Podcasts by IBS Intelligence Podcasts

Ep420: How the digital payments landscape is evolving and what’s coming next in PayTech from 2022-03-04T03:00

Jean-Philippe Bersier, Director, Business Development; Benoît Jacquat, Director, ERI 

ERI won twice at the IBSi Global Fintech Innova...

Ep419: What’s in a name? Say hello to Kiya.ai from 2022-03-03T02:00

Rajesh Mirjankar, Chief Executive Officer, Kiya.ai

Kiya.ai is the new identity for Infrasoft Technologies, together with the tag line ‘Digital future made real’. So, what is behind the new...

Ep418: What can banks learn from BNPL platform players? from 2022-03-03T01:00

Al Lukies, CBE, Founder & CEO, Pollinate, and Chair of the FinTech Alliance

Regulation is coming ...

Ep417: How humans will remain in the loop in fixed income trading from 2022-03-01T23:00

Michael Chin, Chief Executive Officer, Broadway Technology

Electronification is coming to the fixed income market, but fully automated trading...

Ep416: Differentiating customer experience by increasing the pace of innovation from 2022-02-20T23:00

Jeroen Plag, Head of Corporate Strategy, ING Group

How can banks stay a step ahead of the changes and evolutions in the financial s...

Ep415: How analysing the internet provides actionable insights on both private and public companies from 2022-02-18T21:00

Sylvain Forté, Co-Founder & CEO, SESAMm

What if you could analyse, in real-time, billions of articles and messages from the web using natural lang...

Ep414: Making credit applications simpler and easier for the mobile online consumer from 2022-02-17T01:00

Barry Kirby, SVP Business Development & Sales, Cunexus; Greg Bierl, SVP & Counsel, Compliance Systems Listen

Ep413: How labour shortages in financial services sparked new industrywide trends from 2022-02-16T03:00

Federico Baradello, Founder and CEO, Finalis

The labour shortage issue in the financial services industry caused by the pandemic and widespread dissa...

Ep412: The potential for fraud in ‘buy now, pay later’ from 2022-02-15T01:00

Reed Taussig, Chief Executive Officer, Outseer

More than 17 million UK customers have used BNPL products, and many banks are moving into the field to com...

Ep411: How UK brands will reap the most benefits of the embedded finance’s rise from 2022-02-15T01:00

Ozan Øzerk, Founder, OpenPayd

UK brands will claim lion’s share of £619 billion European embedded financial services market in the next five years...

Ep410: The key trends in algo trading in the capital markets from 2022-02-14T04:00

Hitesh Mittal, Chief Executive Officer, BestEx Research

The days of algo trading solutions provided by big banks and brokers may be numbered. Comp...

Ep408: Latest trends in credit and debit card fraud and what needs to be done to counter them from 2022-02-11T01:00

Jay Dubina, CFCI, CCCI, Fraud System Administrator Manager, Jack Henry & Associates

Technology can only go so far in protecti...

Ep409: How digitalisation has changed the customer experience of payments from 2022-02-11T01:00

Stephen Ferry, Managing Director, Pay360 by Capita

An overwhelming majority of consumers around the world expect their reliance on digital services to...

Ep407: Payments as a Service – a panacea for banks in Europe? from 2022-02-09T22:00

Jan Gonnissen, Director Payments and Financial Messaging, Broadridge

Faced with a dynamically evolving payments industry, downward pressure o...

Ep406: How the transition to Ethereum 2.0 will impact transactions on the network from 2022-02-09T04:00

Caleb Sheridan, Core Developer, Eden Network 

As ETH 2.0 is still in process, the Ethereum network upgrade will introduce a new set of considerati...

Ep405:What do you need to look for as an investor in FinTech? from 2022-02-08T05:00

Yusuf Ozdalga, Partner, QED Investors

What makes a successful FinTech investment? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence asked Yusuf Ozdalga, London-ba...

Ep404: Powering trade finance transactions with blockchain technology from 2022-02-07T06:00

Billy Sebell, Head of Ecosystem Development, XDC Network

Trade finance processes have been traditionally offline and myopic, precluding smaller business p...

Ep403: Making alternative global assets available to Indian accredited investors from 2022-02-07T05:00

Asheesh Chanda, Founder & CEO, Kristal.AI

India’s emerging affluent young investors are looking to investment alternatives and international markets, ...

Ep402: The rapid evolution of the crypto derivatives industry from 2022-02-04T07:00

Pankaj Balani, CEO, Delta Exchange

Interest in crypto derivatives is surging as investors show an appetite to trade on the movement of Bitcoin pri...

Ep401: Digital identity – a golden opportunity for UK banks? from 2022-02-03T23:00

Martin Wilson, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Identity Net

Digital identity hit the headlines in the UK towards the end of 2021 with a row ...

Ep400: How banks can make cybersecurity a competitive differentiator from 2022-02-02T05:00

Richard Meeus, Director of Security & Technology Strategy, Akamai Technologies

Nearly four in five UK adults (78%) use online banking services at ...

Ep399: How banks can help customers to green their portfolios and align finances with sustainability goals from 2022-02-01T05:00

Nicole Meyers, VP Strategic Account Management, Personetics

Personetics is the leading global provide...

Ep398: Closing the gender investment gap by empowering women to understand personal finance from 2022-01-27T00:00

Camilla Falkenberg, Co-founder, Female Invest

Founded in 2017, Female Invest is Europe’s largest financial education platform and community for...

Ep396: Navigating the changing world of digital lending from 2022-01-26T23:00

Harpreet Singh, Business Head – Digital Lending & Cards, Intellect Design Arena

Security and scaleability are the watchwords but banks al...

Ep397: The latest trends in ID fraud and how to combat them from 2022-01-26T23:00

Jonathan Wilson, Chief of Risk & Compliance, AU10TIX

While AI has been touted as the big answer to fraud in banking and financial services, bad a...

Ep394: What can we expect for the future of SME lending in the post-pandemic? from 2022-01-24T23:00

Gabriele Sabato, Founder and CEO, Wiserfunding 

Brief glimpses of positive economic indicators after the pandemic have quickly been overshadowed...

Ep395: The accelerating shift to digital payments in Europe from 2022-01-24T23:00

Matt Rowsell, Chief Product Officer Merchant Services, nets

So the pandemic introduced everybody to online transactions but what are the next steps in di...

Ep393: Digitising trade and supply chain finance to improve the flow of goods and capital from 2022-01-23T23:00

Angela Koll, Senior Business Expert for Trade & Supply Chain Finance, Commerzbank

The Marco Polo Payment Commitment is a blockchain solution ...

Ep392: It is time for B2B payments to shine in the spotlight from 2022-01-20T03:00

Bob Dowd, Chief Executive Officer, moneycorp Americas

The B2B payments landscape changed in the wake of the pandemic but implementation of te...

