The ongoing war in Ukraine and resulting sanctions on Russia, and the continuing geopolitical tensions have resulted in an unprecedented increase in parties added to sanctions lists.

Operational resilience has become crucial for financial institutions navigating today's digital landscape riddled with cyber risks and challenges. The EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) provides a harmonised framework to address these complexities, but there are key factors that financial institutions must ensure they consider.

In this webinar we will examine some of the steps FSIs have already taken to rigorously monitor and test systems – both manually and with AI-powered automation – while satisfying the concerns of regulators and customers.

In the digital age, financial institutions risk falling behind their rivals if they fail to unite fragmented communications ecosystems to deliver seamless, personalised customer experiences.

This FStech webinar sponsored by Precisely explores vital strategies to optimise cross-channel messaging through omnichannel orchestration and real-time customer data access.

As financial services increasingly embrace SaaS and cloud-based technologies, they face emerging threats to safeguard sensitive customer data. While comprehensive IT security measures are essential, the active involvement of employees across organisations is pivotal in ensuring the protection of sensitive data.

The financial landscape is rapidly evolving its approach to real-time transactions under the ISO 20022 standard, and financial institutions must take note. With examples such as the accelerated adoption of SEPA Instant Credit Transfers in Europe and proposed New Payment Architecture (NPA) programme in the UK, the need for swift and effective fraud detection is more crucial than ever.

Introduced at the end of July, the Consumer Duty is a game-changing new set of rules and guidance for financial services institutions in the UK, and companies must look to modernise their systems in adherence with it in mind to create the best customer experience possible.

The use of Information sharing in enhancing financial crime prevention has been universally agreed as being beneficial. However no-one has been able to agree on how information can be shared safely without breaching data protection laws or having the right systems to facilitate this, Information sharing has re-emerged as a major consideration for financial institutions (FIs) ahead of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill being made into law in the UK.

Join FStech editor Jonathan Easton, NICE Actimize's Adam McLaughlin and Graham Mackenzie of the Law Society of Scotland as they look at the role Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs) play in the financial sector, and the challenges they face in complying with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regulations.

Join FStech editor Jonathan Easton and Proofpoint cybersecurity strategist Matt Cooke as they discuss the findings of the State of the Phish 2023 report, diving into key topics such as awareness of cyber threats, the sophisticated techniques being used by criminals to target the financial sector, and how financial institutions can take a proactive approach to educating both their employees and their customers.

Click here to read the 2023 State of the Phish report from Proofpoint.

In this webinar a panel of expert speakers explored the ways in which high-volume PSPs and FinTechs are preventing fraud while providing a seamless customer experience.

Sage Intacct is excited to present FSN The Modern Finance Forum’s “Future of Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting Global Survey 2022” results. With participation from 450 companies around the globe, the survey results highlight how organisations are developing their core financial processes by 2030.

In the wake of swathes of new sanctions launched against thousands of individuals and entities in recent months, compliance teams in financial institutions have been struggling to keep up, with employees left sifting through rising numbers of false positives and a dangerous amount of false negatives.

The fraud risk challenge: How are FSIs using AI and biometric authentication to crack down on fraud and provide a seamless customer experience?

The shift to digital has transformed the fraud risk landscape in the last two years, generating a variety of new threats and challenges for financial services institutions (FSIs), which were already a top target for pre-pandemic fraudsters.

As ESG compliance rises to the top of the corporate agenda, businesses around the world are waking up to the need to ensure they can provide fully transparent data and reporting or risk losing the trust of consumers, regulators, and key stakeholders in the race to build sustainable business models.

Once upon a time, integrations were expensive, never worked, and required a third party to manage them. Fast forward to 2022, where tech stacks reign supreme and legacy/all-in-one solutions are becoming a thing of the past. What has changed and how do you build a tech stack for your financial services company? Watch this webinar to learn about the tell-tale signs your current system is “broken" and how to build a scalable tech stack that fuels your growth.

In a new era of hybrid working, it’s time to re-evaluate the potential threats within your organisation and how to protect against them.

Insider Employee Fraud is a global multibillion-dollar problem, causing losses of more than $3.6bn. And that’s just the cases known and reported - yet many organisations focus their efforts on protecting against external fraud.

Today, digital financial data drives global businesses and economies. With greater rewards, cyber-attackers continue to target finance industry institutions with full force - and increasingly advanced attack capabilities.

Meet Evelyn, an Economic Sanctions/PEP/Adverse Media Alert Adjudication Analyst, who uses native AI/ML capabilities to automate the Customer/PEP screening and Negative News screening alert adjudication processes for leading BFS organizations with greater speed, accuracy, and consistency than human analysts.

FStech’s Mark Evans discusses the future of financial services with Liu Jianning of Huawei, covering the limitations that current thinking can impose, how financial institutions can embrace technology to be both agile and resilient, and making space for the organisation to focus on the job of creating innovative business models and on delivering business value for their customers.

Competition between financial institutions (FIs) to develop and rollout new applications is at an all-time high. However, the chronic skills shortage in application development and security, along with IT transformation and siloed working, are combining to make cybersecurity an increasingly complex task.

In this webinar FStech was joined by an expert panel to explore the ways in which FSIs are using machine learning algorithms in conjunction with human-led teams to spot the signs of financial crime and manage risk before it's too late.

In an age of rapid digital transformation and changing customer expectations, wealth management and investment firms are working harder than ever to provide continuity for their clients.

This webinar featured an expert panel who explored the key challenges for financial services firms as they look to modernise their data strategies, rollout innovative products and services and keep up with the competition.

Instant payments are creating new business opportunities for banks by providing more touchpoints than ever. With these evolutions underway, Featurespace brought leading industry experts together to discuss how they are protecting customers from fraudsters in real time, utilizing innovative and disruptive solutions to reduce fraud. Click here to find out more.

As cyber attacks and data breaches are in the news on an increasingly regular basis - with regulatory penalties and customer trust on the line for financial services firms - it has never been more crucial to be compliant in the cloud.

This video, with Akamai’s EMEA director of security technology and strategy Richard Meeus, will help explain what your company can be doing to make sure it’s not embroiled in the next big fine or front-page scandal.

99% of experience driven FS Businesses consistently use analytics for testing and optimisation, improving customer satisfaction metrics by 1.8 times.

To learn more – please read the 2019 Digital Trends: Financial Services in Focus report. Download here

FStech editor Peter Walker sits down with Rackspace solutions director Rhys Sharp to discuss cloud adoption challenges - skills shortages, cultural barriers, legacy systems - and the solutions that the company offers, as well as trends within cloud migration and regulatory attitudes towards the industry.

Mark Evans of FStech talks to Gerard Gibney of OpenText about the need for digital transformation in UK financial services

FStech talks to Tony Reid of Hitachi Vantara about the compliance issues facing financial institutions and FinTech firms