The Banker Podcast

Maria Shevchenko, a director of innovation at KPMG and Paul Henninger, an AI expert and head of KPMG’s Lighthouse, a global network of centres of excellence in data and analytics talk to Joy Macknight about how clients can draw valuable insights from external and internal data to unearth new business ideas, as well as better measure their ESG progress using existing data assets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The primary bond markets have been slower to go digital than other areas, but as Armin Peter, EMEA Head of Sustainable Banking and Global Head of Debt Syndicate at UBS, discusses with Marie Kemplay, that is changing fast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Against a backdrop of climate stress tests and pressure from a wide range of stakeholders, understanding and quantifying the amount of climate risk present in loan books is increasingly important for banks. David Glendinning, UK Head of Risk at Societe Generale discusses the key considerations and developments underway in this area with Marie Kemplay. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Maxim Safonov, Co-CEO of BCS Global Markets speaks to Marie Kemplay about the challenges and changes underway in the Russian financial markets, and what the opportunities are for investors and other stakeholders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard Hummel, Asert threat intelligence lead, NetScout, a cybersecurity and network diagnostics firm, talks to Joy Macknight about its recent threat intelligence report, called ‘The Long Tail of Attacker Innovation’, which provides insight and analysis into the nature of distributed-denial-of-service attacks in the first half of 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ezequiel Szafir, CEO of Openbank, Santander’s digital bank, talks to Joy Macknight about the acceleration of digitisation during Covid-19, Openbank’s expansion plans and the role banks can play in the platform economy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Mercer, chief executive officer of the LMAX Group, speaks to James King about rising institutional interest in cryptocurrencies as a digital asset class, as well as the changing regulatory landscape for cryptocurrency markets around the world.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TruEra's co-founder and CEO Will Uppington, and Shameek Kundu, head of financial services and senior strategy officer, talk to Joy Macknight about the European Commission’s new regulation around the use of AI, how the banking industry can help shape the legislation and avoiding the ‘black box’ conundrum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The future of many banking products will rely heavily on hyper-personalisation, BlueShore Financial’s Reg Marrinier tells David Robinson. But as banks often hold huge stores of data and client histories, how can this best be activated the gain a competitive advantage? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Taylor, global head of financial institutions for global transaction services at Bank of America, tells The Banker’s Kimberley Long the demands of FIs are changing, with an increased awareness of sustainability issues having an impact.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.