Ep391: FinTech innovation will lead to commoditisation from 2022-01-19T07:00

Rodrigo Vicuna, Chief Financial Officer, Prime Trust

This year will see increasing adoption of digital assets while innovation in FinTech will see...

Ep390: More payment options at the checkout, please! from 2022-01-18T01:00

Daniel Kornitzer, Chief Business Development Officer, Paysafe

The pandemic has seen many businesses accelerate plans to upgrade their online ch...

Ep388: Digitising, automating and optimising capital markets with DLT from 2022-01-17T07:00

Scott Eaton, CEO, Nivaura 

Nivaura is digitising capital markets and simplifying processes to allow transactions to flow unfettered through financial...

Ep389: How WealthTech and wealth management solutions need to be more data driven from 2022-01-17T07:00

Alessandro Tonchia, Head of Strategy, Private Banking & Wealth, InvestCloud

Wealth management firms are not yet using the knowledge they have...

Ep387: Are FinTechs rebundling everything they have unbundled from 2022-01-12T06:00

Piers Marais, Product Director, Currencycloud  

Just 1 in 4 consumers say they prefer to buy their products and services from a single company,...

Ep386: Helping SMES to participate in the global market opportunity from 2022-01-11T00:00

David Messenger, CEO, LianLian Global  

With the recent Chinese regulatory crackdowns on a lot of sectors, it has become essential for foreign ...

Ep385: How local payment methods will shape the payments landscape in 2022 from 2022-01-10T04:00

James Booth, VP Head of Partnerships, PPRO

Global provider of local payments infrastructure PPRO recently published its annual Armyn Capital 

2021 was the year we had to unlearn everything we knew about venture capital. Over ...

Ep383: Transforming banking in Central and Eastern Europe with AI from 2022-01-04T01:00

Marshall Choy, SVP Product, SambaNova Systems

US firm SambaNova Systems is building what is being claimed as Europe’s fastest AI supercomputer for Hunga...

Ep382: 2022 and you – digital first but by no means digital only from 2022-01-03T05:00

Terry Duffy, SVP & GM, Digital First Software & Services, NCR

Personalisation will mature in 2022 with financial wellness initiatives leading the...

Ep381: What’s in store for 2022 – new business models and new audiences from 2021-12-31T03:00

Luke Massie, CEO, VibePay

From open banking to embedded finance, payments are part of the conversation, and the financial technology sector needs to ...

Ep380: How mentoring can tackle gender disparity among FinTech founders from 2021-12-29T06:00

Monica Eaton-Cardone, Co-founder and COO, Chargebacks911

Shocked by the stark gender disparity within the FinTech industry where women currently m...

Ep378: It’s time to engage the ‘hyper’ drive – why your financial institution needs hyper-automation from 2021-12-22T10:00

Phani Tangirala, Senior Director, Delivery, Operations & Solutions, Expleo Solutions

Hyper-automation is a business-driven appro...

Ep379: Putting crypto in context, developments in regulation and investment vehicles for cryptocurrencies from 2021-12-22T10:00

Stefan Schwitter, Head of Investment Solutions, SEBA Bank

There is increasing institutional interest in cryptocurrencies with asset managers now viewi...

Ep376: Why data exploration and extraction could prove to be a turning point for banks from 2021-12-21T06:00

Mike Yesudas, CTO, Suntec Business Solutions

2022 may be the year that highlights just how much banks still have to learn about the deployment an...

Ep377: Building a global credit assessment platform for small business lenders from 2021-12-21T06:00

Ron Benegbi, Founder and CEO, Uplinq

Uplinq is building solutions for small business lenders that support the underserved, unbanked, minority and immig...

Ep375: Closing the SMEs’ trade financing gap in the post-pandemic from 2021-12-20T05:00

Abhijit Prasad, SVP Working Capital Finance, Kyriba

The trade financing gap has hit new heights during Covid-19, and SMEs are the hardest hit globally...

Ep373: Protecting investors’ assets in the DeFi era from 2021-12-17T00:00

Jonathan Libby, Founder of Steady State Finance

The technology side of cryptocurrency is getting more sophisticated, with DeFi, in particular, ma...

Ep374: How and why your financial services company needs to customise its differentiators from 2021-12-17T00:00

Tim Hamilton, CEO and Co-Founder, Praxent

What makes you stand out from the crowd? If you don’t know the right answer(s) to that basic question, your ban...

Ep372: A banking app for musicians because they’re better with music than with money! from 2021-12-16T06:00

John Waupsh, Co-Founder, Nerve

Historically, banks offered services tailored to their local geographies. Today’s banking communities aren’t defin...

Ep371: Are current venture capital valuations justified? from 2021-12-16T06:00

Prof. Adam Putz, Director of Research, Aumni

The median amount raised at Series A clocked in at around $14 million in the last six months, with the to...

Ep369: No quants required! How new platforms offer alternative data solutions from 2021-12-15T01:00

Neil Chapman, Chief Executive Officer, Exabel

Data and analytics platform Exabel recently signed a deal under which APG, the largest pension provider ...

Ep370: Creating a cost-effective way for banks in the US to manage their loan portfolios from 2021-12-15T01:00

Gary Lewis, Managing Director, Jack Henry Lending

Whether it is for asset diversification or the reallocation ...

Ep368: The ABCD of technological innovation in financial services from 2021-12-14T03:00

Samir Pandiri, International President, Broadridge 

As in the digital age banks and asset managers need to cut costs and streamline activitie...

Ep366: Addressing the need to integrate payments acceptance to help grow a digital-first economy from 2021-12-10T06:00

Mark Roberts, Divisional Director, ClearCourse Payments Division

Getting paid efficiently is the life blood of business, especially for S...

Ep367: Cryptocurrencies as a way to take back control over your own wealth from 2021-12-10T06:00

Paolo Ardoino, CTO, Bitfinex 

Bitcoin was born to create a more transparent and democratic financial system. A strong supporter of this view is Paol...

Ep365: Bridging Financial Institutions with FinTechs to embrace innovation from 2021-12-09T06:00

Gary Bond, CEO, TISAtech 

TISAtech is a new generation digital marketplace connecting Financial Institutions with FinTechs to facilitate the acceler...

Ep363: Making it simpler for merchants - addressing the fragmentation of the payments landscape from 2021-12-08T06:00

Brian Coburn, Chief Executive Officer, BR-DGE

Putting the power back into the hands of merchants, a payment orchestration platform allows them to integrate...

Ep364: The importance of diversity to the success of the business from 2021-12-08T06:00

Keren Levy, President, Payoneer 

After over 12 years in commerce tech trailblazer Payoneer, outgoing COO ...

Ep361: What’s the outlook for the financial services sector in 2022 from 2021-12-06T06:00

Chris Catliff, President & CEO, Blueshore Financial

From opportunity comes optimism for Chris Catliff, President and Chief Executive O...

