IBS Intelligence Podcasts

Ruchir Lahoty, Managing Director, MegaDelta Capital The fast-track growth of financial tools, and platforms in the post pandemic world has created a huge market growth opportunity allowing VC funding in the FinTech sector to slowly pick up. Ruchir Lahoty, Managing Director, Megadelta Capital discusses investment, trends, valuation, and the role of the investors in today’s climate. 

Manish Maakan, Chief Executive Officer, iGTBCommercial Banking is on the cusp of fundamental shifts that will dramatically reorder the industry in the coming decade. As banks assess their future strategies, they need to define their purpose and set a course not just for modernisation, but for true transformation. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence spoke with Manish Maakan, CEO of global transaction banking platform provider iGTB, about the ways in which commercial banking is changing and what that means for the banks and their customers; also, how iGTB itself provides a solution that leverages machine learning and predictive analytics, delivered through APIs and an omnichannel UX.

Tamás Erni, Chairman and Head of Sales, Loxon; Ádám Kocsis, Head of Professional Services, Loxon With an uncertain macroeconomic outlook, lending institutions are coming under building pressure with loans threatening to turn problematic. The debt collection industry is also undergoing change – among the factors accelerating this transformation are changes in customer behaviour, inflation, unpredictable regulations, unforeseen shocks, pandemics, and wars. Business solutions provider Loxon has produced a white paper investigating the forces that are shaping debt collection. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence spoke with Tamás Erni, Chairman of Loxon (pictured) and Ádám Kocsis, Head of Professional Services for the company.

Gavin Maclean, Head of Payments, CIB, Lloyds Banking GroupHow is corporate banking changing? Trends that have been in place over the last decade were accelerated by the pandemic but what is happening now and next? And how are they changing a bank’s internal processes and the customer experience? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Gavin Maclean, Head of Payments, CIB at Lloyds Banking Group where he leads on the development and implementation of new payment and acquiring solutions.

Georges Archibald, Chief Innovation Officer & Regional Head of North America, Apex GroupTraditionally, valuing real estate, private equity, infrastructure, and private credit assets has been an opaque and time-consuming process. Using blockchain and artificial intelligence offers the potential to increase trust in the underlying data and provide an auditable data trail. A trusted data layer could enable private market assets to trade more efficiently in secondary markets, increasing liquidity. That potential is behind the partnership between financial services provider Apex Group and FinTech Inveniam Capital Partners. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses how transactions in private market assets could be boosted with Georges Archibald, Chief Innovation Officer, and Regional Head of North America for Apex Group

Niccolò Gamaleri, Senior Director, Royal Park PartnersAs the FinTech sector becomes increasingly regulated, and its funding base evolves, knowledge of regulatory requirements and financing solutions is crucial. Ex-Barclays Niccolò Gamaleri, recently appointed Senior Director at financial advisory firm Royal Park Partners, discusses how FinTech's continued growth is increasingly requiring the same investment banking skills as more traditional financial institutions, in terms of capital raises, M&A transactions and IPOs.

Anuj Kumar Sen, Co-Founder & CTO, Cuelebre ABSuccess in the implementation of AI and ML depends on having a foundation system that can scale and serve your data. Cuelebre is an end-to-end technology services provider that caters to data analytics needs. The company focuses on building strategies, architecting platforms, and deploying dashboards in the cloud or on-premises. Anuj Kumar Sen, Co-Founder and CTO, Cuelebre, speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence about the challenges involved and how to achieve maximum value for your business. 

Jasmeet Chhabda, Senior Vice President, LentraWith the clear intent of creating a smoother digital lending process Lentra is offering new-age lending solutions to the Indian financial services sector. Jasmeet Chhabda, Senior Vice President at Lentra discusses how the firm has created a range of offerings across embedded journeys, BNPL, credit card journeys, small ticket loans, co-lending and more. He spoke to Puja Sharma of IBS Intelligence about trends in lending and how new-to-credit millennials are changing their approach to availing loans. 

Simone Mazzuca, Founder and CEO, Wallex How can the evolution of banking lead to more democratised financial services offered to a broader base of individuals that are in need of better banking? In this episode, Simone Mazzuca, CEO and Founder of Wallex, discusses how blockchain technology will transform banking as we know it. In his view, the bank of the future should embrace multi-currency fiat platforms, offer greater access to digital assets and develop fully compliant tools to help the users trade, save and navigate all financial markets. 

Omar Mansur, Enterprise Lead Global Projects, Codebase Technologies; Dr Jasmin B Gupta, CEO & Co-Founder, LXME You can’t have one without the other! Embedded finance may be defined as offering access to a range of financial services and solutions via a merchant website on a customer journey that is not interrupted by the need to leave the site you are on to go to that of a financial institution. Banking as a Service (BaaS) is the technology solution that makes this seamless experience for the consumer possible. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the potential of both embedded finance and BaaS with Omar Mansur of Codebase Technologies (pictured) and Dr Jasmin B Gupta, CEO and Co-Founder of LXME, India’s first financial platform for women.