This week Liz Lumley is joined by Roberta Profeta, associate principal financial services, Elca Advisory where they comment on the upward rise of interest rates and its impact on banks and bank reputations, asking too much from open banking, the complexity of fighting climate change via financing activism, the launch of FedNow in the US, M&A rumours with Monzo and predictable behaviour from Microsoft, the company that just get let go of bundling.As a bonus to this episode, Liz Lumley also sits down with Victoria Cleland, executive director for payments at The Bank of England to talk about RTGS, IS0 20022, the New Payment Architecture and the bank’s role in modernising global payments rails.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know.This week Liz Lumley, Joy Macknight and Kimberley Long discuss Chinese banks, UK deposit woes, the recent Mansion House reforms from the UK chancellor, the march of central bank digital currency experiments and Revolut's $20m loss in the US. Meanwhile, we get an update on future podcasts from The Banker Podcast Series.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new report from Fair4All Finance highlights the positive impact of the customer support banks provided during the pandemic and calls for some measures to be re-introduced or modified to help people navigate the rising cost of living. In research conducted with Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest Group and Yorkshire Building Society, Fair4All Finance looked at the response of major banks and building societies during Covid-19. The aim was to understand the impact of support measures like payment holidays and interest-free overdrafts on customers and the financial institutions themselves. The research found that many of the lessons learned can support financial institutions in the way they treat their customers and help people in vulnerable circumstances weather current and future financial storms.Guests:Sacha Romanovitch OBE, CEO of Fair4All FinanceCatherine Rutter, group ambassador for Yorkshire and The Humber, director group customer inclusion at Lloyds Banking Group Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know.This week John Everington and Barbara Pianese discuss the findings of The Banker's Top 1000 World Banks ranking for 2023. The conversation touches on the impact of higher interest rates on the world's largest lenders, how China's banking sector is showing signs of growing maturity, and key growth markets in Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Liz Lumley and John Everington talk about banking giant HSBC leaving their Canary Wharf skyscraper for more modest digs in the City of London, very close to The Banker’s headquarters. The conversation continues on both the ongoing projects around central bank digital currencies and ISO 20022, as well as the impressive digital transformation journey of Banco Santander. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Liz Lumley and Anita Hawser sit down to discuss this year’s topics at EBADay 2023, including the debate around central bank digital currencies, how innovation is viewed and dealt with at incumbent banks, and why we have been talking about ISO 20022 for over a decade.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Liz Lumley and Anita Hawser sit down to discuss all the fintech conferences, HSBC launching Innovation Banking, a16z crypto opening an office in London, the growing maturity of crypto in general, as well as the resignation of Anne Boden as CEO of Starling Bank. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special episode recorded at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) meeting in Incheon, South Korea, the women working at promoting financial inclusion across Asia, providing support to women-led SMEs, and those working at groundbreaking fintechs give their insights. Chapter 1 Lisette Cipriano, senior technology specialist, finance sector group, sustainable development and climate change department, ADB Chapter 2 Wendy Teleki, head of Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (WE-FI) Secretariat, World Bank Chapter 3 Rowie Zamora, chief strategy officer, GCash  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re more than a year into the war in Ukraine, the EU is on its 10th sanctions package, and the US Treasury Department has imposed more than 2700 sanctions against Russia, more than any country. But are the sanctions working, and what headaches are they causing for banks’ financial crime compliance teams?Guest: Vincent Heintz, regional head of financial crime compliance for Europe and the Americas, Standard Chartered Bank. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the road at Money20/20 in Amsterdam, Liz Lumley talks to The Banker contributor Sarah Kocianski about the loss of last year’s darling – BNPL – global fintech funding, regulations and what they wish they could see on stage at this year’s show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.