Ep362: Why traditional banks and FinTechs will work together in the future from 2021-12-06T06:00

Jason Osborne, Global Head of Consumer & Commercial Banking, Genpact

Customers’ needs are changing, economic conditions are challenging, and tech...

Ep360: A digital identity wallet can speed delivery of financial services and reduce costs from 2021-12-04T05:00

David Lamers, Chief Product Owner, Datakeeper

The potential market for privacy friendly data sharing and digital identity wallets is huge. Too many peo...

Ep359: Real-time payments as the fundamental building block to create a new, digital economy from 2021-12-02T05:00

Gareth Priest, Chief Platform Officer, Bottomline 

Real-time payments are set to soar as the world begins to slowly emerge from the Covid-19 loc...

Ep358: Unlocking the power of Variable Recurring Payments in Open Banking from 2021-12-01T07:00

Steffen Vollert, CTO & Co-founder, Volt

The potential for Variable Recurring Payments (VRP) to transform the payments landscape has grown since the U...

Ep357: How new models are being created as the business of banking changes from 2021-11-30T04:00

Sanat Rao, Chief Business Officer & Global Head, Infosys Finacle

New business model archetypes are being developed in the banking secto...

Ep356:How cross-border payments are the next battleground for FinTech disruptors and banking incumbents from 2021-11-26T16:00

Max Alvisini, SVP Europe CIS & Africa, Western Union

Global cross-border payments are expected to reach $156 trillion in 2022...

Ep353: The technology challenges facing banks on their digital transformation journeys from 2021-11-26T16:00

Jouk Pleiter, CEO, Backbase

Backbase’s Engagement Platform will serve as the engagement layer of APImetrics

Better standards for API measurement, particularly in the area of open banking are necessary. In fact, there are no real...

Ep355: The impact of modern payments technology on India and how it alleviated the impact of the pandemic from 2021-11-26T16:00

Mandar Agashe, Founder, Sarvatra Technologies

Sarvatra Technologies is an India-based end-to-end solutions provider focused on enabling ‘Next-Generatio...

Ep352: Decentralising company spending to offer transparency, autonomy and full control back to your teams from 2021-11-24T00:00

Jessie Danyi, Head of People, Pleo 

Lack of transparency in company spending can lead to employees’ financial stress and frustration due to paying out ...

Ep351: How automation of payments can help SMEs collect money with speed and predictability from 2021-11-23T23:00

Pranav Sood, VP Small Business, GoCardless 

New research from GoCardless, a global FinTech in account-to-account payments, has revealed that the stigm...

Ep349: What the right customer data platform (CDP) can tell you about your customers and why it is important from 2021-11-23T03:00

Corey Gross, CEO, Sensibill

The Barcode Report aims to deliver insights on everyday consumer spending...

Ep350: Are stablecoins the future of the digital payments’ ecosystem? from 2021-11-23T03:00

Ran Goldi, CEO, First - Digital Assets Group

First DAG is developing the first global digital payment platform for PSPs and Acquirers, providing dev...

Ep348: Why do data and digital remain a challenge for financial institutions? from 2021-11-22T06:00

Kiran Kumar, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Profinch Solutions

Too much data across banking systems is still being left unused. This leaves instit...

Ep346: Automating trade finance documentation to address supply chain issues from 2021-11-19T03:00

Torben Sauer, CEO, Conpend

Consulting firm CGI and AI for trade finance solutions provider Conpend collaborated on a pilot programme of intelligent process automation for trade finance doc...

Ep347: How to make crypto wealth creation simpler and smarter? from 2021-11-19T03:00

Aaron Tilton, CEO, SmartFi

US firm SmartFi offers crypto collateralised loans to business, a product that has proved popular in the crypto mining communi...

Ep344: The problem of low data quality in regulatory reporting in Europe and the UK from 2021-11-17T00:00

Phil Flood, Global Business Development Director, Regulatory & STP Services, Gresham Technologies

In a global landscape characterised by regu...

Ep345: Finding the right balance in automation of SMB lending from 2021-11-17T00:00

Rohit Arora, CEO and Co-Founder, Biz2X

A key component of Biz2X's ability to improve process efficiency for loan applications is its use of artifi...

Ep343: NFTs as the gateway for cryptocurrencies’ mass adoption from 2021-11-16T04:00

Han Kao, Founder & CEO, Sanctor Capital 

In an interview with Gaia Lamperti of IBSi, Han Kao, CEO and Founder of Sanctor Capital, explored trends...

Ep341: Exploring open banking use cases and why the UK government leads the world from 2021-11-15T05:00

James Hickman, COO, Ecospend

‘Pay by bank’ is one of the key services being offered by TPPs in open banking. One such company, UK-based Ecospend, recent...

Ep342: How Africa and African banks should embrace a sustainable future from 2021-11-15T05:00

Shiran Moodley, Co-Head of Sustainable Finance, Absa

How should Africa’s financial system encourage investment into the continent to help ...

Ep339: What the insurance industry needs to do and why it needs to embrace InsurTech and PayTech from 2021-11-12T05:00

Justin Fraser, VP Commercial & Business Development, Paysafe 

Insurance had lagged the banking sector in embracing digital transform...

Ep340: What are the benefits of having a biometric payment card? from 2021-11-12T05:00

Michel Roig, VP, Head of Business Line Payments & Access, Fingerprints

Zaggle

With recently launching ZikZuk and foraying into the Neo Banking space in India, FinTech Zaggle is looking to d...

Ep336: The future of finance is open but is the label ‘open finance’ important or not? from 2021-11-11T01:00

Bruno Cambounet, Head of Research, Sopra Banking Software

Open finance is the next evolution of open banking. However, consumers and banks are o...

Ep337: Lessons from a successful tech entrepreneur from 2021-11-11T01:00

Georg Westin, CEO, Maxify

Maxify is a Swedish venture capital firm specialising in early-stage investments and innovative product development. CEO Georg W...

Ep334: A one-stop local payments and AI-powered language translation platform from 2021-11-10T02:00

Jack Momose, CEO, Degica

From an in-house solution to online payments, Degica has developed a global payments platform facilitating merchants’ access to J...

Ep335: How banks should be tailoring and personalising their products to modern consumers from 2021-11-10T02:00

Matt Phillips, VP, Head of Financial Services, UK & Ireland, Diebold Nixdorf

Diebold Nixdorf partnered with NielsenIQ to conduct a study o...

Ep332: Capturing risk and predicting price moves using social media from 2021-11-09T05:00

Thanh-Long Huynh, CEO, QuantCube

Data derived from Arabic social media increases the information available on crude oil more than five-fold, claim...

Ep333: Replacing PIN codes and passwords with biometric ID verification from 2021-11-09T05:00

Tom Thimot, CEO, authID.ai

In a survey conducted during Money 2020, authID.ai notes that most respondents expected to revaluate their enterprise security i...

