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Finextra TV/retail

What Does a Reimagined Banking World Look Like?

In this FinextraTV interview, Saraswathy Parthasarathy, COO, Universal Banking, Finastra, opines on how technology is influencing and driving a reimagined banking world. We are not on the brink of a new era of financial services: the future is already here. According to Parthasarathy, we are living in a world where a customer-centric approach is the only way forward, financial products are integrated seamlessly into our lives and banking is no longer a separate service – it is value-based and can now be done on the go, enabling banks to keep up with changing customer preferences.

26 March 2025

Finextra TV/predictions

What Are 'Future Safaris' and The 5 L's to Success?

Joining FinextraTV from CES in Las Vegas, Todder Moning, Head of Applied Foresights, U.S. Bank, shares his insights into the innovations at CES and how they inform his team’s view on the future. From explaining the role of futurists in banking to describing his 5 Ls for success, Moning provides his tips for future-proofing in the financial industry.

16 January 2025

Finextra TV/payments

ACH and The Importance of Routing Transit Numbers

As the years progress, ACH payments are increasing in popularity and in usage but when using such a payment method, it’s important to have the right data and information available. John Hutton, Global Head of Payments, LexisNexis Risk Solutions joined FinextraTV for this interview, exploring what ACH payments are and what risks can be involved. Hutton goes on to discuss both the simplistic detail of having the right routing transit number and how their organisation works in collaboration with Nacha to bring the right data to clients.

16 December 2024

Finextra TV/Sibos

Chainlink Unveils New Privacy and Interoperability Solutions for Blockchain Adoption

At Sibos 2024, Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink, highlighted the growing adoption of blockchain technology by asset managers, driven by efficiency gains in settlement, payments, and collateral management. Nazarov announced the launch of two key privacy-focused tools: the Blockchain Privacy Manager and CCIP Private Transactions, designed to ensure secure, private transactions across multiple blockchains. He also emphasised the importance of interoperability, introducing Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), which aims to enable seamless asset and system integration in the evolving digital assets landscape.

22 October 2024

Finextra TV/retail

What African Banks are Prioritising Today

Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Lee Allcorn, Managing Director, MEA, Temenos and Deribie Asfaw, President, Cooperative Bank of Oromia talk about the priorities for banks across the African continent and the speed at which business and innovation operates here. Today, clients are prioritising trust, security and ensuring that their investments are as risk-free as possible. In addition to this, providing services to those that are unbanked and underbanked in a low cost manner continues to be an issue to be resolved. The conversation also turns to scalability, as financial institutions in Africa look to reach new channels and new markets.

15 July 2024

Finextra TV/payments

Core Banking Transformation: Enabling Future Growth at a Systemic Bank

Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Mick Fennell, Business Line Director - Payments, Temenos and Serge Munten, Head of Transformation, Banque Internationale à Luxembourg discuss their digital transformation project and the obstacles the bank faced when modernising core banking and payments capabilities. Scoping out the project, it is explored how BIL decided to completely revisit their IT landscape to enable the bank to manage higher transaction volumes, keep up with changing regulations and drive future growth.

12 July 2024

Finextra TV/cloud

Considering Cloud? Here are the options for banks

Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Tony Coleman, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Temenos and Keith Lynch, Head of Enterprise Business, EMEA, Red Hat dive deep into why choice remains a fundamental tenet for the banking industry and how cloud migration is no exception. A bank in 2024 has many options, whether it is moving to public cloud, where technology stacks are supported by hefty players such as AWS or Azure, for example, or working with SaaS providers. The conversation also shifts to expanding on the benefits of private cloud where cloud-like deployments are established. The advantages of hybrid cloud are also prevalent, where one technology stack can run across multiple footprints, allowing organisations to build an app once, but deploy it everywhere with open source technology.

11 July 2024

Finextra TV/payments

Why without technology, there would be no banks

Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Maurya Murphy, Senior Product Director, Corporate Banking, Temenos and Benjamin Wey, Senior Advisor, Hamilton Reserve Bank chat through how technology can be used to streamline operations and grow and develop as a business. For the largest global bank headquartered in the Caribbean, technology is essential for resolving problems that all traditional banks face, such as lack of communication and lack of customer support. There is now an expectation from customers of a much closer link between banking and technology, and corporate clients are looking for more personalisation, more choice and more sustainability in their products.

08 July 2024

Finextra TV/payments

Collaboration is key to achieving growth in transaction banking

At EBAday 2024, Bana Akkad-Azhari, Head of Treasury Services EMEA at BNY, discusses the innovations, client demands, and regulatory changes, like ISO20022 migration and T+1 settlement transition, that are reshaping transaction banking. Amid inflation and geopolitical instability, the conversation focuses on how collaboration is key to overcoming challenges and achieving sustainable growth.

