IBS Intelligence Global FinTech Interviews

Stephen Bradford, Senior Vice President EMEA, Sailpoint Financial services institutions are always going to be a target for malicious attacks.  But the problem runs deeper. Many organisations don’t know what they don’t know and especially don’t know the true nature of the vulnerabilities of their systems. Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence speaks to Steve Bradford, SVP EMEA for cybersecurity and iden...

Ken Serdons, Chief Commercial Officer, Mollie Over a year into a global pandemic, technology-driven companies have had a rare opportunity to grow – and payments processor Mollie has spent the period helping merchants of different sizes grow with them through e-commerce solutions. In this episode, Sunniva Kolostyak speaks to Ken Serdons about organisational attitudes, expansion into the UK market a...

 Philippe Gangneux, Chief Financial Officer, Sidetrade One of the results of the pandemic – 75% of UK CFOs say cash is now the number one board agenda item, the remaining 25% rank cash as their second highest priority. The first step is financial survival but what next? Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence speaks to Philippe Gangneux, CFO of Sidetrade, a FinTech that combines next-gen AI and machine le...

Silvia Mensdorff Pouilly, Head of Banking Solutions Europe, FIS ‘Friction-right’ not frictionless should be the aim of payment solutions according to Silvia Mensdorff Pouilly, Head of Banking Solutions Europe for FIS. She notes the impact of more spending online from a fraud perspective in light of Covid-19 and also tells Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence that next-gen payments technologies also all...

Ed Whitehead, Managing Director EMEA, Signifyd A combination of big data, machine learning and manual review allows Signifyd to offer merchants a 100% financial guarantee against fraud on its end-to-end commerce protection platform. Recently the company raised a $205 million Series E growth equity financing, valuing the business at around $1.34 billion. Robin Amlot of IBS International speaks to E...

Tom Kellermann, Head of Cybersecurity Strategy, VMWare Security Business Unit The fourth edition of VMWare’s Modern Bank Heists report, analyses the evolution of cybercrime cartels and the defensive shift of the financial sector. Wire transfer fraud is the new digital bank robbery but in this year’s survey, CISOs revealed generally rising attack trends including island hopping, brokerage account t...

Rob Coole, VP Cloud Technologies, IPC The focus now is on global connectivity, reducing siloes and improving resilience. After a pause in the face of the first lockdown, we look at how FinTechs have engaged with their customers and, also with each other. Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence reviews the rise of cloud-based and SaaS solutions in support of customers wherever they may be in the world, reg...

Jennifer Geary, General Manager EMEA, nCino Global lockdowns reduce the rate of global warming over the last 12 months. With many workers in financial institutions around the world moving to home offices, institutions looked for new ways of digitally sharing files – effectively the (forced) reduction in paper documentation has been one of the consequences of digital transformation and has positive...

Iggy Bassi, Founder and CEO at Cervest Cervest, a UK start-up, is using Earth Science AI to help financial companies mitigate the short- and long-term effects of the climate crisis. Sunniva Kolostyak speaks to Iggy Bassi, the Founder and CEO of the company, about how extreme weather events can impact assets, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), and the benefits of impact...

Kevin Rubin, Chief Financial Officer, Alteryx With its analytic process automation platform, Alteryx works with more than 7,000 companies around the world. In financial services, its clients include HSBC, Wells Fargo, Prudential, UBS and Standard Bank. Fraud analysis, portfolio risk evaluation and retail creditworthiness are just some of the areas in which data analysis is playing an ever-larger r...

Vicky Sanders, Global Head of Investment Analytics at Liquidnet   How should traders be utilising artificial intelligence? A volatile year has driven institutions and traders towards new technologies, including machine learning and AI, and Liquidnet, one of the world’s largest trading network, launched its Investment Analytics business, in response. In this podcast, Vicky Sanders, Global Head of I...

Astyanax Kanakakis, CEO and co-Founder, norbloc Norbloc’s blockchain KYC platform enables individuals, organisations and regulators to effectively manage and securely share verified Know Your Customer data. The world’s first such blockchain KYC ecosystem has been in operation for just over a year. A member of the Hyperledger consortium, norbloc was established in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2016. Robin...

