IBS Intelligence Podcasts

Isabelle Bouille, Principal Product Manager, BNY MellonThe migration later this year to the new data-rich financial messaging standard ISO 20022 will transform global payments, revolutionising how banks process transactions with more robust, structured and comprehensive payment messages. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the ISO 20022 migration with Isabelle Bouille, Principal Product Manager with BNY Mellon.

Carol Houle, SVP, Global Head of Financial Services & Insurance, Atos; Olaf Badstuebner, Risk & Compliance Partner, AtosSome 2%-5% of global GDP is estimated to be laundered annually – ‘a clear and present threat’ to the financial system according to EU Commissioner for Financial Services Mairead McGuinness. What is the role of emerging digital technologies in combatting fraud and financial crime, a traditionally resource-intensive and costly endeavour for banks and financial institutions? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Carol Houle, SVP, Global Head of Financial Services & Insurance (pictured) and Olaf Badstuebner, Risk & Compliance Partner, Atos, about improving both the regulatory and industry approach to tackling financial crime.

Carol Hamilton, SVP Global Solutions at ProvenirProvenir, a provider of AI-powered risk decisioning software, recently released the findings of a survey that showed only 18% of FinTechs and financial services institutions believe their credit risk models are accurate at least 75% of the time. The study also highlighted a growing appetite for AI predictive analytics and machine learning data integration together with the use of alternative data to improve credit risk decisioning. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Carol Hamilton, SVP Global Solutions at Provenir.

Tamer Al Mauge, Managing Director MENA, Codebase Technologies The banking and financial services sector around the world faces a large and still growing regulatory regime from both domestic and international regulators. Tamer Al Mauge, Managing Director MENA of Codebase Technologies speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence about the regulatory environment in the MENA region and the challenges for both regulators and banks in RegTech implementation in the Middle East.

Nadia Edwards-Dashti, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer at Harrington Starr and published author In her +10 years of experience working as a recruiter placing technologists in the financial services industry, Nadia Edwards-Dashti, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer at Harrington Starr, has witnessed the wins and the losses of the efforts to make FinTech inclusive and accessible to all. In her recently published book ‘Fintech Women Walk the Talk’, Edwards-Dashti celebrates the women that are driving equitable and tangible change in FinTech, with eye-opening case studies and revealing marketplace insights. In conversation with IBSi’s Reporter Gaia Lamperti, the author reflects on the industry’s DE&I progress, between difficulties and realistic solutions.

Ana Quirola, Business Development, Strategic Partnerships and Commercial Channels Manager, COBISAt the latest Global FinTech Innovation Awards, COBIS, a leading core banking solutions provider in the Latin American market, won the award for Most Innovative Cloud Deployment for Banco Santander Peru’s SURGIR project. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the solution behind the award, COBIS Serverless, with Ana Quirola, Business Development, Strategic Partnerships and Commercial Channels Manager of COBIS.

Sandeep Bagaria, Chief Executive Officer, TagitTagit works with banks in Asia, the Middle East and Africa to bring their digital strategy to life with secure and scalable omnichannel digital solutions. The company picked up the award for Most Effective Bank-FinTech Partnership at the last Global FinTech Innovation Awards for its project with India’s AU Small Finance Bank. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses how banks need to prepare for the future with Sandeep Bagaria, Chief Executive Officer of Tagit.

Altin Kadareja, Founder & CEO, CardoAIAsk anyone in in the private debt market just how big it is, and you’ll get different answers each time, but it is big, opaque, and not standardised. And Europe accounts for around two-thirds of it. On the buyside, institutional investors, banks and credit servicers need to improve how they manage private debt investments, and on the sellside, corporates and SMEs are looking for keener pricing and access to more funds. Altin Kadareja of Cardo AI suggests to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence that what Europe needs is a standardised risk model. His firm has spent the last 4 years developing an AI algorithm that takes and interprets data from more than 80 private debt information sources.

Paul Nilsen, Commercial Director, MD Africa, CIS & Global SaaS, Codebase TechnologiesInterest is growing in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions in order to meet the needs and expectations of the next generation of consumers, not least in Africa, which has the youngest population. It is estimated that 70% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa is under the age of 30. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses what that means for the neobanks, banks and telcos looking for a piece of the digital action with Paul Nilsen, Commercial Director, MD Africa, CIS & Global SaaS for Codebase Technologies. 

Kosta Du, CEO, DapioThe coming ‘Tap to Pay’ smartphone payments tech wave, reinforced by Apple’s recent announcement of turning iPhones into payment terminals, offers an instant service at the tap of a mobile device. What will this mean for merchants, especially small/micro businesses, gig economy workers and sole traders? We discussed the potential for this solution to make payments more accessible with Kosta Du, CEO of Dapio, a SoftPOS payment engine for business apps.