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Core banking on the cloud, the catalyst for innovation, agility and efficiency

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

Core banking on the cloud, the catalyst for innovation, agility and efficiency

For financial institutions, business growth and cost reduction continue to be of paramount importance, which are often tied to establishing a cloud focused approach to enable banking agility and efficiency. With many intermediate steps between consumer need and fulfilment in traditional banking, newer players are entering the market with a lower c...

11 October 2021 /cloud

Cloud migration: What is the best and most secure route to take?

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

Cloud migration: What is the best and most secure route to take?

Now that the financial services industry acknowledges that cloud migration is crucial to the success of innovative initiatives, industry voices share the view that clarity around the best and most secure route to take needs to be provided. While a phased approach where tests are conducted and security settings are validated is one route to reaping ...

08 October 2021 /cloud

Augment, migrate, replace: Routes to cloud-led core modernisation

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

Augment, migrate, replace: Routes to cloud-led core modernisation

Now that the banking industry is on a journey to digital metamorphosis, it requires a fresh approach to operations. Threatened by innovative newcomers, financial institutions continue to accelerate their path to streamline technology, employ new digital strategies and decrease the time it takes to bring products to market. By the same token, consu...

13 August 2021 /cloud

The importance of distributing market data in the cloud

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

The importance of distributing market data in the cloud

Capital markets firms have long understood how cloud can help establish competitive advantage, increase agility, reduce time to market for new products, and address the growing total cost of ownership for IT infrastructure. However, the financial services industry has reached a point where real-time trading and risk management has become more crit...

22 July 2021 /cloud

The future of payments: Instant becomes embedded

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

The future of payments: Instant becomes embedded

The craving for instant is feeding a surge toward embedded finance: financial services on the customer’s terms, from anywhere and at any time. Today, banks are not needed and according to Curt Chadha, head of international retail payments at Raiffeisen Bank International, embedded finance is synonymous with “seamless” services and the “experience ...

29 June 2021 /retail

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

The future of payments: Scheme juggling

Following the determination that SWIFT messaging standard MT was below the mark for today’s evolving payments industry, its requirement for frictionless services and secure movement of high-quality, expensive data, ISO 20022 was established. This is an excerpt from Finextra Research report 'The Future of Payments 2021', which is exclusively availab...

24 June 2021 /regulation

The future of payments: Meeting instant expectations

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

The future of payments: Meeting instant expectations

Digital transformation continues to alter traditional business models across several industries such as retail, transport, and travel, to name a few. While the financial services industry is yet to experience a sea change of equal measure, a number of payments processes and business banking touchpoints are indeed undergoing transformation. This is...

21 June 2021 /payments

Best practices for neobanks utilising machine learning to prevent fraud

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

Best practices for neobanks utilising machine learning to prevent fraud

Unburdened by legacy technology, physical branches and stringent regulatory requirements, digital financial outfits — otherwise known as neobanks — can disrupt the status quo, scale retail propositions, and expand into lucrative spaces such as business banking with a streamlined model. With over 250 neobanks operating worldwide and many more on t...

17 June 2021 /retail

The cloud oligopoly, regulation, and the collaboration conundrum in the financial ecosystem

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

The cloud oligopoly, regulation, and the collaboration conundrum in the financial ecosystem

Consumers are evolving. They now expect the same agile customer experience from their financial services providers that they are offered elsewhere by other industries. Searching for ways to optimise the digital experience for customers, financial institutions have been leveraging the elasticity, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness of cloud computin...

16 April 2021 /cloud

Fintech jobs: The challenges for women in the workplace

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

Fintech jobs: The challenges for women in the workplace

Every year, the Innovate Finance Women in Fintech Powerlist shines a light on 150 women across seven categories who have made a substantial impact across the industry. A selected panel of independent judges also select the Standout 35, a group of 35 women who are making a difference over and above their day-to-day role. While I am proud and humble...

24 March 2021 /people

How digital identity is the catalyst for increasing financial inclusion among women

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

How digital identity is the catalyst for increasing financial inclusion among women

Women make up 55% of the world’s unbanked population. Ahead of International Women’s Day, Finextra interviewed several experts in the financial services community about how women can be granted the autonomy to take control of their own financial decisions and the barriers that need to be removed, namely the lack of a formal ID. The digital divide ...

08 March 2021 /identity

Top French sustainable finance strategists provide an ESG reporting blueprint

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

Top French sustainable finance strategists provide an ESG reporting blueprint

At a Bloomberg EU Policy event ahead of International Women’s Day, Banque de France’s Sylvie Goulard and the French government’s Olivia Grégoire discussed how to encourage companies to commit to environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure, how to improve the quality of data provided by organisations and whether it is time to reinforce re...

04 March 2021 /sustainable

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