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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia 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...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia 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...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia 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 ...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia 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...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia 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...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia 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...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia 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...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia 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...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia 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 ...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia 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...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

What Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stepping down means for fintech

Jeff Bezos will step down as founder and CEO of Amazon and transition to chairman in 2021, allowing seasoned cloud executive Andy Jassy to take the reins of the $1.6 trillion giant. As detailed in an email to his employees, Bezos will focus his “energies and attention on new products and early initiatives,” suggesting that the world’s richest man ...

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Finextra’s Top Long Reads of 2020

With 2020 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular long reads over the course of the past year. What should be taken into account if Artificial Intelligence is to be regulated? In this article, Juan Murillo, Senior Manager of Data Strategy at BBVA, and Jesús Lozano, Manager of Digital Regulation at BBVA, analyse the potential im...

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