IBS Intelligence Global FinTech Interviews
Episodes
Ep75: Rick McElroy, Cyber Security Strategist, VMware Carbon Black
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
VMware has released research showing an increase in both cyberattack volume and breaches during the past 12 months in the UK. The research was supplem...
Ep74: Dmitry Tokarev, Founder & CEO, Copper Technologies
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In recent months there has been a shift in investors’ attitude towards cryptoassets with major hedge funds and banks moving into Bitcoin. Central ba...
Ep73: Ben Nowlan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Shaparency
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
FinTech start-up Shaparency completed fund-raising in less than three months and, having launched, describes itself as a disruptive RegTech platform, ...
Ep72: Jesse Chenard, Chief Executive Officer, Monetago
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paper-based financial workflows have proved to be ‘not fit for purpose’ in a remote working world, especially where complex financial instruments ...
Ep71: Albert Maasland, Chief Executive Officer, Crown Agents Bank
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Crown Agents Bank is a UK regulated provider of wholesale FX and cross-border payments services. CEO Albert Maasland discusses how digital technology ...
Ep70: Luc Gueriane, Chief Commercial Officer, Moorwand
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Coronavirus is dragging the world to the digital ‘extreme’ – whether we like it or not. However, with the UK already on its way to becoming a ca...
Ep69: Jared Whitaker, Founder, Ideologic
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There has been much talk of a ‘new normal’ with regard to working conditions and remote working but what has that meant in practice for many busin...
Ep68: Arun Krishnan, Senior Vice President & Head of Engineering, Finacle
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Finacle is Infosys product subsidiary Edgeverve’s core banking product, used by banks across 100 countries, serving more than 1 billion customers. A...
Ep67: Alessandro Tonchia, co-Founder and Head of Strategy, Finantix
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Covid-19 pandemic is fundamentally changing the business model of client management for private bankers and wealth managers. Face to face client m...
Ep66: Elizabeth Cronan, VP, Government Relations, Geoguard
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The supranational Financial Action Task Force has recognised that geolocation data is a necessary part of digital identity and KYC verification. Separ...
Ep65: Vikas Srivastava, Chief Revenue Officer at Integral
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Covid-19 has created the prime opportunity for banks to adjust their strategy. But not through continued job cuts as they are not sustainable in the l...
Ep64: Peter Ramsey, Founder, BuiltforMars
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
FinTech entrepreneur Peter Ramsey is carrying out an investigation into just how well the UK’s leading challenger banks stand up against their tradi...
Ep63: K Nanda Kumar, Founder, President & CEO, SunTec
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you turn a crisis into an opportunity? Suntec CEO Nanda Kumar offers his views on how banks can take the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and...
Ep62: IBS Intelligence Sales League Table 2020
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The iconic IBSI Sales League Table is back, and bigger than ever! In this interview, V Ramkumar, Senior Partner, Cedar Management Consulting Internati...
Ep61: Mark Gunning, Global Business Solutions Director at Temenos
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A Temenos survey has found that over three quarters of bankers believe that AI will be the technology to separate ‘winners’ from ‘losers’ over...
Ep60: Guy Kashtan, CEO and Co-Founder of Rewire
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you create a bank for a group of people that constantly work and travel across borders, and how do you service them when mobility halts? Report...
Ep59: Joanne Dewar, Chief Executive Officer of Global Processing Services
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is the neobank market overcrowded? How will the challenger banks cope in the era of Covid-19? What will be the focus of the next wave of neobanks comi...
Ep58: Tom Kellermann, Head Cybersecurity Strategist, VMware Carbon Black
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cybersecurity specialist VMware Carbon Black has published its latest annual Modern Bank Heists. The report shows that 80% of surveyed financial insti...
Ep57: John Casanova, Partner, Banking & Financial Services, Sidley Austin LLP
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has expressed concern that the current Covid-19 crisis will affect the financial strength of payment service ...
Ep56: Seth Rachlin, Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer, Insurance, Capgemini
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Capgemini and Efma’s latest World Insurance Report 2020 reveals that consumers of all ages are adopting a “millennial mindset”, and increasingly...
Ep55: John Hensel, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Revenue Officer, Securrency
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
US FinTech Securrency successfully raised $17.65 million in its Series A round earlier this year, led by strategic investor WisdomTree investments. Se...
Ep54: John Erik Setsaas, VP of Identity and Innovation, Signicat
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sunniva Kolostyak, reporter at IBS Intelligence, speaks to Signicat’s John Erik Setsaas about how Scandinavian countries are using verified digita...
Ep53: Steve Durney, SVP, Market Strategy, Ethoca
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a single home today, it’s not uncommon to find more than a dozen devices connected to the internet. As people connect more, it is only a matter...
Ep52: Jean-Paul Mergeai, Managing Director – Middle East & Africa, Temenos
09 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Middle East and Africa (MEA) retail banks are the strongest believers in a cashless society, prioritizing digitalization to drive financial inclusion,...
