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    EP932: Crossing the tech divide, the future of wealth management

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2025 10:14


    Peter O'Brien, Head of Global Growth+Partnerships, AddeparSome 87% of UK wealth managers believe that AI is crucial to the future of the wealth management industry yet over half believe their current technology systems still need to be upgraded. Alternative investments, from art and wine to vintage cars, are booming, but UK firms are struggling to access and track them. Peter O'Brien, Head of Global Growth+Partnerships, at Addepar speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence about how wealth managers can attract both new clients and young talent, by investing in smarter technology tools.

    EP931: How platforms are moving beyond core services to become financial partners

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2025 13:07


    Max Schertel, Co-Founder & CEO, finmidWhat's next for embedded financing? Business platforms are already emerging as critical providers of capital for their SME clientele – customers who have been traditionally underserved when it comes to funding options. Now, the fastest growing platforms may well be making more money from embedded financial services than from their core business! Max Schertel of embedded finance provider finmid speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence about the business opportunity being created. 

    EP930: How to improve your KYC bulwark against fraudsters

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2025 12:16


    Andrew Bud, Founder & CEO, iProoviProov's threat intelligence research shows an unprecedented escalation in attacks designed to bypass KYC checks across not only neobanks but also banking in generaal, crypto exchanges, e-wallets, and digital payment platforms. Andrew Bud, Founder & CEO of iProov discusses what can be done to block such attacks with Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence, explaining how facial biometric verification with certified liveness detection, tied to a government-issued ID, should be a non-negotiable security measure for secure identity verification in financial services. 

    EP929: Next generation banking - meeting the challenge of a ‘real time' age

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2025 12:21


    Mishal Ruparel, Chief Commercial Officer, Banking CircleUltra high-speed access to global, multi-currency instant payments appears to be the new backbone of payments infrastructure. The aim is to overhaul legacy payments using interoperable APIs. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Mishal Ruparel of Banking Circle about next generation banking and the increasing role likely to be played by stablecoins.

    EP928: Cybersecurity - why supply chains are prime targets

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2025 9:35


    Justin Kuruvilla, Chief Cyber Security Strategist, Risk Ledger Justin Kuruvilla is a former UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) advisor and ex-US Department of Defense technical director. He speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence about how cyber operations are evolving in times of geopolitical instability, and the growing risks to both national infrastructure and enterprise supply chains. Most organisations only monitor their first-tier suppliers, but real resilience demands visibility all the way down the chain.

    EP927: Accessible Credit Through Technology and Trust

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2025 10:04


    Puja Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Manipal FintechIn this episode, Vriti Gothi sits down with Puja Abhishek Singh, CEO of Manipal Fintech, to discuss how the company is bridging India's credit divide. They explore the role of gold loans in providing quick, reliable access to funds, how AI and technology are transforming onboarding, underwriting, and collections, and the importance of designing customer-centric solutions that reach rural and semi-urban populations. Puja also shares insights from her career across Paytm, Mastercard, SBI Cards, and GE, discussing inclusive leadership, fintech-bank partnerships, and the future of lending in India.

    EP926: Is AI the Key to Expanding Financial Access in Rural India?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 14:01


    Sameer Mathur, MD and Founder of Roinet SolutionsIndia's financial inclusion landscape is rapidly expanding beyond cities, with technology-driven models bridging access gaps in rural and semi-urban areas. Puja Sharma speaks with Sameer Mathur about how the company is empowering women entrepreneurs, using AI to drive inclusion, and shaping the next phase of digital financial growth across underserved communities. 

    EP925: The challenge and opportunity in global payment-related services

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2025 12:11


    Simon Ellis, Head of Operations EMEA, AirwallexGlobal business payments platform Airwallex reported triple digit growth in its UK division, driven by an uplift in the volume and value of deals. Revenue in H1 2025 grew by 109% versus the same period last year. Against that background, Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Simon Ellis of Airwallex about the prospects for the business, managing regulatory compliance across 60 licences and registrations worldwide, and the challenges of expanding his team with the right talent.

    EP924: How digital identity is shaping the new payments ecosystem

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2025 15:00


    Lionel Grosclaude, CEO, FimeFime provides consulting services and testing services in the areas of payments, smart mobility, and digital identity. According to Fime CEO Lionel Grosclaude, digital identity will help in creating the economic resilience that is needed for the future. He tells Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence how digital identity should sit at the heart of payment evolution, offering a faster and more secure way of verifying customers. 

    EP923: Cloud cost management is a financial problem not a technical one

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2025 9:22


    Ed Barrow, Chief Executive Officer, Cloud CapitalThe cost of being on the cloud is rising. It has been suggested that cloud costs are already, on average, the second-largest line item after headcount for FinTechs. Add in the bump up in costs caused by AI adoption and it's easy to see that while CTOs may be happy with their ‘new toys', CFOs could be looking worried. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the cloud and financial accountability with Ed Barrow, CEO of Cloud Capital. 

    EP922: Fixing US business payments starts with small business receivables

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2025 9:19


    Dan Holt, CEO, BillGODespite innovation in real-time rails, US small businesses are still stuck waiting days, or weeks for payments to clear. That delay is more than an inconvenience. It's a cash flow threat that puts jobs and businesses at risk. BillGO CEO Dan Holt explains why simplifying receivables is the next frontier in US B2B payments, how better identity and data infrastructure can accelerate digital adoption, and what banks and FinTechs can do to serve small businesses. 

    EP921: How to reduce data loss and orchestrate a tech recovery

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2025 11:48


    Simon Jelley, VP&GM Data Protection, ArcteraBanking and financial services are prime targets for cyberattacks – it is going to happen! So, the question you have to answer is what are you going to do to mitigate the risks and ensure a speedy recovery? How should financial organisations best manage data to close any compliance gaps? Simon Jelley of data guardian Arctera discusses the issues with Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence.

    EP920: What banks and financial institutions should be doing to reach Gen Z

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2025 11:31


    Nicky Senyard, CEO, Fintel Connect Gen Z trusts creators and niche financial influencers (finfluencers) more than brand ads. Today financial advice is just as likely to come from TikTok or Instagram as it is from a bank. That's not necessarily a bad thing – banks and FinTechs may use affiliate partnerships to reach the Gen Z audience efficiently and compliantly with full-funnel visibility and real trackable performance. Nicky Senyard of partnership solutions provider Fintel Connect speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence. 

    EP919: Trade surveillance in an era of ‘always on' financial markets

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 10:41


    Melissa Watras, Director of Product, Trillium SurveyorTrillium Surveyor, a provider of trade surveillance software, signed a deal in May with Blue Ocean Technologies to provide 24/5 trade surveillance to cover overnight trading sessions. Melissa Watras of Trillium Surveyor speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence about the tech and regulatory challenges as financial markets move toward 24/7. What are the implications for back-office operations, compliance teams and more. 

    EP918: The mass affluent future of digital wealth management

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 10:38


    Ziad Mabsout, Co-Founder & CEO, VennreWealthTech has evolved from offering simple portfolio dashboards to full-service, AI-powered advisory platforms that are democratising private market access as a mainstream investment category. This increasing inclusivity is benefitting the world's HENRYs (high income not rich yet).  A mass_affluent audience is being offered solutions that give personalised investment recommendations and onboarding through data-driven platforms. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to digital wealth management platform Vennre's Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Ziad Mabsout. 

    EP917: AI-driven Compliance as a Service (CaaS) transforms compliance from burden to benefit

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2025 13:10


    Rainer Vorwerk, Business Development Manager DACH & Head of Profinit Germany; Philipp Söchtig, Head of Corporate Development & Operations, Deputy Head of IT, Berenberg; Marcel Pochert, Head of Digital Transformation, BerenbergBerenberg is one of Europe's oldest privately owned banks. The bank chose Profinit to automate contract reviews, reduce costs and support the register of information in line with DORA – the Digital Operational Resilience Act. AI-driven Compliance as a Service (CaaS) has boosted processing speed, reduced manual effort and increased accuracy. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Marcel Pochert and Philipp Söchtig of Berenberg, but we hear first from Rainer Vorwerk of tech supplier Profinit. 

    EP916: Designing the Future of Cross-Border Payments: How Compliance Can Drive Innovation

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2025 20:11


    Nitin Pulyani, Head of Products, Cashfree PaymentsCross-border payments have long been plagued by high fees, unpredictable exchange rates, and slow settlement times. But with FinTech innovation, real-time rails, and compliance-led product design, the landscape is changing rapidly. In this episode, Vriti Gothi sits down with Nitin Pulyani, Head of Products at Cashfree Payments, to discuss how Indian FinTechs are reimagining global money movement. They explore India's opportunity to lead in cross-border innovation, why compliance can be a catalyst rather than a constraint, and what it takes to design truly borderless financial infrastructure from India for the world. 

