IBS Intelligence Global FinTech Interviews

Tony Pepper, Chief Executive Officer, EgressResults of the latest Egress Outbound Data Breach Survey 2020 suggest that 93% of organisations surveyed had suffered email data breaches with an average frequency of 180 incidents per year – in other words someone in your company could be putting sensitive data at risk every other day! What can be done to address this? Tony Pepper of Egress spoke with Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence.

Ben Agnew, Chief Executive Officer, Emerging Payments AssociationBen Agnew was appointed CEO for the Emerging Payments Association with effect from 1 September 2020. He has more than 15 years of experience in the events, digital and marketing services space. Credited for his work in restructuring commercial operations at Informa, his most recent role was Managing Director at the independent media business, Datacenter Dynamics. Here he talks about plans for the Emerging Payments Association’s business strategy with Robin Amlot of IBS IntelligenceYou can also listen to our recent interview with Tony Craddock, Director General of the EPA.

Robert Hannigan, Chairman, BlueVoyant InternationalBlueVoyant has published Global Insights: Supply Chain Cyber Risk, a study of more than 1500 CIOs, CISOs and Chief Procurement Officers. The results are not entirely comfortable, a combination of large vendor ecosystems and low visibility are increasing third-party cyber risk exponentially. Robert Hannigan, Chairman of BlueVoyant International and former director of GCHQ, talks to Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence about the evolution of cyberthreats to supply chains and the steps that need to be taken to mitigate them.

Now that the markets have settled into some semblance of ‘normal’, Joshua Walsky, the CTO of Broadway Technology – which powers FICC trading at a number of banks – argues that the events of March-June will provide valuable clues into what could be an unpredictable period for bank trading desks. Speaking to Sunniva Kolostyak, Walsky explores issues around outsourcing, remote trading and connectivity. 

Yaron Hazan, VP, Regulatory Affairs, ThetaRayThe media reaction to the recent leak of the so-called FinCen Files predictably painted banks in a negative light. However, the bottom line is that almost no bank in the world has the visibility needed to monitor cross-border correspondent banking transactions through the entire transaction chain. Yaron Hazan of ThetaRay in conversation with Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence explains that the current AML system is set up for failure with banks pushed to overreport.

Arun K Arunachalam, Vice President, TCS Financial Solutions, and Head of Product Management, TCS BaNCS & Anand Athani, Head, Technology Strategy and Consulting, TCS Financial Solutions.Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence talks to Arun K Arunachalam, Vice President, TCS Financial Solutions, and Head of Product Management, TCS BaNCS & Anand Athani, Head, Technology Strategy and Consulting, TCS Financial Solutions.  Arun, talks about his focus area including adapting the emerging technologies of AI, data and digital in the banking and capital markets, while Anand is working on leveraging the emerging patterns in technology including data strategy; cloud and its nativity; and microservices for TCS BaNCS. They review the product and technology strategy for TCS BaNCS.Listen to the complete episode to find out more on it. 

Robin Amlot, Managing Editor at IBS Intelligence talks to Jim Heinzman, EVP Financial Services Solutions, ThetaRay about the growing banking fraud in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The discussion revolves around how banks can protect themselves against the fraudulent transactions and money laundering in the era of COVID-19.  Listen to the complete episode to find out more.

Remote working has put increased pressure on financial traders’ desktops. How can chatbots effectively integrate client data? How can IT services ensure all the various applications on traders’ desktops communicate with each other seamlessly… and how does the implementation of the ‘composable enterprise’ help? James Wooster of Glue42 explains.James Wooster, COO, Glue42

Singapore-based CredoLab secured $7m in a Series A funding round in August 2020. Now the company is expanding into the US and other global markets. Michele Tucci of CredoLab discusses how the company evaluates smartphone and web metadata to create bank-grade digital scorecards. The use of such ‘alternative data’ addresses the problems faced by ‘thin file’ and underbanked customers in access to credit – not a small issue when, for example, 27% of the US population has so little credit history, they’re considered ‘unscorable’.Michele Tucci, Chief Product Officer, CredoLab

New challenger Ziglu has just become a fully authorised Electronic Money Institution under the aegis of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority and has launched peer-to-peer payments for all currencies on its app… but not just fiat currencies, crypto as well and, what’s more, is offering up to £50,000 insurance for crypto holdings. Founder and CEO Mark Hipperson has form – he was previously a co-founder and CTO of challenger Starling Bank. He spoke with Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence.