Finextra and BankiFi set webinar on mid-corporate banking gaps

Finextra Research, in association with BankiFi, will host an online webinar on 16 September 2026 to examine how banks can respond to unmet needs among mid-sized corporate clients. The session will focus on companies with annual revenues between £20 million and £500 million, a segment Finextra describes as caught between basic business banking and treasury systems built for large multinationals.

The webinar is scheduled for 15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST and 10:00 EDT. Finextra said the discussion will cover payment orchestration, e-invoicing, cash management, regulatory change, APIs, open banking and multi-bank treasury management.

According to Finextra, mid-corporate businesses often operate across several legal entities, banking relationships, payment rails and geographies. That operating model can create demands that standard business banking portals do not meet, while full treasury management systems may be too complex or costly for organisations below multinational scale.

Finextra said many such businesses now depend on a mix of enterprise resource planning systems, third-party payment providers, accounts payable and receivable tools, and banking portals to run daily finance operations. Those systems have helped digitise finance functions, but Finextra said they have also moved banks further away from the workflows in which clients initiate payments, manage invoices and monitor liquidity.

Banks seek to remain the financial interface

The central commercial issue for banks is whether they can remain the primary financial interface for corporate clients as software providers, aggregators and fintech platforms occupy more of the client relationship. Finextra said the webinar will ask whether those non-bank providers have become the main point of contact for finance teams, and what relationship primacy means when corporate treasuries use APIs, open banking and multi-bank tools.

The discussion will also address whether companies would share more operational and financial data with banks if doing so reduced complexity, lowered costs or improved service. Finextra said banks could use richer data to offer more relevant insights and services, while also meeting expectations around transparency, privacy and control.

Embedded accounting, as framed by the webinar, involves bringing finance workflows such as payments, invoicing, cash management and treasury tasks into a more integrated banking environment. In that model, banks use connectivity and software partnerships to make financial services available inside the systems businesses already use, rather than limiting interaction to separate bank portals.

Finextra said the panel will consider how banks can turn newer tools and policy shifts into competitive advantage. Payment orchestration can route and manage transactions across different payment methods and providers, while e-invoicing requirements and the EU’s VAT in the Digital Age initiative are expected to affect how businesses create, transmit and report invoice data.

The webinar registration page asks attendees to provide a business email address, name, job title, organisation, country and institution type. Finextra said the event is intended to bring together industry experts to discuss needs not being met by current transaction banking and treasury offerings.

This story draws on original reporting from Finextra Research.