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Oleg Boiko

Oleg Boiko Founder at Finstar Financial Group

Fintech Startups in Emerging Markets: Opportunities and Risks

Launching a fintech business in a new region presents both opportunities and significant risks. Emerging markets demand financial products, but ambition alone is not enough. How can one choose the right country and avoid failure? Where’s the Fintech Boom happening? Developing countries with rapidly growing GDPs are attracting investors’ attention.

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Steve Wilcockson

Steve Wilcockson Technical Product Marketing at Quantexa

The Future of Contextual Risk Simulations and Scenarios

Simulations are important. It was ever thus since the dawn of computing, but they have become even more important in AI-infused complex business environments. Simulations are core to any organization’s toolkit for making optimal decisions. Combining simulations with domain models (ontologies) rooted in an organization’s platform, model and data ar...

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Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder & CEO at UXDA

New Battle Field: Win Banking Race on the Client's Smartphone

Let’s cut to the chase. Financial institutions have spent decades obsessing over branches, brand identity, and service fees, believing those were the competitive battlefields. But in 2025, that war is being waged on a device that fits in your back pocket—the touchscreen smartphone. If a mobile banking app feels generic, devoid of real innovation, ...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Trust is the foundation for AI-agents

By now it is clear - not only to the ChatGPTs I have asked (and posted here) - but also to most of us - that the identity building credentials in general purpose organisational wallets are a must-have when employing AI-agents. The bicycle made for two (personal identity used at work and organisation's wallet) can then safely be equipped with an AI...

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Devendra Singh Parmar

Devendra Singh Parmar Independent Researcher

Banking 2030: The Role of Autonomous AI Agents in Fraud and Risk

As the financial services industry continues to undergo rapid digital transformation, the landscape of banking is set to look dramatically different by 2030. One of the most pivotal forces shaping this evolution is the emergence of autonomous AI agents—intelligent systems capable of operating independently to solve complex problems, adapt to new en...

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Arsh Bhardwaj Business Development Executive at ITIO INNOVEX

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Neill McCarthy CTO at Hive Quality Engineering Limited

Lal Chandran

Lal Chandran CoFounder and CTO at iGrant.io

Oleg Boiko

Oleg Boiko Founder at Finstar Financial Group

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US Regulation Survey 2025: Compliance at a Crossroads

Assessing financial industry preparedness in a shifting US regulatory landscape as organisations struggle with deadlines, cost, and technology. In an environment of rapidly evolving regulations, driven by legislative and policy shifts at the federal and state levels, the US regulatory landscape is marked by complexity and uncertainty. Understanding the level of preparedness across industries is crucial for ensuring compliance, mitigating risk, and enhancing operational efficiency. This survey was conducted at the beginning of 2025, gathering financial services industry sentiment as the Trump Administration took office and began pivoting on key regulatory elements. With the US financial regulation regime also somewhat in limbo, that uncertainty was – and is – increasingly impacting the views of the 200 organisations surveyed. Analysis of our survey responses provides a comprehensive overview of the state of regulation readiness in the US, differences in reporting obligations, the impacts of automation for compliance, the roles of technology and data, and industry plans for modernisation. We explore: Which regulations will have the biggest impact on US financial services in 2025; Regulatory effects on organisational frameworks, budgets and staffing; How organisations are leveraging technology and partnerships to streamline regulatory compliance.

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Event Report

Using modern technology platforms to create an AI-driven bank

In the rapidly advancing banking sector, integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become less of a choice and more of a crucial stepping stone. The industry is facing a turning point in the adoption of AI where organisations either embrace the opportunities in front of them or risk falling behind.  The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era of digital transformation. In banking operations, the integration of AI presents an opportunity for significant growth. However, this integration is not without its challenges. Banks are dealing with more data than ever before, and managing this information effectively is a crucial hurdle to overcome. From ensuring data accuracy and relevance to adhering to privacy regulations, these challenges require careful consideration.  The decision to incorporate AI should be a strategic one, aimed at addressing specific business challenges and not just a nod to the latest trend. Identifying growth-inhibiting challenges and evaluating the viability of AI as a solution is a practical and cost-effective approach.  This report highlights the key takeaways of a Finextra webinar, hosted in association with Red Hat, by a panel of industry experts. Discover:  Overcoming barriers in integrating AI into banking systems;  AI integration: A strategic approach; and  Effective utilisation of AI in business operations and risk mitigation.   

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The US Instant Payments Landscape: Navigating Growth and Challenges

The increasing demand for instant payment solutions is a key trend driving the adoption of faster payments. This webinar report explores what is holding instant payments back in the US.  In the US, real-time payments (RTP) have grown significantly since The Clearing House introduced them in 2017. Currently, the RTP network covers approximately 70% of customer accounts in the US, with transaction volumes and values rising dramatically. The Federal Reserve’s FedNow service, launched in mid-2023, has also contributed to this growth, processing a substantial number of payments in its initial quarters. These networks provide low-cost, efficient payment solutions that are gaining popularity for both consumer and business transactions.  Despite this progress, challenges remain in the adoption of faster payments. Interoperability between different payment systems and networks is a primary issue. While domestic instant payments are becoming more common, cross-border instant payments face obstacles due to the complexity of multi-currency transactions and varying regulations across countries. Additionally, the regulatory environment in the US does not mandate the adoption of faster payments, which can slow down the pace of implementation compared to other markets with regulatory mandates.  This report highlights the key takeaways of a Finextra webinar, hosted for the PREDICT 2025 campaign, by a panel of industry experts. It aims to answer:  What is holding Faster Payments back in the US and how much progress can be attributed to open banking and the ISO 20022 standard? Which applications of Faster Payments in the UK are transferrable to the US? With RtP and FedNow, how much choice is too much choice? What evidence is there that the financial services industry is at a tipping point and technology must be leveraged to ramp up adoption?

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Combating Cyber Threats: The role of AI, Partnerships and Education

Joining the FinextraTV studio, Michele Centemero, EVP, Regional Services Lead, Mastercard, outlined the stark position the world is in when it comes to the cybersecurity threat we face. As technology increases, it becomes both the problem and the solution, Centemero discusses what the landscape currently looks like and how education and partnership are key to heading in the right direction.

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Trump's Liberation Day and its impact on fintech

Stocks are now in major decline after US President Donald Trump announced tariffs on at least 10% across all countries. Those that have a high trade deficit with the US have been impacted the most; China, for instance, will face a 54% tariff and will prepare countermeasures. According to Trump, Liberation Day on 2 April 2025 was the day the US s...

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Tulsi Narayan

Tulsi Narayan EVP – Commercial and New Payment Flows, Europe at Mastercard

Driving seamless and secure B2B payments in 2025

From contactless to e-commerce, consumers are leveraging digital tools more than ever to simplify and enhance their daily lives. But for large companies and their B2B payment processes, which are by their very nature more complex, they are only just beginning to experience the similar benefits that we’ve come to expect as consumers; seamless, smar...

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Andrew Ellis

Andrew Ellis CEO at NatWest Boxed

Will 2025 be the year of embedded finance at scale?

Embedded finance, despite early promises, has not been adopted at quite the scale expected of a growing multi-billion market. The shift from early fintech-to-fintech implementations to consumer-facing products opened up a huge market, yet implementations are not as prevalent as they could be and most deployments have been relatively small in scale...

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