While securities services have traditionally been viewed as unexciting, back-office, post-trade administrative activities, emerging technologies are giving providers an opportunity to move up the value chain. Joy Macknight reports.

Swift's chief executive, Gottfried Leibbrandt, talks to Brian Caplen about the success of its global payments initiative and how application programming interfaces are a crucial part of web 3.0.

This year’s submissions for The Banker’s Transaction Banking Awards 2018 demonstrate how technology is being adopted on an international scale. 

Bipin Sahni, Wells Fargo’s head of innovation research and development for its innovation group, talks to Joy Macknight about laying the foundation for innovation through an R&D mindset.  

Ant Financial's chief data scientist says the business is essentially an artificial intelligence company trying to bring more equality to the world

India's banks have embraced the use of chatbots – some of them bilingual – to handle thousands of customer interactions concurrently.

Ecobank's CEO tells The Banker how an appetite for digital and fintech-related solutions is bringing widespread benefits to Africa.

The Banker’s Tech Projects Awards 2018 recognise the most innovative, imaginative and successful projects in financial technology from around the world. This year’s submissions were impressive examples of how the industry is responding to changing customer needs, as well as empowering staff to better serve customers.

Mounir Mahjoubi, the French secretary of state for digital affairs, spoke to Joy Macknight at the Money 20/20 Europe conference about the value created through bank-fintech partnerships and how France is fostering an attractive environment for fintechs, which is of growing importance due to Brexit.