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Digital Banking Strategy for 2020 Fraud Challenges

Scott M. Clements, Chief Executive Officer and President at OneSpan, talks to Finextra TV about innovation trends in digital banking, the rise of identity theft and mobile fraud, and the need for banks to increase agility as the threat environment evolves rapidly.

06 November 2019

Finextra TV/crypto

Fiat Currency 2.0: Counter argument to the Cryptocurrency narrative

Tony McLaughlin, Emerging Payments & Business Development, Citi, speaks at Money 20/20 USA about the practical problems that still need addressing in the crypto-currency community, how Fiat Currency 2.0 will help fix payments as a counter balance to crypto and what challenges still exist around tokenisation and coins. We ask how this impacts the big techs and what regulatory, political and ethical concerns need to be addressed first before they achieve their own currencies.

05 November 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Rise Up programme promoting industry diversity

Nicole Zimmermann, Head of Customer & Marketing Global Payments, Western Union, speaks at Money 20/20 USA in Las Vegas about diversity and the Rise Up programme, takeaways from the event, how awareness about diversity can be encouraged and what future goals Rise Up is aiming for.

05 November 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Disrupting from within: MUFG Union Bank's mindset

Pierre P. Habis, President, PurePoint Financial, Head of Consumer Banking, MUFG Union Bank, speaks at Money 20/20 about the Innovation Lab PurePoint Financial open to the public, the lesson that have been learnt from building the business, the challenges around building a hybrid culture and the mindset needed to disrupt from within.

04 November 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

European Transformation and SWIFT's Instant Payments Pilot

Saskia Devolder, Head of Western & Central Europe and Deputy Chief Executive, EMEA, SWIFT speaks at Sibos about Instant Payments in Europe, SWIFT's Instant Payments pilot, transformation in Europe and globally and the challenges banks are facing along the way.

24 October 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

World Payments Report 2019: Building collaborative ecosystem and leveraging instant payments

Christophe Vergne, World Payments Report leader, and Jeroen Holscher, Head of Global Payments Practice at Capgemini Financial Services talk about the need for banks to build collaborative ecosystem to help counter BigTech threat, the role of regulation around open banking , and how much instant payment is becoming a reality.

24 October 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Operational and business requirements in a hyper connected world

Yon de Riviere, Senior Presales, Murex, speaks at Sibos 2019 about the challenges facing operations departments, the impact the need to thrive in a hyper connected world has on banks, how this effects business requirements and how banks can meet the challenges along the way.

22 October 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Leveraging the pivot point in payments

Peter Hazou, Director of Business Development, Financial Services, Microsoft, Paul Thomalla, Global Head of Payments, Finastra, and Gareth Wilson, Managing Director, Global Payments, Accenture, join FinextraTV to discuss digital transformation in the payments space. Hazou, Thomalla and Wilson delve into why we've reached a pivot point in the payments landscape, payments compliance requirements, pressure on payments revenue, fintech competition, and future proofing in the digital transformation process.

21 October 2019

Finextra TV/Sibos

FinextraTV @ Sibos2019 – The Big Themes #3: Regulation

FinextraTV reports from Sibos 2019 in London on the impact of Regulation on the industry. In this, final episode, we learn about how Banks are adapting to the changing regulatory landscape, whether the cost of compliance outweighs the value of innovation, what success in this space demands and whether regulation will be able to keep up with the pace set by the tech giants. Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, Nordea, LHV, KPMG and Crown Agents Bank are among the many leading institutions to share their views exclusively with Finextra Research.

18 October 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Insights from The Temenos Value Benchmark Program

Kanika Hope, Strategic Business Development Director, Temenos, speaks at Sibos 2019 about the launch of The Temenos Value Benchmark Program, some of the key insights that the benchmark has revealed about the trends in the industry and examples of how the Benchmark has helped participating banks.

16 October 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Customer benefits in the digital payments space

Andreas Burner, Chief Innovations Officer, SmartStream & Roland Brandli, Product Manager SmartStream, United Arab Emirates, speak at Sibos about developing new and innovative services, the benefits for the customer, the launch in the digital payments space, how to handle the volume of payments and the future in this space.

15 October 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Partnerships in the cloud key for neobank success

Peter Cronin, senior director business development - Europe and APAC speaks at Sibos about the flourishing NeoBanking Sector, how it is developing, access to instant payments and how neobanks aggregate services around this, how this is dependant of partnering in the cloud and how this space will evolve.

15 October 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Adapting to the Experience Economy together

Sumit Aggarwal, Head of Transaction Banking Services, Emarites NBD Bank & Robert Cummings, Global Head FSI Solutions, SAP, speak about the power of partnerships, how the industry is becoming less siloed, how SAP has transformed the Emirates brandin and the changing experience economy.

15 October 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Top EMEA trends: Profitability, automation and personalisation

Sudheer Padiyar, Senior Vice President & Head, EMEA, SunTec, speaks about trends in EMEA, how banks are focusing on their profitability, automation and how they are tackling their back office processes along with making their services more personalised.

14 October 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

FinextraTV @ Sibos2019 – The Big Themes #2: Leveraging Data

FinextraTV reports from Sibos 2019 in London on how the industry is Leveraging Data. In this, second of three Sibos reports, we learn about how Banks are increasingly looking to develop a more formal strategy to better manage their data, the challenges leveraging data helps overcome and some of the new and improved services that are coming to market as a result. Barclays, LLoyds, BAML, Natwest, SEB, DBS Bank, Westpac, JPMorgan, Standard Chartered, Société Générale, Nordea, ING, Emirates NBD, and Absa are among the many leading institutions to share their views exclusively with Finextra Research. Become a Finextra member now and be sure not to miss: Sibos2019 Big Themes: Regulation…

11 October 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Industry drivers behind the free real-time instant payments service

Vinay Prabhakar, VP, Product Marketing, Volante Technologies, talks at Sibos 2019 about some of the latest developments around real-time and instant payments, whether banks are taking advantage of the opportunity they present and what Volante are doing in this area.

09 October 2019

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Data convergence embraced for cost management and friction-free service

Richard Harris, SVP of International Operations, Feedzai, explains why data silos have become such a big area of discussion for banks, how banks can ensure cross-pollination across areas when tackling financial crime and how digital transformation is being used by banks to nurture their reputation.

07 October 2019

Finextra TV/Sibos

Data as an asset class: Nordea values innovation to drive returns

Patrik Havander, Head of Commercial Excellence, Nordea, speaks with FinextraTV about how Nordea and the financial services industry are equipped to deal with the changing transaction banking landscape, the outlook for Nordea’s ROI, and the areas banks are looking to for rewarding long-term investments.

04 October 2019

Finextra TV/Sibos

How instant payments are revolutionising Cash Management

Christof Hoffman, Global Head of Payments & Collection Products, Deutsche Bank, speaks about the demand for instant payment schemes globally, how the industry has welcomed Open Banking and APIs and the significance of Swift gpi.

04 October 2019

Finextra TV/Sibos

Technology and global instability make fertile combination for Trade Finance

Daniel Schmand, Head of Trade Finance, Deutsche Bank, and Rebecca Harding, Independent Economist & CEO, Coriolis Technologies, discuss banks’ approach to leveraging the effects of digitalisation in structured finance for international trade, how bilateral trade can be supported by technology partnerships, the development of complex global supply chains through technology partnerships, and the role of cross-border trades in the future of trade finance.

03 October 2019