The Banking Scene Director's Cut
We go behind the scenes with industry experts, sharing unfiltered conversations and exclusive insights from the frontlines of the banking industry to help YOU build the bank of tomorrow
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FiDA – the proposed Financial Data Access Regulation, has been a bit of a contentious topic over this year. During Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Rik and I were invited by Joris Hensen, the Founder and Co-Lead of the Deutsche Bank API program, to join an evening session following a full day FiDA Data Studio workshop held in collaboration with TechQuartier at their Eintracht Lab, to see and hear the output from the day.
We recently held a round table Think Tank session with senior leaders from fraud, payments, and cybersecurity, in collaboration with our partner XTN Cognitive Security. The session focused on scams and how the Belgian banking sector is evolving to the age of instant payments and more advanced fraud tactics.
After attending Sibos this week, we reflected back on the dinner with a few added insights from conversations and sessions we m...
We've had numerous conversations about the future of payments over the last week, from The Banking Scene BBQ Night to a roundtable Think Tank dinner on scams and fraud, and a few more in between.We share our key takeaways (and Andrew has a bit of a rant about why banks have taken so long to address cross-border payments speed and cost problems) in this episode.You can find far more structured thoughts in our blog summary of BBQ...
A short intro that Rik and Andrew recorded off-the-cuff to explain what The Banking Scene Director's Cut is all about and why they like doing it ..... and why we hope you enjoy listening to it too!
Feel free to get in touch directly with one of them if you'd like to join us in the studio to share your views.
Hot on the heels of the 2025 collaborative study by Argenta, Deloitte and Ghent University on the state of Financial Health in Belgium, we look at what BBVA and ABN AMRO (via BUUT) are doing to improve their customers' financial health.
Rik and Andrew called on industry experts Anette Broløs, Director and Co-Founder, Finthropology and Els Lagrou, Co-Founder, Dagelijks Geld, to share their insights on the topics of Financial Educ...
Monzo recently announced that they are considering offering eSIMs to their customers - what has that got to do with banking?
Quite a lot it turns out!
Andrew invited Chris Skinner, CEO of The Finanser (and well known Chief Trouble Maker) for a Director's Cut Debrief Session to dig into the story behind the story.
As can be expected by those of you who know Chris, he got the session off to a fiery (off-topic) start, before sharin...
Revolut made an announcement on August 22 that could have wider implications than is evident at first glance. What does Revolut's announcement mean for Belgian Banks?
After running a poll on LinkedIn, we included views from a few members of our community in this Director's Cut Debrief Session, where we explored what this means for the incumbent banks and speculated as to what might happen next.
This time, we're "In Conversation With" Adam Preis, Director Product Solution Marketing at Ping Identity, to explore the critical aspect of third-party access in today's world. The rapid growth of embedded finance, open banking and interconnected ecosystems has dramatically reshaped the traditional perimeter of trust in financial services. As third-party providers become indispensable to delivering modern banking ...
In the "story behind the story", Rik explains why he (briefly) blamed his bank for missing the kickoff of the Belgian Jupiler Pro football competition and what lessons bankers can take away from this.
Find out why "digital is a dissatisfier" for some customers and how providing services beyond banking could influence customers in the future.
The original article discussed can be found here https://thebankingscene....
A Director's Cut Debrief session where Rik and Andrew debate the impact of #agenticai on #banking in the #future.
Most banks have been quick to adopt #ai for their own internal purposes - but are they considering the (near?) future possibility of their customers making use of agentic ai to fulfil their financial needs?
The article published here was inspired by a white paper written by Dave Birch (Principal, 15Mb Ltd) and Kirsty...
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