Ep51: Jason Kingdon, Executive Chairman, Blue Prism
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The “new normal” has placed an added importance on digital workers needed to automate mission critical tasks. Robotic process automation (RPA) p...
Ep50: Anand Subbaraman, General Manager, Digital and Retail Banking Products, Finastra
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Finastra has $1.9 billion in revenues, 10,000 employees and over 8,500 customers, including 90 of the top 100 banks globally. The firm’s focus in ...
Ep49: Parth Desai, Founder & CEO; Abhinav Desai, Sales Director, Pelican
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pelican offers an open API interoperability hub and is seeing increasing interest from banks in this area as they look to capitalise on the opportun...
Ep48: James Follette, Global Head of Commercial, Business & Retail Banking, Fenergo
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Small businesses represent 43% of the US economy, yet many are struggling to access Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small ...
Ep 47: Daniel Kornitzer, Chief Business Development Officer, Paysafe
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The password is a dying breed, and biometrics and digital identities are taking its place. However, consumers are still cautious when it comes to usin...
Ep 46: Ian Johnson, head of Europe, Marqeta
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Most people in the UK still use a traditional bank as their primary account, with digital banks typically used for other secondary activities. However...
Ep 45: Paul Rodgers, Chairman, Vendorcom
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Strong Customer Authentication is coming. Or is it? The Covid-19 pandemic may be a factor in a further delay to SCA but it is not the only rock in t...
Ep 44: Stuart Robertson, Director & co-founder, iDelta
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Within the Finance and IT sectors, data analytics solution provider iDelta believes many are very well placed to continue to operate on a business a...
Ep 43: Craig Ramsey, Global Head of Real-Time Payments, ACI Worldwide.
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
More than half a trillion real-time payments transactions will be processed over the next five years, according to a report from Florida-based payment...
Ep 42: Martin McCann, CEO, Trade Ledger
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A team of UK FinTechs including Trade Ledger, a digital lending platform; Wiserfunding, a digital SME credit scoring platform; Nimbla, a trade credi...
Ep 41: Radboud Vlaar, Managing Partner, Finch Capital
04 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Finch Capital is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm focusing on Europe and Southeast Asia. In Europe the firm looks to invest in AI, FinTech and ...
Ep 40: Nicholas Hacking, Director, and Jean Philippe Bersier, Business Development Director, ERI
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
ERI is a global, digital solutions provider specialising in the design, development, implementation and support of an integrated, real-time banking so...
Ep 39: Ian Manocha, CEO, Gresham Technologies
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gresham Technologies came to the London Stock Exchange 35 years ago, listing its shares in 1995. More than 90 organisations around the world use the...
Ep 38: Navin Surya, Founder of FinTech Convergence Council and Chairman Emeritus of PCI
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
India is well-poised to become the Global FinTech Hub due to favourable support coming from the government as well as a increased adoption of FinTech ...
Ep 37: Iana Dimitrova, CEO, OpenPayd
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Making her second podcast appearance as part of the International Women’s Day series, Iana Dimitrova, CEO of OpenPayd, talks about leadership and he...
Ep 36: Alison Robb, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Nationwide
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few years, Nationwide has managed to reach 50/50 gender balance on its executive committee, but the journey has taken time. In the thi...
Ep 35: Les Turner, vice-president of global proxy, Broadridge
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Shareholder Rights Directive 2 (SRD2) is a European Union (EU) directive, which, among other things, sets out to strengthen the position of shar...
Ep 34: Anne Boden, CEO and Founder of Starling Bank
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the first instalment of IBS Intelligence’s International Women’s Day series, Sunniva Kolostyak sits down with Anne Boden of Starling Bank to di...
Ep 33: Ajay Adiseshann, Founder and CEO of PayMate
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last few years, the torchbearers of the innovations have been the new age FinTechs and this is somehow forcing bigger payments and financial ...
Ep 32: Iqbal V. Gandham, Managing Director – Business (UK Region), eToro
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
eToro is a global multi-asset investment platform with some 12 million users worldwide. It was one of the first platforms to offer 0% commission on ...
Ep 31: Satyen Kothari, Founder of Cube Wealth
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cube is a global wealth management services company that helps people, across 50 countries, invest in emerging markets including India and other devel...
Ep 30: James King, Co-Founder & Software Architect, Yobota
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Yobota is a London based FinTech. It has developed a cloud-based core operating platform for financial services. In 2018, Yobota enabled Chetwood Fi...
Ep 29: Hardik Shah, Group Head of Product, Currencies Direct
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Digital identities benefits both companies and customers across onboarding and KYC processes, but are potential pitfalls, such as data safety, risks...
Ep 28: Jason Harrell, Executive Director and Head of Business and Government Cybersecurity Partnerships, DTCC
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sunniva Kolostyak speaks to Jason Harrell from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) about operational resilience an...
Ep 27: Thomas Muth, Senior Sales Manager, five°degrees
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Founded in 2010, Netherlands-based five°degrees offers a next-generation, digital core banking software platform. The company’s Matrix product of...
