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Finextra TV/retail

Fintech in Asia: How are Digital Experiences Evolving?

Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Ramki Ramakrishnan, Managing Director, APAC, Temenos and Trinh Vinh Hien, CTO & CDO, PVcomBank provide an overview of how the APAC region is leading when it comes to efficient digital experiences and the innovations that have come to the fore since 2022. As more and more customers expect digital access to all services, scalable solutions are imperative for financial players in Asia, the Pacific and further afield. While the likes of Alipay and WeChat attempt to bridge the gap between the banked and unbanked, innovation must ensure it is fit for purpose for all.

10 July 2024

Finextra TV/payments

Embedded finance, card programmes, and scaling payments solutions

Join FinextraTV at Money2020 2024 as Marcin Glogowski, UK CEO and European SVP/Managing Director, Marqeta, chats about their recent office opening in Warsaw, Poland, the opportunity that the company see in the European Union, and expanding their product offering. A lot of this change is due to demand for embedded finance solutions and the different interpretations of the technology capabilities involved, as well as how advancements in card programmes are enabling businesses to launch and scale their payment solutions more effectively. The industry must explore the potential value that exists behind their technology, grow embedded finance beyond tradition, and utilise the pockets of new use cases that open up.

09 July 2024

Finextra TV/payments

Peace of Mind with Every Tap: The Card’s Expanded Role

Join FinextraTV at Money20/20 Europe 2024 as Amanda Gourbault, EVP and Head of Marketing at CompoSecure, discusses the role of credit and debit cards beyond traditional payments. We look to the near future to understand how payment cards can maintain and enhance security while minimizing purchase rejections, and discover how real-time innovations are addressing customer demands and industry needs for secure and seamless transactions.

05 June 2024

Finextra TV/devops

Changing the future of credit with agile engineering

In this episode of Unplugged, Harry Jell, CTO at Yonder, talks with Andrew Smith from RTGS.global, about building a successful credit card company in today’s financial climate. They discuss the seamless use of merchant data for user rewards, the importance of AWS and Kubernetes for scalability, and explore potential avenues to enrich transaction data.

20 December 2023

Finextra TV/payments

Payments in a hyper-personalized world

Randy Kern, Chief Technology Officer, Marqeta joins FinextraTV at Money20/20 in Las Vegas, discussing how the expectations of customers are shifting in a hyper-personalized world, what innovations are being made in APIs, and how the nature of card payments are changing to meet the demands for quick, efficient and seamless payments.

31 October 2022

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/Cards

Developer Day at FusionONE stirs excitement among the users

Finextra’s Hannah Wallace reports on day two of the FusionONE open banking developer conference to learn more about Finastra’s vision for the future of banking re-engineered upon APIs and open platforms. We gain exclusive insight from the developers into what's exciting them most about FusionFabric.cloud and how they are looking to innovate and create using the platform.

10 June 2019

Finextra TV/Cards

Encapsulating themes from the payments market

Marion King, Director of Payments, NatWest, speaks about her role and the responsibility it entails, including determining payments strategy for a major UK Bank, keeping NatWest's customers secure, regulation and innovation, what key themes we are seeing in the payments market and the developments to come.

29 April 2019

Finextra TV/Cards

Exploring new commerce: Mastercard's Sonic Signature

Raja Rajamannar, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and President, Healthcare Business, Mastercard, speaks at Mobile World Congress about the unveiling of Mastercard's Sonic Brand, the thinking behind the new musical logo and how it was developed.

28 February 2019

Finextra TV/Cards

The Power of Partnerships: Trust, Data & Digital Identity

Ann Cairns, Vice Chair, Mastercard, speaks at Mobile World Congress 2019 about the importance of partnerships, Mastercard's partnership with Microsoft, how they are using data in medicine and towards social reform, and what impact neobanks are having on the industry.

28 February 2019

Finextra TV/Cards

Industry challenges around IBOR Transition

Andrew Kouloumbrides, CEO, Xceptor and Bruce Laing, Partner, IBOR Transition lead, Baringa, speaks about the industry challenges around IBOR Transition, what Financial Institutions have done up to date to meet these challenges and what to expect next.

11 February 2019

Finextra TV/Cards

The global adoption of real-time payments, sparking industry innovation

Paul Stoddart, Chief Executive Officer, Vocalink & Colleen Taylor, Executive Vice President, Mastercard, speak at Sibos 2018 in Sydney about recent innovations having an impact on the consumer, which markets are ahead of the curve when it comes to adopting the latest real-time applications and how some of the latest innovations have tackled the issue of security, when leveraging the real-time rails.

16 November 2018

Finextra TV/Cards

When, if ever, will the Nordics become cashless?

Erik Zingmark, Head of Transaction Banking, Nordea, speaks at Sibos 2018 in Sydney, whether banks are really being disrupted by fintechs, what corporates are expecting from their banks in the next 3 to 5 years, and when, if ever, it will become cashless in the Nordics.

13 November 2018

Finextra TV/Cards

Bringing together the vision of connected commerce

Gerrard Schmid, President and Chief Executive Officer Diebold Nixdorf, speaks at Diebold Nixdorf's International Management Seminar in Lisbon, about how banks need to support their customers through multi-channels as a result of digitisation, what is driving mobile banking, where the potential is for retail banks, and whether cash is really becoming extinct.

17 October 2018

Finextra TV/Cards

The combined effect of Open Banking and Real-time Payments

Jerry Norton, Vice President and Global Head of Banking for CGI, talks about how the combined effect of Open Banking and real-time payments on banks and what they need to do to adapt to the changing landscape.

11 October 2018

Finextra TV/Cards

Digitalizing CLM for improved customer experience

Joe Dunphy, VP of Product Management, Fenergo, discusses what benefits digitalising the client lifecycle experience can bring financial institutions and their clients, how Fenergo’s CLM roadmap has evolved over the past two years to deliver greater transparency and control, and the importance of Fenergo’s global client community for driving industry best practice.

02 October 2018

Finextra TV/Cards

KYC, AML & Transparency for Crypto-Currencies & ICOs

Conor Coughlan, Global Head of Marketing, Fenergo, discusses the challenges facing institutions, issuers, exchanges, & investors in determining viability & suitability, for investing in crypto-currencies, ICOs and derived offerings so that this new asset class can mature, open up to institutional investors and play a more value adding role in the global economy.

14 August 2018

Finextra TV/Cards

Championing financial inclusion and helping the Unstoppables

Norris Koppel, CEO & Founder, Monese, speaks openly about how his personal experience inspired him to address the issue of people cut off from banking services. Hear how he has grown a successful Fintech to drive financial inclusion

10 July 2018

Finextra TV/Cards

Smart bets in SME banking

Paul Riseborough, Chief Commercial Officer and Martyn Atkinson, Chief Information Officer from Metro Bank (UK) talk at their 2nd tech breakfast event about the issues SME’s face with their finances and the challenges banks have with helping SME’s grow their businesses. They explore what technologies banks should be adopting to give SME’s connection to the right services and where banks are going to partner in this process.

03 July 2018

Finextra TV/Cards

Making payments fraud less attractive to fraudsters

Liam Cooney, Vice President, Global Head of Market Development & Sales, Vocalink Analytics (a Mastercard company), talks at EBAday 2018 about the key trends in payments fraud , how fraudsters are taking advantage of the global adoption of real-time payments and what strategies and techniques can be used to combat these threats.

26 June 2018