26 June 2024

Finextra TV/payments

SEPA Instant Mandate: Racing to European Banking transformation

Ainsley Ward, Vice President at CGI, and Global Business Development lead for CGI’s Payments Solutions, sheds light on European Parliament's SEPA Instant Mandate and the 9th of January 2025 deadline for Eurozone banks. With the Federal Reserve's FedNow initiative connecting 400 banks in a year underscoring varying market readiness, challenges still persist. We discuss alternatives found in new technologies and scepticism over universal compliance in anticipation of EBAday, where stakeholders can converge to navigate regulatory complexities and seek solutions in this digital era.

17 June 2024

Finextra TV/Sibos

Industry issues and technology enhancements

Stephanie Wolf, Head of Global Financial Institutions, Governments and Business Banking Sales for GTS, Bank of America joins FinextraTV at Sibos 2022 to discuss the issues facing the industry and Bank of America’s latest innovation in APIs.

13 October 2022

Finextra TV/Sibos

New Developments in Virtual Account and Liquidity Management

Ray Wilson, Global Head of Virtual Accounts, Montran and Layal Ishaq, Regional Head of Global Transaction Banking, Ahli United Bank speak with FinextraTV at Sibos 2022. Discussing Montran’s major new contract with Ahli United Bank for the supply of a Virtual Account and Liquidity Management Solution, we gain insight into the significance of this deal and the potential for Ahli United Bank’s corporate clients.

12 October 2022

Finextra TV/wholesale

The customer engagement imperative: What banks can learn from the FinTech playbook

Gareth Wilson, UK Banking and Capital Markets business lead, Capgemini & Elias Ghanem, Vice President and Global Head of Capgemini Research Institute for Financial Services, reflect on the growth of digitalization across the industry and a shift in customer needs. They discuss the challenges banks are facing as a result, what they should be investing in and leveraging to tackle this challenge, and how they can use data and AI/ML technologies to create superior customer experiences that drive growth. They also reflect on how positioning the CMO as a customer strategist and chief engagement officer can further enhance growth opportunities.

10 May 2022

Finextra TV/payments

Managing systemic change across European payments

Tom Callaert, Senior Payments Expert - Securities Initiatives & Payment MIs, SWIFT speaks to FinextraTV about the main effects on the European payments industry of the Eurosystem and EURO1 market infrastructure migrations to ISO 20022, the impact of having different market infrastructures migrate at different times and the lessons learnt so far from the Target2 consolidation project.

11 March 2020

Finextra TV/retail

Facing the challenges around risk regulation and compliance

Paul Adams, International Payments Director, Barclaycard speaks to Hannah Wallace, FinextraTV at Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2020 in Berlin about the importance of driving a common strategy within a business, how to adapt to the increasingly demanding needs of banking customers and the main challenges today around governance, risk and ensuring compliance with internal and external rules, regulations and legislations.

10 March 2020

Finextra TV/regulation

The challenges of regulation & standards for merchants

Andrew Cregan, Policy Adviser – Payments & Consumer Credit, British Retail Consortium Boris Griesinger, Head of Payment & Finance Projects, HUGO BOSS, speak to FinextraTV's Hannah Wallace at Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2020 in Berlin about the challenges merchants are facing in the payments and retail space today, whether after MIF regulation on interchanges, we need a scheme fee regulation and what the next round of merchant payments innovation will be and where it will come from.

05 March 2020

Finextra TV/security

PSD2 & Strong Customer Authentication in 2020

Martin Sweeney, CEO, Ravelin & Nilixa Devlukia, FOUNDER, Payments Solved, spoke to FinextraTV at Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2020 in Berlin about the re-energising of PSD2 preparation and how merchants are taking back control, following the regulators, of their exemptions, transaction risk analysis, fraud detection and payment processes. We learn about the importance of consumer and merchant awareness around SCA implementation, how merchants can avoid the risk of cart abandonment and fraud, the changes in technology needed and what's next after SCA.

05 March 2020

Finextra TV/startups

Thinking Strategically about Innovation

Ad van der Poel, Co-Head of Product GTS, EMEA, Bank of America, speaks to Hannah Wallace, FinextraTV at Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2020 in Berlin about the trends and innovations we are seeing across Europe, from Open Banking and real-time payments to data and regulation. We question at what point the cost of compliance may outweigh the value of innovation, how Bank of America is innovating their payments business and the strategic advice they are giving their customers following these innovations.

26 February 2020

Finextra TV/payments

The Evolution of Open Banking beyond Europe

Jim Wadsworth, SVP Open Banking at Mastercard spoke to Hannah Wallace, FinextraTV at Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2020 in Berlin about how things have moved on with Open Banking and the part regulation has played moving European intervention along. We learn about the impact innovation and collaboration has had on the merchants payments industry, areas where we are seeing the greatest growth such as India and what progress we are making in areas where cash-based transactions still reign.

26 February 2020

Finextra TV/cloud

Spotlight on Stream Processing and Machine Learning

David Brimley, Financial Services Industry Consultant, Hazelcast, speaks to FinextraTV about what financial services firms are doing with machine learning and what firms should consider as they progress through their machine learning journey. He explains how streaming data fits in financial services, how firms can ease into streaming without going through a complete re-architecture of their systems and how financial services technologists need to keep an eye on developments in In-memory computing, Cloud and Containerization.

25 February 2020