Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know. This week Liz Lumley, Joy Macknight and Sam Friend talk about ‘The Banking Saga’, the politicisation of decentralised finance, the need for the industry to unite around responsible AI, the ongoing digital journey for many global banks, the supposed death of Spacs and Liz’s love for the soon-to-be-developed Britcoin. The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1...
Apr 12, 2023•21 min
Recently, financial tech provider Broadridge released a study looking at just this the 2023 Digital Transformation and Next-Gen Tech study surveyed 500 C-suite executives and their direct reports across the buy side and sell side globally on their current plans and attitudes towards ongoing digital journeys and technological impacts. We’re sitting down today with Broadridge and SEB to discuss the findings of that study. Guests: Samir Pandiri, President of Broadridge International Kristian Garder...
Apr 06, 2023•35 min•Ep. 9
Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know. This week Liz Lumley and Barbara Pianese talk about the IDB 2023 in Panama, decentralised finance debates on the shores of Lake Como, fintech growth in Asia, and the ongoing saga of Silicon Valley Bank – all while managing to enjoy a bit of early spring sun in the process. The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1926, subscribe now to get expert news, opini...
Apr 04, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know. This week Liz Lumley and John Everington talk about ‘the ongoing banking saga’, the shock resignation of Saudi National Bank chairman, the evolution of crypto for payments in Africa and celebrate the era of coexistence for financial messaging of cross-border payments. The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1926, subscribe now to get expert news, opinion an...
Mar 28, 2023•23 min•Ep. 4
Financial exclusion is an issue that disproportionately affects women, and more so in the developing markets. However, for many, fintech is providing a solution, as it removes barriers to access. In this episode, women working across the field explain the issues they are tackling that fall outside of mainstream banking to help more people into banking networks. Chapter 1: Bonu Hafizova, Blockchain product manager, Alif Bank Chapter 2: Pia Roman Tayag, director of the Office at the United Nations...
Mar 26, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about offering information bankers like you need to know. This week Liz Lumley and Anita Hawser talk ‘all the bank failures’, a shotgun wedding in Switzerland, ‘Dear CEO’ letters to UK e-money providers, banks making promises to international customers and 50 years of women at the London Stock Exchange. The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1926, subscribe now to get expert news, opinion and insight into the bank...
Mar 22, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 3
One of our favourite topics here at Functional Banking Magic is to look at the partnerships and relationships that develop between a bank and a tech company. HSBC has partnered with fintech company Diginex to provide their commercial banking customers in various markets with a sustainability reporting tool, allowing businesses to plan and report their ESG performance online and manage their performance against ESG indicators and globally recognised frameworks. This episode we sit down with: Nata...
Mar 09, 2023•26 min•Ep. 8
Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering the information bankers like you need to know. This week Liz Lumley and Joy Macknight discuss innovation labs, net-zero transition plans, bank profits and the possibility of embedded finance on a bike. The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1926, subscribe now to get expert news, opinion and insight into the banking industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 08, 2023•21 min•Ep. 2
Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering the information that bankers like you need to know. The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1926, subscribe now to get expert news, opinion and insight into the banking industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 02, 2023•15 min•Ep. 1
Cryptocurrencies are the most exciting or the most divisive development in fintech in recent years, depending on your perspective. In this episode, women who have been at the forefront of crypto development explain how they ended up working in this nascent space, what the culture of working within crypto is like, and what their goals are for expanding the sector. Chapter 1 Nelly Chatue-Diop, founder and CEO, Ejara Chapter 2 Caitlin Long, founder and CEO, Custodia Bank Chapter 3 Tai Panich, CEO a...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 26 min
Barbara Pianese, The Banker's Latin America editor, chats with Herbert Hernández, Bantrab CEO, about the bank's mission and the Guatemalan economy The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1926, subscribe now to get expert news, opinion and insight into the banking industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 19, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this third episode, Barbara Pianese discusses digitalisation and banking in Latin America with fintech entrepreneur Brett King. The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1926, subscribe now to get expert news, opinion and insight into the banking industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 06, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 3
The second episode of this series focuses on the relationship between banks and fintechs, recent regulatory developments for the banking sector in the region, and sustainable finance. The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1926, subscribe now to get expert news, opinion and insight into the banking industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 20, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Our first episode focuses on how the current challenging macroeconomic and political context is affecting the Latin America region, and how banks are coping in the current high interest rate environment. We also discuss recent developments regarding financial inclusion in the region. Our guests are: Martin Spicer , regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, International Finance Corporation Germana Cruz , CEO and head of financial institutions, Latin America, Standard Chartered Aleja...
Dec 07, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 1
While mobile money has prompted financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa to more than double in 10 years, the gender gap in access to basic financial services remains wider than any other world region. John Everington talks to the World Bank's Leora Klapper about the main obstacles to increased financial inclusion for the continent's women, and to the World Food Programme's Chloe Gueguen about strategies for narrowing the gender gap. The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking inform...
Dec 05, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 4
London mayor Sadiq Khan wants more power and financing for cities so they can deal with and find solutions to climate change. Cities, after all, are responsible for over two thirds of emissions and local administrations, says Khan, are seen as the “doers”, while national governments are the “delayers”. He thinks that mayors should be part of the UN climate conference negotiations. In fact, COP27, which is wrapping up in Sharm el-Sheikh this week, will be the last without cities at the table, he ...
Nov 29, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Ahead of this year’s UN climate conference, discussions over the responsibility of the world’s richest countries towards developing economies have intensified. Emerging markets’ contribution to climate change is miniscule, but they are disproportionately hurt by its effects. Think of the catastrophic droughts, floods and hurricanes directly linked to man-made climate change that have crashed infrastructure and cost lives and livelihoods across developing countries. With COP27 being hosted by Egy...
