The Banker Podcast

In conversation with World Bank president Ajay Banga

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode of The Banker podcast, editor in chief Silvia Pavoni sits down with World Bank president Ajay Banga for an in-depth discussion...

Why are non-financial misconduct reports at banks on the rise?

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In The Banker exchange’s final episode for 2024, Aliya Shibli sits down with Barbara Pianese, Farah Khalique and Antonia Mannweiler to discuss the r...

Why is financial inclusion still an issue in the UK?

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Barbara Pianese as she speaks to Kate Pender, chief executive of Fair4All Finance, about recent developments regarding financial inclusion i...

Can AI help banks combat human trafficking?

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Anita Hawser as she speaks to Santander UK’s Stephen Jennings and ThetaRay’s Peter Reynolds about how Santander UK uncovered a human traffick...

What are CBDCs good for?

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley and John Everington sit down with Varun Paul, former head of fintech at the Bank of England and now senior director and business ...

The disruptive legacy of buy now, pay later

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley sits down with Alex Marsh, former head of Klarna UK and non-exec at responsible lender Salad Money, to talk about buy now, pay later regula...

What makes an entrepreneur?

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley sits down with Roger Vincent, late of Trade Ledger and currently co-founder and chief growth officer at AI startup Bourn to talk about star...

The T+1 story so far

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Michael Klimes sits down with Virginie O’Shea, founder and CEO of Firebrand Research, to discuss the state of play on T+1. At the end of M...

The financial female lens

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Liz Lumley sits down with Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and chief executive of Women’s World Banking, to discuss gender lens investing...

The strange week of outages, mergers and election drama

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley and Anita Hawser sit down to talk about the Capital One-Discover merger, IT outages and their impact on banks, as well as the shake-up...

The global economic whistlestop tour

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley sits down with Kokou Agbo-Bloua, global head of economics, cross-asset and quant research at Société Générale Corporate and Invest...

Why should banks care about the metaverse?

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley speaks to Dave Birch and Victoria Richardson, authors of Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and W...

What happened to banking-as-a-service?

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kimberley Long speaks to fintech consultant Shaul David to discuss the future of embedded finance and BaaS, the role of banks, and where the regulator...

Founding a company with gender parity built in

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kimberley Long speaks with Katee Hunter, chief executive and founder of Inveztor, to discuss founding a company, accessing early-stage financing, and ...

Age should be but a number in financial services

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley sits down with Karen Barrett, CEO at Unbiased, to talk about how ageist and stereotypical language perpetuates financial inequali...

Will true open finance ever be realised?

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley sits down with Ghela Boskovich, head of Europe/regional director at the Financial Data and Technology Association, to talk about digital id...

A new era for fintech profitability

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley, Kimberley Long and Anita Hawser sit down to discuss the recent profitability announcement from UK digital bank Monzo and what it means for...

Why should banks care about Web3?

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley sits down with Rita Martins, former global head of fintech partnerships at HSBC and author of Web3 in Financial Services, to chat abou...

Mobile phone theft and protecting your finances

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With mobile phone theft rising across the UK as thieves look to access banking apps, Kimberley Long and John Everington discuss the practical steps yo...

SMEs, consolidation and 15 years of fintech

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley is joined by Steven Cooper, CEO of Aldermore Bank, to talk about the state of UK banking, the current economic climate and how fintech...

The impact of the EU AI Act

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley sits down with Michael Borrelli, COO at AI & Partners, to discuss the EU’s legal framework on artificial intelligence, the risks...

Whatever happened to fintech innovation?

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley sits down with Alex Jimenez, strategist, fintech influencer, writer, speaker, and currently principal consultant at Backbase, to ...

Hiring women is not a ‘tax’

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley sits down with Sophie Winwood, co-founder and CEO of WVC:E, and operating partner at Foxe Capital, to talk about start-ups, funding, fintec...

Can IDA donors stump up the funds for the world’s poorest nations?

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the IMF and World Bank spring meetings get underway in Washington, Aliya Shibli talks with John Everington about the challenges surrounding the 21s...

Are we in the midst of a global payments race?