    EP915: Banking on a ‘living' anti-fraud system

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2025 14:12


    Rivi Varghese, CEO, Clari5 – a Perfios CompanyThe menace of fraud in the financial ecosystem is no longer a static problem that can be tackled with static solutions. Periodic updates are artifacts of the past. What is needed now is a living defence that is capable of evolving as fast, if not faster, than the cyberthreat it faces. Rivi Varghese, CEO of Clari5 explains the company's Living Anti-Fraud Operating System to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence. 

    EP914: Human in the loop – rethinking trade ops workforce

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2025 9:23


    Andrew Dalton, VP Sales Europe, Cleareye.aiBanks' trade operations are evolving and are under greater pressure than ever before. Documentation is more complex and regulatory scrutiny more intense. Andrew Dalton, VP Sales Europe for Cleareye.ai joins Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence to discuss the role being played by AI and automation in helping financial institutions not only to cope with these pressures but actually to improve the speed and efficiency of their trade ops. 

    EP913: India's Credit Cards Enter a Digital-First Future

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2025 12:35


    Varun Dudeja, Head of Business Development APAC, PismoIndia's credit ecosystem is undergoing a digital-first transformation, with issuers navigating modernisation, compliance, and scalability as embedded finance and platforms like Pismo redefine the future of credit. Puja Sharma speaks with Varun Dudeja, Head of Business Development APAC, Pismo, on how India's credit card market is evolving and what the future holds in the digital-first economy.

    EP912: How to manage insider cybersecurity threats

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2025 10:10


    Will Ashford-Brown, Director Strategic Insights, Heligan GroupIt has been suggested that more than a third of businesses globally are affected every year by insider threats – it is the cybersecurity issue that not enough companies are focusing on! Organisations are implementing increasingly sophisticated defences against external cyberattacks but that just makes the dangers of malicious and even unintentional insider threats more acute. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Will Ashford-Brown, Director Strategic Insights at Heligan Group.

    EP911: The right way to implement AI

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2025 11:33


    Scott Barronton, Chief Information Security Officer, Diebold NixdorfAI in financial_services is beginning to move from promise to practical implementation. But, as Scott Barronton, CISO of Diebold Nixdorf, warns, organisations should roll out internal AI solutions before leveraging the technology in their products. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Scott Barronton about what you need to build to ensure safe and responsible adoption of AI.

    EP910: Invisible to Credit-Ready: The Journey of India's New Borrower

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2025 14:25


    Manish Shara, Co-founder & CEO, ZetFrom being “credit invisible” to becoming financially empowered, millions of Indians are on a journey to build their credit story. But how do technology, AI, and trust come together to bridge this massive gap? In this episode, Vriti Gothi sits down with Manish Shara, Co-Founder & CEO of ZET, to explore how FinTech is unlocking credit access for the 400 million underserved Indians with little or no credit history. They discuss the challenges borrowers face, the role of technology in making credit more transparent, and what it takes to create a credit-ready India. 

    EP909: Creating value by leveraging the data you already have

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2025 10:10


    Preetha Pulusani, Chief Executive Officer, Deep TargetFinancial institutions could be sitting on a proverbial gold mine of data – yet most banks and credit unions fail to leverage these assets effectively. That failure leaves a strategic resource that offers tremendous growth potential underutilised! Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Preetha Pulusani, CEO of Deep Target, about the strategies that can help unlock the value of your data. 

    EP908: What does banking need to do to combat fraud?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2025 12:24


    Carl Slabicki, Executive Platform Owner, Treasury Services, BNYWhat does the cybersecurity landscape look like now? What should banks around the world be doing to tackle fraud? Everyone agrees the key could be data sharing but how can we make this happen? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the role of AI as an accelerator and a tool for good with Carl Slabicki of BNY.

    EP907: The challenges of fighting fincrime and managing the regulatory burden

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2025 9:00


    Phil Cotter, CEO, SmartSearchRegulated entities in the financial sphere face increasing complex compliance requirements. This year alone, new regulations such as DORA, AMLA and ECCTA reflect the fact that fincrime is at the forefront of business challenges. However, combine pressure from malign actors with increased regulation and it is easy to see why three quarters of financial services businesses feel overburdened. Indeed 81% of UK financial sector firms worry about their ability to comply with current regulations. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence talks to Phil Cotter, CEO of UK-based provider of digital compliance and AML solutions, SmartSearch. 

