Sibos

News/Sibos

Sibos 2021: Collaboration and discipline is required for digital asset and CBDC success

Day three of Sibos started with a future facing perspective in the form of two morning sessions covering developing and upcoming digital technologies, including as CBDCs, DeFi, and NFTs, reiterating that these areas of innovation remain hot topics of interest.

14 October 2021

Long read/Sibos

Paige McNamee Senior Reporter at Finextra

Sibos 2021: Using the Swift platform as a springboard to digital

14 October 2021

News/regulation

Bank of England peers into the opaque world of DeFi

The Bank of England has begun to explore how to manage risks generated by the rapid initial growth of decentralised finance, or ‘DeFi’ applications.

14 October 2021

News/Sibos

Sibos 2021: Why ‘desirability’ of CBDC is just as important as ‘feasibility’

Following moderator Dr Leda Glyptis of 10x Future Technologies’ introduction surrounding ‘The Future of Money’ with digital currency and tokenisation at the heart, John Egan, CEO of L’Atelier BNP Paribas, stated that a key problem in the conversation around CBDC is that we’ve discussed it from the perspective of what is feasible, rather than what would be technologically desirable.

13 October 2021

Finextra TV/crypto

Navigating the future role of E-krona and CBDCs

Paula da Silva, Head of Transaction Services, at SEB, speaks during Sibos about E-krona and CBDCs. We hear about some of the pitfalls associated with CBDCs, whether there is more value and purpose for CBDCs within developing countries versus more mature economies and whether there is more resilience and trust when it comes to traditional payments and currency infrastructure versus new disruptors.

12 October 2021

Finextra TV/retail

Key areas for Bank & Fintech collaboration in a Covid-world

Gavin Maclean, Head of Payment Products, Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, speaks to FinextraTv during Sibos about the impact of Covid on collaboration within the industry, the increase in demand and opportunity for new propositions and how Lloyds Bank’s team has been busy with fintech partnerships throughout the pandemic and continues to focus on partnering moving forward.

12 October 2021

Finextra TV/payments

Real-time, financial inclusion & removing friction with Mastercard

Paul Francis Walvik Joynt, Senior Vice President Payments International at Mastercard Payment Services, brings FinextraTV up to date with where we are as an industry in regards to real-time payments. We learn more about the primary drivers for this development, the role technology and cloud based solutions have played, the challenges to be address by financial institutions connecting to real time schemes and how Mastercard is supporting it's customers through their application Bill Pay.

12 October 2021

News/Sibos

Sibos 2021: Swift, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and C3.AI to collaborate on AI platform

On day two of Sibos 2021, representatives from Swift, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and C3.AI took to the virtual stage to explore how collaboration and establishing a community between banks can support the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) at scale.

12 October 2021

Finextra TV/payments

The network effect: How cross-border connections can reach the world

Stephen Grainger, Executive Vice President, Cross-Border Services, Mastercard speaks to FinextraTV during Sibos about areas we can improve the cross-border payment experience for businesses and consumers, the increasing amounts of collaboration across the payments industry and how Mastercard is working with digital players and financial service providers to support the growing need for cross-border payments.

12 October 2021

Finextra TV/payments

The Role of Open Banking & Open Finance for the Future

David Hooper, Vice President, Banking & Payments Consulting, CGI, speaks to FinextraTV during Sibos 2021 about what Open Banking is and what it’s becoming, how it will continue to change the banking landscape, and the future of data mining and getting to know your customer better.

12 October 2021

Finextra TV/crypto

The Regulation and Responsibility surrounding Stable Coins and CBDCs

Sean Devaney, VP, Strategy for Banking and Financial Markets, CGI, speaks to FinextraTV during Sibos about Stable Coins and CBDCs. We hear about the difference between the two, whether these new digital currencies will be anonymous like cash and who will be responsible for regulating the new digital currencies.

12 October 2021

Finextra TV/sustainable

Ensuring resilience post-Covid & accommodating the transition to a more sustainable future

Gwynne Master, Managing Director & Head of Working Capital Solutions, Lloyds Bank, Lloyds Commercial Banking, speaks to FinextraTV during Sibos about how, in the wake of the pandemic’s disruption, ‘resilience’ will be the watchword in many management suites. We hear about the challenges businesses need to consider moving forward, what tools and technologies will help banks be more resilient and how agendas are changing to accommodate the transition to a more sustainable future.

12 October 2021

Finextra TV/Sibos

Spot value at risk, achieve operational excellence & ensure business agility

Antoine Cuypers, Director EMEA, Intix, speaks during Sibos 2021 about key payments innovations he's seeing evolve today, the main issues banks face with outdated systems and technology, what banks need to do in order to respond to these challenges, andhow Intix can help.

12 October 2021

Finextra TV/payments

The future and opportunities of Embedded Finance

Anders la Cour, CEO of Banking Circle Group, discusses the ongoing challenges Financial Institutions face, how that has changed due to COVID and how licenced businesses like his are enabling Banks, Payments businesses and FinTechs to transform the suite of solutions they offer, without transforming their internal infrastructure.

12 October 2021

Finextra TV/sustainable

Banking on change: Building the innovative and sustainable enterprise

Ayeesha Sachedina, Chief Transformation Officer, GTS, Bank of America, speaks to FinextraTV during Sibos about how the pandemic has accelerated the drive for organisational change, what true successful transformation requires and what those rethinking their business models to be more resilient for the future need to consider.

12 October 2021

Finextra TV/payments

Tailwinds for request to pay

How tangible will request to pay become across Europe in the coming year and what difference can a 4-corner model make? Erwin Kulk, Head of Service Development and Management at EBA CLEARING, gives answers to these questions and an outlook on drivers for request to pay adoption and the Company’s R2P Service.

12 October 2021

News/Sibos

Sibos 2021: What will Industry 4.0 and 5.0 mean for the financial sector?

Opening Swift Innotribe’s red thread – Banking on Change – on day one of Sibos 2021, was theoretical physicist, futurist and science communicator, Dr Michio Kaku. Known best for his seminal work on string theory, Kaku analysed science’s contribution to wealth generation since the first industrial revolution, and made predictions as to how further technological innovation, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), will steer the financial services sector through the fourth and fifth industrial revolutions, this century.

11 October 2021