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley and Amalia Illgner sit down with Keith Bear, fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, to discuss whether tokenisation can en...

Toxic to tolerant: are investment banks appealing to Gen Z?

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Klimes and Aliya Shibli sit down with Liz Lumley to talk about how a bad reputation for excessive work hours, lack of broader purpose and grow...

One year on from SVB, will it happen again?

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Liz Lumley and Anita Hawser sit down with Emma Hagan, chief risk and compliance officer at ClearBank (and soon to be UK CEO), and former ch...

Fintech, women and Wales

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Liz Lumley sits down with Sarah Kocianski, CEO of FinTech Wales, to talk about how lack of progress sits alongside the celebratio...

The good bank

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2019, Jusan Bank (then Tsesna Bank) was pushed to insolvency — all due to precarious banking practices and a lack of regulatory supervision. But,...

Finance is just reinventing the wheel over and over

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley is joined by Mark Higgins, a financial historian, senior investment advisor and author of Investing in US Financial History: Understanding ...

Fintech 2024

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley and Kimberley Long discuss how fintech has changed in the past 10 years, where fintech hubs work best, how events can promote diversity bet...

Drama at the FCA – a BRR takeover

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley sits down with Farah Khalique, editor of Banking Risk & Regulation, to discuss growing calls for stronger oversight of the UK’s ...

Does the bell toll for grey lists and supermarket banking?

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley and John Everington sit down to talk about the impact of FATF’s grey list. Ahead of FATF’s plenary in Paris next week, how influen...

Post Office blues

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How did sub postmasters become de facto bank branch managers? The Post Office in the UK provides a vital service to communities, specifically as it pi...

The Banker midweek | February 7, 2024

07 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Blockchain clarity from Basel: In this episode, Liz Lumley and Amalia Illgner sit down with Yuval Rooz, CEO and co-founder, and Manoj Ramia, general c...

The Banker midweek | January 31, 2024

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Barbara Pianese hosts and is joined by Asia editor Kimberley Long, to talk about the liquidation of Chinese property developer Evergra...

The Banker midweek | January 24, 2024

24 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Liz Lumley is joined by Charlotte Crosswell, chair of the Centre for Finance, Innovation, and Technology (CFIT) to talk about open finance,...

In the trenches of ISO 20022

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Most of the global banking industry is currently on the journey to migrate to the ISO 20022 messaging standard for cross-border payments. What lessons...

The Banker midweek | January 17, 2024

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s Davos special, Liz Lumley and John Everington sit down to discuss the major themes of the World Economic Forum’s Davos event, inclu...

The Banker midweek | January 10, 2024

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New Year from The Banker. This week, Liz Lumley, Barbara Pianese and Michael Klimes discuss T+1, EU banking regulations protecting taxpayer...

Fincrime’s ‘nightmare’ before Christmas

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Angela Wakelin, chief operating officer, and Raphaelina Arthur, head of financial crime and MLRO at fast-growing fintech, Kroo Bank, talk money m...

The Banker midweek | December 13, 2023

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, editorial staff at The Banker look back at 2023, with themes as diverse as ESG, blockchain and crypto, AI, and what the global banking...

Living better financial lives: teaching kids and teenagers about financial crime and fraud

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Louise Hill, CEO and co-founder of app GoHenry, talks to Anita Hawser about the role financial education and literacy, from an early age, can pla...

The Banker midweek | December 6, 2023

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, John Everington, Joy Macknight and Aliya Shibli discuss the highlights from this year’s Bank of the Year Awards and the gala awards ...

The Banker midweek | November 29, 2023

29 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Joy Macknight and Liz Lumley are live at the Global Banking Summit where they discuss cloud strategies at banks, the upcoming COP28, financ...

The Banker midweek | November 22, 2023

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Liz Lumley and Davide Montagner are joined by Sylvie Matherat, global senior advisor to Mazars’ financial services practice. They discuss...

The Banker midweek | November 15, 2023

15 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Liz Lumley and Barbara Pianese are joined by Marta Krupinska, co-founder of CUR8. They discuss fighting climate change with money...

The Banker Midweek | November 8, 2023

08 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Liz Lumley and Amalia Illgner are joined by Atom Bank CEO Mark Mullen to discuss disrupting the UK mortgage market, learning mort...