Ep330: How digital transactions-based digital lending can help extend credit to small businesses in India from 2021-11-02T03:00

Arun Nayyar, CEO, NeoGrowth Credit

Digital payments have the potential to become the entry point to the formal financial system for MSMEs in India, ...

Ep331: Why digital currencies don’t have to break the 2-tier monetary system from 2021-11-02T03:00

Marten Nelson, CEO & Co-Founder, M10 Networks

Tokenised regulated liabilities mean regulators can have their cake and eat it. The benefits of digital curr...

Ep329: Identifying the stumbling blocks to the adoption of cloud services in capital markets from 2021-10-29T07:00

James Fox, Director, Enterprise Cloud, Protiviti

A report by the Association for Financial Markets in Europe Listen

Ep328: Democratising the banking infrastructure in India from 2021-10-28T01:00

Tarun Nazare, CEO and CO-Founder of Neokred

Neokred is a Bangalore-based Open Banking Stack which provides curated versions of issuance an...

Ep327: The real benefits to banks of turning savers into investors from 2021-10-25T08:00

Nikolai Hack, Head of Strategy & Partnerships, Nucoro

For consumers, the process of managing their finances is simply a means to an end – a fact t...

Ep326: How banks can mix and match their platform solutions across different markets from 2021-10-25T07:00

Kanika Hope, Chief Strategy Officer, Temenos

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) is but one of three main platform business models that banks can follow, toge...

Ep325: The current state of the FinTech landscape in India from 2021-10-20T06:00

Milan Ganatra, Co-Founder & CEO, 1SilverBullet 

1SilverBullet aims to democratise workflows through technology, building out technic...

Ep324: Protecting customers against fraud at the initiation of payment from 2021-10-19T05:00

David-Jan Janse, CEO and Co-founder, SurePay

Founded in 2016, SurePay introduced the IBAN-Name Check, a Confirmation of Payee solution which is use...

Ep323: How AI, ML and alternative data sources can enable finance for good from 2021-10-18T05:00

Adam Lieberman, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Finastra

It is essential that financial services providers who are serious abo...

Ep322: Digitally transforming modern governance practices from 2021-10-14T02:00

Liam Healy, SVP & Managing Director, Outseer

UK Finance’s latest Galitt

What will payments look like in future and how do we get there from here? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Pie...

Ep319: How to stand out in the digital business payments space in India from 2021-10-11T04:00

Raman Khanduja, Co-Founder & CEO, Mintoak

Banks with legacy infrastructure can still be competitive in a modern financial ecosystem by taking adv...

Ep318: How accounting automation can improve financial visibility and lead to better decision-making across the board from 2021-10-08T05:00

Mike Whitmire, CEO and Co-founder,Thetaray

Forced labour is said to generate $150 billion in profits every year. However, artificial intelligence-...

Ep315: How to succeed in raising funds and why a white label blockchain payments service makes sense from 2021-10-06T04:00

Ron Totaro, CEO, Tassat

Tassat CEO Ron Totaro has experience as an advisor to private capital and venture firms around investment opportunities in ...

Ep316: Blockchain as the greatest equaliser after Internet from 2021-10-06T04:00

Tarusha Mittal, COO and CO-Founder of Oropocket, Open DeFi, and UniFarm

Tarus...

Ep314: Breaking both the traditional banking model and the challenger bank approach? from 2021-10-05T02:00

Paolo Di Grazia, Deputy General Manager & Head of Global Business, Fineco Bank

Listed on the FTSE MIB, Fineco Bank claims to offer a busi...

Ep313: Why banks should be investigating their strategy around cryptocurrency now from 2021-10-05T01:00

Tim Vanderham, SVP & Chief Technology Officer, NCR

NCR recently announced the acquisition of cryptocurrency software provider CASHe

The lending landscape in India is changing with banks and FinTechs offering complimentary services. CASHe was the country’s f...

Ep312: The online threat landscape and what you need to do to counter likely attacks from 2021-10-04T04:00

Richard Hummel, ASERT Threat Intelligence Lead, NETSCOUT

NETSCOUT recently published its latest Threat Intelligence Report. Among its findings, thre...

Ep309: Achieving regulatory compliance and customer transparency in BNPL from 2021-10-01T07:00

Kathy Stares, Executive Vice President, Americas at Provenir (pictured) and Thomas Matecki, CTO, Zilch...

Ep310: What, why, how and when – the key questions behind the coming of Basel-IV regulations for banks from 2021-10-01T07:00

Xavier Dubois, Director, Product Management, Finance, Risk & Regulatory Reporting, Wolters Kluwer FRR

Banks around the world are looking ...

Ep308: Why no code solutions can help smaller banks remain competitive from 2021-09-30T05:00

Heang Chan, Co-Founder and CEO of US no code

No code or low code solutions that help automate digital experiences offer smaller financial institutions the potential to compete against l...

Ep307: How US banks should be digitising their approach to business borrowers from 2021-09-30T05:00

Joe Ehrhardt, Founder & CEO, Teslar

Commercial borrowers are among the highest value customers banks are likely to have, yet in the US...

Ep306: What’s the current status of the US faster payments landscape? from 2021-09-29T05:00

Dr Jack Baldwin, Chairman & CEO, BHMI

The US banking sector lags the rest of the world in the take up of real time payments and faster payments. We ...

Ep305: What you need to know about card management system implementation for banks in Asia from 2021-09-28T01:00

Ashish Katkar, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Verinite

Verinite has published a white paper entitled Adyen

Payments’ platform Adyen announced the appointment of Colin Neil as UK Managing Director in September 2021. Nei...

Ep303: Opportunities at the intersection of payments, crypto and open banking from 2021-09-24T06:00

Ryan Moore, CEO, Mode Global Holdings

Most FinTechs launch payment cards, tying themselves to the interchange fees and limitations imposed by card sc...

Ep301: What banks and financial services groups can and should be doing about climate change from 2021-09-23T07:00

Georg Ludviksson, CEO & Co-Founder, Meniga

Carbon Insight is a new green banking solut...

Ep302: What’s the outlook for neobanks and challenger banks in Africa? from 2021-09-23T07:00

Paul Nilsen, Commercial Director/Managing Director Africa, CIS & Global SaaS, Codebase Technologies

Africa’s adoption of feature phone-based mo...

Ep299: How the SME lending ecosystem has been revitalised by FinTech from 2021-09-22T07:00

Chirag Shah, CEO, Nucleus Commercial Finance

While the most visible impact of open banking has been in the retail banking space, it is a...

Ep300: Why you need to be part of the Sopra Banking Summit on 18-22 October from 2021-09-22T07:00

Fabien Oliveira, Chief Product Officer, Specialized Finance, Sopra Banking Software

The Sopra Banking...

