IBS Intelligence Global FinTech Interviews

Brandon Spear, CEO, TreviPay   B2C transactions are becoming increasingly seamless and invisible thanks to embedded payments, and now B2B customers want that same experience. To meet the expectations of the digital-first buyer, TreviPay, a FinTech leader in B2B digital commerce, is powering new trade credit solutions. IBS Intelligence Reporter Gaia Lamperti sit with TreviPay’s CEO, Brandon Spear,...

Deepak Gupta, Global Head, Payments-as-a-Service, Partnerships and Strategic Alliances, Volante Technologies Too many banks around the world have payments systems that are barely fit for purpose. The increase in volume in B2B payments online and the introduction of new payment types are just two of the issues that financial institutions face. Deepak Gupta, Global Head of Payments-as-a-Service, Par...

Michael Shaulov, CEO of Fireblocks Fireblocks’ recent integration with Revolut helped the neobank gain over 300,000 new cryptocurrency customers on its platform. In an interview with IBS Intelligence Reporter Gaia Lamperti, Michael Shaulov, CEO of Fireblocks, discussed in more details the importance of the platform's integration with Revolut and how it is helping financial institutions to bec...

Natalia Kaleta Schraa, Director of Growth Solutions, Workiva ESG is a ‘buzz’ acronym. It is no longer enough for corporates to make a profit – that profit has to be made in ways that satisfy ESG requirements, but those requirements can be wide-ranging, from environmental impacts, HR policies and boardroom antics. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Natalia Kaleta Schraa, Director of Growth S...

Duncan Sandys, CEO, Payments 20 Payments 20, representing the global payments industry, alongside the UK National Cyber Security Centre, the New York State Department of Financial Services, and institutions including American Express, Elavon, Hogan Lovells and JP Morgan Chase, has published 20 Best Practice Recommendations for improved Cyber Security Protection . Duncan Sandys, CEO of Payments 20...

Stephan Hartgers, VP Digital Strategy, Mobiquity Europe Covid-19 has accelerated digital transformation across banking and financial services. Banks need to offer customers a fully digital and convenient banking experience but, it seems, that many banks are approaching this challenge in the wrong way! Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Stephan Hartgers, VP Digital Strategy of Mobiquity Euro...

Rick DeLisi, Lead Research Analyst, Glia What’s the real deal with Millennials and telephone calls? What they don’t want to do is be forced to dial a number that takes them out of their digital experience. We live on our screens but that doesn’t mean customers don’t want to talk to a bank representative in real time – phone and voice are not synonymous. It’s time to replace the phone-based call ce...

Sudarshan Lodha, Co-Founder, Strata Property Management   Direct investment in commercial real estate as an asset class has remained largely inaccessible to retail investors with issues such as high ticket prices, illiquidity and complex administration. Strata Property Management in India aims to bring commercial real estate to the mass affluent through an online platform offering fractional inves...

Stuart Neal, GM-Identity, Boku The issue of onboarding is a significant barrier. One survey suggests up to 42% of millennials and Gen Z’s would abandon an onboarding process that required offline completion. But the tech behind our mobile networks already holds a potential solution to this. It could enable a ‘user-free’ identity verification factor allowing financial institutions to background che...

Blake Kannady, Chief Product Officer, Intelliflo   How has the pandemic affected the financial advisory business? Intelliflo offers open software architectures to financial advisers, providing its services to more than a third of all financial advisers in the UK. The company was acquired by Invesco in 2018 but operates independently. Its solutions support around 30,000 financial professionals worl...

Ola Oyetayo, CEO and Co-Founder, Verto FX As emerging markets are increasingly joining the global marketplace, companies looking to pay suppliers abroad must transact in less liquid currencies. That can be a logistical challenge for businesses as international payments can be an expensive proposition where liquidity is scarce, and spreads and FX fees are high. VertoFX was founded to enable fairer...

L Guru Raghavendran, Senior Vice President, BFS Products, Azentio Software Azentio Software topped two categories in IBSI’s latest Sales League Table: compliance management with Amlock; and Islamic lending (retail) with Kastle. The company offers core software to financial services providers and ERP solutions to mid-market enterprises across the Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, and India. Azenti...