The Banker Midweek | November 1, 2023

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Liz Lumley, Joy Macknight and Aliya Shibli discuss the ‘banker bonus cap scrap’, how SPACs refuse to die, the upcoming COP28, going glo...

The Banker Midweek | October 25, 2023

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week Liz Lumley is joined by special guest Chris Hladczuk, chief revenue officer at fintech Meow. They discuss cash management for start-ups, T+1...

The Banker Midweek | October 18, 2023

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Liz Lumley and John Everington are joined by Araba Eshun, head of compliance for Emea and Apac at fintech Zero Hash. They discuss the annua...

Sibos bonus episode: Making modern banking

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode recorded at Sibos in Toronto, the women from across the fintech space talk about their experiences as founders, developing the...

The Banker Midweek | October 11, 2023

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week deputy editor Liz Lumley and reporter Davide Montagner are joined by industry veteran Ruth Wandhöfer. They discuss the UK’s FCA...

The Banker Midweek | October 4, 2023

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week Liz Lumley, Michael Klimes and Alessandro Hatami, managing partner at advisory firm Pacemakers, discuss why banks still finance fo...

Welcome to a new bank

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This year, Intesa Sanpaolo launched Isybank, a new digital bank based on cloud native architecture, along with a partnership with Thought Machine. The...

The Banker Midweek | September 27, 2023

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Banker Midweek, Latin America editor Barbara Pianese and reporter Aliya Shibli discuss asset managers dropping the word ‘sust...

The Banker Midweek | At Sibos 2023

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join Liz Lumley, Joy Macknight and Kimberley Long, who were live from Sibos in Toronto, Canada. They give a round-up of the event and discuss the hot ...

The Banker Midweek | September 13, 2023

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Banker Midweek, Asia editor Kimberley Long speaks with Silvia Pavoni, founder and editor of Sustainable Views, an ESG-focused p...

A house of cards: the PEPs regime and fraud markers

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are banks overzealously loading fraud markers against individuals and businesses, and misinterpreting the Politically Exposed Persons Regime, to avoid...

A passport for fintech onboarding

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Partnering with fintech start-ups has always presented a myriad of obstacles for incumbent banks and financial institutions. To combat this, TechPassp...

The Banker Midweek | September 6, 2023

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week Liz Lumley is joined by Prakash Pattni, global managing director for financial services digital transformation at IBM. They discuss the nuan...

From start-ups to unicorns – making your own way

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The driving force of the fintech sector is start-ups. Yet, according to 2020 figures from Deloitte, just 7% globally are fronted by women. In this epi...

The Banker Midweek | August 23, 2023

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week Liz Lumley, Joy Macknight and Aliya Shibli sit down to discuss the upcoming Sibos event in Toronto, the future of building back Ukraine, the...

The Banker Midweek | August 16, 2023

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week Asia editor Kimberley Long takes over chairing duties to speak with editor Joy Macknight and reporter Aliya Shibli about how optimistic we s...

Going digital in the Caribbean

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the road at Hightech Payment Systems’ WeMeeting in Morocco, Liz Lumley sits down to listen to the story of the first fully digital bank...

The Banker Midweek | August 9, 2023

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week Liz Lumley sits down with Antony Jenkins, founder and CEO of 10x, to talk about the impact that digital transaction projects can have on tal...

The Banker Midweek | August 2, 2023

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week The Banker’s deputy editor Liz Lumley, and Virginie O'Shea, founder of Firebrand Research, talk about the continuing drama concerning NatW...

Finding your ethical moral compass

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Former banker Shaun Hayes, author of The Gray Choice, pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to defraud Excel Bank and to profit from i...

The Banker Midweek | July 26, 2023

26 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week Liz Lumley and Kimberley Long sit down to discuss a recent UK Supreme Court ruling impacting who is responsible in causes of payments and ba...

What does compliance look like inside a multilateral development bank?

24 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The EBRD’s chief compliance officer, John Mair, gives us a rare glimpse into how compliance works within a development bank which invests in economi...

