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Finextra TV/crypto

How MiCA, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain are Key Drivers for the Fintech Industry

Join FinextraTV at Money20/20 2024 as Vedran Jankovic, Sales Head Virtual Asset Service Providers, Deutsche Bank and Lukas Enzersdorfer, Deputy CEO & Chief Operating Officer, Bitpanda, explore key trends shaping the financial industry and the role of fintech firms in reshaping these trends. The catalyst for this conversation is Deutsche Bank and Bitpanda's recent partnership to provide a cash management solution for the German market. This moment in time is a tipping point for the industry, with the incoming MiCA regulation, a harmonised framework that will provide banks with the guardrails they have been searching for to partner with fintech firms and virtual asset providers. This will also result in more efficient usage of Ethereum, Bitcoin and Solana, which will in turn, change the reputational view of blockchain.

04 July 2024

Finextra TV/regulation

Lord Christopher Holmes of Richmond MBE on what the AI Regulation Bill Means for Fintech

At IFGS 2024, Lord Christopher Holmes provides his view on announcements such the Open Finance Task Force, which were revealed by Bim Afolami MP. Lord Holmes also dives deep into the AI Regulation Bill and how the industry can better align technology for financial inclusion and to benefit vulnerable customers.

06 June 2024

Finextra TV/payments

Transforming interoperability within trade finance

Iain MacLennan, Head of Trade & Supply Chain Finance at Finastra, and Peter Hazou, Director of Business Development at Microsoft, discuss the rapidly evolving global trade finance system. They cover the shift from static data to insight-driven systems, the use of technologies like blockchain and AI for compliance and scalability, and the importance of an agile, interoperable trade finance stack.

08 January 2024

Finextra TV/inclusion

Global FinTech Institute on financing implications of digital inclusion

Professor David Lee, Chairman of the Global FinTech Institute, discusses the significant progress made in advancing digital inclusion within the financial sector ahead of Singapore Fintech Festival 2023. He covers advancements in mobile wallets and digital lending, highlighting the need for improved financial inclusion metrics, the benefits of educating SMEs on the ways data contributions can lower borrowing costs, and explores the practical applications of blockchain technology improving agricultural practices.

09 November 2023

Finextra TV/cloud

Enabling connectivity across blockchains

At Sibos 2023, Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder, Chainlink, discusses how institutions are enabling connectivity and interoperability through collaboration across public and private blockchains.

28 September 2023

Finextra TV/identity

The Innovation Pushing Digital Identity Forward: Part 2

Stephen Curran, Chair of the Board Of Trustees Sovrin Foundation, Identity Consultant, speaks with Andrew Smith, RTGS.global, in FinextraTV’s Tech Uncovered Series. Continuing their discussion, they examine innovations driving digital identity including blockchain, offline verification of identity, anonCreds, privacy-protecting technology, linked secrets, and zero knowledge proofs.

04 May 2023

Finextra TV/identity

The Innovation Pushing Digital Identity Forward: Part 1

Stephen Curran, Chair of the Board Of Trustees Sovrin Foundation, Identity Consultant, speaks with Andrew Smith, RTGS.global, in FinextraTV’s Tech Uncovered Series, discussing digital identity, covering the topics of self-sovereign identity (SSI) and Sovrin, verifiable credentials (VCs), the use of blockchain for identity, scalability of blockchain-based identity, and resilience.

04 May 2023

Finextra TV/payments

The Emerging Technologies Reshaping Financial Services

Sophia Bantanidis, Future of Finance, Citi, speaks at Innovate Finance Global Summit 2023 about developing the potential for tokenization via blockchain, what successful adoption looks like, and when mass adoption can be expected.

21 April 2023

Finextra TV/Sibos

Reviewing financial institution's crypto strategies & their consumer potential

Dave Jevans, Executive Vice President, CipherTrace, a Mastercard company, speaks to FinextraTV at Sibos 2022 to recognize how financial institutions can identify their crypto exposure with on- and off-chain data, the importance of a crypto network and how financial institutions can instil trust in the crypto ecosystem for their businesses and customers.

07 November 2022

Finextra TV/crypto

Money 20/20: How blockchain analytics can be built into business models

Marina Khaustova, CEO, Crystal Blockchain, speaks at Money 20/20 about how the crypto space can move to being AML compliant, how crypto regulation is going to evolve over the next few years, the impact of sanctions, and how blockchain analytics can be built into a business model.

