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  • 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…

  • Converge – The “Super App”, Inter’s explosive growth in Brazil, and the fuel behind the LatAm payments revolution

    Rapid growth in Brazil’s payments industry has been driven by a new crop of fintech companies, enabled by Central Bank initiatives like the low-cost, always on Pix payments platform. As a result, since the beginning of the pandemic, it is estimated an additional 16 million Brazilians have become part of the financial system. More broadly…

  • Converge – Women in fintech: Forging a future without boundaries

    A roundtable discussion featuring: Susana Delgado, Global Head of Consumer & SME Payments Strategy at Swift, Nicole Olbe, Managing Director of Partnerships at Barclaycard Payments and Sendi Young, Managing Director Europe and UK Board Director of Ripple. This special episode, guest hosted by Convera CCO Jennifer Parker, brings together four remarkable women in the fintech…