The Banker Midweek | July 19, 2023

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week Liz Lumley is joined by Roberta Profeta, associate principal financial services, Elca Advisory where they comment on the upward rise of inte...

The Banker Midweek | July 12, 2023

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know.This week Liz Lumley, Joy Macknight and Kim...

Lessons learned from the pandemic

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A new report from Fair4All Finance highlights the positive impact of the customer support banks provided during the pandemic and calls for some measur...

The Banker Midweek | July 5, 2023

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know.This week John Everington and Barbara Piane...

The Banker Midweek | June 28, 2023

28 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week Liz Lumley and John Everington talk about banking giant HSBC leaving their Canary Wharf skyscraper for more modest digs in the City of Londo...

The Banker Midweek | At EBADay 2023

21 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley and Anita Hawser sit down to discuss this year’s topics at EBADay 2023, including the debate around central bank digital currencies, how ...

The Banker Midweek | June 13, 2023

13 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Lumley and Anita Hawser sit down to discuss all the fintech conferences, HSBC launching Innovation Banking, a16z crypto opening an office in Londo...

ADB bonus episode: Supporting women’s finance in Asia

12 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode recorded at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) meeting in Incheon, South Korea, the women working at promoting financial inclusi...

Getting to grips with the Russian sanctions

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’re more than a year into the war in Ukraine, the EU is on its 10th sanctions package, and the US Treasury Department has imposed more than 2...

The Banker Midweek | June 7, 2023

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the road at Money20/20 in Amsterdam, Liz Lumley talks to The Banker contributor Sarah Kocianski about the loss of last year’s darling – BNPL –...

The Banker Midweek | May 31, 2023

31 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know.This week Liz Lumley, deputy editor fo...

The Banker at ADB 2023

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Banker’s Asia editor Kimberley Long looks at the issues under discussion at the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting in Incheon, South Kore...

The Banker Midweek | May 24, 2023

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know.This week Liz Lumley and John Everington ta...

The Banker Midweek | May 17, 2023

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know.This week Barbara Pianese, Joy Macknight an...

Harnessing low code to improve the customer experience

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

UK-based Shawbrook Bank has partnered with Pega to use low code to transform its unsecured loans process, improving processing time by 75%, saving 150...

The Banker Midweek | May 9th, 2023

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know. This week, deputy editor Liz Lumley and Mi...

The Banker Midweek | May 3, 2023

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know.This week Liz Lumley, Sam Friend and specia...

The Banker Midweek | April 26, 2023

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know. This week, deputy editor Liz Lumley and La...

Mobilising finance against human trafficking

25 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our first episode focuses on the growing global problem of human trafficking or modern slavery, which the Association of Certified Anti-Money Launderi...

The Banker Midweek | April 19, 2023

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know.This week Liz Lumley and Anita Hawser talk ...

The Banker Midweek | April 12, 2023

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know.This week Liz Lumley, Joy Macknight and Sam...

Digital transformation and future tech in financial services

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Recently, financial tech provider Broadridge released a study looking at just this the 2023 Digital Transformation and Next-Gen Tech study surveyed 50...

The Banker Midweek | April 5, 2023

04 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know.This week Liz Lumley and Barbara Pianese ta...

The Banker Midweek | March 29, 2023

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering information bankers like you need to know.This week Liz Lumley and John Eve...

Financial inclusion – a force for change

26 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Financial exclusion is an issue that disproportionately affects women, and more so in the developing markets. However, for many, fintech is providing ...

The Banker Midweek | March 22, 2023

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about offering information bankers like you need to know.This week Liz Lumley and Anita Hawser talk ‘...

Banks’ partnerships and the ESG journey

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of our favourite topics here at Functional Banking Magic is to look at the partnerships and relationships that develop between a bank and a tech c...

The Banker Midweek | March 8, 2023

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering the information bankers like you need to know.This week Liz Lumley and Joy Macknight ...

The Banker Midweek | March 1, 2023

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly look at what the industry is talking about, offering the information that bankers like you need to know.The Banker has been a trusted sour...

Cryptocurrencies – equaliser or divider?

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cryptocurrencies are the most exciting or the most divisive development in fintech in recent years, depending on your perspective. In this episode, wo...