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AI & Wealth: How to Build Trust Through Impact & Personalisation

Whilst at Money 20/20 in Amsterdam, Bahadir Yilmaz, Chief Analytics Officer, ING joined FinextraTV to provide some data insights in relation to growing AI conversations. Describing the challenge of taking data from its origins into actionable, presentable insights for clients, Yilmaz explains how a succesful, easy process will help to increase client's comfort with sharing larger, useful portions of data. Yilmaz, while speaking to AI use cases, says that clients are not interested in what happens behind-the-scenes, they care more for faster services and experiences where they can personally notice the change.

29 July 2025

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How The Future of Data is Personalisation & Scalability

Stepping away from a busy Communify Fincentric User Experience 2025, Nichole Nakashian, Chief Operating Officer, Communify Fincentric spoke with FinextraTV on the process behind product development. Discussing security and customer protection, Nakashian explains how events help to contextualise the importance of products and how the future will feature higher data personalisation and quality data for heightened scalability.

15 July 2025

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What To Consider When Working with AI & Real-Time Data

In this interview at Money 20/20 2025 in Amsterdam, Rishi Doerga, Senior Solutions Engineer, Confluent helps to define real-time data and how it can be safely and correctly utilised alongside AI. When discussing best use cases for AI, Doerga advised a need to take a step back and consider how to manage vast amounts of data, as well as how to approach the data input when working with Agentic AI tools. Doerga also helps to provide some insights to those that require real-time data but are more apprehensive of AI.

15 July 2025

Finextra TV/markets

What’s Driving Digital Banking Innovation in APAC?

Providing insights on innovation in the APAC region, Will Dale, MD, APAC, Temenos and Minh Vu Hong, Head of Core Banking, Big Data & Analytics, MSB joined the FinextraTV studio at Temenos Community Forum 2025. Explaining how APAC innovation has come out of a need for creativity in order to drive financial inclusion among large populations, Dale and Vu Hong spoke about how to improve and modernise product design, deployment and investment.

26 June 2025

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How Flexible is ISO20022 and What are Hybrid Addresses?

Whilst at EBAday 2025 in Paris, Paul Ruskin, Business Development Director, Trace Financial joined the FinextraTV studio to give his insights what will happen beyond the ISO20022 November deadline. As well as providing clarity that January is the most important, firmer deadline, he also provided a helpful insight into the development of hybrid addresses and the impact on unstructured data.

20 June 2025

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Why A Common Standard Is More Important Than A Common Technology

In this FinextraTV interview at the 2025 EBAday in Paris, Tsvetanka Nankova, Managing Director, Global Head of Sales Institutional Cash & Trade Finance, Deutsche Bank visited the studio to discuss the future of data. Comparing the popularity of data conversations to those of AI, Nankova emphasises the importance of not taking data at 'face value' and instead interrogating its origins, compliance, accuracy, and relevance. On top of this, she explains the two-fold benefit of regulation like ISO 20022, explaining how a shared standard should be prioritised over a shared technology.

16 June 2025

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How Knowledge Bases Enable Trusted Insights

During a quiet period at the 2025 Communify Fincentric Experience, Yaela Shamberg, Chief Product Officer, sat down with FinextraTV to give her outlook on the current technological landscape. From the innovation of componentization, data knowledge bases and brand differentiation, Shamberg discusses the main optimisms for 2025 in Fintech.

28 March 2025

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The Data Quality Issue: Not Just A Legacy System Problem

Joining the FinextraTV virtual studio, Andrew Colombi, Co-Founder & CTO, Tonic.ai discusses the current test data landscape and provides a number of fascinating insights on everything from quality data generation, synthetic test data usage and how both modern and legacy companies are struggling in different ways.

27 March 2025

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Digital Transformation: Get a Handle on Your Data First

In this FinextraTV interview, Arsalan Minhas, AVP, Sales Engineering EMEA & APAC, Hyland and Matt Bazley, Account Executive, Hyland explain the evolution of digital transformation. Whilst discussing the usage of AI, blockchain and new-age technologies, they also define the importance of well-structured, transparent and secure data as a first priority

26 March 2025

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GenAI, Agentic AI and Their Place in Modern Banking

Joining the FinextraTV studio, Barb Morgan, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Temenos discussed how a customer focus is shaping banking innovation. From adoption of cloud and SaaS, modular core banking modernization and the role of AI. How she believes that AI is actually no longer a buzz word, but an accepted part of the modern workplace. Along with the use case for real-time data, Morgan discusses the differences between GenAI and Agentic AI.

17 February 2025

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How CES Informs U.S. Bank's Continuous Innovation

Attending CES in Las Vegas, Don Relyea, Chief Innovation Officer, U.S. Bank, spoke to FinextraTV about why an electronics show like CES is so instrumental to banking. As well as noting the increase in financial firms attending, Relyea describes how technological innovation will intersect with the future of banking and financial services in 2025.

15 January 2025

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Why Only 20% of Your Data is Valuable

One factor to apprehensive AI adoption is the overwhelm organisations feel when approaching their data, especially those that are not yet digital first. While attending Finextra’s inaugural ‘NextGenAI’ event, Jonathan Ede, Director of Data Technology, CACI joined the studio to discuss his belief that only 20% of data is valuable. This in mind, he explains, enables organisations to approach AI and digitisation much more effectively and efficiently, whilst listing the pillars of AI: strategy, data and integration.

