Rik Coeckelbergs

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Is SPAA the Missing Piece for Successful Open Banking?

In parallel with a review of PSD2, the EPC (European Payments Council) started working on a scheme based on their lessons learned from PSD2 and open banking. They did so at the request of the Euro Retail Payments Board, a multi-stakeholder forum presided by the European Central Bank. That scheme…

Open Banking

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Open Banking

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The Role of Financial Education in a Sustainable Finance Strategy

We discussed the role of financial education in the path to a more sustainable finance industry last week, November 24th, 2022. …

Esg

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The Role of Financial Education in a Sustainable Finance Strategy

Esg

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23 hours ago

Fintech Uncut Episode016 — Bank of America wins big from Silicon Valley Bank meltdown

Welcome to this week’s FU, where we talked about the week that was, and what a week it was. Lots of bank failures and a possibility of some new banks. Bank of America were one of the winners this week whilst First Republic Bank were a possible loser, until they…

Fintech

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FinteEpisode016 — Bank of America wins big from Silicon Valley Bank meltdown

Fintech

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·5 days ago

Stronger Together : vdk bank’s Partnership with NewB

NewB, a Belgian challenger bank, realised in October 2022 that it could not collect the required funds to proceed with its sustainable work under a banking license. …

Sustainable Finance

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Stronger Together : vdk bank’s Partnership with NewB

Sustainable Finance

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Mar 12

Fintech Uncut Episode015 — Silicon Valley Bank sends shockwaves through global banking industry

The news about Silicon Valley Bank is having an impact on banks and markets globally — and it wasn’t even the right answer to a question this week! The team spoke about N26, boiling frogs and Belgians (no, not boiling Belgians!!) …

Fintech Uncut

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Fintech Uncut

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·Mar 8

The Challenge of a Global ISO20022 Adoption in Payments

ISO what? ISO 20022 is an open global standard for financial information. It provides consistent, rich and structured data that can be used for every kind of financial business transaction. We invited Neil Buchan, Head of Standards Implementation at SWIFT, and Ton Versteeg, Specialist Payments and Market Infrastructures at Rabobank…

Iso20022

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Iso20022

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·Mar 8

The Value of Low Code Technology in a Constantly Changing Financial World

We are here with Paul Higgins, Industry Principal for Banking & Financial Services in EMEA at Mendix. Mendix is a leading enterprise low-code application development platform. They allow you to convert a spreadsheet into an app, create an organization-wide app portfolio, modernize an entire core system, and everything in between…

Low Code

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Low Code

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Mar 4

Episode014 — Klarna’s loss, Western Union does What?, Visa eyes FIS

Klarna posts its biggest loss to date, Western Union announces a twist to BNPL and Visa eyes FIS. Meanwhile, Quizmaster Rik continues his singing streak and adds in a theme to the questions. What in the fluffy bunny was going on in Fintech this week? Links to stuff we…

Innovation

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Innovation

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·Feb 28

Leveraging Finance for Social Impact — Perspectives by Erste Group

February 23 marked the end of an era. Last week was the last time we organised an Afterwork session. It was the last time our virtual round tables took place at 16h CET. From now on, we welcome you at Breakout Bites, virtual round tables from 12h30 to 13h30 CET. …

Financial Education

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Leveraging Finance for Social Impact — Perspectives by Erste Group

Financial Education

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Feb 26

Episode013 — Zelle celebrates success and bunq gets bigger

Zelle might be big (in America at least) but could our Quizmaster Rik become an even bigger sensation as his singing streak continues with Japanese Whiskey lubricated lungs? We also got a brief lesson on how to assess the future success of any new technology from The Other Guy and…

Financial Services

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Financial Services

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