IBS Intelligence Global FinTech Interviews

Artem Shaginyan, Founder & CEO, Lunu Lunu has developed a processing service, mobile terminal, online widget and crypto wallet to offer customers the facility of spending cryptocurrencies immediately as local currency the point of sale in retail transactions without expensive exchange commissions. Artem Shaginyan, CEO of Lunu, told Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence about the coming evolution of...

 Jeffrey Berman, General Partner, Camber Creek Real estate technology, also known as PropTech is a hot topic right now in real estate investing as Jeffrey Berman, New York-based General Partner of venture capital firm Camber Creek, explains to Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence. In many ways PropTech and FinTech are seeking to offer solutions to the same kind of problems.

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.  

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.

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...

 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 wi...

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 I...

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 In...

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....

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...

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 vu...

 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 Am...

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...

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 increasi...

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 e...

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 enga...

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 affec...

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...

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 incorp...

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...

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 in...

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...

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...