Weekender Digest
WEEKLY EDITION BY MARINA MOUKA
Welcome to your latest CFO's Weekend Digest, your go-to source for the week’s top insights and updates tailored for finance leaders.
◼ LexisNexis’ Rocio Suarez on why traditional controls can’t keep pace with instant finance.
◼ IBM’s Kamini Belday: Don’t build innovation on crumbling infrastructure.
◼ Just 2.8% of top firms meet digital accessibility standards - what about you?
TOP LONG WEEKEND READS
EXCLUSIVE Q&A
Legacy systems are struggling to keep pace with the rise of real-time payments, says Rocio Suarez, Director of Financial Crime Compliance at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. In a Q&A from Money20/20 Europe, Suarez explains why traditional compliance checks aren’t built for sub-10-second transactions—and what must change. From perpetual KYC to smarter data-sharing and joined-up internal teams, financial institutions need more dynamic, agile systems to tackle modern financial crime risks. Compliance, she warns, is no longer a static function—it’s an evolving business-critical discipline.
EXCLUSIVE Q&A
IBM’s Kamini Belday made a clear call to CFOs: stop chasing AI hype until your payment infrastructure is solid. In a wide-ranging Q&A, she outlines why outdated banking systems, fragmented regulatory environments, and unrealistic expectations are slowing real innovation. Her advice? Prioritise trust, resilience, and cloud-readiness before layering on embedded finance and generative AI. For CFOs, this isn’t just an IT issue—it’s about long-term strategic advantage and building financial systems that actually scale.
NEWS ANALYSIS
A new benchmark reveals that only 2.8% of top global companies meet leading accessibility standards ahead of the European Accessibility Act deadline. Despite years of digital transformation efforts, most firms remain exposed to risk and inefficiency. AAAnow’s research urges CFOs and executives to adopt a risk-based, AI-supported compliance model—cutting time and cost while improving board-level visibility. Digital compliance is no longer a back-office issue; it’s a leadership imperative that affects brand, operations, and bottom-line risk.
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