Future of Finance

In this episode we consider what is in store for the payments landscape in the UK. How are the major payment rails evolving or being overhauled? Who is responsible for these changes and for enabling innovation to flourish? And is the financial services industry ensuring future consumer and business needs will be met?

Join us as we explore UK Finance’s response to the Future Payments Review, the emerging challenges and opportunities on the horizon, and much more.

UK Finance's Digital Innovation Summitis taking place onTuesday 31 October at155 Bishopsgate, London. Our 2023 flagship event will focus on‘Driving forward the future of finance’. Register today:⁠⁠⁠bitly.com/wt7rvtrh⁠⁠⁠

Podcast speakers:

Briony Krikorian Slade, Principal, Payments, UK Finance Paul Horlock, Chief Payments Officer, Santander Hamish Thomas, Partner, Deloitte

In this episode, we explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services. Discover how AI is revolutionising areas such as statistical predictions, risk management, marketing and predictive AI, and gain insights into the future of financial services powered by cutting-edge technology.

UK Finance's Digital Innovation Summitis taking place onTuesday 31 October at155 Bishopsgate, London. Our 2023 flagship event will focus on‘Driving forward the future of finance’. Register today:⁠⁠bitly.com/wt7rvtrh⁠⁠

Podcast speakers:

Walter McCahon, Principal of Data Policy, UK Finance

Adrian Oest, Partner, Oliver Wyman

Large technology firms such as IBM, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are all in the process of developing quantum hardware, which has the potential to contribute greatly to the fields of security, finance, AI, Big Data, and much more.

What impacts will the development of this technology have on industries like the financial sector where the protection of data is an imperative? What existing problems can be solved by quantum computing? And what opportunities are there for security, data, and cryptography? Tune in as we discuss this rapidly-emerging technology and the fascinating opportunities on the horizon.

UK Finance's Digital Innovation Summitis taking place onTuesday 31 October at155 Bishopsgate, London. Our 2023 flagship event will focus on‘Driving forward the future of finance’. Register today:⁠bitly.com/wt7rvtrh⁠

Podcast speakers:

Adam Avards, Principal, Cyber and Third Party Risk, UK Finance

Xavier Carpent, Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham

Nick Levy, Senior Technology Business Leader, IBM Consulting

Wenmiao Yu, Co-Founder and Director of Business Development, Quantum Dice

In this episode, our Director of Digital Technology and Innovation, Phillip Mind, is joined by Jack Wilson, Head of Public Policy, TrueLayerand Hetal Popat, Head of Open Banking, HSBC. Our speakers discuss the future of open banking, the challenges and opportunities for consumers, businesses and merchants, and the regulators' vision for the future of open banking.

UK Finance's Digital Innovation Summitis taking place onTuesday 31 October at155 Bishopsgate, London. Our 2023 flagship event will focus on‘Driving forward the future of finance’. Register today:bitly.com/wt7rvtrh

Podcast speakers:

Phillip Mind, Director of Digital Technology and Innovation, UK Finance

Jack Wilson, Head of Public Policy, TrueLayer

Hetal Popat, Head of Open Banking, HSBC

In the first episode of season 2, we discuss the future of money and how this is likely to impact on the wider future of payments. We explore whether the UK is falling behind, as hinted at in the recently announced Future of Payments Review, chaired by Joe Garner. And finally, what kind of infrastructure we need to deliver this future vision for money and payments.

UK Finance is excited to announce that our Digital Innovation Summitis taking place onTuesday 31 October atETC, 155 Bishopsgate, London. Our 2023 flagship event will focus on‘Driving forward the future of finance’. Register today: bitly.com/wt7rvtrh

Podcast speakers:

• Rhiannon Butterfield – Principal, Payments, Innovation and Resilience, UK Finance
• Tony McLaughlin – Emerging Payments & Business Development, Citibank
• Alla Gancz – Partner, FS Technology Consulting, Payments, EY

This podcast looks at how cloud adoption can bring benefits beyond technological requirements by optimising existing services and potentially delivering return on investment which if done correctly can drive business change and innovation.

Speakers:

• Ian Burgess – Director, Cyber and Third Party Risk, UK Finance
• Marcus Martinez – Financial Services Industry Manager for EMEA, Microsoft
• Nick Merriman – Financial Services Advisory Lead Europe, Avanade

The adoption of cloud computing services has continued to play a significant role in how the financial sector innovates and invents across its technological environment and now more than ever, the importance of security has taken centre stage.

In this episode, Oge Udensi, UK Finance’s Principal, Cyber Security sits down with Sarah Armstrong Smith, Chief Security Advisor in Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Solutions Area and Ian Benson, Partner within PwC's Cyber Security Practice where he leads the UK financial services cyber team. 

The panel of experts discuss the state of cyber security and explore the ways in which the financial sector continues to react and respond to the impact of cyber threats and attacks both within individual organisations and the sector.

The panel also delves into the cloud adoption and cyber/operational resilience intersection, discussing the many ways the sector can embed cyber resilience as it progresses in its cloud adoption journey.

Driven by technology strategy, consumer demand, changing work patterns and the response to Covid-19, the economy has become increasingly digital. In this podcast, we dive into what the emerging digital economy is, what firms are doing to respond both here in the UK and Europe and how firms can equip themselves to support their customers’ future needs and be at the heart of the recovery.

The term Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) has become synonymous with a global movement towards a better world, a world of greater diversity and inclusion where there is wealth and opportunity for all. In the last year alone, huge progress has been made across the UK and we have come to the ever-present realisation that the financial sector and markets have a significant role to play in ESG. We do a great job today delivering financial outcomes, but we are not yet optimised to deliver sustainable ones nor are we fully ready to do so.

In this episode, Oge Udensi, our Principal, Cyber and Third Party Risk sits with David Cox, Digital Strategist in the worldwide Microsoft Financial Sector group with a focus on sustainability, to explore the growing need for ESG across the financial sector. They will also discuss its impact on technology adoption and what organisations must do to stay on top of their ESG agenda.

The cyber landscape has in recent times experienced a rise in supply chain cyber-attacks such as the Solar Winds Orion cyber breach, the Microsoft Exchange Server breach, Print Nightmare Vulnerability, and the Colonial Pipeline cyber breach. The financial sector has seen its fair share of threats, incidents and attacks as a result of vulnerabilities identified from supply chain providers and recognises the need for better third party cyber capabilities. While we acknowledge efforts from the regulators and the government in providing guidelines and policies that help mitigate risk, on the podcast today we will explore the role technology and cyber security organisations play in third-party cyber resilience and the need for sustained impact. Oge Udensi, Principal, Cyber and Third Party Risk is joined by Scott Register, Vice President, Security Solutions from Keysight and Vincent Payne, Director of Technology and Services from Arrow ECS to delve into this important topic.