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What changes lie ahead for the future of real-time payments

At EBAday 2024, Paul Francis Walvik-Joynt, Senior Vice President, Real Time Payments, Mastercard, shares an outline of what changes lie ahead for real-time payments and what the proliferation of real-time payments means for the adoption of instant payments. It is evident that trust needs to be maintained as the industry grows and introduces new networks, ensuring organisations are remaining resilient and fraud is combatted. Further, with the advent of new real-time payments systems, opportunities are opening up for domestic and global payments, and for technologies such as AI to be leveraged.

17 July 2024

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The global approach to solving payee verification challenges

Albert Sitelis, Head of Partnerships & Market Development at Banfico, discusses the hurdles of meeting the IP regulation compliance deadline for payee verification at EBAday 2024. With over 5000 PSPs in Europe, connectivity remains a major challenge, despite existing name check systems in several countries. Sitelis stresses collaboration among schemes, technical providers, and banks as crucial, and advocates for broader industry involvement beyond banks to combat APP fraud globally, suggesting the need for enhanced data analysis beyond name matching.

16 July 2024

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Looking Ahead to the Future of Cross-Border Payments

At EBAday 2024, Dawid Janas, Global Head of Clearing & FI Payments, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi, discusses the biggest changes happening currently across the cross-border payments landscape and how banks can ensure success in this rapidly changing environment. The conversation also turns to the technologies driving this change and how financial institutions can successfully scale their clients' cross-border payments processes.

15 July 2024

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Payments Evolution: Key Drivers for Transformation

At EBAday 2024, Andrea Pennacchia, Head of Banking and PA Solutions, Nexi Payments, identifies the key drivers of account to account payment market transformation towards digital and real-time processing. While the payments landscape is changing, the industry has to match new customer needs, fast changing regulatory demands and payments infrastructure evolving needs. Instant payments, among these trends, will drive this payments (r)evolution.

09 July 2024

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Cross-border payments: Unveiling the real value of industry initiatives

At EBAday 2024, Simon McConnell, Board Member, Euro Banking Association, and Annick Moes, Assistant Director, Euro Banking Association, provide a sneak peek into an EBA survey on cross-border payments. While there is a clear roadmap for enhancing these payments, the multitude of industry initiatives makes it difficult for payment service providers to determine how to best get there. This mesmerising conundrum can only be resolved by cutting through the marketing speak, taking stock of the different initiatives and unveiling their value for solving the identified challenges.

09 July 2024

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Instant Payments Regulation and the Impact on Cash and the Digital Euro

At EBAday 2024, Nuria Mohedas, Head of Payments and Digital Banking, Cecabank and Julio César Fernández, Head of Business Development and Operations Support, Cecabank, share their opinion on the new European Instant Payments regulation. Join Cecabank as they explore the evolution of cash in Europe and the dive deep into what influence the new Digital Euro project could have, particularly in light of new regulations like PSR.

03 July 2024

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Implementing Instant Payments: Challenges and Strategies for Banks and PSPs

At EBAday 2024, Sheri Brandon, Chief Market Officer, Northern & Western Europe, Worldline, sets the scene around the challenges and strategies that permeate when implementing instant payments, including short deadlines that must be met amid many other ongoing regulation projects. Resources can be constrained in these scenarios, and banks must now consider how new regulation will lead to new requirements, such as Verification of Payee, and ensure these processes fit into current processes. The discussion also covers implementation of instant payments and the trade-offs that must be established. Security must be enhanced, the back office must be managed differently and maintenance windows must be rescheduled as liquidity management is of paramount importance. Moving from predictable flows to instant flows will be a cumbersome challenge.

03 July 2024

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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

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IP Regulation, VoP and Interoperability: Preparing for the October 2025 Deadline

FinextraTV and Banfico’s CEO Kannan Rasappan explore all the current moving pieces of the puzzle for payments service providers in the EEA region, dive deep into the biggest challenges ahead of compliance with the incoming instant payments regulation in October 2025 and how Verification of Payee will impact this. VoP must also be considered as a fraud and financial crime mitigator, and the conversation turns to how cross border payments could open the door to potential scams and how banks must stop operating in siloes to prevent them. Banfico is running an upcoming webinar to delve deeper into these topics with other key players in the VOP landscape.

12 June 2024

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Payment trends to watch in 2024

In today's financial landscape, the growth of instant and account-to-account payments is countered by a rise in fraud. In this episode of Predict 2024, Ed Metzger, Vice President of Market Planning Payments Efficiency at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, shares his forecast for emerging payment trends. Focusing on the impact on financial institutions and customers, we discuss how solutions like LexisNexis® Risk Solutions' Safe Payment Verification will enhance banking practices by verifying account ownership and optimizing cross-border fund transfers. Additionally, we explore why corporates are moving payments in-house and identify growth opportunities for banks through adopting banking-as-a-service platforms.

15 February 2024

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Predicting growth for clearing houses and scheme operators in 2024

As payment markets evolve, further progress hinges on open access facilitated by infrastructure modernisation. In this Predict 2024 episode, Paul Ruggieri, Senior Vice President, Real Time Payments, Product Management, Mastercard, discusses growth opportunities for clearing houses and scheme operators, emphasising the need for standardised communication strategies between operators and payment systems. We explore the significance of interoperability and the prioritisation of standardisation to enhance cross-border transactions. Additionally, we explain the key methods for ensuring seamless transactions across borders, leveraging ISO 20022 data and AI for fraud prevention, resilience, and scalability across all 13 markets.

13 February 2024

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Securing digital transactions: The global shift towards embedded payments

Jennifer Marriner, Global Head of Acceptance at Mastercard, discusses how tokenization and embedded experiences are enhancing the digital checkout process in the year ahead. Focusing on the global rollout of solution technologies, such as Mastercard’s ‘Click to Pay,’ we tackle the concerns raised from fragmented customer experiences and how they are being addressed. We hear how physical payments are shaping the standard for online transactions, and how innovations like biometric authentication are refining seamless payments and strengthening security in the upcoming year.

25 January 2024

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Agile digitalisation for future-focused issuers

Jos Veendrick, the Regional Head for Continental Europe at TSYS, a Global Payments company, assesses the challenges issuers face with legacy technology and the growing demand for convenience and personalisation in digital transactions. Our discussion covers cloud-based services and API-centric approaches, addressing industry needs and anticipating future growth in the digital payments landscape.

22 November 2023