IBS Intelligence Podcasts

Raffael Maio, Chief Strategy Officer, NetGuardiansNetGuardians is fraud prevention partner to several banking software providers, including Avaloq, Finacle, Finastra and Mambu. Banks using NetGuardians have achieve significant reductions in both false positives and the time spent investigating fraud. Raffael Maio, Chief Strategy Officer of NetGuardians talks with Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence about fraud trends and what more needs to be done. 

Merusha Naidu, Global Head Partnerships, PaymentologyAhead of the Singapore FinTech Festival (15-17 November 2023), which lays claim to being the largest FinTech festival in the world, Merusha Naidu, Global Head of Partnerships for Paymentology talks about the APAC FinTech experience and what to look for in local partners as well as what local firms are looking for in international partnerships. 

Shachindra Nath, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of U GRO CapitalWith an exclusive focus on serving underbanked and underserved small businesses in India, U Gro Capital envisions being the country's premier FinTech platform for small businesses. Puja Sharma of IBS Intelligence speaks with Shachindra Nath about the firm’s use of cutting-edge technology to simplify and enhance credit access. 

Rajesh Mirjankar, Managing Director, CEO and Co-Founder, Kiya.aiLending is an expensive business for banks, particularly for institutions that have a large number of smaller loans – Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Kiya.ai’s Managing Director and CEO, Rajesh Mirjankar about the opportunity present for banks and for businesses, and the potential impact of broadening financial inclusion. Can the use of tech solutions make lending viable for banks and if it can, what are the wider implications for business and for the economy at large?

Mike Kiser, Director of Strategy & Standards, SailPoint TechnologiesDeepfake videos featuring consumer finance expert Martin Lewis and BBC journalist Fiona Bruce have already been used in the UK for investment scams and were quickly spotted and taken down. However, this is likely only the tip of a very large deepfake iceberg heading our way! Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence talks to Mike Kiser, Director of Strategy & Standards at enterprise identity security specialist Sailpoint Technologies. 

Marianne Oliver, Operations Director, InvestEngineIt’s been estimated that if women invested at the same rate as men, there would be a further $3.2 trillion in assets under management from private individuals. To put that figure in perspective, it is larger than the GDP of the UK. So, there is indeed a gender investment gap in the UK, and it is being targeted by a new venture between Female Invest, a financial education and community platform that aims to empower women investors, and InvestEngine, an ETF investment management platform. 

Philip Straley, President, FNAIntra-day liquidity and adequate management control appear to be the required mantra for the banking industry in the wake of the banking failures in the US and the ‘rescue’ of Credit Suisse in Switzerland in the first quarter of 2023. What lessons are there for bankers and for regulators? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Philip Straley, President of network analytics firm FNA about the new pressures on banks and bankers. 

Raja Debnath, Managing Director, Veefin SolutionsIndia’s 12 public sector banks established the PSB Alliance in 2022. Now Veefin Solutions has been chosen to establish an all-in-one supply chain finance tech stack across all SCF products in a project that addresses the issues SMEs and MSMEs face in raising such finance. Raja Debnath, Managing Director of Veefin Solutions speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence. 

Ron Atzmon, Active Chairman, AU10TIXHow do you merge and consolidate siloed data resources while bringing together financial institutions whose systems and culture may be significantly different? A clutch of bank rescues earlier this year in the US and Europe brought this issue to the fore. Ron Atzmon, Active Chairman of identity intelligence firm AU10TIX speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence. 

Stephen Marshall, Director of Advisory Services, FinScanWhat you need is a secure AML solution… and one that stays current because the landscape is changing and the regulatory regime is only getting more complex with the onus firmly on financial institutions to be responsible for defending against money laundering. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Stephen Marshall, Director of Advisory Services at FinScan