    EP906: Trends in crossborder payments and FinTech

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2025 10:34


    Andrew Jurgielan, Chief Revenue Officer ONE.ioUnder the spotlight, the challenges and opportunities of cross-border banking, regulatory strategy and payment innovation. One.io is a full-suite financial services solution, providing access to business accounts, global payments, spot FX, crypto trading and payment processing for a global customer base. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to the firm's Chief Revenue Officer, Andrew Jurgielan. 

    EP905: Managing risks in AI and how to minimise their impact

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2025 16:57


    Richard Harmon, VP & Global Head of Financial Services, Red HatRed Hat operates as an independent subsidiary of IBM. It is an open hybrid cloud technology provider and is the world's leading provider of open-source solutions. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Richard Harmon, VP & Global Head of Financial Services at Red Hat. In a wide-ranging conversation about artificial intelligence, topics covered include the need for common infrastructure, the use of synthetic data, agentic AI and the risks involved in the adoption and use of AI.

    EP904: Why is moving money across borders so slow and what is the remedy?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2025 10:44


    Mouloukou Sanoh, Co-Founder & CEO, MANSAMANSA is building on-chain infrastructure to make real-time cross border payments a reality in the belief that seamless money movement shouldn't be limited by legacy systems and outdated infrastructure. In many emerging markets, mobile first apps have already displaced traditional banks with stablecoins likely to be the next disruptor of how value moves around the world. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Mouloukou Sanoh of MANSA. 

    EP903: Modern records management in the age of AI and digital trust

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2025 18:29


    Arpan Bansal, VP-Marketing (Government & GSI Initiatives) Newgen SoftwareAI and automation are transforming how records are classified and managed. With growing concerns around issues pertaining to trust and compliance, innovation needs to be balanced alongside accountability. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Arpan Bansal, VP-Marketing (Government & GSI Initiatives) for Newgen Software, getting his perspective on what a modern records management system should be and what information governance is required.

    EP902: Core banking – the next battleground in financial technology

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025 10:30


    Tom Bentley, Chief Revenue Officer, 10x Banking10x Banking, the cloud-native core banking platform, has announced the appointment of Tom Bentley to its Executive Board as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Tom will lead the company's global commercial and growth strategy expansion across key markets including Europe, APAC, the Middle East and Africa. Bentley brings over 15 years of global experience in core banking and FinTech, having held senior roles at Temenos, Thought Machine, and Vodeno (recently acquired by UniCredit Group). Most recently he was part of the founding team at NatWest Boxed, the embedded finance venture from NatWest Group. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Tom Bentley about his new challenge.

    EP901: The Future of Intelligent Automation: Making AI Work for Everyone

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2025 19:18


    Sameet Gupte, Co-founder & CEO, EvoluteIQFrom tedious tasks to complex workflows, automation has come a long way, but what happens when AI, ML, and low-code/no-code converge? Intelligent Automation is reshaping how organizations operate, innovate, and scale across sectors like healthcare, finance, and tech. Vriti Gothi sits down with Sameet Gupte, Co-founder and CEO of EvoluteIQ, to discuss digital transformation, the oppourtunites and challenges, and what it takes to build resilience and agility in a rapidly changing world.

    EP900: Making Digital Transformation Stick: Why Resilience Matters

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2025 22:42


    Amalesh Mishra, Chief Growth Officer, QualityKioskDigital quality is no longer just about bug-free apps; it's about building resilience, speed, and reliability at scale. From AI-driven risk prediction to Digital Testing as a Service (DTaaS), tech leaders are rethinking software quality in a cloud-native, always-on world. In regulated sectors such as BFSI and telecom, the challenge is striking a balance between compliance and customer experience. Puja Sharma speaks with Amalesh Mishra, Chief Growth Officer at QualityKiosk, on reshaping digital assurance, tackling complexity, and staying ahead of disruption.

