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EBAday 2021: The road to payments transformation

After the success of EBAday 2020, the event will again run in digital format on 28-30 June 2021 for its sixteenth year, welcoming a host of board directors, chief executive officers and payments and technology heads from Europe’s leading banks.

12 March 2021

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Cut through the noise: 5 key considerations when selecting your payments platform

09 March 2021 489 downloads

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The Future of Regulation 2021

08 February 2021 838 downloads

News/crypto

Davos 2021: Singapore senior minister on finding the dark horse in digital currency race

Finextra is at Davos this year, covering global insights into the impact fintech has on wider issues such as responding to Covid-19, restoring economic growth and advancing a new social contract.

28 January 2021

News/crypto

Davos 2021: Silver Lake co-founder dismisses belief about Bitcoin’s use for criminal activity

Finextra is at Davos this year, covering global insights into the impact fintech has on wider issues such as responding to Covid-19, restoring economic growth and advancing a new social contract.

26 January 2021

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What will drive the journey towards cashlessness and digitalisation?

18 January 2021 657 downloads

News/payments

CES 2021: Stripe and Plaid reveal Covid-19 ‘pressed fast forward’ on digital payments acceptance

As Andrew B. Morris from The Fintech Agenda, LLC highlights at CES 2021, the dark clouds of Covid-19 had a silver lining for the fintech industry. Unicorns Stripe and Plaid supported the global shift to a contactless economy, helping businesses deliver products and services to consumers who had collectively formed new daily habits for everything. Ginger Baker and Erika Wool explain what's next for the payments giants.

13 January 2021

News/devops

How banks and financial services players will monetise open banking

Joined by executives from the financial services ecosystem, Celent’s head of corporate banking Patricia Hines took to the Sibos virtual stage to lead a discussion on the potential for building on ROI with APIs.

12 January 2021

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Embracing the New Paradigm of Cloud Migration to Future-Proof Payments Technologies

07 January 2021 559 downloads

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Liquidity and Beyond: Building a future through certainty

17 December 2020 426 downloads

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Swift Community Update: Payments transformation in the UK

Financial institutions in the UK have faced a variety of challenges this year, including the complexities of the geopolitical environment and new and challenging macro factors caused by Covid-19 that will extend into the coming years.

14 December 2020

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Managing Compliance and Growth

14 December 2020 357 downloads

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Stripe plots Asian expansion

Payments firm Stripe is reportedly planning to increase its presence in the Asian market after adding 200 people to its workforce in the region.

10 December 2020

Company update/payments

Polish and Finnish banks join European Payments Initiative

Today, EPI Interim Company, responsible for initiating the implementation of the European Payments Initiative (EPI), is pleased to announce that PKO Bank Polski (“PKO BP”), Poland’s largest bank, and OP Financial Group, the leading Finnish retail bank, are joining EPI as founding shareholders of the recently created company.

10 December 2020

News/people

Dr Ruth Wandhöfer to chair PSR panel through Covid-19 recovery, Brexit and BoE RTGS renewal

Dr Ruth Wandhöfer has been appointed chair of the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) panel amid the regulator’s increased relevance as a policy strategist between a diverse group of banks, payment service providers, fintech firms and consumer groups as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

08 December 2020

News/payments

Payments have become tech arms race say banks

The vast majority of banks (94%) believe that the Covid-19 pandemic has turned the payments market into a technology arms race for which they are unprepared.

07 December 2020

News/cloud

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella on how to build partnerships ‘beyond two ships passing in the night’

Months after striking a deal with Microsoft to become a ‘cloud-first’ bank and migrate all core applications to the cloud by 2025, Bill Winters, group chief executive of Standard Chartered joins Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft at Singapore Fintech Festival 2020 to discuss resilience, the future of digital transformation and why a good partnership is central to achieving this.

07 December 2020

Company update/payments

Worldline and P3 Financial Group seal partnership

Worldline, the European market leader in payment and transaction services and #4 player worldwide, today announced a partnership with P3 Financial Group, a Fintech from Helsinki, Finland and the winner of Worldline’s E-Payments Challenge Special Prize in 2019. The two companies come together to make P3’s PSAAS (Payment System as A Service) operational in 13 European countries and offering real time commerce and payment service across the market.

03 December 2020

News/payments

EBAday 2020: ISO 20022 catalyst for banks to harness connected data

The ISO standards roll-out and open banking will galvanise banks’ efforts to compete with data-driven big techs, despite “vagueness” about how best this might be accomplished.

30 November 2020

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Paving the path from Open Banking to Open Finance in Benelux

27 November 2020 465 downloads