IBS Intelligence Podcasts

Raj Bakhru, CEO & Co-Founder, BlueFlame AIBlueflame AI offers a generative AI platform purpose-built for alternative investment managers. The aim is to allow clients to be able to search structured, unstructured, and external data sources with a single natural language prompt, including CRMs, research and deal management tools, data rooms and more. Raj Bakhru, CEO and Co-Founder of BlueFlame discusses use cases with Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence. 

Funmi Dele-Giwa, General Counsel and Head, GRC, OnafriqMFS Africa has a new identity: Onafriq. The inspiration behind the new name stems from "Ona", the Yoruba word for pathways and the French word for Africa, Afrique - plus a nod to IQ, signalling a commitment to being the smartest game in African FinTech. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Funmi Dele-Giwa, General Counsel and Head, GRC, Onafriq. 

Vineet Sukumar, Founder and MD, Vivriti Capital Viviti Capital, is a FinTech NBFC with a mission of providing debt financing to hundreds of mid-market businesses nationwide. Puja Sharma speaks with Vineet Sukumar about Vivriti’s deep focus on investment in technology, underwriting and distribution. 

Jonathan Bell, President and Head of Client Relationships, RedCompass LabsIndia achieved its financial inclusion goals in 6 years – 41 years early. The country’s UPI scheme allows instant payments across bank, card, mobile and ATM rails. In Brazil, 50 million people have used the country’s Pix payment system this year. So is this a new golden age of instant payments? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Jonathan Bell, President and Head of Client Relationships at RedCompass Labs, specialists in secure end-to-end digital payments. 

Matt Smith, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, SteelEyeGlobal regulators are continuing to fine investment banks and investment managers for failing to monitor employee business communications. Offering a potential solution, Steeleye’s new Compliance CoPilot uses the capabilities of advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) to accelerate the communication Surveillance Alert Review process. The bottom line is compliance is getting more complex and an AI-enabled assistant could offer significant cost-savings while boosting analyst efficiency and the scalability of the compliance function. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Matt Smith, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of SteelEye. 

Domenico Scaffidi, Vice President, Global Payments Industry Lead, Yethi ConsultingPayments are being disrupted by the globalisation of payment standards, FinTechs, and a rising expectation of superior user experience. Financial institutions are hard at work to curate new business models in this increasingly dynamic operating environment. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Domenico Scaffidi, Vice President and Global Payments Industry Lead, Yethi Consulting about what’s changed and what’s changing in the world of payments. 

Charles Damen, Chief Product Officer, Token.ioToken.io reaches 567 million bank accounts in 20 countries through a single API and interface. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Charles Damen, Chief Product Officer of Token.io about variable recurring payments. Notably, a survey by the company suggests that a majority of merchants in the UK would like to migrate customers from card payments to VRPs. 

Simon Axon, EMEA Industry Consulting Director, TeradataThe cloud can help transform back-end systems, process transactions and banking operations. At the same time banks can leverage cloud-based architecture for stronger data-mining capabilities and a seamless customer journey, using AI and machine learning. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Simon Axon, EMEA Industry Consulting Director of cloud database and analytics solutions provider Teradata. 

Santosh Radhakrishnan, Chief Commercial Officer, XYBEnd-to-end 'coreless' banking platform provider XYB by Monese is collaborating with Google Cloud to bring generative AI into its platform. The partnership aims to empower banks, non-banks and FinTechs to build cutting-edge products and propositions faster and more easily. Key use cases include assisted investigation of blocked payments/paused onboarding, and natural language risk rules, allowing users to comprehend existing risk policies and create new ones using natural language. Santosh Radhakrishnan, Chief Commercial Officer of XYB speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence. 

Dominic Broom, SVP Working Capital Technology, Arqit TradeSecureLegislation which came into effect in September in the UK could well mark a giant leap towards a cheaper, faster, and more sustainable global trading system. Electronic trade documents offer security and ease of compliance by making it easier to trace records through blockchain and distributed-ledger technology. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Dominic Broom, SVP Working Capital Technology for Arqit TradeSecure.