27 June 2022

Finextra TV/crypto

How Ripple is boosting education around blockchain and crypto

We speak with Ken Weber, Head of Social Impact at Ripple, regarding the significant work the software company is undertaking in partnership with academic institutions and bodies such as the UBRI and University College London to boost education around blockchain and crypto. Weber also addresses the work being carried out by the firm’s Ripple Impact initiative, which works to further financial inclusion and sustainability across the globe.

12 November 2020

Finextra TV/sustainable

Tipping point to a low carbon world via Sustainable Finance

Nicole Anderson, Founder, Managing Partner of The Redsand Group speaks with Richard Peers about the new fund she is launching, expanding on the green and impact FinTech use cases and ventures she has built over the last 8 years. Nicole expands upon how we are on the tipping point of the most significant innovation imperative facing financial services in its own transition to be the enabler of a low carbon world via Sustainable Finance.

20 February 2020

Finextra TV/sustainable

Value chain vs. supply chain: Redesigning the economy

Anna Poberezhna, Founder, CEO, Smart4tech, speaks at Sustainable Finance. Live about Green Finance through redefining the value of water through digitisation and integrated water resource management and redesigning processes & products through the lens of system thinking & tech to make the world a better place. She speaks about the Circular Economy and the efforts to build optimisation and innovations to re-design the way the economy works by addressing value chain versus supply chain.

18 December 2019

Finextra TV/crypto

Fiat Currency 2.0: Counter argument to the Cryptocurrency narrative

Tony McLaughlin, Emerging Payments & Business Development, Citi, speaks at Money 20/20 USA about the practical problems that still need addressing in the crypto-currency community, how Fiat Currency 2.0 will help fix payments as a counter balance to crypto and what challenges still exist around tokenisation and coins. We ask how this impacts the big techs and what regulatory, political and ethical concerns need to be addressed first before they achieve their own currencies.

05 November 2019

Finextra TV/Sibos

FinextraTV @ Sibos2019 – The Big Themes #3: Regulation

FinextraTV reports from Sibos 2019 in London on the impact of Regulation on the industry. In this, final episode, we learn about how Banks are adapting to the changing regulatory landscape, whether the cost of compliance outweighs the value of innovation, what success in this space demands and whether regulation will be able to keep up with the pace set by the tech giants. Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, Nordea, LHV, KPMG and Crown Agents Bank are among the many leading institutions to share their views exclusively with Finextra Research.

18 October 2019

Finextra TV/Blockchain

The re-architecturing of the Financial System

Gilbert Verdian, CEO & Founder, Quant Network, speaks at Sibos 2019 in London about the current financial system and how we have entered an era of re-architecturing that players must make the most of, the power and importance of interconnecting through blockchain and how the market demands of the future are changing, particularly around cyber security.

14 October 2019

Finextra TV/Blockchain

FinextraTV @ Sibos2019 – The Big Themes #2: Leveraging Data

FinextraTV reports from Sibos 2019 in London on how the industry is Leveraging Data. In this, second of three Sibos reports, we learn about how Banks are increasingly looking to develop a more formal strategy to better manage their data, the challenges leveraging data helps overcome and some of the new and improved services that are coming to market as a result. Barclays, LLoyds, BAML, Natwest, SEB, DBS Bank, Westpac, JPMorgan, Standard Chartered, Société Générale, Nordea, ING, Emirates NBD, and Absa are among the many leading institutions to share their views exclusively with Finextra Research. Become a Finextra member now and be sure not to miss: Sibos2019 Big Themes: Regulation…

11 October 2019

Finextra TV/Blockchain

Sustainable Finance: Defining Green Activities

Elena Philapova, Global Head of ESG Proposition, Refinitiv & Member, Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, DG FISMA, European Commission, speaks at Sibos2019 about sustainable projects within finance, the role of data within these projects, the importance of common standards with regards to what is a green and when this taxonomy will come to market.

10 October 2019

Finextra TV/Sibos

Identity is bigger than payments

Alessandro Baroni, CMO equensWorldline, speaks about the technological issues regarding online identity, the role of the financial services industry in determining the future of online identity and how identity should be considered a ‘big business’ concept for financial institutions.

08 October 2019

Finextra TV/Blockchain

The status of blockchain development within trade

Vinay Mendonca, Global Head of Products and Propositions, HSBC, speaks at Sibos 2019 about how technology is improving world trade, the status of blockchain development and whether corporates are seeing the benefits from investment in blockchain.

07 October 2019