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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

How to choose a core banking provider

In simple terms, core banking points to the technology platform a financial institution deploys to sustain its key processes. It can be thought of as a central nervous system, delivering – from the back end to the front – vital services, such as transactions, onboarding, account management, currency exchange, card issuance, financial accounting, ...

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Níamh Curran

Níamh Curran Senior Reporter at Finextra

How tokenisation can grow e-commerce in 2025

Global retail e-commerce sales are forecast to grow to $6.8 trillion and capture 24% of global retail sales by 2028, according to Forrester. Within this increasingly digitalised economy, consumers are raising their expectations of what they want from a checkout experience. For merchants, cart abandonment due to an unsatisfactory checkout experience...

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Olivia Murphy

Olivia Murphy Managing Associate at Linklaters

How the FCA’s proposed safeguarding rules could re-shape the UK payments industry

The much-anticipated FCA consultation on its safeguarding requirements for payments firms was released at the end of September. In their current form, the proposals are set to have significant impact on the UK payments industry, particularly for some smaller firms and certain business models. What are the safeguarding rules? The safeguarding requi...

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Mehret Habteab

Mehret Habteab SVP Processing Platforms & Network Products at Visa Inc

Future proofing payments security on a fragmented landscape

In today’s global, instant and inter-connected world, the payments ecosystem comprises more players than ever before. The benefits of such a model have included unprecedented levels of competition, innovation, and service – for everyone. But this has also meant that there is an increased attack surface for bad actors, making fraud prevention and s...

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

How to establish a correspondent banking relationship

Correspondent banking lays the groundwork for a healthy international ecosystem of financial services. According to SWIFT data, however, the number of correspondent banking relationships has been in decline globally for the last decade. Compounding the issue has been a simultaneous rise in the volume and value of cross-border payments – suggestin...

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Gautam Pillai

Gautam Pillai Head of Fintech Research at Peel Hunt

The future of payments: Trends and transformations

The fintech industry is undergoing a rapid transformation, driven by new technologies and evolving consumer needs. Similar to the internet and the dot-com crash of 2000, the fintech industry underwent a shakedown in 2022 which has helped to weed out the weak business models and showed the resilience of the rest. Today, nearly three years on, we ar...

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Guy Dolinko

Guy Dolinko Head of Risk at Fibonatix

Beyond the labels: Why fraud is now everyone's problem

When we think about payment fraud, it’s natural to picture businesses that deal with bigger challenges—industries facing more complex regulations and heightened scrutiny. But while these high-profile businesses are often well-prepared to fight fraud, there’s an unexpected trend emerging: fraudsters are turning their attention to “low-risk” merchan...

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Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

What are the benefits to the biometric payments rollout?

With the advent of numerous new technologies in payments, biometrics has taken a lead in authentication processes and accessibility. According to Global Market Insights, the biometric payment market was valued at $8.83 billion in 2023, and is expected to grow around 17.1% between 2024 and 2032. Biometric cards have further become a trend amongst p...

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Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

How home-grown insights, big-bank connections fuel fast-growing treasury fintech

When Treasury4’s executive team contacted Finextra to announce that it was joining the JP Morgan Payments Partner Network, we were intrigued by the ‘why.’ We wanted to know what being a part of the JPM ‘payments ecosystem’ would really mean to a fast-growing, ‘actual-experience-driven’ fintech start-up like the Spokane, WA-based treasury and finan...

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Chris Holmes

Chris Holmes Peer at House of Lords

What the new Data (Use and Access) Bill means for the UK

This time last year I was writing about an important milestone in the digital economy, the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, which had just passed through its commons stages and was arriving with us in the Lords. Sadly, that bill was lost when the General Election was announced although it appeared to be revived, under a new name ‘the ...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

2025 payments trends and Finextra’s predictions for the new year

Launching soon, Finextra’s PREDICT 2025 channel will gather insights and ideas from the industry's top thought leaders, capturing how the financial services industry will tap into technology trends in 2025 and these predictions will be shared with our 700,000 monthly readers. From November 2024 to March 2025, Finextra will be hosting video intervi...

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Dominique Dierks

Dominique Dierks Content Manager at Finextra

Pix Automático: Unlocking the potential of recurring payments in Brazil

Brazil’s Pix has been one of the most impactful success stories over the last decade. Created by the country’s Central Bank, the instant payments system purpose was to modernise Brazil’s payments industry by reducing consumers’ reliance on cash, lowering financial costs, and fostering financial inclusion – and it succeeded brilliantly. Launched in...

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