11 December 2024

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Why Hard-to-Abate Carbon Projects Should Be Our Priority

Often when looking for solutions to big problems, it can be a good idea to start small. However, in regard to the contribution of fintech firms to addressing Climate change, Maya Hennerkes, Director, Director, Green Financial Systems, Climate Strategy and Delivery, EBRD told FinextraTV that we should be focussed on large, hard-to-abate sectors. With reflections on COP 29, she celebrates the wins and explains one of the biggest progresses will be around financial mobilisation within the private sector. Hennerkes goes on to discuss the role of data within the journey to greater investment and understanding and calls for more data from the emerging markets.

05 December 2024

Finextra TV/Sibos

The State of Open Banking Across the World

Jess Turner, EVP, Global Head of Open Banking and API, Mastercard, speaks to FinextraTV on the week of Sibos, where she dove into the role AI plays in financial services, including open banking. Market maturity for open banking varies in different regions, but it is becoming increasingly evident that interconnectivity can support with global scale and allow users to leverage their own data for their own benefit. AI, used responsibly, plays a key role in advancing and securing the open banking ecosystem by enriching and anonymizing consumer-permissioned data so that consumers and small businesses can share with confidence.

18 November 2024

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Sustainable Finance Live Hackathon 2024 Winners: Established Category

Richard Peers, Contributing Editor, Finextra and Founder of Responsible Risk, connects with Rochelle Mountany, CEO, and Dicky Thomas, Operations Manager at Afri, to discuss the company’s 26-year journey and their win in the Established Category for the Sustainable Finance Live Hackathon 2024. After choosing the Challenge of enhancing nature through sustainable agriculture with large language models and geospatial data, this hackathon team created AfriGIS Ecohub that built upon Afri’s specialisation in data science to provide data driven insights to three groups – small holders, commercial farmers and financial institutions. By connecting these stakeholders with a single supply chain platform, real-time data driven insights can be leveraged to build upon opportunities to grow.

01 November 2024

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How Regulators are Paving the Way for Innovation in the Payment Space

New trends in payments are emerging, with regulator-led innovations sparking 'coopetition' among governments, private companies, and big tech. In this FinextraTV interview, Thoughtworks' Head of Financial Services Practice Muralikrishnan Puthanveedu explains how these moves are creating a foundation for a thriving digital economy — advancing financial inclusion, consumer experience, and global prosperity. Examples like the Fed’s ISO 20022, Europe’s digital identity leadership, UK's New Payment Architecture (NPA) and the BIS’s work in breaking down payment barriers showcase a regulatory push toward seamless, data-driven, interconnected global payment systems.

30 October 2024

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Tokenisation use cases to be excited about

At Sibos 2024, Angie Walker, Global Head of Banking and Capital Markets, Chainlink Labs, explored the topics of blockchain and tokenisation and how they are transforming the existing world as well as how the technology creates opportunities for the future. While historically, across money market and fixed income funds, high quality liquid assets have not been able to be moved, with tokenisation, these funds can be migrated seamlessly and instantaneously on the ledger. By liberating assets to be used for other functions in trading operations, the world is a trader’s oyster and future developments in ESG instruments, structured finance, and infrastructure also opens up a way to create commercial assets and verify sequestration with smart contracts and data oracles, ensuring the integrity of the asset, cross chain interoperability and keep the asset in sync throughout it’s life journey.

24 October 2024

Finextra TV/markets

Communify Fincentric Unifies Financial Data with Acquisition from S&P Global

John Wise, Chairman and CEO of Communify Fincentric, explains the backstory to the company's acquisition of Markit on Demand from S&P Global. Aimed at fixing the financial industry's persistent challenge of fragmented data, this strategic move unifies client and market information in a single platform, integrating over 4,000 global data feeds to enhance AI-driven insights for portfolio managers, advisors and self-directed investors. By merging these data sets, the business intends to set a new standard for the broking, wealth and asset sectors, enabling institutions to navigate complex data landscapes and drive growth in a digital world.

15 August 2024

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Reimagining Your Core: How Banks Can Thrive Amidst Rapid Technological Change

Narendra Mistry, CPTO of Universal Banking at Finastra, emphasises that banks must adapt quickly to evolving technology and customer expectations. Success lies in implementing efficient core banking systems, that enable innovation at scale and at pace, while navigating AI and data with a focus on mindset and business services. Lean systems, like those of neo and digital-only banks, are good, but long-term growth requires a clear vision, a strong culture and breadth of capabilities. For established banks with pre-existing infrastructures, symbiosis – where next gen solutions are deployed alongside existing solutions – can offer a fast way to deliver outstanding experiences, stay ahead of competitors and, when appropriate, ease transitions.

24 July 2024

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The Importance of ESG when Choosing a Technology Provider

Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Kalliopi Chioti, Chief ESG Officer, Temenos and Christian Sarafidis, Chief Executive, EMEA Financial Services, Microsoft, dive deep into how choosing the right provider and right partner is crucial for ESG. With increasing pressure coming to the fore from regulators, organisations have no choice but to consider their reputations. This journey cannot be completed alone, so partners are of paramount importance, in addition to technologies such as cloud and AI to drive sustainability efforts.

17 July 2024