Archives: Podcasts
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Converge – Are You Ready for 2024? Convera’s annual macroeconomic outlook
Join Head of Market Insights Steve Dooley as he shares a taste of the 2024 edition of Convera’s annual flagship report to help businesses navigate what promises to be yet another uncertain and volatile year ahead, both geopolitically and macroeconomically.
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Converge – Bridging the way to a multi-CBDC world: Daniel Eidan of the Bank for International Settlements
Also known as “the central bank of banks,” the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has been guiding and influencing the world’s largest financial institutions for decades. Their new innovation hub has taken a central role in exploring new technologies, #CBDCs among them, that bring “benefits that can lead to faster, cheaper and more transparent payments…
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Converge – When milliseconds matter: Preventing fraud in an instant payment world
Sardine, “a behavior-infused platform that offers fraud prevention, compliance (KYC/AML), and payments solutions for various industries,” is tackling fraud in progressive ways using their intuitive API that can detect nuances of fraudulent activity with advanced AI. And with the momentum fueling real-time payment growth, faster payments can equal faster fraud, requiring new tools to detect…
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Converge – The consumer sets the bar: How B2C innovation is pushing B2B finserv into the future
This special episode was co-produced with Tigerhall – a leading social learning platform. Commercial and retail clients have higher-than-ever expectations of banking as a service. How can financial institutions and banks stay ahead of the customer experience curve? How do we harness the latest applications in AI, including generative AI, to better serve customers? What…
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Converge – FinTech vs. banks: Who’s eating whose lunch? With Sardine’s Simon Taylor
Incumbent financial institutions pose both an opportunity and a barrier to the fintech boom. They’ve got the resources to acquire, emulate and dominate. But more legacy financial institutions are turning to fintechs and digital-first financial services providers as partners in the race to provide a better customer experience. Dig into the hungry-for-innovation FinServ environment with…
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Converge – Why DeFi Matters [Part 3]: CBDCs – opportunity or doom for DeFi? The challenges of building digital institutional trust
Most major economies, including 19 of the G20 nations, are in the end-stage processes of developing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). These digital currencies introduce DeFi technology and concepts into the world of central banking with many potential use cases across borders and domestically. CBDCs have opened up all kinds of opportunities for increased efficiencies,…