In a year marked by political volatility, continual regulatory pressures and an overwhelming conversation around instant payments and fraud, 2024 proved
to be a year of as much financial obstacle as financial innovation. All, it must be said, for the positive progression of the industry.
Of course, when years like this occur, it paves the way for deep, often opposing debates and insightful predictions for the future trajectory of various
sub sectors within fintech. At Finextra TV,
we have been speaking to leading voices across the globe, and now, as we enter a new year, it is time to look through some of our most popular videos.
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We will equally be at the following events throughout 2025: NextGen Nordics,
IFGS,
Temenos
Community Forum,
EBAday,
Money2020Europe,
Sibos,
Money2020USA,
10.
The Intersection
of Wildlife Trafficking and Financial Crime~
A fascinating collaboration, Julia Thorn, senior marketing manager, financial crime compliance, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, and Robert Campbell, programme
director, United Wildlife, The Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales, discussed how their two worlds collide. Using their joint report as a reference, they explained how wildlife trafficking should be categorised within the financial crime and
money laundering terms used in other areas.
9.
Harmonising AI solutions
in the fight against fraud
Yogesh Patel, CTO, Outseer focussed in this video on his understanding of how generative and predictive AI can be impactful for fighting payment fraud.
As part of this, he explains what these systems require to be successful and how to continue to optimise security. The usage of AI, especially GenAI, was another key theme in 2024, including Finextra’s own inaugural event
NextGenAI
in November.
8.
Financial Forecast 2024: What's Ahead?
Predict 2024 as a series occurs more than once in this list and Edward Harding, director of global strategic partnerships, Mambu used his episode to give
a unique insight into what financial services could expect in 2024, referring to Mambu’s own predictions report. Regulations, GenAI and embedded finance featured quite heavily throughout.
7.
Predicting
growth for clearing houses and scheme operators in 2024
Paul Ruggieri, senior vice president, real time payments, product management, Mastercard joined the studio to give his predictions for what would happen to clearing houses and scheme operators
in 2024. As part of this, he delved into another three key themes of 2024: the evolution of payments, modernisation and fraud prevention.
6.
Responding
to regulations: AI solutions boosting operational resilience in 2024
Another entry from the Predict 2024 series, Sumant Kuma, CTO, banking and financial markets, NTT DATA UK&I gave his thoughts, predictions and insights into what could be expected for the
rest of 2024 when it came to the use of artificial intelligence for operations. This also included a conversation about the EU’s 2025 deadline.
5.
Upcoming changes in
PSD3: The impact on 3DS ACS solutions
Appearing for a second time, Yogesh Patel, CTO, Outseer also told FinextraTV about the regulations surrounding 3DS solutions and further discussed the key role of data within the success
of these solutions.
4.
Striking the balance: Navigating
e-commerce trends
Speaking to reporter Debi-Bell Hosking at MPE 2024, Karan Johal, global head of sales, Ecommpay gave his thoughts on the growing trends within the e-commerce
landscape. 2024 was a very popular year for e-commerce with an increase in growth and new technologies emerging to increase both security and user experience, so this became another consistent theme.
3.
How
MiCA, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain are Key Drivers for the Fintech Industry
At Money 20/20 2024, FinextraTV interviewed Vedran Jankovic, sales head, virtual asset service providers, Deutsche Bank and Lukas Enzersdorfer, deputy
CEO and chief operating officer, Bitpanda on fintech’s key trends and their own new partnership. Here was another discussion surrounding regulation, this time with reference to cryptocurrency in a bid to improve both usage and reputation.
2.
Lord
Christopher Holmes of Richmond MBE on what the AI Regulation Bill Means for Fintech
Speaking at IFGS 2024, Lord Cristopher Holmes discussed the Open Finance Task Force announcement as well as his AI Regulation Bill. Another enormous theme
of 2024 being the tussle between AI and its regulation, several speakers have had a number of opinions on where the future looks set to go.
1.
Transforming interoperability
within trade finance
Finally, interviewing Iain MacLennan, head of trade and supply chain finance, Finastra and Peter Hazou, director of business development, Microsoft, it’s
no surprise that our most popular video is around modernisation. With new emerging tech and regulations to follow, modernisation of multiple strands of fintech has been at the very forefront of discussion throughout 2024. In this case, the modernisation of
trade finance was the central focus from blockchain to data interoperability.
As we watch how the world of financial services and the tech involved evolves throughout 2025, make sure you keep an eye on our site for more videos, news
and discussions into predictions, topic breakdowns and regulations.