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Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

The Tech Driven Path to Operational Excellence in Banking

In the fiercely competitive world of financial services, achieving operational excellence is key in the continuous development of efficiency, productivity and improvement of customer experience. Operational excellence is not just about improving productivity, but making sure to provide customers with the best service while assuring agility and qua...

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Dmytro Spilka

Dmytro Spilka Director and Founder at Solvid, Coinprompter

How Artificial Intelligence is Empowering SMEs to Prevent Employee Turnover

Employee turnover can be a highly costly burden on small to medium-sized enterprises, but could emerging technologies like artificial intelligence prompt improvements in retention rates? With the average employee costing an estimated £12,000 to replace for SMEs, instances of high turnover can be severely damaging to operational efficiency. With ...

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Serhii Serednii

Serhii Serednii Head of AI / ML at MD Finance

Lending Redefined: Implementing ML To Enhance Products, Workflow, and Customer Experience

An AI-First-Approach is a core pillar of fast-growing fintech companies, aimed at enhancing both internal processes and product efficiency. Let ML Decide: The Credit Scoring Evolution Automation in lending and scoring has existed since the mid-20th century, but when we talk about digital lending today, we no longer refer to traditional rule-base...

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Dmitriy Shcherba

Dmitriy Shcherba PR & Comms Manager at Enestech

Beyond the Game: Esports as a Tool for Diversity, Engagement, and Career Readiness in Schools

According to a recent survey by EdChoice, school is considered boring by 64% of American teenagers. On the other hand, Chris Aviles at Gameplan shared a great case study within a California school district indicating that students involved in esports programs exhibited significantly better attendance, with their absence rate being 33.5% lower th...

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Mike Trkay

Mike Trkay CIO at FICO

Using AI to Transform Technical Operations in Your Organization

In today’s fast-paced and highly complex technology landscape, operations teams face the challenge of managing vast amounts of data, ensuring high availability, and responding quickly to incidents while maintaining service reliability. Artificial Intelligence is emerging as a powerful tool to transform how operations teams work, offering smarter, ...

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Why DevSecOps is key to navigating innovation and compliance

Explore how DevSecOps enable organisations to navigate economic uncertainties while treating innovation and compliance as complementary forces rather than competing priorities. A balancing act is underway within the financial services industry. Driven by client demand and fintech competition, institutions are increasingly obliged to innovate, while at the same time, ensure every step forward is secure and compliant. Often, it feels as though these two goals sit on either side of a seesaw – when one goes up, the other must go down. Many such challenges are born from the software delivery process, where countless organisations are struggling to source the expertise and capabilities necessary to deliver secure and compliant applications, at speed.  Much of the conflict stems from fragmented DevSecOps (a software development practice that integrates security throughout the development lifecycle) strategies which are built upon outdated infrastructure. Indeed, many financial institutions (FIs) today operate with disjointed security and development workflows – sometimes patching together between five to 10 separate tools that were implemented incrementally over time. While this approach worked five years ago, better options exist today. A simplified stack is conducive to both innovation and compliance – without either being compromised.  This Finextra impact study, produced in association with GitLab, explores:  How the evolution to a unified software delivery platform can deliver on both innovation and compliance;  reduce the risk of security incidents;  supercharge operational efficiencies;  amplify business agility and scalability;  and even support talent acquisition. 

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Navigating the Nordic financial landscape: 2025 challenges and priorities

As the Nordic financial sector faces new hurdles and opportunities, a variety of issues are front and centre for financial institutions, technology providers, and fintechs.  Our latest survey of 150 responses reveals how Nordic institutions across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden are navigating the current landscape and their strategic priorities for 2025. Providing valuable insights into areas such as the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), Verification of Payee (VoP), AI’s growing role in financial services, perspectives on central bank digital currency (CBDC) and stablecoin, and evolving payment trends such as Account-to-Account (A2A) and instant payments.  Analysis of our survey responses provides a comprehensive overview on how Nordic institutions are navigating transformation shaped by innovation, regulation, and evolving customer expectations, with progress and priorities varying by country.  We explore regional specific views towards:  Key priorities for 2025  Readiness for Verification of Payee (VoP)  Strategic AI integration for real impact  The rise of A2A, instant, and mobile payments  Attitudes towards central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and stablecoin  The impact of DORA 

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Using modern technology platforms to create an AI-driven bank

In the rapidly advancing banking sector, integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become less of a choice and more of a crucial stepping stone. The industry is facing a turning point in the adoption of AI where organisations either embrace the opportunities in front of them or risk falling behind.  The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era of digital transformation. In banking operations, the integration of AI presents an opportunity for significant growth. However, this integration is not without its challenges. Banks are dealing with more data than ever before, and managing this information effectively is a crucial hurdle to overcome. From ensuring data accuracy and relevance to adhering to privacy regulations, these challenges require careful consideration.  The decision to incorporate AI should be a strategic one, aimed at addressing specific business challenges and not just a nod to the latest trend. Identifying growth-inhibiting challenges and evaluating the viability of AI as a solution is a practical and cost-effective approach.  This report highlights the key takeaways of a Finextra webinar, hosted in association with Red Hat, by a panel of industry experts. Discover:  Overcoming barriers in integrating AI into banking systems;  AI integration: A strategic approach; and  Effective utilisation of AI in business operations and risk mitigation.   

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How payments modernisation can help the UK retain its fintech crown

In this FinextraTV interview, Helena Forest, EVP, Global Product & Commercial, Real Time Payments, Mastercard gives her opinion on the current state of the payments landscape in the UK. Modernisation, regulatory compliance, collaboration and the government's National Payments Vision all feature as reasons to be optimistic.

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Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

What is AI bias?

The term ‘AI bias’ refers to situations whereby an artificial intelligence (AI) system produces prejudiced results, as a consequence of flaws in its machine learning process. Often, AI bias mirrors society’s inequalities, be they around race, gender, class, nationality, and so on. In this instalment of Finextra’s Explainer series, we ask where bia...

Lynn Housecroft

Lynn Housecroft Professional Support Lawyer at Squire Patton Boggs & SPP member

The quiet revolution of AI in pensions

A quiet revolution is happening in the pensions industry, as it starts to embrace the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for more than number crunching. AI has been used in pensions for several decades, but this has largely been for back office work, such as analysing large data sets associated with pension schemes, which have thousands of members...

Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

What is deep learning?

Artificial intelligence (AI), a concept once confined to the realms of science fiction, has in the last several years entered the mainstream – with the release of OpenAI’s inaugural ChatGPT model, and other competitor engines subsequently, transforming innumerable industries. Often uttered in conjunction with ‘AI’ is the term ‘deep learning’, thou...