Dušan Stojanović, founder of True Global Ventures, caught up with Emmanuel Daniel, founder of The Asian Banker, and talked about how the loss of trust in centralised financial institutions would drive the demand for decentralised assets and platforms.

Simon Beitz, CEO of Alex Bank, discusses how the bank is disrupting the traditional banking industry with a lending-led and low operating cost business model, leveraging technology to deliver innovative and customer-centric financial solutions to a high-quality target market

Emmanuel Daniel, founder of The Asian Banker, gave a briefing on his recently-launched book, The Great Transition: The Personalization of Finance Is Here. This was followed by a dialogue with guest panelists Barney Frank, co-author of the Dodd-Frank Act, and SC Venture’s Alex Manson.

Iswaraan Suppiah, AmBank’s group chief operating officer and Aaron Loo, managing director of retail banking, share how the bank’s centre of excellence supports uninterrupted operation and optimisation of RPA

Iswaraan Suppiah, AmBank’s group chief operating officer and Aaron Loo, managing director of retail banking, discuss the bank’s AmAccess Biz digital account that enables the seamless onboarding of MSME customers who face challenges accessing financial services

Kelvin Tan of Standard Chartered Bank and Peter Murray of Amazon Web Services discussed the launch of BukaTabungan, the digital bank partnership with Indonesia’s leading e-commerce platform, Bukalapak

Edwin Bautista, president and CEO of UnionBank, described how technology, culture and people play important roles in the bank’s digital transformation, and showcased the data centre network and Smart Innovation Campus deployed with technology partner Huawei

Red Hat's Arvind Swami, and Richard Harmon discussed how payment transactions have grown significantly during the pandemic and how cloud technology gain traction among financial institutions.

Radha Pillay, regional head for Asia Pacific at Smartsream, cautions against being too reliant on a single provider or technology, particularly for cloud solutions where very few platforms dominate the entire market.

Enno Burghard Weitzel, senior vice president of strategy and business development, Surecomp highlighted the importance of collaboration, and exploring multiple ideas and solutions before deciding.

Arvind Vohra, country head of retail branch banking at HDFC Bank explained how the bank’s service-first culture and analytics-led value proposition is driving growth.

In this RadioFinance session, Emmanuel Daniel spoke with Bikram Chaudhury, a veteran in investment banking, about his current initiative to run a startup which aims to expand credit facilities to inclusive borrowers and the base of the pyramid populations through its proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) lending platform. He clearly explained the issues of the microfinance industry and the significant movements of different players during the pandemic in both developed and emerging markets today.

Mick Fennell, business line director for payments at Temenos discussed how they grow and address issues in the payments business and how the pandemic accelerate the movement towards contactless processing. With the digitisation of the payment process, Temenos sees the rise of instant payments straight to people's accounts. Fennell sees positive growth in their client’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) products so they are putting a huge amount of investment into it. Fennell said: “BNPL is a particular product that they want to launch and do. We're seeing a great appetite within the market in our client base for these consumable services driven by cloud infrastructures".

Faisal Ameen, Managing Director, Head, Asia Pacific and Japan, Global Transaction Services, Bank of America Merill Lynch, shares the challenges and opportunities in trade, and the role adaptive technology will play in the future.

Georg Schneider, head of financial engineering at Digital Asset, spoke about the difficulties in creating and digitising assets into tokens, and how Digital Asset is able to make this process easier for their clients.