IBSi podcasts for insights and discussions from the world of FinTech and Banking. Listen in to what’s trending in the ever-evolving financial industry.
James Booth, VP Head of Partnerships for EMEA, at PPRO Consumer purchasing habits have certainly been altered by the coronavirus. James Booth, VP Head of Partnerships for EMEA, at cross-border payments specialist PPRO discusses these changes, alongside their effect on merchants, cross-border trading and the adoption of local payment methods....
Adam Toms, CEO, OpenFin Europe OpenFin aims to provide a unifying foundation for next-gen financial industry applications. Since launch in 2010, the OpenFin OS has deployed more than 1,200 desktop applications across 225,000 desktops in more than 1,500 buy-side and sell-side firms in 60+ countries. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence spoke with Adam Toms, CEO of OpenFin Europe.
Simon Bateman, CIO, Allica Bank Specialising in supporting UK SMEs, it took Allica Bank just 12 months to build the institution from scratch. Six months later, the pandemic hit. But Allica was lucky to the extent that it does not have a legacy backbook of loans to service. It has also been built with an API-led approach that, as CIO Simon Bateman of Allica Bank told Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence, confers certain advantages.
Gary Bond, Chief Executive Officer, TURN TURN (TISA Universal Reporting Network) is an industry-backed blockchain solution for the collection and dissemination of fund related data. As Gary Bond of TURN explains to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence, the overall aim is to increase market compliance, reduce regulatory and operational costs, and provide a better service to investors. TURN claims it will enable asset managers to save up to 90% of their MiFID II reporting costs....
Gudmundur Kristjansson, Founder & CEO, Lucinity Lucinity is an AML software company, founded in 2018, with offices in New York and Reykjavik. CEO Gudmundur Kristjansson (GK) is a former Director of Compliance Surveillance Technology with Citigroup. Lucinity has developed a new human-AI platform that aims to improve the way the suspicious activity is tracked and, as GK told Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence, that can be used effectively and ethically to help stop money laundering....
Richard Byworth, Chief Executive Officer, Diginex Diginex listed on NASDAQ in October 2020, becoming the first cryptocurrency exchange to be listed in the US. The firm’s cryptocurrency exchange EQUOS currently provides for spot trading but there are plans to introduce digital futures and options. Richard Byworth of Diginex discussed the significance of its NASDAQ listing with Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence
Murray Gardiner, Managing Director, Bluecode Africa As the continent of Africa faces its first recession in 25 years, Murray Gardiner of Johannesburg-based FinTech Bluecode Africa tells Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence why digital payments are more than just keys to open the doorways of financial inclusion. He highlights the need for banks and FinTechs to engage with the informal business sector. Prior to launching Bluecode Africa with Bluecode International Murray was the business lead for inclu...
Nir Levy, VP Product & Omer Aljanati, Senior Product Manager, Credorax In 2019, the European Banking Authority announced a delay to the enforcement of Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). With the new deadline fast approaching, is the European payment ecosystem ready to fully support and comply to 3DS 2.0? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence spoke with Nir Levy and Omer Aljanati of smart payments provider Credorax.
Carey O’Connor Kolaja, Chief Executive Officer, AU10TIX AU10TIX specializes in automated identity intelligence and cyber fraud prevention. CEO Carey O’Connor Kolaja was previously Global Chief Product Officer with Citi FinTech and VP, Global Consumer Products at PayPal. She explained to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence how the digital identity landscape is changing and warns about the emerging vulnerabilities for both businesses and individuals....
Rich Cooper, Principal – Financial Services, Fusion Risk Management There has been a fundamental shift in how the modern bank is approaching operational resilience to ensure the continuity of key services driven in part by regulatory focus, customer centricity, the digitisation of financial services and the growth in reputational risk. Rich Cooper of Fusion Risk Management explains the challenges of operation resilience to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence....
John Garvey, Global Financial Services Leader, PwC US Five years of evolution in financial services have been compressed into a matter of months and it is not over yet! More digitisation is one the way, zero interest rates will redefine financial products, capital constraints on regulated banks will see a rise in non-bank lenders and ESG will become mainstream. John Garvey of PwC takes Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence through the report ‘Securing your tomorrow, today – The future of financial ser...
Alastair McGill, GM Data Control, Broadridge Financial Solutions ; Thorsten Voelkel, CEO, PPI AG Europe’s banks are facing challenges in payments, driven by changes such as the implementation of PSD2, SEPA ISO migration, TARGET2 and SWIFT ISO20022 migration, while also responding to national payments infrastructure changes and the emergence of new protocols, such as EBICS. There is also increasing market demand for Request to Pay and SEPA IP via TIPS. Broadridge and Germany’s PPI AG unveiled the...
Barbara Maheshwari, Chief Executive Officer, Remote Bob Barbara Maheshwari has the ambition to become the leading platform in Europe for managing remote staff, aiming to enable companies to find and hire the right talents while securing fulfilling career opportunities for candidates. Early stage FinTech startup need to focus on their ideas and their solutions – as Remote Bob’s Barbara Maheshwari explained to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence, a ‘virtual assistant’ allows that focus to be maintaine...
Jill Homan, President DeepTarget Social media is the golden standard of engagement and has been since the launch of the first social networking website more than a decade ago. Social media exists to grow connections and relationships. Learn how banks can use social principles to exceed customer expectations, identify engagement challenges and retool communication strategies to meet customer engagement expectations for the next decade. Jill Homan of DeepTarget explains how to Robin Amlot of IBS I...
