IBS Intelligence Podcasts
IBSi podcasts for insights and discussions from the world of FinTech and Banking. Listen in to what’s trending in the ever-evolving financial industry.
Episodes
949 episodes
EP951: The Pipes Behind India’s Digital Money Machine
Debiprasad Sarangi, Founder and CEO, iServeUFrom soundboxes in small-town kirana stores to APIs running national banks, India’s FinTech stack is quietly rewriting how participation scales. Puja Sharma sp...
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Episode 951
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15:00
EP950: How Salary Is Powering the Next Inclusion Wave
Piyush Bagaria, Co-founder, SalarySe Salary-linked finance is reshaping how Indian employers think about retention, responsibility, and financial wellbeing. Puja Sharma speaks with Piyu...
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Episode 950
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9:19
EP949: The coming of the agent-to-agent conversation economy
Kevin Flood, Director of Payments Ecosystem Strategy, FISFor years, banks have been pouring money into app development, yet the next revolution in customer interaction may not happen in an app at ...
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Episode 949
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13:55
EP948: Beyond the Hype: Making Blockchain Secure, Compliant, and Enterprise-Ready
Siddharth Ugrankar, CEO & Co-Founder, Qila.ioBlockchain has long been associated with hype and experimentation, but its real value is now emerging in highly regulated environments like banking, insurance, and financial services. As i...
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Episode 948
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13:33
EP947: A perfect storm – trade finance compliance at a turning point
Anar Qasem, Vice President of MENA, Cleareye.aiTrade-based money laundering is how criminals move dirty money across borders disguised as legitimate trade. Banks are spending millions but are still miss...
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Episode 947
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19:10
EP946: From Insight to Impact: How AI Is Reshaping Financial Services
Jeeja Gopinath, Managing Director, Zentis AI & Techvantage.aiArtificial Intelligence is moving beyond experimentation to become a core driver of transformation across banking, financial services, and FinTech. But as institutions grap...
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Episode 946
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8:06
EP945: Meeting compliance and consumer trust goals with biometric ID frameworks
Veena Nair, Head of Content, Humanity ProtocolHumanity Protocol aims to verify people, not passwords through palm biometrics converted into zero-knowledge proofs so platforms can block bots and fra...
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Episode 945
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10:29
EP944: An all-in-one payments platform for emerging markets
Pedro Arnt, Chief Executive Officer, dLocaldLocal simplifies cross-border transactions in emerging markets, connecting global enterprise merchants with billions of emerging market consumers across AP...
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Episode 944
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14:06
EP943: Enabling near-instant settlement of cross-border transactions
Prabhakar Reddy, Founder & CEO, OpenFXOpenFX is building a real-time, open and transparent FX network, aiming to solve the last-mile problem in international money movement by using stablecoins a...
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Episode 943
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8:47
EP942: The business cases for large language models in trade finance
Chandrasekhar Somasekhar, Chief Technology Officer, cleareye.aiThe business of trade finance is traditionally exhaustively documented but mix in a large language model (LLM) and that business can sudden...
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Episode 942
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12:11
EP941: How New-Age Lending Aims to Outrun the NPA Trap
Mahesh Shukla, Founder & CEO, PayMeIndia’s digital lending space is shifting toward trust, compliance, and responsible growth. Puja Sharma speaks with Mahesh Shukla, Founder and CEO of PayMe, on bu...
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Episode 941
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13:57
EP940: Securing Bharat’s Financial Future: Digital Inclusion in Life Insurance
Casparus Kromhout, Managing Director & CEO, Shriram Life InsuranceLife insurance in India is undergoing a pivotal shift from traditional, agent-driven models to digitally enabled, inclusion-led experiences. Rural and emerging India, ...
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Episode 940
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18:04
EP939: How to stay competitive in today’s changing payments landscape
Buddhadeb Das Gupta, EVP & Global Head of Payments & Digital Solutions, Yethi ConsultingIncreasing architectural complexity and ever-changing regulatory demands have left the global payments ecosys...
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Episode 939
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14:46
EP938: Looking to the real time future of payments
Mike Walters, Chief Executive Officer, Form3Form3 offers a cloud-native, real-time account-to-account payment platform. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the recent introduction of verificati...
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Episode 938
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7:58
EP937: How lending to SMBs is being disrupted in the US by embedded finance
Kunal Bhasin, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, 1WestSmall businesses in the US now have more choice in financing but closing the lending gap comes at a price. Small loans don’t make economic sen...
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Episode 937
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13:20
EP936: India’s AI Breakout: 87% of Enterprises Are In, But Who’s Winning the Intelligence Race?
Mathangi Sri Ramachandran, Co-Founder & CEO, YuVerse (A Yubi Company)India’s AI landscape is entering a golden phase, with enterprises rapidly moving from basic workflow automation to in...
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Episode 936
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14:17
EP935: The future of open_banking in the US hangs in the balance
Matt Whetton, CTO, Acquired.comWhat lessons can the US learn from open banking in the UK and Europe? Three areas spring to mind – data privacy, user empowerment and government-industry coordination. Th...
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Episode 935
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9:31
EP934: Wanted, one real-time cohesive view of UHNWI wealth…
Robert Mallernee, Chief Executive Officer, Eton SolutionsEton Solutions offers a platform that helps family offices across 15+ countries manage $1 trillion in ultra-high-net-worth family wealth, ...
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Episode 934
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14:55
EP933: ISO20022 – the financial messaging format is coming, whether you are ready or not!
Annemarie Bona & Melissa Stevenson, Product Managers, ION Group If your bank is not ready for the transition to support the new messaging format, the risk is that transactions may get derailed...
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Episode 933
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12:15
EP932: Crossing the tech divide, the future of wealth management
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 te...
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Episode 932
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10:14
EP931: How platforms are moving beyond core services to become financial partners
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 tr...
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Episode 931
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13:07
EP930: How to improve your KYC bulwark against fraudsters
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 gene...
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Episode 930
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12:16
EP929: Next generation banking - meeting the challenge of a ‘real time’ age
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...
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Episode 929
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12:21
EP928: Cybersecurity - why supply chains are prime targets
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. H...
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Episode 928
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9:35
EP927: Accessible Credit Through Technology and Trust
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 loan...
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Episode 927
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10:04