Research

Real Time Payments: Solving today's problems for tomorrow's success

23 Jun 2022  |  222 downloads

Banks understand what they need from real time global payments, but reaching a position where they can leverage the full benefits available is a signi...

Cloud, the Critical Component to Power New Business Models

11 Mar 2022  |  341 downloads

Today, every company is a technology company. No organisation can modernise products, deliver services, or meet customer expectations without harnessi...

Payments Transformation: Emerging Stronger

10 Mar 2022  |  819 downloads

The Finextra Annual Payments Survey Report 2022 in association with Fiserv We discuss findings from the survey on how financial institutions are cont...

ISO 20022: How banks can avoid becoming a cautionary tale

04 Mar 2022  |  551 downloads

Transitioning to the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard has been high on the agenda for financial institutions for several years, but as deadlines...

The Future of Regulation 2022

07 Feb 2022  |  995 downloads

From Innovation to Execution The fire for innovation in financial services has long been raging, and regulators, having transformed their modus opera...

Open Banking Europe 2022 - What’s next for Open Banking?

18 Jan 2022  |  1213 downloads

Since the European Payments Services Directive 2 was introduced in 2018, open banking has come to mean different things to different participants. Pro...

Will banks use digital security as a post-pandemic differentiator?

17 Jan 2022  |  342 downloads

Banks large and small, old and new, have come a long way in a short amount of time. Prior to the pandemic there wasn’t a bank or financial...

Future-Ready Payments Solutions: Remaining competitive with reusable technology

09 Dec 2021  |  776 downloads

Over fifty years ago, when the original payment pioneers built electronic funds transfer (EFT) platforms to enable card services, they had a single us...

Building the Road to a Hybrid Cloud Future

24 Nov 2021  |  246 downloads

A recent survey conducted by Finextra and Red Hat showed that 82% of the financial services respondents say they are embracing and implementing hybrid...

Continuous Reinvention: The holy grail of Digital Transformation

03 Nov 2021  |  304 downloads

Driven by the uncertain macroeconomic environment - and remote working paradigm - that endured throughout the pandemic, the term 'digital transfor...

Open Banking powered by the Cloud, Democratising Finance at Scale

28 Oct 2021  |  536 downloads

As new business models emerge with recurring revenue in the innovative payments sector, traditional banks are looking to utilise open banking and open...

Core Banking on the Cloud - The Catalyst for Innovation, Agility and Efficiency

07 Oct 2021  |  522 downloads

Traditional core systems that assume a branch interface and retain human-led back offices no longer meet needs. To be truly agile, banks must priorit...

Prepare to Choose: 4 factors Banks must assess before committing to a SaaS Provider

22 Sep 2021  |  506 downloads

Most banks' digital transformation journeys are well underway, and the need to now deliver on their strategy milestones means that time is of the...

Addressing tech skills shortages in financial services

14 Sep 2021  |  275 downloads

As digitisation increases within banking, financial services and insurance, tech leaders are faced with the task of aligning skills to strategy. Ensu...

Managed Services: Helping Banks refocus on Innovation and Growth

03 Sep 2021  |  276 downloads

Key concerns such as security and compliance are often cited as barriers to banks adopting managed services. In fact, the managed model can deliver s...

Love Change: The Dynamics of Modern Leadership

06 Aug 2021  |  309 downloads

Change in financial services has become a differentiating factor. With that, the facets of leadership have and are still evolving, with a refreshed f...

Driving successful Cloud Transformation

15 Jul 2021  |  333 downloads

Capital market firms face the challenge to evolve at pace with technology, so that they're able to innovate and adapt to the customer’s...

Successful strategies in adopting Hybrid Cloud in Financial Services

29 Jun 2021  |  320 downloads

The benefits of profitability, cost-management, compliance, agility and efficiency gained from implementing a hybrid cloud strategy are hugely benefic...

Refreshing Payment Orchestration for a digital future

11 Jun 2021  |  412 downloads

Digitising processes and services to meet the needs of customers has been a prerequisite for the payments industry, leaving acquirers, issuers, and me...

Factoring of the Future - Why Factors need to look to the Cloud

10 Jun 2021  |  250 downloads

The concept of factoring has its roots in financial transactions stretching right back to Roman times, but the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the a...

The Future of Digital Banking in the UK 2021

21 May 2021  |  868 downloads

Why digital is paramount for innovation leaders. While emerging technology has been leveraged by banking leaders and incremental progress has been ma...

Five Business Benefits for Analysing and Combatting Fraud

20 May 2021  |  218 downloads

A Finextra Research Impact Study in association with Aerospike. With increased financing options at point-of-sale, card-not-present transactions, and...

The Cloud-native journey - Why Hybrid Cloud and Open Source go hand-in-hand

19 Apr 2021  |  319 downloads

The financial services industry has been turning to cloud services and technology in droves to accommodate the pressures, security demands and cost sa...

Adapting to a shifting Cards Landscape

14 Apr 2021  |  623 downloads

Identifying opportunities for Issuers. The payment cards industry has changed dramatically in recent years, with new technologies and regulations spu...