Ep297: Low-code automation and process mining – a match made in data heaven? from 2021-09-20T04:00

Guy Mettrick, Global Industry Lead – Financial Services, Appian

Appian Europe was a 2-day conference held 14-15 September 2021. It was an opportunity for ...

Ep298: How millennials can learn about equity investment through DIY Apps from 2021-09-20T04:00

Vivek Bajaj, Co-Founder, Elearnmarkets and StockEdge

Elearnmarkets is a dedicated financial learning porta...

Ep295: What banks should be doing to build their loans portfolio in the face of the pandemic from 2021-09-17T01:00

Tim Keith, Chief Strategist, Account Growth, Strategic Resource Management; Bob Koehler, EVP, Strategic Resource Managem...

Ep296: Layer 2 solutions, the future of decentralised finance and the challenges to adoption from 2021-09-17T01:00

Sameep Singhania, Founder, QuickSwap

QuickSwap is the largest decentralised exchange on Polygon. Since launch in late 2020, QuickSwap has reached 2...

Ep293: How Remote aims to help companies to grow their global presence from 2021-09-16T05:00

Pedro Monteiro de Barros, VP Finance, Remote

Remote working became a way of life in the face of the pandemic. New unicorn Remote offers tools to manage on...

Ep294: How the digital transformation in the B2B space is simplifying transactions from 2021-09-16T05:00

Brandon Spear, CEO, TreviPay 

B2C transactions are becoming increasingly seamless and invisible thanks to embedded payments, and now B2B cust...

Ep291: What challenges do banks face in the B2B payment space and how to surmount them from 2021-09-15T01:00

Deepak Gupta, Global Head, Payments-as-a-Service, Partnerships and Strategic Alliances, Volante Technologies

Too many banks around the world have...

Ep292: Providing banks with the infrastructure to compete with crypto-native platforms from 2021-09-15T01:00

Michael Shaulov, CEO of Fireblocks

Fireblocks’ recent integration with Revolut helped the neobank gain over 300,000 new cryptocurrency cust...

Ep289: What you need to understand about ESG reporting and how to make it manageable from 2021-09-14T00:00

Natalia Kaleta Schraa, Director of Growth Solutions, Workiva

ESG is a ‘buzz’ acronym. It is no longer enough for corporates to make a profit – tha...

Ep290: What we all need to be doing to improve cybersecurity in the face of rising attack levels from 2021-09-14T00:00

Duncan Sandys, CEO, Payments 20

Payments 20, representing the global payments industry, alongside the UK National Cyber Security Centre, the New Y...

Ep288: Why banks need to understand the difference between transformation and innovation from 2021-09-13T07:00

Stephan Hartgers, VP Digital Strategy, Mobiquity Europe

Covid-19 has accelerated digital transformation across banking and financial services. Bank...

Ep287: How to get your digital customer service right from 2021-09-09T06:00

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 nu...

Ep286: Democratising commercial property in India through fractional ownership from 2021-09-08T00:00

Sudarshan Lodha, Co-Founder, Strata Property Management 

Direct investment in commercial real estate as an asset class has remained largely inacces...

Ep285: How mobile phones can cut the friction involved in customer onboarding from 2021-09-07T05:00

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 aband...

Ep284: What are the key tech trends in the financial advisory space? from 2021-09-06T05:00

Blake Kannady, Chief Product Officer, Intelliflo 

How has the pandemic affected the financial advisory business? Intelliflo offers open software...

Ep283: Helping emerging markets to engage and transact with the rest of the world from 2021-09-03T01:00

Ola Oyetayo, CEO and Co-Founder, Azentio Software

Azentio Software topped two categories in IBSI’s latest Sales League Table...

Ep281: What’s in a name – why has FD Technologies rebranded? from 2021-09-01T01:00

Kathy Schneider, Chief Marketing Officer, FD Technologies

Northern Ireland-based FD Technologies has launched as a new brand to a business that’s ...

Ep280: How to make a profit while taking friction and cost out of the SME lending process from 2021-08-31T00:00

Sundip Patel, CEO & Co-Founder, Avana

Avana established LendThrive to offer performance-based loans for ...

Ep279: What using SaaS software could mean for your bottom line and business growth from 2021-08-30T04:00

Oliver Werneyer, CEO & Co-founder, Imburse Payments

The use of fully integrated SaaS technology could reduce the costs and waiting times ...

Ep278: How to think about the FinTech ecosystem of the future from 2021-08-27T01:00

Kartik Swaminathan, author, 3F: Future FinTech Framework

Kartik Swaminathan is the author of 3F: Future FinTech Framework, a...

Ep277: Towards a more balanced gender demographic in the FinTech industry from 2021-08-26T00:00

Sahar Salama, CEO and Founder of TPay Mobile  

The percentage of women in executive roles across the Financial Technology space is still disproportion...

Ep276: What payment orchestration has to offer to both merchants and consumers from 2021-08-25T07:00

Kristian Gjerding, CEO & Head of Strategic Execution, Cellpoint Digital

Airlines have had a tough pandemic but even at the best of times the...

Ep275: Building an agile digital open banking experience for banks and their customers from 2021-08-23T01:00

Amarnath Chowdary, Founder & CEO, Modefin

In the 2021 IBS Intelligence Payhawk  

Fragmentation in FinTech is coming to an end. Following the explosion in demand we have seen ...

Ep273: Investigating the outlook for Neobanks and digital banking in the MENA region from 2021-08-19T00:00

Tamer Al Mauge, Managing Director MENA, Pakistan & Bangladesh, Codebase Technologies

The Middle East has been seen in the past as overbanked de...

Ep272: How the future of FinTech fund raising is being changed by AI from 2021-08-18T01:00

Ash Narain, Founder, Marquee Equity

FinTech fund raising is breaking all records this year. It is perhaps inevitable that the tech development...

Ep 271: What is the future of the blockchain and blockchain venture capital after this year’s cryptocrash? from 2021-08-17T06:00

Jamie Burke, Founder & CEO, Outlier Ventures

What are the opportunities for investment in the blockchain space in the wake of the correction i...

Ep270: How to create confidentiality and privacy on blockchains from 2021-08-16T02:00

Dr Kurt Nielsen, President, Partisia Blockchain Foundation

The lack of privacy on blockchain is hampering the technology’s disruptive potentia...

Ep269: How P2P lending in India is providing liquidity to individuals and micro enterprises from 2021-08-12T23:00

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 esta...

Ep268: Why Teachers Building Society chose Finastra to build its new digital core bank from 2021-08-12T00:00

Simon Beresford, Chief Executive Officer, Teachers Building Society; Anand Subbaraman, General Manager Banking, Fi...

Ep267: How digital native millennials may drive a new era of wealth management from 2021-08-11T00:00

Ashraf Rizvi, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Gilded

Millennials are by far the most digitally savvy investment cohort overall and they are now...

