Globalisation, demographic change, virtualisation, new technologies - the confluence of these drivers is forcing European banks to adapt rapidly to stay on their game and remain relevant in a world that, five years from now, will demand an entirely new way of doing business.
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The European Central Bank's Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, outlines the obstacles to the creation of a Single Euro Payments Area at an offsite meeting of the European Payments Council.
Deutsche Bank's Daniel Marovitz, head of product management, Global Transaction Banking speaks to Finextra about social media. He warns that banks that ignore it do so at their peril. The bank also relies on a 'code of behaviour' for staff interaction on social media sites.
Sanat Rao, VP and worldwide head of business development and alliances at Infosys talks with Finextra about how banking should be tailored to the individual.
SmartStream's TLM OnDemand is a fully integrated SWIFT service, offering a lower-cost route to automating cash, stock and securities reconciliations by delivering the market-leading solution through the Software as a Service (SaaS) model.
Ian Forrest, chief marketing officer at GE Money in the Czech Republic, talks with Finextra about how branch banking can still be innovative at this year's SAS Premier Business Leadership Series event in Berlin.
Bruno Alexandrain, head of finance projects and systems at Barclays Bank France, talks with Finextra about its business unit profitability platform, while attending the SAS' Premier Business Leadership Series event in Berlin.
Paul Smee, chief executive of the Payments Council, talks with Finextra about Faster Payments at the Experian Payments' Payments Strategies Conference 2010 event in London.
Ron van Wesel, director, Emerging Payments Streams, Deutsche Bank talks with Finextra at this year's EBAday, about how the bank plans to use mobile technology to tackle cross border remittances and expand services to corporates.
Ruth Wandhofer, head of payments strategy and market policy, Citi talks with Finextra at this year's EBADay about what social value means to payments and why XML standards are so important.
Taco Dirks, product management, ING and Brian Hanrahan, executive vice president, product & business development at Sentenial talk with Finextra at EBAday about their new partnership and product offering.