Archives: Podcasts

  • Converge – The European Payments Initiative (EPI): Bridging instant payments across the bloc

    The European Payments Initiative (EPI), an ambitious European payments scheme backed by a consortium of 16 banks, has been in the news lately. It is gearing up to pilot an instant payments scheme this year after agreeing to acquire two fintechs, Dutch payment scheme iDeal and mobile payments app Payconiq. The pilot will comprise a…

  • Converge – Fighting FinCrime with FinTech: Human controls vs. AI, automation, and scaling fraud prevention

    In recent years, the United Kingdom has seen a massive uptick in financial crime. The need for better controls against fraud, both human and machine, are more important than ever. And while many types of financial fraud remain the same, new channels have emerged posing unknown risks. Customer oversight has become nebulous making data-sharing crucial…

  • From sticky inflation to soft landing? Convera’s Q3 Outlook

    As we enter H2 of 2023, businesses are growing increasingly concerned about the tightening monetary conditions. Despite one of the sharpest sequences of policy tightening in living memory, inflation, especially core inflation, remains too high. Only Canada is forecast to fall below the 3% upper tolerance threshold by the end of 2023. Canada is forecast…

  • Converge – The Ripple effect: Sendi Young on leading the way in B2B crypto-enabled payments

    Within today’s complex regulatory environment, blockchain and crypto-enabled payments provider ⁠Ripple⁠ has stood out for their continued growth. Their commitment to working with the current system has led to meaningful partnerships across the banking sector, and despite legal challenges in the US, ongoing expansion globally as well as important acquisitions. Hear from ⁠Sendi Young⁠, Ripple’s…

  • Converge – Is blockchain hiding in plain sight? Citi & Convera on tokenization, interoperability, and real-time payments

    While blockchain use cases have seen considerable growth in the past 5 years, there’s still a long road ahead in the world of payments and the tokenization of real-world assets of value. Join ⁠Ryan Rugg⁠, Head of Digital Assets for ⁠Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions⁠ and ⁠Convera⁠ CEO ⁠Patrick Gauthier ⁠for an enlivening discussion on…

  • Converge – Progressive modernization: AI transactions, APIs, ISO20022 and instant cross-border payments

    Hear ⁠Mick Fennell⁠, Global Business Line Director – Payments at ⁠Temenos⁠, one of the largest banking cloud services providers, discuss the importance of progressive modernization for both incumbents and startups. From Temenos: “Progressive Modernization helps banks to de-compose monolithic core technology and use interchangeable capabilities to consume, compose and extend banking services, on infrastructure that scales to…