Kathy Schneider, Chief Marketing Officer, FD Technologies Northern Ireland-based FD Technologies has launched as a new brand to a business that’s been around for 25 years. The firm powers data analytics for 38 leading banks and is one of the world’s leading capital markets consultancies. So why the rebrand? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Kathy Schneider, Chief Marketing Officer of FD Te...

Sundip Patel, CEO & Co-Founder, Avana Avana established LendThrive to offer performance-based loans for small businesses. The aim is to empower diverse SMEs to create new jobs and build economic value in their communities, while rewarding business owners for timely repayments by reducing the interest rate charged over the course of the loan. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Sundip Pat...

Oliver Werneyer, CEO & Co-founder, Imburse Payments The use of fully integrated SaaS technology could reduce the costs and waiting times associated with global connectivity, enabling cross-border payments and expansion into new markets. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Oliver Werneyer, CEO & Co-founder, Imburse Payments , on the impact of integration-free access to any payment tec...

Kartik Swaminathan, author, 3F: Future FinTech Framework Kartik Swaminathan is the author of 3F: Future FinTech Framework, a book that builds on his more than 2 decades of experience in innovative products, projects, processes, and solutions. He is Founder Consultant at Fintastech , where he coaches and consults on Product and Go-To-Market in FinTech. The book simplifies understanding across key t...

Sahar Salama, CEO and Founder of TPay Mobile   The percentage of women in executive roles across the Financial Technology space is still disproportionally lower than men. Sahar Salama, CEO and Founder of TPay Mobile is one of them. On the occasion of Women Equality’s Day, IBS Intelligence’s Reporter Gaia Lamperti interviewed Sahar to discuss how the industry can begin to move towards a more balanc...

Kristian Gjerding, CEO & Head of Strategic Execution, Cellpoint Digital Airlines have had a tough pandemic but even at the best of times they are managing a complex payments ecosystem, operating with multiple currencies, countries, financial regulators and consumer payment preferences. This is where a payment orchestration platform comes into its own. It’s a concept spreading to and being used...

Amarnath Chowdary, Founder & CEO, Modefin In the 2021 IBS Intelligence Sales League Table (SLT) Modefin was ranked “SLT New Entrant – Star Performance” in the category Digital Banking and Channels. The IBSI SLT 2021 includes systems purchases made by over 1000+ banks across 180+ products from 60 suppliers across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, APAC and ASEAN. Headquartered in Bengal...

Hristo Borisov, CEO and Co-Founder, Payhawk   Fragmentation in FinTech is coming to an end. Following the explosion in demand we have seen in the last few years, the market is at the tipping point of consolidation and now big banks and FinTechs will have to learn how to coexist. Hristo Borisov believes big banks really need to stop seeing FinTechs as competitors and start exploring areas of collab...

Tamer Al Mauge, Managing Director MENA, Pakistan & Bangladesh, Codebase Technologies The Middle East has been seen in the past as overbanked despite some sectors of the population still being underbanked. But that hasn’t stopped the development of a clutch of neobanks as institutions invest in digital banking solutions, launching new brands alongside existing banks. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intellig...

Ash Narain, Founder, Marquee Equity FinTech fund raising is breaking all records this year. It is perhaps inevitable that the tech developments in FinTech should be mirrored by tech developments in fund raising for such companies. Proprietary AI systems allow for the automation of much of the traditional investment banking process on a platform capable of handling much greater deal volume than the...

Jamie Burke, Founder & CEO, Outlier Ventures What are the opportunities for investment in the blockchain space in the wake of the correction in cryptocurrencies earlier this year? And will the breakthrough of NFTs see the creation of true mainstream usage of blockchain solutions? These and other issues under the spotlight as Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to blockchain venture capitali...

Dr Kurt Nielsen, President, Partisia Blockchain Foundation The lack of privacy on blockchain is hampering the technology’s disruptive potential as a WEB 3.0 platform supporting value transfer. Industry players need to take urgent action to safeguard privacy and confidentiality. The Partisia Blockchain Foundation is working on marrying the distributed cryptography of multi-party computation technol...

Bhavin Patel, Co-Founder, LenDenClub There is huge scope for small-ticket lending in India. However, this is not an area that is economic for established banks to move into. Peer-to-peer lending offers both an investable opportunity and a platform for small-ticket loans.  Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Bhavin Patel, Co-Founder of Indian P2P lender LenDenClub, whose instant personal loan...