
Dealroom and MAPFRE Experts Explore the State of Insurtech
Dealroom and MAPFRE experts met at the ITC DIA Europe event in Barcelona to discuss the current state of insurtech. Lorenzo Chiavarini of Dealroom highlighted a funding downturn but noted a rise in mergers and acquisitions, especially in Spain, Germany, and the UK. MAPFRE’s innovation lead, Carlos Cendra Falcón, emphasized the insurer’s openness to partnerships and potential tech investments, contributing data to Dealroom’s forthcoming report. The dialogue underscored a shift toward consolidation and collaboration within the sector.

Sam Koekoek - Klearly - Money 20/20 Europe
At Money 20/20 Europe, Klearly CEO Sam Koekoek highlighted the company’s mobile‑first payment platform that converts smartphones into point‑of‑sale terminals for small merchants. The solution enables restaurants to capture detailed transaction data—including employee, table, and tip information—to generate actionable insights...

Dorel Blitz - Personetics - Money20/20 Europe
Personetics, an AI‑powered fintech, serves over 130 banks in 34 markets, turning transactional data into personalized financial experiences. At Money20/20 Europe, VP Dorel Blitz explained how the firm’s technology not only engages customers but also integrates directly with banks’ internal...

Freddy Arthur - NICE Actimize - Money20/20 Europe
At Money20/20 Europe, Freddy Arthur, EMEA Fraud Strategy Leader at NICE Actimize, discussed the firm’s 25‑year legacy in financial crime prevention. He highlighted the company’s multi‑layered fraud detection platform that blends internal, third‑party and identity risk data. Arthur emphasized continuous...

Sofien Sidhoum - Conduit - Money 20/20 Europe
At Money 20/20 Europe, Sofien Sidhoum, EMEA Lead at Conduit, outlined the company’s cross‑border fintech platform that reduces settlement risk and streamlines digital‑asset access. Conduit combines traditional payment functions with an escrow account that pays up to 5 % annual interest in...

How Profile Software Is Modernising Banks Worldwide
Profile Software, a publicly listed Greek fintech firm, is positioning itself as a catalyst for banks’ digital transformation. The company focuses on two growth pillars—API‑driven core banking modernization and embedded finance—helping institutions replace legacy systems with modular, cloud‑ready platforms...

Institutional Blockchain Adoption: How Chainlink Enables Banks to Transact On-Chain
The video outlines Chainlink’s new runtime environment that lets banks and financial market infrastructures transact on public blockchains without rewriting their legacy core banking or settlement systems. By wrapping standard SWIFT or other messaging formats in Chainlink’s oracle network, institutions can...

Real-Time Proxy Voting: How BNP Paribas & Proxymity Are Transforming Shareholder Meetings
The video announces the launch of a real‑time proxy‑voting solution that links BNP Paribas’ custody platform with Proxymity’s cloud‑native communication hub, aiming to modernize shareholder meetings across the UK, Australia and New Zealand. By digitising the entire information chain—from issuer disclosure to investor...

How Bank of America Is Modernising EMEA Payments
Bank of America’s EMEA transaction‑banking head, Chris Json, outlined the firm’s roadmap for modernising payments across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The agenda centers on industry‑wide infrastructure upgrades – notably the ISO 2022 migration and the imminent SEPA Instant deadline...

How Vyntra Keeps Real-Time Payments Fast and Safe
The video introduces Vyntra, a fintech startup focused on guaranteeing that real‑time payments are both instantaneous and secure. Co‑founder Joel explains the company’s mission to bridge two market gaps: monitoring payment‑speed service‑level agreements and preventing fraud or money‑laundering. Vyntra’s solution emerged...

How Datavillage Uses AI to Accelerate Fraud Investigations
The video features a product‑owner from DataVillage speaking at the FF Tattoo Studio during Cypus 2025, introducing the company’s AI‑driven fraud‑investigation platform. DataVillage encrypts client data before feeding it to machine‑learning models, allowing multiple financial institutions to share information securely. The AI...

