IBS Intelligence Global FinTech Interviews

 Lory Kehoe is also Co-founder of Blockchain Ireland and Adjunct Associate Professor Trinity College Dublin. The ConsenSys Codefi blockchain operating system, built on the Ethereum blockchain aims to optimise business processes and payments through digitising financial instruments and creating decentralised applications. Speaking to Robin Amlôt at London’s FinTech Connect conference, Lory Kehoe of...

 “Banks are dead, long live the banks,” Suresh Vaghjiani of Tribe Payments once said. The card payments platform’s CEO and Co-Founder met up with Sunniva Kolostyak at FinTech Connect in London to discuss how start-ups and challenger banks have different innovation techniques and why legacy institutions are struggling to keep up, as well as how regulation made London the FinTech capital of the worl...

  To simply implement this new regime, using current toolsets, poses a risk to firms falling short to the requirements of the SM&CR regime, Saeed Patel of KRM22 says. In this podcast, Patel discusses the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR or SMCR) with IBS Intelligence Reporter Sunniva Kolostyak. The UK regime, which is being extended to almost 50,000 organisations, will come...

 iBanFirst is a Belgium-based global financial services firm offering cross-border payment solutions. Founder Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier was previously Head of Western Europe at Saxo Bank following eight years as President and CEO of Saxo Banque France. Prior to this he founded cambiste.com, France’s first licensed forex broker, and worked as a forex trader at Calyon UK. Robin Amlôt spoke to Pierre-...

 Cashless payments are sweeping the scene, enabling consumers to shop more easily, quickly, and conveniently – in fact, by 2026 it’s predicted that cash will be used for just 21% of all UK payments. However, business in the ‘unattended market’ poses a challenge. Robin Amlôt talks to Lee Jones of Ingenico about the move to cashless payments and what it means for hardware as well as software. 

 With the death of the high street, banks are closing their branches and becoming increasingly digital. At the RBR Branch Transformation conference in London, Sunniva Kolostyak spoke to Mark Aldred from Auriga about how the software company supports banks in changing how their branch estates operate. Different technologies, such as AI and machine learning could drive optimisation, but the banks mu...

 IBS Intelligence hosted the awards ceremony for the 1st Global FinTech Innovation Awards at the Four Seasons Hotel Mumbai, on 22 November 2019. The Awards were created to honour and promote excellence and success in the implementation of FinTech solutions. Ahead of the presentations, Robin Amlôt sat with V Ramkumar, Senior Partner, Cedar Management Consulting International, chair of the Awards Pa...

 SunTec Business Solutions aims to help banks and digital and communication service providers increase customer engagement and product innovation. Robin Amlôt spoke to Madhur Jain of Suntec about the growth prospects for Banking as a Service (BaaS). With consumers becoming used to being able to buy everything online, financial products will be no different. 

 Consumers want more access and control over finances. In an interview with FinTech Reporter Sunniva Kolostyak at the Open Banking Exo in London on 13 November 2019, OpenWrk’s Olly Betts discussed how Open Banking works as an enabler to support real people in structuring their finances and its importance for global economies, as well as its accompanying difficulties around compliance, customer ret...

 The cloud is just someone else’s computer! Speaking to IBS Intelligence at the Open Banking Expo in London on 13 November 2019, Eleni Coldrey addressed security concerns and the growing pains of open banking. As the financial services sector increases digitisation and digitalisation, it is increasingly relying on external digital business ecosystems for the growth of interconnection bandwith. Fin...

 OpenPayd offers international enterprise payments and banking services through a modular platform. A single API integration into the platform enables businesses to customise their payments and banking modules. Iana Dimitrova has extensive experience in FinTech and payments. Robin Amlôt spoke to her about her views on the current state of access to banking and payments services for businesses glob...

 Bradbury’s role at Fujitsu UK includes understanding the deployment and impact potential of new business models and technologies across the financial services marketplace, including insurance and all forms of banking. Early in October 2019, Barclays announced that from January 2020, its UK customers would no longer be able to pay in or withdraw cash over the counter in the nation’s Post Offices....

 The third P20 Global Payments Conference was held in London on 3 October 2019. This invitation-only meeting, with attendance capped at 200 convenes top business leaders, government officials and regulators to discuss the future of the global payments industry. Dunn & Bradstreet were among the event’s sponsors. Robin Amlôt asked the firm’s Head of Product & Strategy, Chris Laws what he exp...

Duncan Sandys is Executive Director, P20. At this year’s P20 conference, held in London on 3 October 2019, the focus was on fraud and cybersecurity. Sandys said, “The risk of cyber-attacks keeps the leaders of the global payments industry awake at night. Cashless payments are growing globally and a systemic attack on payments infrastructure would have immediate, devastating and far-reaching conseq...

Cristina Soviany, Founder of the Belgian FinTech firm, Features Analytics, speaks to Robin Amlôt at SIBOS 2019 in London. The firm has developed two platform-based AI solutions to combat financial crime.

 Announced at SIBOS 2019, Equiniti Business Payment Services (formerly EQGlobal), the international payments division of Equiniti Group, has partnered with SWIFT , the global provider of secure financial messaging services, to offer faster payments and real time tracking and notifications. Robin, Amlot,  Managing Editor of IBS Journal spoke to Mark Churley, Managing Director of Equiniti Business P...

Robin Amlôt, Managing Editor at IBS Intelligence meets up with  Dr Ravi Seetharaman, Chief Executive of Doha Bank, at the SIBOS 2019 event. Dr. R. Seetharaman reflects on the impact of technology in banking and on the developments he is particularly looking at for Doha Bank’s future prospects. 

In this episode of the IBSI podcast, Bill Boyle & Alex Hamilton talk about Britain’s lucrative & highly aggressive challenger banking landscape, and Monzo’s transition from a payments wallet to a fully operational digital only bank. With the bank having reduced its per user operational costs, Monzo is facing stiff competition from other London based challenger banks.