V. Ramkumar, Senior Partner, Cedar Management Consulting International discusses three or four focus areas that banks need to focus on for their transformation during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Michel Golffed is the VP of Growth at dLocal . dLocal is Uruguay’s first Unicorn and a specialist in cross-border payments. Michel Golffed of dLocal talks to Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence about the growth opportunities in emerging markets, even where the majority of the population may be unbanked or, at the least, does not have access to credit cards. He began by discussing how Covid-19 is affecting demand in these markets.
Michael Carter, Executive Vice President, Strategic Resource Management Vendor invoice auditing is often put on the backburner by financial institutions. However, as Michael Carter of Memphis, Tennessee-based SRM explains to Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence, automating the invoice audit process enables banks to improve efficiencies, increase productivity and protect the bottom line from erosion.
Matthew Williamson, Global VP of Financial Services, Mobiquity Covid-19 has accelerated the creation of a cashless society. Matthew Williamson, now with digital consultancy Mobiquity, was previously Global Head of Payments and Cash at Finastra and EMEA Head of Commercial Prepaid Card Technology at Citibank. Here he discusses the need to retain the ‘human factor’ in digital banking with Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence.
Luke Wilson, VP Intelligence, 4iQ Cyberattacks and data breaches cost consumers, companies, and countries billions of dollars annually. October marks National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the US. Luke Wilson, formerly with the FBI, is VP of Intelligence with cybersecurity firm 4iQ. He explains to Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence how financial institutions can stop cyber-enabled crime by incorporating identity intelligence into their digital security...
Financial inclusion and wellbeing becomes even more important in a crisis, and the global pandemic is no different. Sunniva Kolostyak speaks to Kam Chana, Product Innovation Director at Temenos , in connection to the SIBOS 2020 conference about humanising banking and the clear impact financial wellbeing and inclusion has on health, as well as the role technology has in creating a more ethical and sustainable banking industry.
Yasin Qureshi, Founder & Head of Strategy, Aqua Rising Aqua Digital Rising has begun its pre-funding round ahead of its official launch in January 2021. The firm is a new alternative-asset and analytics investment platform which links big data analytics with AI to construct indices based on humans – using mathematics, AI, machine learning and big data analytics to create alt-assets allowing investors to identify and put a value on success. Yasin Qureshi of Aqua Rising spoke to Robin Amlot of...
Tony Pepper, Chief Executive Officer, Egress Results of the latest Egress Outbound Data Breach Survey 2020 suggest that 93% of organisations surveyed had suffered email data breaches with an average frequency of 180 incidents per year – in other words someone in your company could be putting sensitive data at risk every other day! What can be done to address this? Tony Pepper of Egress spoke with Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence....
Ben Agnew, Chief Executive Officer, Emerging Payments Association Ben Agnew was appointed CEO for the Emerging Payments Association with effect from 1 September 2020. He has more than 15 years of experience in the events, digital and marketing services space. Credited for his work in restructuring commercial operations at Informa, his most recent role was Managing Director at the independent media business, Datacenter Dynamics. Here he talks about plans for the Emerging Payments Association’s bu...
Robert Hannigan, Chairman, BlueVoyant International BlueVoyant has published Global Insights: Supply Chain Cyber Risk, a study of more than 1500 CIOs, CISOs and Chief Procurement Officers. The results are not entirely comfortable, a combination of large vendor ecosystems and low visibility are increasing third-party cyber risk exponentially. Robert Hannigan, Chairman of BlueVoyant International and former director of GCHQ, talks to Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence about the evolution of cyberthre...
Now that the markets have settled into some semblance of ‘normal’, Joshua Walsky, the CTO of Broadway Technology – which powers FICC trading at a number of banks – argues that the events of March-June will provide valuable clues into what could be an unpredictable period for bank trading desks. Speaking to Sunniva Kolostyak, Walsky explores issues around outsourcing, remote trading and connectivity.
Yaron Hazan, VP, Regulatory Affairs, ThetaRay The media reaction to the recent leak of the so-called FinCen Files predictably painted banks in a negative light. However, the bottom line is that almost no bank in the world has the visibility needed to monitor cross-border correspondent banking transactions through the entire transaction chain. Yaron Hazan of ThetaRay in conversation with Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence explains that the current AML system is set up for failure with banks pushed t...
Arun K Arunachalam, Vice President, TCS Financial Solutions, and Head of Product Management, TCS BaNCS & Anand Athani, Head, Technology Strategy and Consulting, TCS Financial Solutions. Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence talks to Arun K Arunachalam, Vice President, TCS Financial Solutions, and Head of Product Management, TCS BaNCS & Anand Athani, Head, Technology Strategy and Consulting, TCS Financial Solutions. Arun, talks about his focus area including adapting the emerging technologies o...
Robin Amlot, Managing Editor at IBS Intelligence talks to Jim Heinzman, EVP Financial Services Solutions, ThetaRay about the growing banking fraud in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The discussion revolves around how banks can protect themselves against the fraudulent transactions and money laundering in the era of COVID-19. Listen to the complete episode to find out more.
Remote working has put increased pressure on financial traders’ desktops. How can chatbots effectively integrate client data? How can IT services ensure all the various applications on traders’ desktops communicate with each other seamlessly… and how does the implementation of the ‘composable enterprise’ help? James Wooster of Glue42 explains. James Wooster, COO, Glue42
Singapore-based CredoLab secured $7m in a Series A funding round in August 2020. Now the company is expanding into the US and other global markets. Michele Tucci of CredoLab discusses how the company evaluates smartphone and web metadata to create bank-grade digital scorecards. The use of such ‘alternative data’ addresses the problems faced by ‘thin file’ and underbanked customers in access to credit – not a small issue when, for example, 27% of the US population has so little credit history, th...
