IBS Intelligence Global FinTech Interviews

Richard Southey, Chief Digital & Experience Officer, Absa CIB The adoption of FinTech in Africa has been widespread – in 2021 FinTechs in Africa overshadowed all other startups in funding gained and mobile money transactions across Sub Saharan Africa were greater than the GDP of Nigeria. Increasing mobile phone and internet penetration will see further increases in FinTech activity, facilitati...

Ranjan R Reddy, founder and CEO Bureau .   Automation, fraud prevention, and powerful seamless user experiences have now become a norm for the customers and online businesses. By providing an accurate and comprehensive picture of individual customers, Bureau helps businesses confidently transact without fear of fraud. Its no-code identity orchestration platform powers seamless customer onboarding...

Gustavo Ruiz, SVP & CEO Latin America, Global Head of Open Banking, Paysafe Recent research by Paysafe highlights how consumer payment preferences are changing in Latin America, specifically in Brazil, Peru, and Chile. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence and Gustavo Ruiz, SVP & CEO Latin America, and Global Head of Open Banking for Paysafe, discuss financial inclusion, payment security, hyperg...

Martijn Groot, VP Marketing & Strategy, Alveo In a series of interviews carried out for Sibos 2022, we focus on what’s hot in banking, banking technology and FinTech. The shift to Data as a Service is key for the integration, mastering and cleansing of market and reference data. What’s more it can help address the task of managing data and help create a standard framework for ESG analysis and...

Mike Walters, Chief Product Officer, Form3 In a series of interviews carried out for Sibos 2022, we focus on what’s hot in banking, banking technology, and fintech. In this interview focusing on cloud-native technology Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Mike Walters, Chief Product Officer of cloud payments fintech Form3 about multi-cloud solutions and how to prevent fraud in real-time payme...

Michael Vrontamitis, Trade Finance and Banking Leader, Finastra & Joshua Kroeker, Chief Product Officer, Contour In a series of interviews carried out at Sibos 2022, we focus on what’s hot in banking, banking technology and fintech. During Sibos, Finastra announced a strategic collaboration to integrate its Fusion Trade Innovation software with digital trade finance network Contour, providing...

Amit Dua, President, SunTec Business Solutions In a series of interviews carried out at Sibos 2022, we focus on what’s hot in banking, banking technology and fintech. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Amit Dua, President of SunTec Business Solutions.

Marijke Koninckx, Product Officer, Bankifi In a series of interviews carried out at Sibos 2022, we focus on what’s hot in banking, banking technology and fintech. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Marijke Koninckx, Product Officer at Bankifi.

Alberto González, Learning Discipline Leader, BBVA ; José Martinez, Talent Management Discipline Leader, BBVA Global banking group BBVA is leveraging tools developed by cloud-based people development software provider Cornerstone OnDemand to upskill employees. Initiatives being undertaken include gamification and tokenisation make the online learning platform more rewarding, interactive, and engag...

Conor Colleary, Group VP Financial Services, Oracle In a series of interviews carried out at Sibos 2022, we focus on what’s hot in banking, banking technology, and fintech. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Conor Colleary, Group VP Financial Services for Oracle.

Ian Manocha, CEO, Gresham Technologies   In a series of interviews carried out at Sibos 2022, we focus on what’s hot in banking, banking technology, and fintech. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Ian Manocha, Chief Executive Officer of Gresham Technologies.

Gudmundur Kristjansson [GK], Founder & CEO, Lucinity With large-scale adoption of AI tools on the rise and accelerated by Covid-19, financial institutions are turning to automation to enhance their business processes, including financial crime compliance. To produce the best results for fighting financial crime, humans and AI must work together, according to Lucinity, reflecting a concept know...

Kareem Saleh, CEO & Co-Founder, FairPlay Fairness as a Service is a new concept being championed by FairPlay, with the aim of reducing algorithmic bias for people of colour, women, and other historically disadvantaged groups. Using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify bias in lending models, the idea is to identify more good borrowers – typically people who would otherwise be turned down f...