How Fenergo Is Strengthening Financial Crime Prevention
At the FF Salon in Frankfurt, Fenergo unveiled a new native identity‑verification (IDV) module embedded in its Financial Operating System. The announcement signals the company’s next‑generation approach to financial crime prevention and client onboarding. The IDV capability ties an individual’s identity...

How Eastnets Reinvented Compliance in Global Payments
The video features an interview with the founder of Eastnet, a Middle‑East‑based payments‑technology firm, tracing its 40‑year journey from a modest computer‑hardware reseller to a compliance‑focused global payments platform. Early on, the founder leveraged the 1980s PC boom to sell 10,000...

How RBC Capital Markets Is Transforming Client Onboarding
RBC Capital Markets is re‑engineering its client onboarding to position it as a competitive advantage rather than a mere compliance exercise. Lori Messer, global head of business and client services, emphasizes that a frictionless onboarding experience showcases the bank’s service...

RTP Isn’t Just Speed — It’s Control | Bank of America Explains
Bank of America’s global payments head AJ McCrae outlines how real‑time payments are moving beyond speed to become a tool for cash‑flow control. He describes a three‑phase adoption curve. Phase 1 was experimentation; phase 2, now underway, focuses on business‑to‑consumer (B2C) use cases such...

How Vyntra Is Redefining Real-Time Payments
The video introduces Vintra, a newly formed fintech venture led by CEO Joel Vint, aimed at redefining real‑time payments. By merging two specialized companies in June, Vintra positions itself as a one‑stop shop that blends transaction observability with AI‑powered fraud...

How BeHive Consulting Improves Financial Journeys
The video features a conversation with Jade, co‑founder of BeHive Consulting, about the firm’s mission to fuse behavioral science with traditional management consulting. Drawing on her economics background and a master’s in behavioral science, Jade explains that the company exists...

How Vyntra Is Redefining Payment Transparency
Vintra Belgium, formed from the merger of Intix and Edgardians, is championing payment transparency by introducing transaction observability across the entire payment lifecycle. Director Antoine Koeppers argues that while fast processing has become a commodity, any hiccup now triggers customer...

How Allevo Is Powering ISO 20022 and Instant Payments Infrastructure
At Cybos Frankfurt 2025, Allevo’s CEO discussed how the firm is enabling banks to adopt ISO 20022 and instant‑payment schemes. The conversation, set amid a tattoo‑studio backdrop, highlighted Allevo’s mission to supply the “essentialials” that let banks run core operations smoothly. He...

How Yapily Is Scaling Open Banking Payments and Data Infrastructure
The interview with Jason, Yapily’s co‑founder, at Cybos Frankfurt 2025 focuses on how the company is scaling its open‑banking payments and data platform to meet enterprise‑grade demand. Yapily highlights its robust, IBM‑backed infrastructure that supports large‑volume customers—from major banks to accounting...

Project Nemo: Closing the Digital Accessibility Gap in Fintech
Project Nemo was unveiled at Cybos Frank 2025 as a rallying cry for the fintech sector to close the digital accessibility gap for people with disabilities. The speaker, a veteran fintech CEO, framed the initiative not as a profit driver...

Payment Spayce and Sagicor Bank: Propelling Clients Forward with Faster Payments
The video outlines Payment Spayce’s strategic partnership with Sagicor Bank, emphasizing how faster‑payment infrastructure is propelling client acquisition and regional expansion. It highlights the company’s 25% year‑over‑year growth, largely fueled by organic referrals, and recent acquisition of a regulated trust...

How Finastra Is Redefining the Operating Model in Trade Finance
The video outlines how Finastra is reshaping the operating model for trade finance amid sweeping regulatory reforms that now recognize electronic documents as legally equivalent to paper. Banks across Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Southeast Asia...

How Nationwide Is Doing Banking Differently as a Member-Owned Society
Nationwide, a UK building society, leverages its member‑owned structure to reinvest profits directly into services rather than paying shareholders. The firm emphasizes a low‑hierarchy, inclusive culture that has produced unusually long employee tenures, fostering deep institutional knowledge. Technology delivery is...

Pleo on the Future of Cash Management
Clara Schindler of Pleo says finance must move from reactive control to proactive cash foresight. Fragmented platforms force teams into manual data plumbing, costing up to five hours weekly and eroding confidence—two in five leaders feel financially agile. Pleo expands...