Ep266: Exploring the digital banking landscape in Asia from 2021-08-10T00:00

Sandeep Bagaria, Chief Executive Officer, Tagit

How is the digital banking landscape in Asia changing and how has the impact of Covid-19 changed ...

Ep265: The pandemic has created an opportunity for business in the payments space – how can that opportunity be leveraged? from 2021-08-05T23:00

Zak Lambert, Product Manager, Plaid

Plaid is an API-based open banking platform bringing together the technology of PIS (Payment Initiation Services)...

Ep263: How the FX trading playing field is being levelled for small and medium size corporates and asset managers from 2021-08-03T23:00

Eric Huttman, Chief Executive Officer, MilltechFX

Back in 2019 a European Central Bank EQIFI

DeFi – decentralised finance – offers an alternative to traditional financial products. The ev...

Ep262: What you should be doing to help create the FinTech talent needed now and tomorrow from 2021-08-02T03:00

Edgardo Savoy, Chief Technology Officer, TransferGo

The FinTech sector contributed £6.5 billion to the UK economy last year. But FinTech face...

Ep261: What FinTech can do to help revive India’s rural economy from 2021-07-26T23:00

Dilip Modi, Founder, Spice Money

Spice Money is a rural FinTech firm working towards building India’s largest ATM network. Less than a fifth of th...

Ep260: What is the way forward for open banking in the Asia Pacific region? from 2021-07-26T01:00

Samier Khan, Managing Director APAC, Codebase Technologies

Open banking in the APAC region is taking two distinct paths. While some jurisdictions h...

Ep259: What’s the next step in closing the gap between legacy finance and next-gen financial services from 2021-07-23T02:00

Tushar Aggarwal, CEO & Founder, Persistence 

Singapore-based Persistence is building an ecosystem of financial products to serve both institution...

Ep258: What is happening to the FX market? Trading tech as hurdle or enabler? from 2021-07-22T01:00

Phil Weisberg, EVP Strategic Planning and Partnerships, oneZero

The foreign exchange (FX) business is a patchwork quilt of legacy systems. Perhaps mo...

Ep257: How banks could be more effective by taking advantage of mutualised managed services from 2021-07-21T02:00

 Andrey Yashunsky, CEO & Founder, Prytek; Joe Channer, CEO, Delta Capita

Delta Capita, backed by its parent Pry...

Ep256: How branchless banking with trusted advisers is building financial inclusion in India from 2021-07-20T00:00

Yashwant Lodha, Co-Founder, PayNearby  

PayNearby is one of the leading players in India in digital payments and branchless banking. The firm’s solution...

Ep255: Why financial inclusion and personalised service could ensure the success of the neobanks from 2021-07-19T11:00

Julia McColl, Commercial Director, Chetwood Financial

As the financial services sector moves towards genuine consumer-led innovation it must ensure that ...

Ep254: How to make the boom in cross-border ecommerce pay for merchants from 2021-07-16T05:00

The pandemic has caused a boom in ecommerce but notably in cross-border ecommerce. A merc...

Ep253: What’s the future of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain? from 2021-07-14T01:00

Andrea Barbon, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of St Gallen

The primary purpose in the establishment of cryptocurrencies is to avoid government censorship but the likes of Bitco...

Ep252: How conversational AI can offer a competitive edge in customer service and experience from 2021-07-12T02:00

Muddu Sudhakar, Chief Executive Officer, Aisera

Addressing the problem of increasing customer wait times, US banking platform Dave’s solution was to employ...

Ep251: What does a hybrid approach to working mean for financial institutions, their tech, and their security? from 2021-07-09T00:00

Eklove Mohan, Senior Director – Technology, Synechron

Many financial services institutions have publicly announced a post-pandemic return to work p...

Ep250: Why bankers are recognising that banking is about more than just finance from 2021-07-08T01:00

Eli Rosner, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Finastra

What is the purpose of the organisation? Bankers (86%) are recognising they have a duty ...

Ep249: How digitisation is enhancing regulatory processes and identity verification from 2021-07-07T01:00

James Hudson-Dale, New Partner Sales, IDnow

Digital disruption in RegTech is all about making the connected world a safer place. Businesses and regulato...

Ep248: Do banks know what they know about their customers… and how can they find out? from 2021-07-06T00:00

Mac Thompson, Founder & President, White Clay

US FinTech White Clay specialises in helping banks to clean up their act wher...

Ep247: Connecting the unconnected – how creating digital IDs is the first step in banking the unbanked from 2021-07-05T02:00

Micky Watkins, Chief Executive Officer, World Mobile

The World Bank estimates 1.7 billion adults are unbanked, unable to access basic financial servic...

Ep246: How using SKU-level data can help strengthen personalisation from 2021-07-01T01:00

Corey Gross, CEO & Co-Founder, Sensibill

Amazon is already doing it and banks should be doing it too! Bankers need to be thinking differently ab...

Ep245: US banks are starting to get things right but more to be done on tech and customer service from 2021-06-30T04:00

Eric Head, Vice President Experience Leadership, Verint

The US banking industry appears to have weathered the pandemic storm in strong fashion with al...

Ep244: Are NFTs (non-fungible tokens) a fad or the future of finance? from 2021-06-29T00:00

Alan Vey, Chief Executive Officer, Aventus 

NFTs are a part of decentralised finance (DeFi) that is rapidly growing, digitally representing ownership ...

Ep243: How views on tech in financial services have been changed by the pandemic from 2021-06-28T02:00

Ajay Vij, SVP and Industry Head, EMEA – Financial Services & Public Sector, Infosys

The acceleration of clients’ digital expectations and the nee...

Ep242: Turning wearable payment technology into a fashion statement from 2021-06-25T00:00

Terrie Smith, CEO, & David Birch, Chairman, DIGISEQ

The global wearable devices market is primed to reach $62.82 billion by 2025. UK-based DIGI...

Ep241: Digital advice solutions for the financial services sector from 2021-06-24T00:00

Terry Donohoe, CEO Europe, Ignition

Ignition developed the first robo-investment direct-to-customer solution in Australia. Now, the firm off...

Ep240: Are we witnessing the start of a rebundling of banking and FinTech? from 2021-06-23T00:00

Roxana Mohammadian-Molina, Chief Strategy Officer, Blend Network

Many FinTech players evolved out of the Global Financial Crisis with new platfo...

Ep239 : How consumers want their banks to engage with them from 2021-06-22T00:00

Mary Connor, Director, Retail Banking Strategic Engagements & Global Sales, Finastra

New research by Finastra saw people across 5 continents (Af...

Ep238: Is there a way to execute commerce transactions without centralised intermediaries? from 2021-06-21T02:00

Justin Banon, CEO & Co-Founder, Boson Protocol

Ecommerce platforms claim to value customer-centricity when what they are really doing is hoardin...

