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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.
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Mahesh Shukla, Founder & CEO, PayMe India’s digital lending space is shifting toward trust, compliance, and responsible growth. Puja Sharma speaks with Mahesh Shukla, Founder and CEO of PayMe, on building a sustainable, AI-enabled lending model for Bharat. The conversation unpacks instant credit access, data-driven underwriting beyond CIBIL, and what responsible FinTech scale looks like in 2025.
Casparus Kromhout, Managing Director & CEO, Shriram Life Insurance Life insurance in India is undergoing a pivotal shift from traditional, agent-driven models to digitally enabled, inclusion-led experiences. Rural and emerging India, once underserved, has now become the next frontier for financial protection and long-term security. In this episode, Vriti Gothi sits down with Casparus Kromhout, MD & CEO at Shriram Life Insurance, to explore how the industry is evolving with techn...
Buddhadeb Das Gupta, EVP & Global Head of Payments & Digital Solutions, Yethi Consulting Increasing architectural complexity and ever-changing regulatory demands have left the global payments ecosystem at a critical inflection point. Transformation and compliance are now a matter of business survival. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence talks to Buddhadeb ‘Deb’ Das Gupta of Yethi Consulting about the economics of competitive positioning and how to build sustainable competitive advantage.
Mike Walters, Chief Executive Officer, Form3 Form3 offers a cloud-native, real-time account-to-account payment platform. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the recent introduction of verification of payee with Mike Walters, CEO of Form3. What do the new requirements mean for payment services providers (PSPs) and banks, and what does the future hold for FinTechs in payments processing? We also discuss Nationwide’s recent ‘strategic’ investment in Form3 and what it will enable the compan...
Kunal Bhasin, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, 1West Small 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 sense to the banks, At the same time bank loans are still taking too long to arrange. Addressing both those issues allows alternative lenders to carve out a profitable niche and provides SMBs with solutions to their funding needs. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence talks to Kunal Bhasin, Founder...
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 intelligence-driven decisioning across core operations. Against this backdrop, Puja Sharma speaks with Mathangi Sri Ramachandran, Co-Founder & CEO of YuVerse, about building an “Intelligent Core” for enterprises, spanning voice automation, document intelligence, video personalisation, and decisioning at...
Matt Whetton, CTO, Acquired.com What 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. The question is how likely is progress in these areas? In the last case, probably none at all (!) with open banking in the US being market driven. Matt Whetton, Chief Technology Officer at Acquired.com discusses open banking with Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence.
Robert Mallernee, Chief Executive Officer, Eton Solutions Eton Solutions offers a platform that helps family offices across 15+ countries manage $1 trillion in ultra-high-net-worth family wealth, pulling together investment, accounting, tax, and additional data from countless sources. UHNW families can see their net worth in real time from a mobile app. Robert Mallernee, CEO of Eton Solutions discusses the challenge of building FinTech for the most complex and private clients in the world wit...
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 with payments being refused. With the deadline just weeks away, what steps should treasurers put in place, including how to lead on communication with banks and corporates? There is also an opportunity to leverage the ISO project for greater Treasury transformation, including enhanced data ana...
Peter O’Brien, Head of Global Growth+Partnerships, Addepar Some 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 ma...
Max Schertel, Co-Founder & CEO, finmid What’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 busin...
Andrew Bud, Founder & CEO, iProov iProov'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-iss...
Mishal Ruparel, Chief Commercial Officer, Banking Circle Ultra 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.
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 vis...
Puja Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Manipal Fintech In 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...
Sameer Mathur, MD and Founder of Roinet Solutions India’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.
Simon Ellis, Head of Operations EMEA, Airwallex Global 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 expan...
Lionel Grosclaude, CEO, Fime Fime 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.
Ed Barrow, Chief Executive Officer, Cloud Capital The 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.
Dan Holt, CEO, BillGO Despite 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.
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