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Discover Sibos 2025
Discover Sibos 2025 is live! In this edition, we dive into the forces reshaping the global financial system—from instant payments and ‘pragmatic AI’ to utilities, engagement banking, and bold rebrands.
Two massively anticipated events frame this moment. The go-live of SEPA Instant under the Instant Payment Regulation brings Europe one step closer to the holy grail of truly global, real-time payments.
Instant transactions are no longer optional must now be offered at the same cost as traditional SEPA Credit Transfers and the implications are profound: providers will need to balance speed with security, and users will ultimately determine how quickly adoption scales. At the same time, the industry gathers at Sibos, where leaders and innovators explore the next frontiers in finance.
From Brazil’s Pix to India’s UPI, and the UK’s still-modest Faster Payments uptake, the central question remains: how do we build systems that are both fast and fraud-proof?
Inside this edition, we go deeper:
- Smartstream embarks on a bold rebrand under CEO Akber Jaffer, leveraging AI to broaden its customer base and transform relationships with existing clients.
- CBI (Italy) tackles SEPA-wide pain points created by the Instant Payment Regulation with a purpose-built utility—addressing fraud, liquidity, reachability, and 24/7 resilience.
- BankiFi’s Mark Hartley on how fintech can help mainstream banks win back Britain’s small businesses with data, ‘pragmatic AI’, and engagement banking that lives where SMEs work.
- Commerzbank’s Simone Loefgen addresses three big questions on every bank’s mind at Sibos 2025: scaling AI responsibly, monetising real-time rails, and hardening cross-border resilience.
- Icon Solutions’ Toine van Beusekom argues for a future-facing approach to payments—where banks shape their own destiny and A2A (account-to-account) becomes a strategic lever. This edition captures an industry at an inflection point: instant, intelligent, interoperable—and increasingly customer-first. The future of finance is being built in real time.
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- Redefining Risk for the Era of Real-Time Payments Read more
- Embat Becomes the First Treasury Management System Available to Sage Intacct’s Customers Read more
- The Citation Group Acquires PayCaptain to Add Advanced Payroll Software and Services to Their Market-leading Compliance Platform Read more
- Connect Powers StepChange’s Expansion of Financial Support Services Read more
- MPE 2026: Innovation, AI, and the Future of Payments with payabl. Read more
Embat Becomes the First Treasury Management System Available to Sage Intacct’s Customers
Embat, the AI-powered fintech specialising in treasury management, has partnered with Sage to enable its UK customers to seamlessly integrate Embat’s innovative treasury technology. The partnership allows businesses using Sage Intacct to connect banking and ERP data in real-time, automate manual treasury workflows and bank reconciliation, and improve cash visibility and forecasting across multiple entities and accounts using AI.
The Citation Group Acquires PayCaptain to Add Advanced Payroll Software and Services to Their Market-leading Compliance Platform
The Citation Group, a leading international provider of compliance software and services for SMEs, has announced the acquisition of PayCaptain, the award-winning payroll software and managed services provider trusted by hundreds of UK employers.
Connect Powers StepChange’s Expansion of Financial Support Services
Over the past three years, Connect, a global business communications expert with over 35 years’ experience, has supported StepChange, one of the UK’s largest debt advice charities, in completely modernising its contact centre operation, improving access to support for people facing financial difficulty.
CloudMargin Appoints Nico Busch as Chief Product Officer, Announces Senior Organisational Changes to Position for Future
CloudMargin, the only collateral and margin management solution purpose-built for the cloud, announced today the appointment of Nico Busch, a veteran capital markets, fintech and data product executive, as Chief Product Officer, effective today. The hire coincides with a series of senior management organisational changes and promotions designed to help the firm capture new opportunities in the marketplace, including AI-native products and services.
Andrew Nelson Appointed CEO of GFT UK
Global digital transformation consultancy, GFT, has appointed Andrew Nelson as Chief Executive Officer for the UK. This addition to its leadership team comes at a time of huge potential for the business to support the financial services market, as it navigates tightening regulations, increasing competition, and technological innovation.
TS Imagine Expands EMS Product Coverage to Loans
TS Imagine, a leading platform for integrated electronic front-office multi-asset trading, portfolio management, prime brokerage and financial risk management, today announced the expansion of product coverage within its TradeSmart Fixed Income EMS to include comprehensive support for loans trading.
Integral and StoneX Expand Partnership in SG1 to Capture Asia’s Surging Trading Demand
Integral, a leading currency technology provider, has expanded its longstanding partnership with StoneX Group Inc, (“StoneX”), a global financial services firm, to establish connectivity at the Equinix SG1 data facility in Singapore, strengthening StoneX’s ability to serve clients in APAC.
Redefining Risk for the Era of Real-Time Payments
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Embat Becomes the First Treasury Management System Available to Sage Intacct’s Customers
Embat, the AI-powered fintech specialising in treasury management, has partnered with Sage to enable its UK customers to seamlessly integrate Embat’s innovative treasury technology. The partnership allows businesses using Sage Intacct to connect banking and ERP data in real-time, automate manual treasury workflows and bank reconciliation, and improve cash visibility and forecasting across multiple entities and accounts using AI.
The Citation Group Acquires PayCaptain to Add Advanced Payroll Software and Services to Their Market-leading Compliance Platform
The Citation Group, a leading international provider of compliance software and services for SMEs, has announced the acquisition of PayCaptain, the award-winning payroll software and managed services provider trusted by hundreds of UK employers.
Connect Powers StepChange’s Expansion of Financial Support Services
Over the past three years, Connect, a global business communications expert with over 35 years’ experience, has supported StepChange, one of the UK’s largest debt advice charities, in completely modernising its contact centre operation, improving access to support for people facing financial difficulty.
MPE 2026: Innovation, AI, and the Future of Payments with payabl.
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CloudMargin Appoints Nico Busch as Chief Product Officer, Announces Senior Organisational Changes to Position for Future
CloudMargin, the only collateral and margin management solution purpose-built for the cloud, announced today the appointment of Nico Busch, a veteran capital markets, fintech and data product executive, as Chief Product Officer, effective today. The hire coincides with a series of senior management organisational changes and promotions designed to help the firm capture new opportunities in the marketplace, including AI-native products and services.
Andrew Nelson Appointed CEO of GFT UK
Global digital transformation consultancy, GFT, has appointed Andrew Nelson as Chief Executive Officer for the UK. This addition to its leadership team comes at a time of huge potential for the business to support the financial services market, as it navigates tightening regulations, increasing competition, and technological innovation.