February 2016

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Horizontal change in the payments industry

Paul Thomalla, SVP Global Corporate Relations & Development, ACI Worldwide, speaks about whether business or technology drivers are changing the payments landscape, and the role of regulation in disrupting the industry.

01 February 2016

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‘From disruption to real world change’

Erica Åhman, Head of Nordics, SWIFT, speaks about the value of this year’s SWIFT Nordics Regional Conference in Oslo for the Norwegian and Nordic communities, and what important global payments topics will be discussed, alongside securities and an Innotribe session.

29 January 2016

More links between banks and start-ups to come

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We should not dismiss bitcoin

Jan Skoyles, Co-founder and former CEO, The Real Asset Co, and Marketing, Coinsilium, speaks about the hype around blockchain, the role of bitcoin in inspiring exploration into alternative approaches to the monetary system, and the support blockchain companies can receive.

25 January 2016

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Stability and agility in a fast changing world

Daren Wedge, VP Financial Intermediaries, ACI Worldwide, outlines the impacts that a rapidly evolving payments landscape is having on industry participants, and what these organisations need to do to thrive in the new world.

19 January 2016

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We need customer advocacy

Jon Rutter, Director, EMEA Product Innovation & Partnerships, First Data discusses the role of a ‘customer-centric’ focus in innovation and how empathy is important in aiding customer success.

11 January 2016

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Competitive boundaries are blurring in banking

Ben Robinson, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Temenos, speaks about the key takeaways of the ‘Shifting Sands’ banking survey report, how fewer banks see fintech as a threat, and the current and future use of both cloud banking systems and data.

05 January 2016

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Fast followers build on early adopters’ know-how

James Aramanda, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Clearing House, and David Yates, Chief Executive Officer, VocaLink, speak about the new immediate payments climate in the US, the space in the US payments landscape which The Clearing House and VocaLink are working together to fill, and the key factors needed for interoperability between Europe, Asia, and the US.

05 January 2016

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Enabling new frontiers for banking efficiency

Alvaro Ruiz, Executive Partner, Europe GBS Banking & Financial Markets Leader, IBM Global Business Services, discusses the role of digital in leveraging efficiency and agility in banking and which technology areas banks should focus on to achieve efficiency gains.

27 December 2015

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Change in banking is a need to survive

Alvaro Ruiz, Executive Partner, Europe GBS Banking & Financial Markets Leader, IBM Global Business Services, outlines how the digital revolution has impacted traditional retail banking, the effect it has on how banks define their products and services, and what technology enablers have caused this change.

23 December 2015

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The point of no return for legacy systems

Keith Saxton, Chair, techUK Financial Services Council, at “Banking on the Future”, a seminar produced by Fiserv, Innovate Finance and techUK, talks about how the problem of banks’ legacy systems is not going away and must now be dealt with, and looks at some alternatives to rip and replace strategies, including exploiting the ‘as a service’ model and open APIs, and exploring new opportunities for utilities for non-differentiating activities such as reference data, account opening and aspects of regulatory compliance.

21 December 2015

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The holy grail of great service AND great value

Anthony Thomson, Founder, Atom Bank and Metro Bank, and NED of Agiliti, at “Banking on the Future”, a seminar produced by Fiserv, Innovate Finance and techUK, talks about how digital can enable the cost-effective provision of outstanding products and services to customers, the fact that new entrants such as challenger and shadow banks are changing the market in a way that incumbents must follow, and how the threat to established banks is not challengers per se but the rapid business model evolution being driven by digitalisation.

18 December 2015

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The big data advantage for digital challengers

Ricky Knox Co-Founder, Tandem, and Managing Partner, Hexagon Partners, at “Banking on the Future”, a seminar produced by Fiserv, Innovate Finance and techUK, discusses how traditional banks’ digital transformation is impeded by legacy systems, legacy profits and the difficulty of accessing and aggregating their data - and how digital challengers will exploit big data technologies to make their services more widely available while at the same time more closely identifying their ideal customers.

17 December 2015

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Turning off the liquidity tap

Lee Fulmer, Market Commentator, discusses progress with intraday liquidity management, exploring how banks need to understand not just whether they have enough liquidity but how to control the flow of that liquidity in a crisis situation.

17 December 2015

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Filling the gaps in financial crime compliance

Matthew Long, Financial Crime and GRC Management Global Solution Lead, Oracle and Michael Davison, Industry Principal, Financial Services, Atos, discuss the growing challenge for banks of meeting their financial crime and compliance obligations – such as the requirements of the 4th AML Directive - and explore the industry’s response, including efforts to achieve a holistic view of risks by centralising investigation management operations, the focus on better utilising big data and analytics for compliance, and the increasing relevance of hosted solutions to ensure players of all sizes and complexity can comply in a cost efficient way.

16 December 2015