IBS Intelligence Global FinTech Interviews

Mathieu Gorge, Founder & CEO; Rowan Fogarty, Chief Operating Officer, Vigitrust Data security and compliance are just a couple of the issues that may get more complicated for UK and European firms in the wake of Brexit.  Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence discussed the potential stumbling blocks and how to address them with Mathieu Gorge and Rowan Fogarty of Vigitrust. Gorge is the author of The...

Nick Jackson, President, CIMA , and Finance Transformation Leader, Oracle A new global survey by Oracle claims that people now trust ‘robots’ more than themselves to manage their finances. The study included more than 9,000 consumers and business leaders in 14 countries. The role of finance teams and financial advisors is going to change and, the survey says, it is time to embrace AI to manage fin...

Justin Pike, Chairman, MYPINPAD Software-based consumer authentication solutions enable businesses to define and create tailored, end-to-end customer experiences, shifting payments onto commercially available mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. But how secure is this? PCI DSS has introduced standards for both Software Payments on Consumer off the shelf devices (SPoC) and Contactless pa...

Andrew Shikiar, Executive Director, FIDO Alliance The FIDO Alliance is an open industry association whose members include the likes of Apple, Google, American Express, Samsung and Microsoft. Its aim is to develop authentication standards to help reduce our over-reliance on passwords. Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence spoke with Andrew Shikiar of the FIDO Alliance about the progress being made toward...

Rob Shore, Chief Financial Officer, EML Payments EML Payments is based in Brisbane, Australia, providing back-end solutions to other FinTechs. Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence spoke with Rob Shore of EML Payments about being a white-labelled B2B service provider. Shore also outlines how the pandemic has accelerated business adoption in a disruptive time for payments.

Christian Reuss, Head, SIX Swiss Exchange After initial volatility in, particularly, the first quarter of 2020, you could be hard-pressed to find signs of the economic downturn in the performance of the world’s capital markets with the latter part of 2020 seeing rising share prices and an increase in the number of IPOs around the world. Christian Reuss of SIX Swiss Exchange talked to Robin Amlot o...

Amber Ghaddar, Founder, AllianceBlock Late in January 2021, AllianceBlock signed an agreement to join the London Stock Exchange Group’s partner platform, providing institutional members with the ability to have direct market access to AllianceBlock. The firm is building the world’s first globally compliant decentralised capital market. But what does that actually mean? Amber Ghaddar of AllianceBlo...

Arik Shtilman, CEO and co-Founder, Rapyd 2021 has begun with a bang in FinTech with 10 deals worth more than $100 million making headlines in a matter of weeks. How and where will newly deep-pocketed companies invest? Arik Shtilman of FinTech-as-a-service platform Rapyd discusses the changing nature of the digital payments space and the growth of eCommerce with Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence.

Daniel Carpenter, Head of Regulation at Meritsoft Trading activity and dividend arbitrage schemes are seeing increased scrutiny from authorities following the Cum-ex tax scandal. Sunniva Kolostyak speaks to Daniel Carpenter, Head of Regulation at Meritsoft, a Cognizant company, about what institutions can do to ensure compliance and in turn, build trust.  

Kasaye Eshetu, Director, Alternate Channels Department, Dashen Bank Yemiru Chanyalew, CEO, Moneta Technologies Meabh Maguire, Global Commercial Manager, CR2 At the recent Global FinTech Innovation Awards, the Amole digital wallet from Dashen Bank was named Most Innovative Digital Wallet Deployment. Since the launch of the Amole Digital Wallet in Ethiopia in July 2018, spearheaded by Ethiopian base...

John Cragg, CEO, MYHSM MYHSM is the global provider of Payment Hardware Security Modules (HSM) as a Service. In January the business was acquired by Aachen, Germany-based Utimaco. MYHSM’s employees and customers will be integrated into Utimaco’s Information Security business. John Cragg of MYHSM tells Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence what the deal means for MYHSM now and for the future.  

Christoph Gugelmann, Co-Founder and CEO, Tradeteq   Tradeteq recently secured over $9 million in Series A funding. CEO Christoph Gugelmann tells Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence how making trade finance an investible asset class can make banks work their balance sheets harder and in turn support more SMEs and corporates. Tradeteq provides banks, credit insurers and asset managers with technology an...

