Selected Category- IIF Podcast

As the ‘Platformization’ of finance gathers pace, KPMG Global Co-Head of FinTech Anton Ruddenklau talks us through developments in partnerships, the necessary mindset shifts, cross-industry convergence, and the emerging FinTech trends to look for in 2021.

Catherine Parry, Founder and CEO of DeepView, outlines the key trends in social media security and online surveillance technologies that have emerged through the COVID ‘Work From Home’ era.

FRT once again joins forces with CQ Roll Call’s FinTech Beat podcast, as we exchange our key takeaways from across the IIF Annual Membership Meeting, the IMF & World Bank annual meetings, and DC FinTech Week, with FinTech Beat host, Professor Chris Brummer of Georgetown University.

Ivo Jenik of the World Bank’s Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) discusses the opportunities and critical dependencies for digitalization to support greater financial inclusion, and key learnings for the application of regulatory sandboxes.

With the criticality of Digital Identity underlined by the pandemic and recent economic shifts, we discuss the opportunities to support SMEs in the digital economy and promote financial inclusion, and the importance of enabling interoperability.

Jay Healey, a Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s SIPA joins the IIF's Martin Boer to discuss the intersection between Cyber Conflict and the Financial Services sector.

Looking beyond ‘Open Banking’, we discuss Australia’s multi-sectoral Consumer Data Right (CDR) with Dr Liming Zhu of the national science agency CSIRO, looking at the potential extension of open data principles to other consumer sectors.

The economy has been adapting and digitalizing rapidly in response to COVID-19, both in financial services and beyond. IIF economists and digital finance experts look forward at what this means not only in financial services but also for SMEs to keep pace with tech firms in a competitive eCommerce environment.

Where COVID-19 has forced radical changes, it has also removed many of the barriers that have plagued previous digital transformation effort. The IIF and Deloitte explore this as part of our Realizing the Digital Promise series, with industry experts Ulku Rowe (Google Cloud), Jaco Grobler (First Rand Bank) and Andres Wolberg-Stok (Citi).

Jayaraj Puthanveedu, Global Head of Operational Resilience, Third Party Tech Risk & Crisis Management at BNP Paribas, and a strong IIF collaborator in the areas of Operational Resilience and Cyber Security, joins Martin Boer of the Institute of International Finance (IIF) to discuss enhancing Operational Resilience in the time of COVID-19.

BBVA’s Head of Digital Regulation and Trends (and former IIF secondee) Pablo Urbiola returns to FRT, discussing how the competitive landscape in financial services has evolved with digitalization, and where policymakers need to keep pace with ongoing developments.

Grace Sone, Head of Cooperation and Organization at the Financial Stability Board Secretariat in Basel, spoke with Martin Boer of the Institute of International Finance to discuss Cyber Risk and how the current COVID-19 pandemic is impacting cyber resilience across the financial services industry.

With COVID-19 ushering the increased digitalization of the economy and placing an increased emphasis on Digital Identity, Rod Boothby (Global Head of Identity at Santander) and Don Thibeau (Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation) visit FRT to discuss an important initiative for enabling online trust.

Meeting customer preferences is at the center of both the digital transformation of finance and Islamic banking. In this episode, Bassel Gamal, Qatar Islamic Bank’s Group CEO, shares his experience with these two innovation journeys and how they intersect.

On June 30th, the IIF hosted our first ever event dedicated to central banking - Central Banking in the Age of COVID-19. This week's episode of The Big Questions recaps some of the most interesting moments.

Deem Finance CRO Torsten Kleine Buening joins us to discuss the ethical use of data and preserving customer trust, and the implications of the COVID experience for technologies such as digital identity and machine learning.

Managing Director and Chief Economist of the IIF, Robin Brooks, joinsThe Big Questions again this week to discuss what he sees as a "painful and slow" US labor market recovery post-COVID-19.

Deloitte’s Puneet Kakar joins fellow co-authors Conan French and Dennis Ferenzy from the IIF to discuss insights from the latest installment in our joint series on digital transformation.

ISDA’s Tara Kruse and Ian Sloyan visit FRT to highlight their Common Domain Model initiative for harmonizing trade processing and improving compliance.

IIF President and CEO, Tim Adams, joins The Big Questions again this week, for a conversation with Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and as Tim descrbes him - "one of the most recognizable thought leaders of central banking and finance in the 21st century." The two discuss the impact of the COVID-19 in Singapore, the associated risks, and policy responses.