SME

Finextra TV/payments

Adapting to B2B Payments: What businesses need to consider

Speaking at MPE 2024, Kevin Baker, Head of Merchant Services, EMEA, Bank of America, discusses the B2B payment system evolution, challenges, and digital transaction benefits. We explore ERP integration, emerging trends like wearables and local payments, and evolving payment expectations for consumers and companies.

26 March 2024

News/startups

EBAday 2024: Calling early-stage startups to showcase products

The 19th edition of EBAday, the largest annual European event for payments and transaction banking, will return on 18th – 19th June 2024 at CCL in Lisbon, Portugal.

15 March 2024

News/payments

MPE 2024: What’s new for merchant payments and the role of digital wallets?

At the annual Merchant Payments Ecosystem conference in Berlin, businesses and leaders in payments come together to exchange ideas, perspectives, and visions in the merchant payments industry.

12 March 2024

Finextra TV/sustainable

Navigating Biodiversity Impact: A review of 100 Nordic Companies

Mads Steinmüller, Head of Climate & Nature, Danske Bank Asset Management, discusses what Danske Bank found when they reviewed the quality of companies' management of their impact and dependencies on biodiversity on 100 of the largest companies in the Nordics, and unpacks what’s needed next to fulfil the recommendation and guidance that the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) have set out in 2023.

21 February 2024

News/people

Alba Bank CEO steps down

Rod Ashley has announced he will be stepping down as CEO of Alba Bank after six years.

09 February 2024

News/payments

SumUp releases suite of new product features

Global fintech SumUp has announced its array of new product features to support small businesses at the company’s annual event.

19 January 2024

News/people

OakNorth appoints Lord Adair Turner as chairman

House of Lords member Lord Turner of Ecchinswell - Jonathan Adair Turner - has experience across Standard Chartered Bank, Siemens UK, Merrill Lynch Europe, and McKinsey.

27 December 2023

Research/SMESentiment Paper

Payments: The key to unlocking new ecosystems and why merchant services are on the up

06 December 2023 685 downloads

Finextra TV/sustainable

“We Succeed Together”: Accelerating Sustainable Finance

Richard Peers, ResponsibleRisk, discusses the impact-oriented financial instruments challenge at SustainableFinance.Live 2023 with hackathon winners Arun Krishnankutty, ESG Consultant, Sustainable Finance, Managing Consultant, Wipro Consulting, and Ikechukwu Okoli, Co-founder, Capsule Tech. They focus on solutions for challenges like SME resilience, highlighting the importance of global collaboration and events like SF.Live, which give a platform to diverse perspectives for positive environmental impact.

01 December 2023

News/markets

EC makes supercomputers widely accessible to foster AI development

The European Commission has opened access to EU supercomputers to bolster AI development and push AI initiatives.

17 November 2023

Finextra TV/inclusion

Global FinTech Institute on financing implications of digital inclusion

Professor David Lee, Chairman of the Global FinTech Institute, discusses the significant progress made in advancing digital inclusion within the financial sector ahead of Singapore Fintech Festival 2023. He covers advancements in mobile wallets and digital lending, highlighting the need for improved financial inclusion metrics, the benefits of educating SMEs on the ways data contributions can lower borrowing costs, and explores the practical applications of blockchain technology improving agricultural practices.

09 November 2023

News/sustainable

BDC leads Canadian SMEs towards a greener future

In a conversation with Pierre-Olivier Brodeur, lead sustainability and decarbonisation projects incubator at the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), Brodeur discussed how new positions are being formed to account for sustainable practices and focus on climate solutions in the finance industry.

28 July 2023

News/sustainable

Make carbon accounting as pervasive as financial accounting - Greenly

Speaking to Alexis Normand, the founder of carbon accounting platform Greenly, Finextra learned how carbon accounting has become a necessity in the banking sector today.

21 July 2023

Finextra TV/cloud

Empowering Business with Embedded Finance

Speaking at TCF 2023, Robert Wint, Senior Product Director, Business Banking, Temenos, discusses the key trends in SME banking, the benefits small businesses can gain through embedded finance and how technology enables banks to provide better services to SMEs.

24 May 2023

News/payments

UK's cashless transition under the microscope as Payments Choice Alliance pushes back

The UK is gearing up to follow the footsteps of Norway and Sweden as an increasingly cashless society given the sparse usage of cash post-pandemic. London in particular has become a hub for online payments, with a significant number of retailers no longer accepting cash. The transition was intensified by the need to socially distance during the pandemic, as the usage of e-wallets and digital transactions has accelerated.

12 May 2023

News/startups

Austrade and SFA launch fintech collaboration initiative

The Singapore Fintech Association (SFA) and Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) have launched a joint programme to foster fintech innovation in both APAC countries.

28 April 2023