EBAday

EBAday is the annual event for European payments professionals organised by Finextra and the Euro Banking Association. This community has been created to deliver a forum for EBA delegates to exchange views on instant payments, open banking and new developments in payments processing and technology.

Daniel Szmukler Director at EBA

A look back at EBAday 2014

With Helsinki and another successful EBAday behind us, it is time to reflect on the conversations and themes from the show. With 800 attendees this year, this was the biggest EBAday yet and the Finlandia Hall was buzzing with discussions between industry leaders in transaction banking. One word on everyone’s lips from the start was ‘innovation’. T...

23 June 2014 /payments

Daniel Szmukler Director at EBA

Payments: a brave new world

As this year’s EBAday approaches, there is plenty of talk about what the retail payments landscape of the future will be like. Just as recent years have seen rapid change in this field, this trend only seems set to gather pace. So what is on the cards for the coming years? In the run-up to 2020, we are seeing convergence and mobile technology as ...

04 June 2014 /payments

Daniel Szmukler Director at EBA

A new era of transformation and convergence for banks

Bank professionals recognise that the payments landscape has undergone rapid evolution over the past decade. Industry research suggests that by 2020 even greater changes must be expected. In such an environment the EBA continues to fulfil its primary role of supporting its membership through the changes and driving evolution in the best interests...

25 February 2014 /payments

Daniel Szmukler Director at EBA

EBAday 2014 - progress update

The preparations for 2014 are well underway. EBA has received ample community feedback on the key topics to be addressed for next year. The Finnish Federation of Financial Services and the Finnish EBA banks have expressed strong support to host the event in Helsinki on 10th and 11th June 2014 at Finlandia Hall. All indicators are on green to ensur...

27 May 2013 /payments

Daniel Szmukler Director at EBA

EBAday 2013 - the countdown is on

EBAday 2013 is approaching fast and the community is gearing up to discuss again the challenges that banks and their payments and infrastructure providers are likely to face in the future. As 2013 begins, the next five to seven years promise to deliver a rapidly changing landscape as increasing globalisation, electronification and mobility is expec...

18 March 2013 /payments

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Who wins Central Matching or local?

With settlement cycles shortening in Europe and in the USA, there is quite a debate going on in the market as to the best form of post-trade matching. Financial Services firms on both buy and sell-side have a decision to make about what suits their business best. Central matching or local matching? Certainly central matching has plenty of attracti...

30 October 2012 /regulation

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

HFT a force for good or evil

It seems to me that the Industry is split between the benefits or not, of high frequency trading (HFT) and it’s a polarisation which is so concerning that Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, has launched his report on the Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets. Everyone appears to have an opinion, but very few of ...

29 October 2012 /regulation

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Social media within financial services

The explosion in members of social media sites shows no sign of slowing down and with Twitter now well established and introducing further expansion, the time may soon be with us when all the world’s population will be connected. There is of course quite a moral argument about privacy and the risks that multilateral connectivity can bring, not lea...

23 October 2012 /payments

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Collateral liquidity and possible solutions

Collateral liquidity is causing huge concerns at the moment and this could really move towards the top of the industry to do list by this time next year. OTC is very likely to suck even more liquidity from the market and with regulatory and political interference with short selling and stock borrowing and lending; the liquidity problem in collater...

19 October 2012 /security

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Banking becoming Clearer

Most market experts agree that putting OTC into central clearing is a bad idea born from good intentions, but terrible knowledge of market operations and how to reduce risks. To the politician and the regulator its simples! CCPs operated extraordinary well during the height of the financial crisis and prevented the complete breakdown of global mark...

16 October 2012 /regulation