Latest Reporting/compliance News: Finextra Research

Cross-Border Payments: How To Evolve From Slower, Domestic Roots

Discussing cross-border payments priorities, Damien Dugauquier, Co-Founder and CEO, iPiD and Alex Johnson, Chief Payments Officer, Nium join FinextraTV at Money 20/20 in Amsterdam. Bringing up the evolution of payments to a faster, international experience amongst a history rooted in domestic payments, Dugauquier and Johnson establish a need for better payment rails and verification services. Across the importance of reframing compliance and regulation, developing better experiences, and battling fraud, Johnson and Dugauquier emphasise the importance of a full-service unification.

22 July 2025

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How ISO 20022 is Aiding a Frictionless Future

Attending EBAday 2025 in Paris, Vitus Rotzer, Chief Product Officer - Financial Messaging, Bottomline, took some time out to speak to FinextraTV about the state of the payment industry in 2025. Referring to ISO20022 as "the glue in the middle of everything", Rotzer describes an industry that is evolving, rather than just changing, with a focus on better compliance, reduction of friction, and a progression towards a cashless society. Rotzer also describes how, in finding an answer to their current challenges, customers are looking for a SaaS solution that allows them to manage multiple rails and fraud initiatives from a more holistic, interconnected position.

21 July 2025

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How Instant Payments Regulation Will Boost A2A Payments

Joining the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025 in Paris, Nuria Mohedas Yamayo, Director of Payments and Digital Banking, Cecabank and Julio Cesar Fernandez Ramos, Director of Business Development and Operations, Cecabank discussed the development of instant payments regulations and cash contingencies. Explaining how new regulations help to boost A2A payments and the growth of organisations as a whole, beyond just a smaller portion of banks, Yamayo and Ramos also emphasised the need for improved efficiencies and collaboration.

18 July 2025

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Verification of Payee: The role of RVMs & Conformance

Joining the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025 in Paris, Paulo Barbosa, COO, Banfico helped to provide an understanding of what a routing and verification mechanism (RVM) is and how it is impacting the verification of payee landscape. Barbosa provided an up-to-date look at what is currently evolving ahead of the October deadline, whilst sharing clarifications around the role RVM's play alongside banks to provide greater speed, experience and compliance.

02 July 2025

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The 4 Key Conversations Contributing to Greater Consumer Opportunities

Joining the FinextraTV studio at a busy EBA Day 2025, Thomas Warsop, President and CEO, ACI Worldwide set out his 4 key topics that he sees regularly in circulation: digitisation, cloud, fraud and AI. Giving his opinion on each, along with some of the historical growth of each, he provides an insightful perspective.

24 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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Changing Regulatory Perceptions: Towards Strategy & Collaboration

Joining the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025, Liliana Fratini Passi, Managing Director, CBI shared her insights surrounding a key conversation at the event: regulatory compliance. Fratini Passi shared a belief that the perception of regulation is moving toward one of a strategic driver as opposed to an obstacle or inconvenience. Touching on Instant Payments in particular, Fratini Passi said that the approaches have drastically changed in recent times but that, in her opinion, the most successful ones tend to be those a collaborative nature.

18 June 2025

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Cross-Border Fragmentation: To Innovate Without Risk, It Must Be Interoperable

Discussing interoperability in the face of fragmentation within cross-border operations, Susana Delgado, Global Head of Market Intelligence & Engagement, Swift joined the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025. Quoting a collaborative study between Swift and The Economist, she mentions how fragmentation could lead to heightened costs and lower global GDP. While acknowledging that diverse approaches can foster innovation, Delgado emphasized that interoperability is critical to managing the associated risks and ensuring sustainable progress.

18 June 2025

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Where are Banks Prioritising their Tech Investment?

Providing insights into a recently released survey of over 400 bank executives, Isabelle Guis, Chief Marketing Officer, Temenos joined the FinextraTV studio at Temenos Community Forum 2025. She explains what the results tell us about banks’ priorities when investing in technology, and how they are looking to adopt Generative AI.

17 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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Instant Payments Regulation: Facing the Skeletons in the Closet

Joining the FinextraTV Studio during EBAday 2025 were Serge Wagener, Member of the EBA Board and Chair of the EBA Practitioners Group on Instant Payments and Annick Moes, Head of Industry Issues, Cooperation Initiatives and Communications, EBA. Both Wagener and Moes pointed out ongoing challenges in implementing the Instant Payments Regulation (IPR), such as delivering Verification of Payee for bulk payments. Referencing their newest publication, they stressed how EBAday gave experts the opportunity to bring out the skeletons from the closet and discuss their implementation concerns with peers.

16 June 2025

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The Four Ions of Financial Change

While joining the FinextraTV studio at the 2025 NextGen Nordics event, Mick Fennell, Business Line Director - Payments, Temenos explains his four Ions to financial change: Innovation, Regulation, Optimisation and Protection. Diving into each, Fennell describes the ways in which the industry is evolving and why, as much as it requires caution, it can be a cause for excitement when approached the right way.

11 June 2025

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Why Lending in 2025 Now Faces an Entirely New Dynamic

Joining the FinextraTV virtual studio, David Ruis, Partner, Deloitte and Anthony Nonnis, Head of Global Partnerships, Mambu, discuss how banking as an industry is currently experiencing new dynamics and the emergence of alternative lenders. Examining how the current regulatory and geopolitical situation is impacting innovation, they outline the transformation that is now taking place with AI technologies throughout the lending journey.

03 June 2025

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Successful Instant Payments Adoption: Is Regulation Enough?

In this FinextraTV interview during NextGen Nordics 2025 in Stockholm, Majda Nogo, Head of Sales and Business Development, Nordics and Baltics, Worldline Financial Services listed the reasons why Instant Payments still presents a number of opportunities to feel optimistic about the future. As part of this, Nogo expressed the belief that regulation and legislation, on its own, is not enough to fuel market adoption.

15 May 2025

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How payments modernisation can help the UK retain its fintech crown

In this FinextraTV interview, Helena Forest, EVP, Global Product & Commercial, Real Time Payments, Mastercard gives her opinion on the current state of the payments landscape in the UK. Modernisation, regulatory compliance, collaboration and the government's National Payments Vision all feature as reasons to be optimistic.

14 May 2025

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Making an Impact: Bevis Watts on 10 Years in Sustainable Finance

Joining the virtual FinextraTV studio as part of the Unplugged series, Bevis Watts, CEO, Triodos Bank UK reflects on his last 10 years at the sustainable bank. From changing tides of industry, to moving toward the digital revolution, Watts describes his pride at the impact created and sets out his vision for the future as he steps down and away.

07 May 2025

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For Embedded Finance, Innovation & Compliance Can Work Hand in Hand

As we look to 2025, one area of Fintech focus that continues to gain interest is embedded finance. Renata Caine, General Manager, Banking as a Service, Green Dot Corporation, in a FinextraTV interview, shared her opinions on how this topic is evolving, as well supplying statistics on embedded finance’s investment trends from Green Dot’s own report. As a part of this conversation, Caine shares her belief that innovation is not at odds with compliance but hand in hand with it.

18 December 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

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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

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CFIT CEO Ezechi Britton MBE on How to Unlock Barriers to Fintech Growth

At IFGS 2024, Ezechi Britton MBE, CEO of the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT), explores their recently released report on the benefits of open finance, what needs to be done to implement successful change and how open finance will change UK fintech going forward.

06 June 2024