Richard Hummel, Threat Research Manager, NETSCOUT’s Arbor Networks According to NETSCOUT’s bi-annual Threat Intelligence Report , a record-setting 10,089,687 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were observed during 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic was the clear catalyst for this unprecedented DDoS attack activity. Cybercriminals set multiple records in 2020, taking advantage of the shift towar...

Jayakumar Venkataraman, Managing Partner Financial Services, Infosys Consulting The whole banking sector has had to innovate to become more digital. Corporate banking has turned to AI and to Zoom to help cope with the impact of Covid-19. What will be the impact of the ‘digital corporate bank’ for businesses, especially SMEs, in the UK? Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence discusses the prospects with J...

Adam Desmond, UK Country Lead, Mitek Systems   The pandemic has had a dramatic impact on consumer financial behaviour around the world. Unfortunately, it has also inspired a major shift in how criminals approach fraud. Mitek Systems is one of the sponsors of the 2021 Identity Fraud Study by Javelin Strategy & Research. The report suggests total combined fraud losses climbed to $56 billion, of...

Anjali Joglekar, Specialist Sales Director, Broadridge   Complex and disparate credit systems together with potentially inaccurate reporting make collateral management a minefield for banks, hobbling their competitive position and can have a direct impact on their corporate customers too. COLLATE from financial solutions service provider Broadridge can help generate a clear view of banking book co...

Peter Hazlehust, Co-Founder, Synctera Peter Hazlehurst was previously head of Uber Money before leaving Uber in 2020 to set up Synctera. He reviews key trends in FinTech, including the surge in going public, with Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence. Hazlehurst also explains how Synctera’s partnership banking solution aims to play matchmaker between community banks and FinTechs

Ahmed F. Karsli, Founder, Papara Papara is the market leading Turkish financial SuperApp, offering instant, free, multi-currency transfers to consumers as well as providing a one-stop-shop for paying bills, trading digital currencies, tracking spending habits and facilitating mass payments from businesses to employees. Specifically targeting the underbanked and underserved, Papara has grown since...

Cecily Mak, Chief Operating Officer, Blockdaemon Dive into the future of the blockchain industry as institutional adoption of blockchain and digital assets accelerates. We look at how blockchain networks are scaling up with Cecily Mak of Blockdaemon, a leading blockchain node infrastructure provider. She tells Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence that 2021 is the most significant year yet for the indus...

Amit Dua, President, Suntec ; Likhit Wagle, General Manager, Global Banking & Financial Markets, IBM Modernising traditional legacy systems offers a structured way for financial services institutions to switch to a customer-centric approach to their business rather than a product-centric view. This may be done through the establishment of a new ‘middle layer’. Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence d...

Evgeny Likhoded, CEO, Clausematch Remote working in financial services has exacerbated governance issues over the past year. At the same time, regulators, notably the US Department of Justice (DoJ), are focusing more on conduct as opposed to fines for AML/KYC lapses. Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence discusses compliance issues and solutions with Evgeny Likhoded of Clausematch.

Susanne Hannestad, Chair of the Advisory Board, FinTech Diversity Radar ; Annette Evans, VP of People & Culture, GPS Earlier this year, Global Processing Services (GPS) announced its sponsorship of findexable’s FinTech Diversity Radar – the first global platform gathering data to understand women’s impact on and contribution to the digital economy. Women remain largely underserved by and under...

Björn Goß, CEO & co-founder, Stocard European mobile wallet Stocard has more than 60 million users and aims to reshape the future of shopping and banking. In November 2020 it began rolling out its payment feature Stocard Pay and is now looking to expand its offering to provide a holistic approach to consumer financial services. Stocard aims to add multiple bank cards to its app and the company...

Teodor Blidarus, Founder and CEO of FintechOS The SME banking space is an untapped market which is underserved and overlooked, according to FintechOS, a technology provider accelerating digital transformation for financial institutions. Moreover, change and automation is happening at a low speed. Teodor Blidarus, Founder and CEO of FintechOS, speaks to Sunniva Kolostyak about issues around serving...

Gourav Datta, Director Intelligent Automation, Ciklum The pandemic has propelled the growth of the payments industry. How now to capitalise on this? The solution – intelligent automation that targets transactional, mundane and repetitive tasks, taking advantage of a full range of RPA, AI/ML and analytics solutions. Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence discusses the potential with Gourav Datta of Ciklum...