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White-Label Remittance Solutions for Emerging Markets: A Growth Opportunity for Banks (Nikunj Gundaniya)
Global money movement no longer waits. Cross-border transfers happen every second, and in 2025 alone...
A New Era of Financial Crime Systems: Are You Ready? (Becki Laporte)
My financial services career began in Texas just before the dotcom boom. In the subsequent 25+ y...
Clearing vs Settlement: What Happens Between Payment Initiation and Final Funds Transfer (Jelle Van Schaick)
When a business sends a cross-border payment, two processes determine whether funds arrive: clearing...
Financial planning: The conversation financial experts rarely have with themselves (Anthony Villis)
Financial professionals spend most of their time helping clients plan for the future. Across the sec...
Designing for Failure: The Architecture of Financial Resilience (Joris Lochy)
We have become virtually "zero tolerant" for digital failures. Customers expect seamless,
Loyalty Programs in Banking: Dos and Don'ts for the Smarter Bank (Shawn Conahan)
For years, banks have assumed that their customers’ primary banking relationship was for life. Howev...
Will European AI Infrastructure Ever Catch Up With the US and Asia? (Dmytro Spilka)
We’re locked in the midst of an artificial intelligence race between tech frontrunners, the United S...
When Should a Payment Use Stablecoins? The Decision Framework Institutions Are Building (Avik Nandi)
The conversation around stablecoins has matured quickly. The question most banks, networks, and paym...
Automating the Enterprise: How Intelligent Automation Is Redefining Scale, Speed, and Strategy (Quadri Owolabi)
Introduction Enterprise automation has evolved from a tactical efficiency initiative into a co
Why agentic AI became the breakout trend of mid-2025 (Mayuri Jain)
If 2024 was the year generative AI proved it could talk, mid-2025 was when agentic AI proved it coul...
Nostro, Vostro and Loro Accounts: The Clearing Infrastructure Behind Cross-Border Payments (Jelle Van Schaick)
Cross-border payments move through a web of correspondent banking relationships. At the centre of th...
Fintech Has a Technology Advantage But a Trust Problem (Priyanka Akireddi)
Fintech moves fast. New apps launch every week, APIs get better, and AI is now part of almost every ...
Why clean data should be every bank’s New Year’s resolution (Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya)
We’re at the time of year when people start making well-intentioned resolutions to reset and refresh...
Blockchain and crypto trends in 2026: bridging the gap between TradFi and DeFi (Carlo R.W. De Meijer)
Since 2016 it has been a tradition for me to deliver a blog on blockchain and crypto in which I pre...
Banks have to show the way. (Bo Harald)
“We need this today, not in 2 years.” That was the clear message from the industry panel on the E
Quantum Tech in Banking and Fintech: The Next Big Thing (Muhammad Waqas)
Quantum technology is moving—albeit slowly—from theory to proof-of-concept in finance, and it may be...
Why the Board of Directors must lead a secure AI transformation — not merely oversee it (Bo Harald)
Large language models have opened eyes in most organisations. Many are now pondering how to become A...
Will European Business Wallets improve Peppol? (Bo Harald)
I have followed discussions about the need to move to Linked Data for some time. And that Peppol, UB...
The Modernization Mandate: Why Infrastructure Readiness is the New Competitive Edge (Marjorie Tart)
In the US, 2025 will be remembered as a turning point for the payments landscape. Beyond milestones
From Digital Channels to Intelligent Ecosystems: Redefining Quality in Banking in 2026 (Quadri Owolabi)
As global banks move beyond digitising transactions toward building intelligent financial ecosystems...
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