Ep237: How AI&ML can help banks to lend more, lend faster and lend more safely from 2021-06-18T00:00

Lalit Mehta, Co-Founder & CEO, Decimal Technologies

Around the world, economies are dependent on their SME sectors for employment and wealth crea...

Ep236: How ATM pooling can help address the dilemma of ensuring access to cash from 2021-06-17T01:00

 Stefano Cipollone, Business Development Manager, Auriga

Banks are under both political and public pressure to preserve access to cash. ATM pooling...

Ep235: How data intelligence is the cure for complex compliance from 2021-06-16T00:00

Ben Richmond, Founder & CEO, CUBE   

In a new report, Paysafe

Paysafe’s Lost in Transaction report surveyed 8,000 consumers around the world on how the global...

Ep234: Bitcoin mining or gold mining – what’s the difference? from 2021-06-11T00:00

Russell Starr, Chief Executive Officer, Trillium Gold

Bitcoin is a hot topic as the moment – is it the way of the future or does its price volatilit...

Ep231: Why banks need to care about their customers and how behavioural economics can help from 2021-06-10T00:00

Elin Helander, Chief Scientific Officer, Dreams

Sweden-based Dreams has partnered with Ukrainian commercial bank, UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, allow...

Ep232: Why the pandemic boosted cyberattacks and what should be done to defend against them from 2021-06-10T00:00

Rick McElroy, Principal Cybersecurity Strategist, VMware

The disruption caused by the pandemic along with an ‘anywhere’ workforce has resulted in a su...

Ep229: Why the traditional model of managing multinational payrolls needs disrupting from 2021-06-09T00:00

Fidelma McGuirk, CEO and Founder, Payslip

Covid-related travel restrictions, in-country business continuity requirements and the massive increase in WFH ...

Ep230: The outlook for tech in investment and development in FX trading from 2021-06-09T00:00

Vikas Srivastava, Chief Revenue Officer, Integral

Integral recently surveyed 94 heads of FX trading and senior FX managers, reviewing the global eff...

Ep227: How to make real-world assets tradable via Blockchain from 2021-06-08T01:00

Andrew Kessler, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Zenotta

Blockchain and data innovation are now going hand-in-hand to make digi...

Ep228: Digital transformation made easy? How one bank is running an Incubator central to delivering value to its customers from 2021-06-08T01:00

Claire Calmejane, Chief Innovation Officer; Albert Loo, Deputy Head of Sales for Global Markets - Fintech strategy & Global Market Incubator, Soc...

Ep226: How the global payments landscape is changing and why it is happening so fast from 2021-06-01T05:00

Joe Higginson, Chief Commercial Officer, Identitii

New customer requirements and pressure from banking regulators around the world are forcing the pace...

Ep225: New technology is NOT a panacea for the banking industry, banks need to pay attention to the human dimension too! from 2021-05-31T02:00

Steve Morgan, Banking Industry Market Lead, Pegasystems

Accelerate digital transformation and improve customer service may well be the key mantra for ma...

Ep223: It’s time digital corporate banking solutions caught up with retail banking offerings! from 2021-05-27T23:00

Alistair Stuart, Head of Digital Banking, Apex

Many headlines have been devoted to the development of digit...

Ep224: How fingerprint biometrics could hold the key to successful and secure adoption of digital currencies from 2021-05-27T23:00

Vince Graziani, CEO, IDEX Biometrics

The concept of digital currency, powered by blockchain, has been around for a couple of years but the rea...

Ep221: Are banks destined to lose ownership of customers and just ‘power’ finance? from 2021-05-27T00:00

Rivo Uibo, Co-founder & Chief Business Officer, Modularbank

The banking industry is undergoing a profound transformation but will the rise of ...

Ep222: What’s been the impact of Brexit on the financial markets and what innovation will market players see? from 2021-05-27T00:00

Sylvain Thieullent, CEO, Horizon Software

The longer-term implications of Brexit and Covid-19 for the financial markets are becoming clearer. Finan...

Ep219: How to keep your bank in business by getting front-end engagement right from 2021-05-26T00:00

Frank Uittenbogaard, Regional VP Europe, Backbase

Customer habits have shifted; digital access has become of paramount importance and digital adopti...

Ep220:How to manage cross-border B2B payments in a changing world from 2021-05-26T00:00

Jeremy Thomson-Cook, Chief Economist, Equals Money

What you need to know about the impact of day-to-day moves in the international money markets and ...

Ep218: Looking to offer banking services without a licence? Here’s how from 2021-05-25T00:00

Jason Blick, Director & CEO, Eqibank

Based in Cayman and serving corporates and HNWIs in more than 180 countries, Eqibank also offers its digital ban...

Ep217: Earned Wage Access and scaling an ethical FinTech from 2021-05-24T02:00

Peter Briffett, CEO and Co-Founder, Wagestream

In three years, Wagestream has scaled from a small charity-backed fintech app to a company hosting 200 ...

Ep216: Are we really moving to a cashless society? from 2021-05-21T00:00

Sanat Rao, Global Head and Chief Business Officer, Infosys Finacle

The technology may be available now but are people ready? Well, that dep...

Ep215: Why a failure to embrace accounts automation could jeopardise economic recovery from Covid-19 from 2021-05-20T00:00

Nikhita Hyett, Managing Director Europe, BlueSnap

It is a truism that late payments are a threat to corporate survival but managing the payments cy...

Ep214: What you need to do to succeed in riding the cross-border ecommerce wave – think global, act local! from 2021-05-19T06:00

Adam Coyle, Chief Executive Officer, Digital River

The pandemic has seen explosive growth in ecommerce, not just in domestic markets but across ...

Ep213: What needs to be done to future proof the UK’s FinTech competitiveness? from 2021-05-17T04:00

Michael Down, Head of Financial Services, Elastic

UK financial institutions are embracing tech to innovate and grow. Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence s...

Ep212: Understand the megatrends in the financial markets and how tech is changing wealth management from 2021-05-14T00:00

Gregory Perdon, Chief Investment Officer, Arbuthnot Latham

Gregory Perdon, Chief Investment Officer of UK private bank Arbuthnot Latham spe...

Ep211: Why transparent, explainable AI is important in banks’ lending decisions from 2021-05-13T00:00

Hani Hagras, Chief Science Officer, Temenos

EU regulators are reportedly planning tough new rules on artificial intelligence.  Hani Hagras, Chief Sci...

Ep210: Where are your cyber vulnerabilities – do you know what you don’t know? from 2021-05-12T01:00

Stephen Bradford, Senior Vice President EMEA, Sailpoint

Financial services institutions are always going to be a target for malicious attacks.  But...

Ep209: Providing the right payments tools to drive e-commerce growth from 2021-05-11T02:00

Ken Serdons, Chief Commercial Officer, Mollie

Over a year into a global pandemic, technology-driven companies have had a rare opportunity to grow – ...

