IBS Intelligence Global FinTech Interviews
Go one-on-one with the innovators, disruptors, leaders, and decision-makers driving change in FinTech and financial services. IBS Intelligence delivers exclusive global interviews that uncover strategies, challenges, and the ideas powering the next wave of financial technology.
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1032 episodes
EP1034: Where Digital Banking Meets Africa’s Inclusion Gap
Fayza Benayad, Global Partnership Head, FimpleDigital banking provider Fimple is focused on using cloud-native, API-first banking technology to expand financial access for underserved SMEs and NGOs across Africa. Its compos...
EP1033: A Voice for Inclusive Banking
Pramit Bhargava, Founder of Louie Voice, ClayfinDigital banking provider Clayfin has acquired voice technology platform Louie Voice to strengthen its AI-driven customer experience and accessibility capabilities. The acquisition ad...
EP1032: Channel bans at a four-year high
Rob Mason, Director, Regulatory Intelligence, Global RelayFinancial services providers have been reassessing their communications compliance strategies, according to a recent report by Global Re...
EP1031: From Automation to AI-Led Banking Decisions
Mohamed Moniem, Vice President – ME Region, nCino, speaks to Puja Sharma about how AI is moving banking from automation to predictive, insight-driven decision-making, covering its impact on lending, customer engagement, r...
EP1030: AI agents and the risks they pose in financial services
Chandra Gnanasambandam, Chief Technology Officer & EVP of Product, SailPointIn the background, data that shows 80% of organisations reporting that AI agents are taking unintended actions left ...
EP1029: Cross-border payments out of Africa
Scott Liddle, Co-Founder, Capi MoneyThere is a growing shift to FinTech actors in cross-border payments. Capi Money was established on the belief that this will also happen in Africa. Last year the Lo...
EP1028: AI Testing Boosts Trust in BFSI
This interview explores how AI-powered testing frameworks are revolutionising the financial services sector by enhancing regulatory compliance and data sovereignty. It highlights the shift from traditional manual processes to a...
EP1027: Building a stablecoin-powered Islamic digital bank
This interview explores how Fasset is expanding its global reach through plans to establish a regulated digital Islamic bank in Malaysia under the leadership of Rafiza Ghazali. By leveraging the Labuan financial framework, the company aims to i...
EP1026: The future of digital transformation
This interview with Eric Bierry, CEO of SBS, explores how modern banking is shifting away from basic technology toward advanced operational governance and open banking integration. Bierry argues that financial instit...
EP1025: From Hype to ROI: Making AI Pay Off
This interview explores the current state of artificial intelligence within the banking sector, highlighting the growing gap between high corporate expectations and practical technological limitations. The source emphasizes that financia...
EP1024: Transformation is on the way
This interview features Karthik Sethuraman of audax Financial Technology discussing the urgent necessity for digital transformation within the global banking industry. He argues that traditional financial institutions must ...
EP1023: Talking strategy, tactics and evolution
This interview features nCino CEO Sean Desmond discussing the company's strategic focus on integrating agentic AI into the global banking sector. Desmond introduces the concept of a "dual workforce," where specialized digit...
EP1022: The Next Big Reform for MSMEs Is Digital Trust
This interview with Aditya Tulsian explores a paradigm shift in how Indian MSMEs access the project economy by moving from collateral-based credit to digital trust infrastructure. The source argues that traditional <...
EP1021: The New Architecture of Credit
This interview features Balaji Vasudevan of SysArc Infomatix, discussing the evolution of India’s digital lending through regulatory innovation and API-driven ecosystems. He emphasizes the RBI’s Regulatory Sandbox as essential for testing produ...
EP1020: From AI Promise to Performance
DN Prahlad, Founder and Chairman, Surya FinTechAs banks move beyond AI experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment, Puja Sharma speaks with DN Prahlad, Founder and Chairman, Surya FinTech, on w...
EP1019: Beyond Core Banking: The Rise of the Modern Bank Operating System
Booshan Rengachari, founder and CEO of FinzlyAs banks look beyond traditional core modernisation, the industry is increasingly focused on building a modern bank operating system that combines real-time payments, AI-driven intelligence, a...
EP1018: The Gen Z and Gen Alpha battleground
In this interview, Mambu CEO Fernando Zandona discusses the critical importance of securing younger customers, specifically Gen Z and Alpha, because bank loyalty often lasts a lifetime. These demographics demand fast, digitally native...
EP1017: The Quiet Reinvention of Transaction Banking
This interview highlights the significant transformation of transaction banking as it moves from a traditional product-based model to an intelligence-led service. By utilizing API-driven architectures and real-time data, banks are now embedding...
EP1016: The Cloud Is Rewiring India’s Trading Stack
This interview outlines Murex’s strategic expansion into India’s rapidly evolving capital markets through the year 2026. This growth plan centers on providing sophisticated trading and risk management infrastructure to help local ...
EP1015: Modernising core banking – the SBS approach
This interview features Jean-Charles Duyck from SBS discussing a successful core banking modernization project for Fransabank France. Rather than a risky total system replacement, the approach utilized modular, cloud-native com...
EP1014: Opportunities for innovation
This interview talks about the financial sector is undergoing a massive shift from physical trading floors to cloud-based ecosystems that prioritise speed and global accessibility. This evolution is democratising market infrastructure, allowing...
EP1013: The Smart Shift in Payments: From speed to scale, Intelligence and Trust
This interview explores the global shift toward unified real-time payment ecosystems, highlighting how interoperability and 24/7 settlement are becoming the new international standards. It details how traditional banks are adopting cloud-native...
EP1012: The current trends in B2B payments for 2026
Pat Bermingham, CEO, AdflexWe review the top trends that will transform how businesses make and take payments in the modern world. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Pat Bermingham, CEO of U...
EP1011: Lessons for B2B BNPL
This interview explores the strategic development of the B2B Buy Now, Pay Later industry through insights from the co-founder of PastPay, a major financial provider in Eastern Europe. The discussion highlights how deferred payment solutions hel...
EP1010: Embedded compliance, digital assets and more
This interview features Krishna Subramanyan discussing the major FinTech trends expected to shape the financial industry in 2025. The conversation highlights the growing importance of embedded compliance, where regulatory processes are integrat...