    EP899: Hollowing the banking core and digital coexistence

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025 14:17


    Michael Breen, CCO, audax Financial Technologyaudax Financial Technology is a comprehensive digital banking solutions provider empowering banks and financial institutions to scale and modernise at speed. audax has enabled new business models and revenue streams for Standard Chartered under the SC nexus proposition. The result, Standard Chartered became the first global bank to provide Banking-as-a-Service in Asia. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Michael Breen, CCO of audax.

    EP898: Bringing private markets infrastructure up to date

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025 8:30


    Edwin Chan, Regional Managing Director Europe, CartaThe private markets have lagged on infrastructure but that gap in capabilities is now closing with the development of ERP solutions for the management of private capital. The alternative investment ecosystem is tentatively beginning to embrace AI, offering the prospects of clarity automation and real-time data to a world still running on spreadsheets! Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Edwin Chan, Regional Managing Director Europe for investment platform Carta. 

    EP897: Could a large-scale hack of biometric data trigger a global banking crisis?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025 12:20


    Michael Marcotte, Founder, Chairman & CEO, artius.IDBanks currently store customers' biometric data on centralised systems, making it highly vulnerable and attractive to hackers. A successful breach of this data could result in group litigation from customers large enough to destabilise both the bank itself and the surrounding financial ecosystem. In 2016, Michael Marcotte co-founded the US National Cybersecurity Center, which works with companies and governments to improve national security and computer security. Now he is Founder, Chairman and CEO of artius.ID, which offers secure, self-managed individual identity solutions for S&P 500 majors.

    EP896: Taking the fight to fincrime in real time with agentic AI

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025 10:15


    Adam Gable, Senior Product Director, TemenosAgentic AI helps to simplify complex processes by performing automated tasks without human intervention. Temenos unveiled its FCM AI Agent at the Temenos Community Forum (TCF 2025) in Madrid. It is an AI-enhanced compliance engine, enabling a significant reduction in false positives when screening against global and domestic watchlists in real time. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks at TCF 2025 to Adam Gable, Senior Product Director at Temenos about the evolution of the perennial problem of fincrime and the efforts to counter it.

    EP895: How AI is dominating the current FinTech venture capital scene

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2025 8:54


    Thomas Cuvelier, Partner, RTP GlobalVenture capital firm RTP Global says it invests in ‘ambitious founders reshaping the world through technology'. The focus in FinTech funding now is very firmly on AI and likely to remain there for some time. The impact of developments in artificial intelligence are only just beginning to be felt. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Thomas Cuvelier, Partner at RTP Global.

    EP894: How to make payments pay in the 21st century

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2025 11:31


    Mick Fennell, Business Line Director, Payments, Temenos Payments by volume have soared, both in domestic markets and cross-border markets but, at the same time, banks margins have come under increasing pressure. Banks simply aren't making the money out of the payments business that they used to make out of it. How do we create a system of payments that is fair, equitable, secure, and that makes sense for banks as well as their customers? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence caught up with Mick Fennell, Business Line Director, Payments at Temenos, at the company's Temenos Community Forum in Madrid. 

    EP893: How embedded finance is helping SMEs

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2025 11:03


    Thomas Longhurst, Head of Strategic Partnerships, YouLendEmbedded finance is boosting business growth for SMEs as industry dynamics are being changed by the power of partnerships. Thomas Longhurst, Head of Strategic Partnerships at global embedded financing platform YouLend speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence, beginning with his thoughts on the recent Money 20/20 conference in Amsterdam. 

    EP892: Taking nature into account in the business of lending and investing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2025 9:08


    Mattie Yeta, Chief Sustainability Officer, CGIBanks are under increasing pressure to understand how nature-related risks like biodiversity loss, flood risk and soil degradation may impact asset values and long-term resilience. However, many lenders lack the tools and context to interpret this data. Mattie Yeta, Chief Sustainability Officer for CGI in the UK and Australia speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence about how financial institutions are moving to incorporate nature data in credit and investment decisions.

    EP891: Female FinTech founders – lessons to be learned from Mia Drennan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2025 8:47


    Mia Drennan, Founder & CEO, GLASMia Drennan pioneered independent loan administration and trustee services – an area traditionally dominated by banks. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Mia Drennan, Founder and CEO of GLAS, about how she disrupted financial services and thrived in the male dominated financial services – building a global finance business that turns over around £100 million ($137 million) a year. What lessons can the current crop of female entrepreneurs take to heart? 