How Form3 Is Becoming the Default Platform for A2A Payments
Form3 is positioning its cloud‑native, multi‑cloud platform as the default infrastructure for account‑to‑account (A2A) payments among the world’s largest banks. The solution spans three major public clouds, delivering resilience, scalability and fault tolerance for instant, high‑value, high‑volume transactions. At Sibos...

How Encompass Is Transforming Corporate KYC and Digital Identity
The video features an interview with Alex, a senior executive at Encompass, recorded at day four of CybOS Frankfurt 2025. He outlines how the Australian‑born fintech is reshaping corporate know‑your‑customer (KYC) processes and digital identity solutions for institutional clients. Encompass began...

Why Smartstream Is Doubling Down on AI and Customer Success
SmartStream CEO Ak Jaffa announced a strategic push to double down on artificial intelligence and customer‑success initiatives, positioning the firm’s brand to reflect a blend of AI and human intelligence delivering measurable value. The company will continue heavy R&D spending, rebranding...

Payment Spayce and Sagicor Bank: Modernizing Payment Infrastructure with Multi-Ledger Systems
Payment Spayce unveiled a modern multi‑ledger architecture that enables real‑time, wallet‑to‑wallet transfers using ISO 20022, new SWIFT messaging standards, and blockchain. Integration is now streamlined: 85 % of partners connect via a single configuration file, cutting months‑long projects to minutes. The...

How Fenergo Is Using Agentic AI to Transform Banking Compliance
Fenergo is deploying agentic AI to overhaul banking compliance, shifting from linear, partially automated workflows to intelligent, parallel processes. By embedding biometric and regulatory data early, the platform reuses information across jurisdictions, slashing duplication and friction. The company reports 99%...

How Smartstream’s Affinity Is Using AI to Cut Reconciliation Work by 10×
SmartStream’s Chief Product Officer Thomas Steinborn introduced Affinity, an AI‑driven reconciliation platform that dramatically cuts manual effort. By applying machine‑learning to the residual 10,000‑plus unmatched records in large data sets, Affinity automates roughly half of those cases, shrinking labor from...

How Eastnets and FacePhi Are Redefining Digital Compliance in Banking
The video announces a strategic partnership between EastNets, a long‑standing provider of compliance and payment hub solutions for roughly 800 banks, and FaceFi, a fast‑growing specialist in digital identity verification, facial recognition, OCR and fraud‑prevention technologies. Both CEOs, Hazem Mulham...

Google on Building Secure Foundations for Fintech Growth
Google Cloud executive Karen Zhang argues that fintech speed depends on secure foundations, likening cloud security to an F1 car’s brakes. She explains that Google embeds Zero Trust, BeyondCorp Enterprise, and Chronicle analytics directly into its platform, removing the need...

How Red Hat Is Using Open Source to Power the Future of Banking
Red Hat is positioning open‑source technologies as the backbone of modern banking infrastructure, offering secure, compliant platforms for cloud‑native transformation. The company showcases its enterprise‑grade Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift solutions, which bridge community innovation with strict financial regulations....

How Standard Chartered Is Positioning for the Future of Digital Assets
Standard Chartered is accelerating its digital‑asset agenda across investment banking, wealth management and retail, deploying capabilities on several blockchains rather than waiting for a single interoperability solution. The bank is integrating stablecoins to enable 24/7 cross‑border remittances and partnering with...

How Sinpex Is Building the Future of Banking Compliance in Europe
Sinpex is launching a harmonised compliance platform for banks, payment service providers and fintechs operating across the EU. The solution combines automation, AML controls and cross‑border reporting to reduce regulatory friction. By embedding a founder‑led culture of ownership, Sinpex aims...

Payment Spayce and Sagicor Bank: Innovating Fintech for the Caribbean Market
Payment Spayce and Sagicor Bank highlighted how wallet‑to‑wallet transfers abstract ACH, SWIFT and card networks, delivering instant, auditable payments. They emphasized that compliance—KYC, KYB, OFAC, PEP screening—is embedded directly into the transaction flow, turning regulation into an accelerator rather than...

