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Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Where is AI winning, and heading next in financial services?

The Evident AI Symposium in New York City saw insightful, and occasionally incisive, roundtable discussions on the current state of the AI industry across a number of related topics, with a specific focus on the financial services field. Opening remarks from Teresa Heitsenrether, chief data and analytics officer for JP Morgan Chase provided an o...

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Dominique Dierks

Dominique Dierks Content Manager at Finextra

How data and SaaS are paving the way for embedded bank payments

Our latest Finextra webinar, ‘SaaS savvy: Preparing for embedded and data driven bank payments’, hosted in association with Bottomline, discussed the transition to SaaS-based models in banking and payments, emphasising the need for data integration and analytics. Hosted by Finextra’s Gary Wright, the panel consisted of William Artingstall, managin...

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Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

How sustainable finance powers community projects

Two sessions at the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) annual conference in Nashville - among several others covering various subsets of the discipline - offered practical and promising insights into the continuing growth of sustainable finance in the corporate and consumer arenas. One involved the Canadian/global bank CIBC and two of i...

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Chris Holmes

Chris Holmes Peer at House of Lords

UK National Payments Vision: What does it mean for fintech growth?

Late last week the government launched their National Payments Vision. Described as resting upon three key pillars of innovation, competition, and security it sets outs welcome detail on regulatory coordination and payment infrastructure upgrades, identifies Open Banking and fraud as priority areas and establishes a payments vision delivery commit...

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Yi Ding

Yi Ding Assistant Professor at Gillmore Centre, Warwick

AI can make P2P lending safer and more fruitful for investors

Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending was born from the idea that cutting out the middle man – i.e. the bank – could make finance cheaper and more accessible. But in recent years, the lack of an intermediary has arguably undermined a key part of the sector, namely the secondary market for trading in existing P2P loans. Could artificial intelligence (AI) chan...

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Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

COP16 roundup: What is the future of nature financing?

The UN’s Biodiversity Summit (COP16) took place from 22 October – 8 November this year in Cali, Colombia, bringing together 196 government representatives to discuss the future of global biodiversity. The summit started off with lots of questions and ended with many left unanswered. The conference was plagued by loss of attendees, as many represent...

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Amanda Kavanagh

Amanda Kavanagh Contributor at Jobbio

How to overcome age bias in the job market

In the UK, over a third (35%) of workers are now aged 50 and over. As people live longer, healthier lives, and pension pots shrink, it makes sense that more people are working beyond traditional retirement. Despite this, age bias remains a significant issue. A new survey of 4,000 UK job seekers, and 1,000 HR decision-makers, including interviews w...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

2025 capital markets 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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John Barber

John Barber Vice President and Head at Infosys Finacle

Scaling AI in European banking: A practical framework for success

This article has been co-authored by John Barber, Regional Manager - Europe, Infosys Finacle, Narasimha Prasad Nagaraja, senior director at Infosys Finacle, and Ramprasath Ganesaraja, head of AI research at Infosys Finacle. A practical guide to reaching the promised land In our previous article, Forget Fintech Disruption—Here's How European Banks C...

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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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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

What is automation in financial services?

In the context of financial services, automation is achieved by the deployment of numerous technologies, in various contexts, by all kinds of entities. Whether it's smart automation by start-ups for artificial intelligence (AI)-powered enterprise resource planning (ERP) tagging systems, generative AI automation for risk detection by large banks,...

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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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