Nov 29, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Silvia and Alison Taylor of NYU Stern School of Business look into the language of sustainability and find it still has a pretty loose grammar and highly convoluted syntax. Most native speakers do not even agree on a common interpretation of environmental, social and governance factors. The good news is: more of us are trying to learn this language. And Alison shares a few tips on how she teaches it too. In the show, Alison mentions a piece she’s written for Sustainable Views. You can find it he...
Nov 04, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 1
What can banks learn from the so-called 'growth hacking' of startups? What can B2B learn from B2C? Which banks are hitting a home run with growth and marketing? Our guests are: Isha Chander, head of EMEA marketing, executive director, payments, J.P. Morgan Lucy Woolfenden, founder, The Scale Up Collective Shilpa Bangera, chief revenue officer- platform and data, Finastra The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1926, subscribe now to get expert news, opinion and i...
Nov 02, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In this bonus episode recorded at Sibos, we talk to the women of Innotribe, the fintech innovation space at the annual transaction banking conference. We learn from founders, CEOs and innovators about how they experience working within this most innovative of financial sectors. Chapter 1 Rebecca Hackworth, head of communications, Quant Chapter 2 Marijke Koninckx, chief product officer, Bankifi Chapter 3 Bianca Lopes, founder, Idea Fund Chapter 4 Ulyana Shtybel, CEO, Quoroom The Banker has been a...
Nov 01, 2022•30 min
As he prepares to step down from the helm of Ecobank International after seven years, Ade Ayeyemi discusses the next stages in Africa's digital financial journey, including lowering remittance costs, the challenge for regulators of cryptocurrencies, the role for CBDCs and the factors needed to make the nascent African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) a success. The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1926, subscribe now to get expert news, opinion and insight...
Oct 27, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Confused about sustainability? You’re not alone. Environmental, social and governance factors, or ESG, are increasingly a headache for business, finance and world leaders alike. Now even policymakers are creating rules to govern this space. It’s hard to keep up and make sense of it all. So let us help you by sharing some of the most interesting views shaping this space. Join your host, Silvia Pavoni, as she talks to the people living and breathing sustainability – and a few critics too. (We can’...
Oct 21, 2022•3 min
Whether a bank is partnering with a small, seed stage fintech startup or a global tech enterprise – relationships work because of the people involved. Because of this – we here at The Banker Podcasts will be showcasing several shorter Functional Banking Magic episodes focused on the partnerships and relationships that develop between a bank and a tech company. To start us off here is an episode where I sit down with: Prashant Jajodia, Managing Client Partner and Financial Services Leader, IBM Co...
Oct 06, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this first episode, we will discuss women in the fintech space. In which areas of fintech are women best represented? Are they getting the support they need? Where can they turn to find their tribe? Do we need to do more to call out the imbalance still in place, and what can we do to narrow the gap? Chapter 1 Louise Brett, vice chairman and UK & Europe fintech and financial services innovation lead partner, Deloitte UK Chapter 2 Michelle Tran, founder, NYC Fintech Women and head of enterp...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Amid the 15th anniversary celebrations of the launch of M-Pesa, it’s worth stepping back and looking at what mobile money has achieved …. and what it hasn't. John Everington talks to Edem Seshie, an associate partner with Mackinsey in Lagos, about why cash remains king across much of the continent, and why newer services like mobile lending have struggled to take off The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1926, subscribe now to get expert news, opinion and insig...
Sep 30, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Today is all about digital first – but do we still have a need for in person, physical banking? Has a focus on digital first further isolated communities - so rural communities, unbanked, demographics that don't have confidence in the digital world. Guests: Chapter 1 – What does the research show us about banking and rural communities? Andra Sonea, postdoctoral research Fellow in FinTech, Said Business School, Oxford Chapter 2 – How technology can address some of these ‘banking in the ‘real’ ver...
Sep 22, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 5
The Banker’s Burhan Khadbai speaks to Kirsty Morris, managing director, specialist sales and commercial strategy at Barclays and Sarah Courtney Dockett, senior private banker at Citi about their journeys in banking and challenges they faced. The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1926, subscribe now to get expert news, opinion and insight into the banking industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 01, 2022•42 min
It’s been fifteen years since M-Pesa changed the landscape of African banking forever. What are the factors that made mobile money a success in some markets and a failure in others? Amid evolving offerings from fintechs and banks, do new mobile money entrants in markets such as Nigeria still have a role to play in broadening financial inclusion? The Banker has been a trusted source of global banking information since 1926, subscribe now to get expert news, opinion and insight into the banking in...
Aug 18, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 1
There isn't a bank worth their innovation lab that hasn't spoken about the need to instil 'entrepreneurial values' and the 'startup mindset' inside their walls. What does that mean exactly? Is startup culture all it's hyped up to be? What does being an entrepreneur mean inside a centuries old incumbent bank with tens of millions of customers? Liz Lumley, deputy editor at The Banker sits down with four leading banks to discuss how the seeds of startups can blossom in centuries old banks. Guests: ...
Jul 14, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Many are attracted to the glittering halls of cutting edge technology – whether that be quantum computing, Web3 or the varied siren calls coming from the depths of the metaverse. Banks are no exception. Shows like Money 2020 showcase those ‘glittering halls’ promise a future of seamless, friction-free payments and banking. But what does it really mean? How long does it take for a stage worthy tech trend to make its way into financial services and start improving customers' loves – if it makes th...
Jun 15, 2022•44 min
