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How to finance a sustainable city

Kicking off Sustainable Finance Live 2023 at Events@no6 in London, founder of ResponsibleRisk Richard Peers, highlighted the objective of this year’s event, to bring people together in their likeminded desire to drive sustainability in their work. He outlined this year’s main theme: how to finance sustainable cities, what we can do to identify solu...

18 October 2023 /sustainable

EBAday: A quest for global interoperability

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EBAday: A quest for global interoperability

Kicking off the 18th edition of EBAday – this time in Madrid, Spain – Wolfgang Ehrmann, chairman, Euro Banking Association, opened the show by gracing the stage and welcoming nearly 1200 practitioners from all corners of the payments and transaction banking ecosystem to discuss the latest trends and share different perspectives. At the second in-p...

05 July 2023 /payments

NextGen Nordics 2023: What does successful, scalable innovation look like?

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NextGen Nordics 2023: What does successful, scalable innovation look like?

NextGen Nordics 2023 kicked off with a panel on the challenges and opportunities in the road for harmonisation across transaction banking services. Finextra’s head of research Gary Wright was joined by Anders Olofsson, head of PaaS/SaaS, Tietoevry Payments; Ted Scheiman, head of Nordics and Baltics, Swift; Beju Shah, head of Nordic Centre, BIS Inno...

02 May 2023 /payments

What will the future of the merchant payments ecosystem look like?

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What will the future of the merchant payments ecosystem look like?

Ahead of Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2023, Finextra caught up with Neira Jones, independent advisor and chair of the judging panel for the MPE Awards. The event, held from 28 – 30 March in Berlin, Germany, will also welcome startups to pitch their products at the Innovation Hub and Jones will moderate discussions on innovation in technology and ho...

28 March 2023 /payments

Financial Cloud Summit 2023: How to establish a cloud strategy, migrate to the cloud and optimise

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Financial Cloud Summit 2023: How to establish a cloud strategy, migrate to the cloud and optimise

Gary Wright, head of research at Finextra, took to the stage to lead a day of sessions focused on the use of cloud in the financial services industry at King’s Place in London on 2nd March 2023. The day was split into three builds: Strategise, Migrate and Optimise and covered how many banks are still at the earliest stages of cloud adoption, and fe...

09 March 2023 /cloud

Sustainable Finance Live 2022: ESG = existential, seismic, global

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Sustainable Finance Live 2022: ESG = existential, seismic, global

Enabling positive change through innovation and collaboration, Sustainable Finance Live returned for its fifth edition - and second in person event - at Events@no6 in London on 29th November 2022. Richard Peers, sustainable finance visionary, contributing editor at Finextra and founder of Responsible Risk took to the stage to lead a programme of co...

06 December 2022 /sustainable

Fraud monitoring strategies and the role of global scoring data

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Fraud monitoring strategies and the role of global scoring data

This is an extract from the Finextra Research and Mastercard report ‘Seeking Approval - Acquirers Vs. Transaction Fraud’, based on industry interviews that explore the industry’s appetite for real-time, AI-driven, data-rich transaction fraud monitoring and the various models, technology and priorities that shape their strategies. In order to effec...

31 October 2022 /crime

IFGS 2022: Home Office's Philippa Rouse on the scale-up visa

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IFGS 2022: Home Office's Philippa Rouse on the scale-up visa

Philippa Rouse, Director, Future Border & Immigration System Directorate, Home Office, spoke at the Innovate Finance Global Summit – the flagship event of UK FinTech Week – where she discussed the Home Office’s latest plans on the scale-up visa and getting more overseas talent into the UK FinTech sector. Her key updates included: Scale-Up Bu...

05 April 2022 /people

IFGS 2022: Sequoia's George Robson on fintech predictions for 2022

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IFGS 2022: Sequoia's George Robson on fintech predictions for 2022

George Robson, Partner at Sequoia, spoke at the Innovate Finance Global Summit – the flagship event of UK FinTech Week – where he discussed the strengths of the UK FinTech sector and predictions for the sector in 2022. His key points included: The strengths of the FinTech sector in the UK: “In the UK there are many institutions and global leader...

05 April 2022 /predictions

IFGS 2022: John Glen MP on new legislative developments around stablecoins and cryptoassets

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IFGS 2022: John Glen MP on new legislative developments around stablecoins and cryptoassets

John Glen MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury of the United Kingdom, spoke at the Innovate Finance Global Summit – the flagship event of UK FinTech Week – where he discussed the landscape of FinTech in the UK, and announced new legislative developments on stablecoins and other crypto assets. His key points included: New legislation on stablec...

05 April 2022 /crypto

IFGS 2022: Klarna's Sebastian Siemiatkowski on post-Brexit regulation

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IFGS 2022: Klarna's Sebastian Siemiatkowski on post-Brexit regulation

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, co-founder and CEO of Klarna, spoke at the Innovate Finance Global Summit – the flagship event of UK FinTech Week – where he discussed post-Brexit regulation, Klarna’s advertising methods and the future of innovation in Buy Now, Pay Later. Key points covered include: The opportunity Post-Brexit regulation presents: “What I...

05 April 2022 /regulation

IFGS 2022: Starling Bank's Anne Boden on profitability and VC capital

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IFGS 2022: Starling Bank's Anne Boden on profitability and VC capital

Anne Boden, Founder and CEO or Starling Bank, spoke at the Innovate Finance Global Summit, the flagship event of UK FinTech Week, where she discussed the challenger bank’s road to profitability and Starling’s aim to take a bigger chunk of the market share. Her key points included: Starling vs. competitor brands – “When we started Starling in 201...

05 April 2022 /retail

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