How XDC Trade Network Is Using Blockchain to Digitise Global Trade
XDC Trade Network is deploying a blockchain‑based infrastructure to digitise global trade workflows, creating a shared digital layer for invoices, purchase orders and other trade documents. The platform connects existing enterprise systems rather than replacing them, enabling secure, multi‑party data...

ING’s AI Roadmap: Platform, People, and Agentic AI
ING outlined a three‑pronged AI roadmap aimed at rapidly scaling agentic AI across its core business lines—contact‑center operations, know‑your‑customer (KYC) processes, and retail customer interactions. The bank plans to embed advanced AI models that can autonomously handle routine tasks while...

How Eastnets Is Using AI to Transform Banking Compliance
The video features Dian Nab, deputy CEO of Eastnets, outlining how the firm is leveraging artificial intelligence to overhaul banking compliance. He explains that Eastnets, with four decades in payments and security, is shifting AI from a mere efficiency tool...

How Temenos Is Delivering Banking Modernisation at Global Scale
Temenos is enabling global banks to modernise at pace by shifting from risky, multi‑year core replacements to modular, incremental transformation. The firm leverages AI to analyse legacy code, automate testing and speed upgrades, while a partner ecosystem expands delivery capacity....

How Temenos Is Powering the Future of Global Money Movement
Temenos is positioning its Money Movement and Management platform as the backbone for the accelerating global payments ecosystem, promising banks, fintechs and non‑bank payment service providers a unified solution to handle everything from instant domestic transfers to complex cross‑border settlements. The...

How Google Supports Fintech Builders
Google casts itself as an agnostic ecosystem enabler for fintechs, supplying cloud infrastructure and developer tools so firms can focus on product rather than core operations. Its Google Cloud Marketplace helps B2B fintechs onboard and gain access to tier‑1 through...

How FreedomPay Is Powering Global Merchant Payments Innovation
FreedomPay is scaling its agnostic commerce platform across North America, Europe, the UK, APAC, South America, and the Caribbean, enabling merchants to process payments globally with local expertise. The company leverages partnerships such as WorldPay and deep integrations with POS,...

Previsico on the Next Era of Flood Intelligence for Insurers
Provisico used its ITC London stage to unveil Flood Intelligence 2.0, a next‑generation forecasting platform aimed at insurers grappling with rising surface‑water flood risk. The company, which counts Liberty, Zurich and Generali among its clients, is shifting from a deterministic single‑outcome...

Dorian Jorry - Olino - Paris Fintech Forum
The Paris Fintech Forum featured Dorian Jorry, co‑founder of Olino, a three‑year‑old insurtech startup that originated in a university classroom. Olino has secured more than €2 million in seed funding and is now scaling its platform that embeds B2B insurance products...

Mauricio Monroy - Equisoft - ITC LATAM 2023
Mauricio Monroy, senior executive at Equisoft, spoke at ITC LATAM 2023 in Miami, highlighting the Canadian firm’s end‑to‑end software solutions tailored for the insurance sector. Equisoft’s portfolio spans CRM, illustration and quoting engines, electronic applications, policy‑admin systems, customer portals and a...

Yaacov Martin - Jifiti - Paris Fintech Forum
At the Paris Fintech Forum, Yaacov Martin, CEO of Jifiti, outlined the company’s mission to embed a range of point‑of‑sale financial products—most notably buy‑now‑pay‑later (BNPL)—into the checkout experience for banks, financial institutions, and global merchants. He emphasized that the next...

Why Payments Can’t Be Modernised in Isolation
The video argues that payment modernization cannot be pursued in isolation; banks must view payments as one component of a complex ecosystem that includes core banking, fraud detection, sanctions screening and multiple channels. Volante positions itself as a partner that delivers...

Google’s Take on the Future of Fintech: Beyond Neobanks and BNPL
In a recent talk, Google analysts warned that the fintech boom built on neobanks and buy‑now‑pay‑later (BNPL) products is reaching saturation, and the industry’s next wave is a pivot toward business‑to‑business (B2B) banking‑as‑a‑service. The speaker explained that many neobanks have already...