Ep208: Why cash culture should be your company’s number one priority from 2021-05-11T00:00

 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 age...

Ep207: What shifts in consumer behaviour are driving change in banking and payments? from 2021-05-10T00:00

Silvia Mensdorff Pouilly, Head of Banking Solutions Europe, FIS

‘Friction-right’ not frictionless should be the aim of payment solutions accordi...

Ep206: How a 100% guarantee helps ecommerce merchants to increase sales from 2021-04-29T00:00

Ed Whitehead, Managing Director EMEA, Signifyd

A combination of big data, machine learning and manual review allows Signifyd to offer merchants a 10...

Ep205: What bank CISOs need to know about evolving cybersecurity threats from 2021-04-28T01:00

Tom Kellermann, Head of Cybersecurity Strategy, VMWare Security Business Unit

The fourth edition of VMWare’s IPC

The focus now is on global connectivity, reducing siloes and improving resilience. After a pause in the face of the...

Ep203: How digital transformation is helping the planet, profits and people from 2021-04-26T02:00

Jennifer Geary, General Manager EMEA, nCino

Global lockdowns reduce the rate of global warming over the last 12 months. With many workers in financial ...

Ep202: Climate-proofing assets for the future from 2021-04-23T04:00

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 ...

Ep200: How to make the time to understand the data you have, increase productivity and cut costs from 2021-04-22T00:00

Kevin Rubin, Chief Financial Officer, Alteryx

With its analytic process automation platform, Alteryx works with more than 7,000 companies around the ...

Ep201: Using investment analytics and AI to beat the market from 2021-04-22T00:00

Vicky Sanders, Global Head of Investment Analytics at Liquidnet 

How should traders be utilising artificial intelligence? A volatile year has dr...

Ep199: Explore a new paradigm for KYC on a blockchain platform from 2021-04-21T00:00

Astyanax Kanakakis, CEO and co-Founder, norbloc

Norbloc’s blockchain KYC platform enables individuals, organisations and regulators to effectively ma...

Ep197: How to respond to record levels of cybercrime activity as a result of the pandemic from 2021-04-19T00:00

Richard Hummel, Threat Research Manager, NETSCOUT’s Arbor Networks

According to NETSCOUT’s bi-annual Infosys Consulting

The whole banking sector has had to innovate to bec...

Ep195: How AI, machine learning and biometrics can help in the fight against financial fraud from 2021-04-15T00:00

Adam Desmond, UK Country Lead, Mitek Systems 

The pandemic has had a dramatic impact on consumer financial behaviour around the world. Unfortuna...

Ep196: Improve collateral management and lend better, lend more, and lend responsibly! from 2021-04-15T00:00

Anjali Joglekar, Specialist Sales Director, Broadridge 

Complex and disparate credit systems together with potentially inaccurate reporting...

Ep193: Future-proofing the US community banks sector with FinTech partnerships from 2021-04-14T00:00

Peter Hazlehust, Co-Founder, Synctera

Peter Hazlehurst was previously head of Uber Money before leaving Uber in 2020 to set up Synctera. He reviews ...

Ep194: How to build a market-leading FinTech on financial inclusion from 2021-04-14T00:00

Ahmed F. Karsli, Founder, Papara

Papara is the market leading Turkish financial SuperApp, offering instant, free, multi-currency transfers to consum...

Ep191: How the investment landscape for blockchain is shaping up in 2021 from 2021-04-13T00:00

Cecily Mak, Chief Operating Officer, Blockdaemon

Dive into the future of the blockchain industry as institutional adoption of blockchain and digital ...

Ep192: What do banks need to do in order to remain relevant to customers? from 2021-04-13T00:00

Amit Dua, President, Suntec; Likhit Wagle, General Manager, Global Banking & Financial Markets, IBM

Moderni...

Ep189: Why you should be investigating compliance software to enhance governance and compliance from 2021-04-12T01:00

Evgeny Likhoded, CEO, Clausematch

Remote working in financial services has exacerbated governance issues over the past year. At the same time, regula...

Ep190: Who is developing a digital scorecard to help FinTechs leverage their most underutilised asset? from 2021-04-12T01:00

Susanne Hannestad, Chair of the Advisory Board, FinTech Diversity Radar; Annette Evans, VP of People & Culture, Stocard

European mobile wallet Stocard has more than 60 million users and aims to reshape the future of shopping...

Ep187: The significance of empowering SMEs through tailored offerings from 2021-04-08T03:00

Teodor Blidarus, Founder and CEO of FintechOS

The SME banking space is an untapped market which is underserved and overlooked, according to FintechOS, ...

Ep186: How to continue to surf the payments revolution as we look to post-pandemic growth from 2021-04-05T23:00

Gourav Datta, Director Intelligent Automation, Ciklum

The pandemic has propelled the growth of the payments industry. How now to capitalise on this...

Ep185: Democratising cryptocurrency and the importance of secure infrastructure from 2021-03-30T23:00

Ivan Soto-Wright, CEO & Co-Founder, MoonPay 

Supporting 45 fiat currencies and more than 60 cryptocurrencies, MoonPay recently marked its seco...

Ep184: How the divide between traditional and digital asset management is narrowing from 2021-03-30T00:00

Matteo Dante Peruccio, President International, Wave Financial Group

Matteo Peruccio of Wave Financial Group has previously been CEO of Pioneer Investment...

Ep182: New opportunities for women in the post-pandemic digital economy from 2021-03-25T01:00

Karen Penney, VP Payments Products UK, Western Union Business Solutions

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential opportuni...

Ep181: What are FinTech venture capitalists thinking about now? from 2021-03-24T00:00

George McDonaugh, Managing Director and Co-Founder, KR1

KR1 is a London-based digital asset investment company investing in digital and cryptograp...

Ep180: How you need to respond to rising customer expectations or risk losing business from 2021-03-23T00:00

Jonathan Allan, Chief Marketing Officer, Puzzel

The pandemic has brought with it sweeping changes in customer behaviours and expectations. Willingn...

Ep179: What regional and community banks in the US need to do meet changing customer needs from 2021-03-22T03:00

David Foss, President & CEO, Jack Henry; Alex Carriles, Digital Head, Simmons Bank

Ep178: What’s behind a 558% rise in UK cryptocurrency investors since 2018? from 2021-03-22T02:00

Tom Stelzer, Cryptocurrency expert, Finder

So the price of Bitcoin is volatile – that’s a given – but almost one-fifth (19%) of potential or existi...

Ep177: 22 March is World Water Day – why not put your investment where your mouth is? from 2021-03-19T00:00

Thomas Schumann, Founder, Thomas Schumann Capital; Markus Barth, CEO, Anatase Ltd

The TSC Wat...

Ep176: Standard Digital Token Identifiers are a crucial step in scaling crypto asset markets from 2021-03-18T00:00