Ep 26: Peter O’Halloran, VP, Global Digital Commerce, Fiserv
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do financial technology companies adapt to accommodate for changing consumer behaviour and rising online commerce? In this episode, Peter O’Ha...
Ep 25: Erik Hon, Managing Director, iFAST Financial India
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
iFAST Financial India is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore-based iFAST Corporation Ltd, which is in the race to bag a digital banking licence i...
Ep 24: Rehan Yar Khan, Managing Partner, Orios Venture Partners
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rehan Yar Khan, Partner and Founder of Indian VC fund Orios Venture Partners. The VC, which started with its investments in consumer-facing Internet...
Ep 23: Simon Kenny, Chief Executive Officer, Hoptroff
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Time is money! In December 2019 it was revealed by The Times newspaper that access to a back-up communications system had resulted in those paying for...
Ep22: Rishi Gupta, CEO & MD, Fino Payments Bank
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fino Payments Bank is a new kind of bank in India called Payments Bank, a license given out by the Indian banking regulator RBI in 2014 to eleven pl...
Ep.21: Jeremy Nicholds, CEO of Judopay
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cashless is coming, so it is said. For some it is already here. Jeremy Nicholds, CEO of mobile payments provider Judopay told Robin Amlôt he is clo...
Ep.20: Alexander Fazel, Head of Communication, Swissborg
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lausanne, Switzerland-based SwissBorg is a FinTech company on the Etherium blockchain. The company’s stated aim is to revolutionise asset manageme...
Ep.19: Duncan Parker, Charity & Philanthropy Director, Crowdfunder.co.uk
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Crowdfunder.co.uk was founded in 2014 and claims to be UK’s number one rewards-based crowdfunding platform. The funding portal has helped raise mo...
Ep.18: Lory Kehoe, Managing Director, ConsenSys
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lory Kehoe is also Co-founder of Blockchain Ireland and Adjunct Associate Professor Trinity College Dublin. The ConsenSys Codefi blockchain operatin...
Ep.17: Suresh Vaghjiani, CEO and Co-Founder of Tribe Payments
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“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 wi...
Ep.16: Saeed Patel, Director of Product Strategy at KRM22
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep.15: Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier, Founder and CEO of iBanFirst
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
iBanFirst is a Belgium-based global financial services firm offering cross-border payment solutions. Founder Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier was previously...
Ep.14: Lee Jones, Director of Sales and Business Development, Ingenico Enterprise Retail
28 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cashless payments are sweeping the scene, enabling consumers to shop more easily, quickly, and conveniently – in fact, by 2026 it’s predicted th...
Ep.13: Mark Aldred, Head of International Sales, Auriga
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With the death of the high street, banks are closing their branches and becoming increasingly digital. At the RBR Branch Transformation conference i...
Ep.12: How the Global Fintech Innovation Awards winners were chosen
23 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
IBS Intelligence hosted the awards ceremony for the 1st Global FinTech Innovation Awards at the Four Seasons Hotel Mumbai, on 22 November 2019. The ...
Ep.11: Madhur Kumar Jain, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Solution Consulting, SunTec
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
SunTec Business Solutions aims to help banks and digital and communication service providers increase customer engagement and product innovation. Ro...
Ep. 10: Olly Betts, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenWrks
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Consumers want more access and control over finances. In an interview with FinTech Reporter Sunniva Kolostyak at the Open Banking Exo in London on 1...
Ep. 09: Eleni Coldrey, Business Development Director EMEA, Equinix
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 addr...
Ep. 08: Iana Dimitrova, Chief Executive, OpenPayd
25 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
OpenPayd offers international enterprise payments and banking services through a modular platform. A single API integration into the platform enable...
Ep. 07: Ian Bradbury, CTO for Financial Services, Fujitsu UK
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bradbury’s role at Fujitsu UK includes understanding the deployment and impact potential of new business models and technologies across the financ...
Ep. 06 : Invitation-only meeting at the third P20 Global Payments Conference
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The third P20 Global Payments Conference was held in London on 3 October 2019. This invitation-only meeting, with attendance capped at 200 convenes ...
Ep. 05: Duncan Sandys, Executive Director at P20 explains the purpose behind the establishment of the P20
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Ep. 04: Features Analytics on AI solutions to combat financial crime
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cristina Soviany, Founder of the Belgian FinTech firm, Features Analytics, speaks to Robin Amlôt at SIBOS 2019 in London. The firm has developed two ...
Ep. 03: Equiniti Business Payment Services partnered with SWIFT
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Announced at SIBOS 2019, Equiniti Business Payment Services (formerly EQGlobal), the international payments division of Equiniti Group, has partnere...
Ep. 02: Doha Bank on the impact of technology in banking
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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. S...
Ep. 01: Monzo and Challenger Banks in the UK
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the IBSI podcast, Bill Boyle & Alex Hamilton talk about Britain’s lucrative & highly aggressive challenger banking landsc...