 Ed Adshead-Grant, General Manager, Payments, Bottomline Technologies New competitors such as FinTechs and challenger banks are leveraging customer data to provide value-added services. The pressure on banks to shift their focus to such services in transaction banking will only multiply. Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence discussed how the integration of ISO 20022 in payment systems can help with Ed...

Michael Whitt, Head of Partnerships, ApexEdge ApexEdge offers banks and financial institutions a ‘concierge’ service for their retail customers offering monthly bill and subscription management solutions to support their financial health. With the pandemic still raging and data suggesting that a significant majority of US consumers overpay on monthly bills, Michael Whitt of ApexEdge told Robin Aml...

Daniel Kornitzer, Chief Business Development Officer, Paysafe UK-regulated Paysafe is an online payments specialist operating around the world. The firm has identified 10 likely trends in payments for 2021: The impact of PSD2 on biometric authentication  Real-time payments goes global A renewed focus on 5G The subscription model grows in popularity  Paying with crypto goes mainstream AI and machin...

  Duncan Barrigan, CPO, GoCardless The global pandemic has accelerated the need for recurring payments solutions, whether for businesses looking for liquidity or as a tool for the growing subscription economy. Sunniva Kolostyak speaks to Duncan Barrigan, Chief Product Officer of recurring payments specialist GoCardless, about the challenges of the past year, Success+, vaccines and Open Banking.

Brad Hyett, CEO, phos   UK-based FinTech phos, which enables merchants to take payments directly on their NFC-enabled smartphone, has seen the popularity of software point-of-sale – softPOS – increase with the acceleration of cashless adoption. Brad Hyett, the CEO of phos, speaks to Sunniva Kolostyak about the technology, Apple’s acquisition of softPOS provider Mobeewave earlier this year, and Cov...

Stephane Leroy, Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer, Quanthouse   We review the rise of the ‘robot’ trader and the evolution of screen-based trading to API-based trading with Stephane Leroy of Quanthouse. He talked to Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence about how API tools and connectivity can help capital market participants lay the foundations for automated funds. 

 David Snitkof, VP Analytics, Ocrolus  US banks have been looking to tighten their underwriting standards. The average FICO score (a credit score created by the Fair Isaac Corporation) actually rose in July – in the middle of a pandemic that ought to raise the risk of defaults. So, FICO scores aren’t telling the whole story. David Snitkof of FinTech infrastructure firm Ocrolus explains the issues...

Guy Mettrick, Global Industry Lead – Financial Services, Appian   Artificial intelligence or applied intelligence? Either way, take-up is set to increase rapidly in 2021 with, for example, AI-powered fraud detection coming down in cost and becoming more readily available. Guy Mettrick of Appian discussed the outlook for AI, operational resilience and low-code solutions with Robin Amlot of IBS Inte...

 Thomas Borrel, Chief Product Officer, Polymath Security tokens on the blockchain are an increasingly hot topic and could result in the creation of new financial instruments. Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence discusses how digital assets are evolving alongside regulation with Thomas Borrel of Polymath and what still needs to happen for institutional investors to get on board. 

Matthew Williamson, VP Global Financial Services, Mobiquity  Bank ABC, an international bank headquartered in Bahrain, established Ila Bank   in November 2019 to function as a digital-only bank offering its services through a mobile app. One year on, on the sidelines of the BankSec 2020 / Self-Service Banking Europe 2020 conference, Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence spoke to Matthew Williamson of Mo...

Ilia Maksimenka, Chief Executive Officer, PlasmaPay If digital banking is being described as Banking 2.0, does that make decentralised finance Banking 3.0? Using blockchain technology, it is possible to securely store crypto and fiat currency, buy and exchange digital assets, send and receive payments and create payment networks. So why wouldn’t you? Ilia Maksimenka of PlasmaPay discusses the poss...

Seamus Donoghue, VP Sales & Business Development, METACO METACO provides security-critical infrastructure that enables financial institutions to enter the digital asset ecosystem. The firm raised $17 million in its Series A funding round in July 2020. Seamus Donoghue of METACO talks to Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence about what banks need to do to get to grips with digital assets and tokenisat...

Paul Brennan, Head of Product Management, LEVERIS Data is at the core of the future of banking, according to Irish BaaS provider LEVERIS. Speaking to Sunniva Kolostyak, Paul Brennan, it's Head of Product Management, discusses the benefits of embracing data analysis, and what banking could look like if it makes the customer the heart of the business.