Falk Rieker, Global Vice President and IBU Head for Banking, SAP SAP and Santander Corporate and Investment Banking (Santander CIB) partnered earlier this year with the aim of improving client-to-bank connectivity and providing their global clients with financial tools to help navigate supply chain disruptions and accelerate the decarbonisation of their industrial activities.  In fact, Santander C...

Rizwan Shaikh, Director Sales, MENA & Asia, Expleo New financial technology is changing the way we work but making the technology work for the customer is paramount – and that means both working for the bank or financial institution and for the end customer, whether that consumer is an individual or a corporate. Rizwan Shaikh, Director Sales, MENA & Asia for Expleo, discusses the concept o...

Charles Damen, Chief Product Officer, Token Account-to-account payments now pose a genuine threat to debit cards – we review the use cases and benefits. At the same time, API maturity is accelerating and pushing the boundaries of open banking with premium APIs and value-added services, a key focus for the future with VRPs but one example. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the issues with C...

Ruchir Lahoty, Managing Director, MegaDelta Capital   The fast-track growth of financial tools, and platforms in the post pandemic world has created a huge market growth opportunity allowing VC funding in the FinTech sector to slowly pick up. Ruchir Lahoty, Managing Director, Megadelta Capital discusses investment, trends, valuation, and the role of the investors in today’s climate. 

Manish Maakan, Chief Executive Officer, iGTB Commercial Banking is on the cusp of fundamental shifts that will dramatically reorder the industry in the coming decade. As banks assess their future strategies, they need to define their purpose and set a course not just for modernisation, but for true transformation. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence spoke with Manish Maakan, CEO of global transaction...

Tamás Erni, Chairman and Head of Sales, Loxon ; Ádám Kocsis, Head of Professional Services, Loxon   With an uncertain macroeconomic outlook, lending institutions are coming under building pressure with loans threatening to turn problematic. The debt collection industry is also undergoing change – among the factors accelerating this transformation are changes in customer behaviour, inflation, unpre...

Gavin Maclean, Head of Payments, CIB, Lloyds Banking Group How is corporate banking changing? Trends that have been in place over the last decade were accelerated by the pandemic but what is happening now and next? And how are they changing a bank’s internal processes and the customer experience? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Gavin Maclean, Head of Payments, CIB at Lloyds Banking Group...

Georges Archibald, Chief Innovation Officer & Regional Head of North America, Apex Group Traditionally, valuing real estate, private equity, infrastructure, and private credit assets has been an opaque and time-consuming process. Using blockchain and artificial intelligence offers the potential to increase trust in the underlying data and provide an auditable data trail. A trusted data layer c...

Niccolò Gamaleri, Senior Director, Royal Park Partners As the FinTech sector becomes increasingly regulated, and its funding base evolves, knowledge of regulatory requirements and financing solutions is crucial. Ex-Barclays Niccolò Gamaleri, recently appointed Senior Director at financial advisory firm Royal Park Partners, discusses how FinTech's continued growth is increasingly requiring the...

Anuj Kumar Sen, Co-Founder & CTO, Cuelebre AB Success in the implementation of AI and ML depends on having a foundation system that can scale and serve your data. Cuelebre is an end-to-end technology services provider that caters to data analytics needs. The company focuses on building strategies, architecting platforms, and deploying dashboards in the cloud or on-premises. Anuj Kumar Sen, Co-...

Jasmeet Chhabda, Senior Vice President, Lentra With the clear intent of creating a smoother digital lending process Lentra is offering new-age lending solutions to the Indian financial services sector. Jasmeet Chhabda, Senior Vice President at Lentra discusses how the firm has created a range of offerings across embedded journeys, BNPL, credit card journeys, small ticket loans, co-lending and more...

Simone Mazzuca, Founder and CEO, Wallex   How can the evolution of banking lead to more democratised financial services offered to a broader base of individuals that are in need of better banking? In this episode, Simone Mazzuca, CEO and Founder of Wallex, discusses how blockchain technology will transform banking as we know it. In his view, the bank of the future should embrace multi-currency fia...