    EP889: Loan origination and credit profiling designed to speed approvals

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 14:56


    Ram Ramdas, Founder & Chief Evangelist, Wonderlend HubsWonderLend Hubs offers scalable, customisable solutions that adapt to the dynamic needs of modern lenders. It is a no-code, micro-modular solution delivered as a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) model. Modular architecture or microservices allows the company to offer ‘Micro plans', i.e. API bundles which are fully business user-configurable. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Ram Ramdas, Founder and Chief Evangelist at Wonderlend Hubs. 

    EP888: Broken windows, big breaches: how tiny AML gaps spark major trouble

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 13:47


    Ruchi Tripathi, Vice President - Product Management for AMLOCK, AzentioFinancial crime compliance is evolving—and even minor lapses like missed STRs can spark major regulatory fallout. Legacy tech adds to the challenge, creating blind spots in AML frameworks. Ruchi Tripathi, VP – Product Management at Azentio's AMLOCK, speaks with Puja Sharma on applying the ‘Broken Window Theory', tackling tech debt, and adapting compliance to regional needs.

    EP887: Solving cybersecurity? The need for more robust cyber resilience strategies

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 12:22


    Steve Brodie, Chief Revenue Officer, GoldilockPhysical network isolation is becoming essential in today's cybersecurity threat landscape. Software-only solutions are no longer enough. The case for hardware-based protection has been thrown into sharp relief in recent months with high profile cases of cyber attacks that have revealed victim organisations to be, in the words of Steve Brodie of Goldilock, ‘over-connected and under-protected'. Goldilock already numbers leading banks among customers in both Europe and Asia for its award-winning network connection controllers. 

    EP886: How FinTechs fail and how we can prevent it

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 14:06


    Elliott Limb, CEO, CubedOver the past decade, we have seen many FinTechs rise and fall – entering the market to great fanfare only to exit extremely quietly. Why do so many FinTechs fail and what needs to happen in order to reduce the chronic failure rates among FinTech startups. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Cubed CEO Elliott Limb who says a mindset change is needed. 

    EP885: Building behavioural analytics based on mobile devices and web metadata

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 13:18


    Michele Tucci, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, CredolabCredolab is a data analytics platform based on smartphone and web behavioural metadata available to any company with a mobile app and a website. The use of this alternative data acts to bolster risk assessment and credit decisioning in a privacy-safe, predictive way that improves outcomes based on traditional scoring models alone. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the issues with Michele Tucci, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Credolab. 

    EP884: Digitisation of payments isn't solving the problems facing the UK construction industry

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 10:07


    Louise Stewart, CEO, ProjectPayPayments are a crucial issue in construction where some 98% of firms in the industry are SMEs. The UK construction sector is struggling with outdated financial models and banking structures but to address these challenges needs more than just the introduction of digital payments. A recent report by platform ProjectPay highlights the sector's cashflow issues. Louise Stewart, CEO of ProjectPay speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence. 

    EP883: The pain points in insurance and how AI is addressing them.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 12:02


    Ritesh Varma, VP Business Solutions Consulting, Newgen Software Investigating the opportunities and challenges involved in the implementation of artificial intelligence in the insurance sector – from ensuring fairness and compliance in underwriting via data-driven decision-making to the role AI plays in combatting fraud. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses risk assessment and claims management with Ritesh Varma, VP Business Solutions Consulting of Newgen Software.

    EP882: How AI agents are changing financial research and analysis

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 11:55


    Chandini Jain, Founder & CEO, Auquan Auquan offers AI agents for institutional finance and provides a glimpse into the future of  work in investment banking. Agentic AI is already rewriting the role of humans in financial research and analysis – no long, for example,  will junior investment bankers face ‘death by powerpoint'. AI is reshaping workflows, organisations and careers. However, the changes don't mean humans are being left out of the loop. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the issues with Chandini Jain, Founder and CEO of Auquan. 

    EP881: The promise of blockchain: end-to-end visibility and improved financial tracking

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2025 10:25


    Liat Shetret, Vice President, Global Policy & Regulation, EllipticDebanking is not a new issue but despite efforts by jurisdictions like the USA and Australia introducing legislation to remove barriers for crypto firms, debanking remains a significant obstacle globally. The bottom line? Banks are hesitant to engage with crypto due to perceived risk – but could they be mistaken? Liat Shetret, Vice President, Global Policy & Regulation at blockchain data and intelligence platform Elliptic talks through the issues with Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence. 

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