HSBC's Nolan Adarve, senior regional product manager, Payments & Cash Management, Asia Pacific, talks with Finextra about the bank's payments business in that region. Adarve says that regional clients are demanding bank-agnostic connectivity for payments processing, while Asia monitors the progress of Sepa in Europe.

Amanda Westwood spoke to Finextra about the ongoing Swift2015 programme that is looking to formulate new strategies for Swift to ensure the co-operative stays relevant as markets change and messaging becomes commoditised.

Herbert-David Bordier, head of Swift Transversal Project at BNP Paribas, talks with Finextra about implementing an end-to-end message monitoring system from Systar to support its Swift platform.

Christian Westerhaus, MD at Deutsche Bank tallks with Finextra about the Sepa Direct Debits (SDD) implementation forum as well as what EBA Clearing member banks are doing to prepare for SDD.

John Mason, CEO of SmartStream's new DClear Utility talks with Finextra about why the time is right for a shared services utility to suppport reference data and back office processing.

Finextra spoke to Alphonse J. Briand, Jr, managing director of treasury services at BNY Mellon; Richard Delvaux, senior corporate market manager at SWIFT; and Pegasystems about the recent survey of corporates and banks on electronic bank account management for corporate treasuries; what BNY Mellon has been doing with its pilot project, and the role of technology.

Masayuki Tagai, chief manager, Global Network Management Department, Transaction Services Division at The Bank of Toykyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, speaks with Finextra about co-existance in the standards world, a possible sunset date for ISO 15022 and why the credit crisis is driving standards adoption.

Lee Fulmer FSS sector head at IBM Global Business Services talks with Finextra about risk management, the current economy and, one year on from Sibos 08, whether the industry is out of the woods yet.

Mark Hale, a director at PwC's Financial Services Transaction Banking Practice, discusses with Finextra why the UK has been slow to adopt Faster Payments. He also highlights recently released research on the subject conducted with Vocalink as well the risk issues associated with real-time funds trransfers.

Christopher Fischer, assistant general counsel at Western Union, spoke with Finextra at EBADay 2009 in Vienna about the challenges in preparing for the upcoming Payments Services Directive (PSD) in Europe.

Finextra spoke to Janina Grönholm, director financial institutions and Sepa development at Aktia Bank; Gerald Hechl, head of RZB's product management and infrastructure team; and Hartmut Bremer, director and Sepa manager at Deutsche Bank, about how they are taking advantage of new services being delivered by EBA Clearing.