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Fintech founder says bottom line remains top priority for SMBs

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Fintech founder says bottom line remains top priority for SMBs

The 2023 SIBOS conference was chock-full of sessions across all the major issues in banking at the moment. Evolving international messaging standard ISO20022’s angles and options were covered in depth, in fact, it was discussed during seven separate sessions on the first day alone! Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications to assist genera...

12 October 2023 /Sibos

Sustainability results, not publicity, matter most – Standard Chartered exec

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Sustainability results, not publicity, matter most – Standard Chartered exec

Michael Spiegel is Standard Chartered Bank’s global head of transaction banking. He’s deeply involved in the London-based institution’s sustainability efforts and its customer-facing sustainable finance program development and management. In an interview during the 2023 SIBOS global conference in Toronto, the Singapore-based Spiegel shared his tho...

11 October 2023 /Sibos

Why this tech CMO wants accountability for sustainability

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Why this tech CMO wants accountability for sustainability

What do you get when you cross a determined elementary school kid in Greece with inspiration to grow her mind - provided by a curmudgeonly Harvard law professor strongly challenging his students on TV? Eventually, a leader in the sustainability community, as chief marketing officer of Temenos. In 2021, the Switzerland-based firm received “Bronze Cl...

06 October 2023 /Sibos

How to solve the needs of the unbanked and underbanked

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

How to solve the needs of the unbanked and underbanked

With all the talk about big deals, powerful partnerships, and other trending topics in the world of international banking, it was a change to see some emphasis at the SIBOS 2023 conference on inclusive financial services. In a three-part forum, this ‘Spotlight’ session called ‘Empowerment for the financially excluded’ included presentations by exec...

04 October 2023 /Sibos

ISO 20022’s top benefits and challenges for corporate customers

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

ISO 20022’s top benefits and challenges for corporate customers

ISO20022 was a hot topic throughout the SIBOS 2023 global conference. We circled back with a key speaker, David Rego, global head of payments for Standard Chartered Bank, from one of the several panel sessions on the subject during the week’s events. Asking for a roundup of the top benefits - and challenges - he believes would come to corporate cas...

03 October 2023 /Sibos

How to unlock the full potential of post-trade data and reshape the securities market

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

How to unlock the full potential of post-trade data and reshape the securities market

In Ann Magnusson, head of institutional banking, SEB’s view, “the post-trade securities business remains largely non-transparent with regards to the parties involved in a transaction.” She explained that while Standard Settlement Instructions (SSIs) are created by two parties to a trade with the counterparty’s SSIs for settlement in the specific m...

03 October 2023 /Sibos

How do you solve a problem like payments infrastructure?

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

How do you solve a problem like payments infrastructure?

Highlighting 2023 as a defining year for core banking innovation, a recent Finextra and CGI roundtable held at Sibos in Toronto, Canada, featured 15 leading voices from a range of global banks who debated the need for payments-as-a-service (PaaS) and the complexities of outsourcing business critical operations to firms outside of the financial ser...

02 October 2023 /Sibos

Why strong client returns are essential for sustainability momentum

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Why strong client returns are essential for sustainability momentum

Put six experts in the fields of sustainability, social awareness, and finance on a stage and you’ve got a lot of firepower for a lively and productive discussion. That was the case during one SIBOS 2023 session: ‘The 2+2=5 effect: Joining forces to achieve more in ESG.’ Amruta Kelkar, partner, climate and sustainability issues in financial se...

28 September 2023 /Sibos

ISO 20022: Only 15% of messages have migrated, will JP Morgan change the tide?

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

ISO 20022: Only 15% of messages have migrated, will JP Morgan change the tide?

In conversation with JPMorgan’s Masayuki Tagai, managing director, industry issues, payments, and Ciaran J. Byrne, executive director, global head of product payments, global clearing at Sibos 2023 in Toronto, Finextra explored how ready the world is for native adoption of ISO 20022 and how the bank is working towards implementing the standard acr...

22 September 2023 /Sibos

How to effectively rollout ISO 20022: A guide for SMEs

Rosie McConnell Product Director at IFX Payments

How to effectively rollout ISO 20022: A guide for SMEs

ISO 20022 was introduced in 2004, and since then institutions have taken varying approaches to manage this transformative change. In June 2023, CHAPS and the Bank of England’s real time gross settlement system (RTGS) migrated to ISO 20022 in an ambitious big bang mode, mandating that payment instructions contain at least the prior minimum required...

21 September 2023 /Sibos

Is 'ethical AI' deeply complex or just a contradiction in terms?

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Is 'ethical AI' deeply complex or just a contradiction in terms?

What if everyone could cover one point of view, switch to an opposing take on the situation, explain both, and conclude by explaining their personal opinions on the topic? And do it all in 45 minutes? Almost sounds like a job for a super-human, right? Or for artificial intelligence perhaps? Several dozen of Sibos 2023 conference’s estimated 8,000-p...

21 September 2023 /Sibos

How to build a standardised framework and empower the financially excluded

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

How to build a standardised framework and empower the financially excluded

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles have become tenets to keep financial services in check for sustainable action, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and growth to ensure its future. This is an excerpt from The Future of the Global Financial Ecosystem 2024: A Sibos special edition. As global incumbents are working towards meeting...

20 September 2023 /Sibos

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