EP826: Reimagining quality engineering and automation in digital financial services

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Can AI compress the years long research time of a PhD into seconds? Research scientist Max Jaderberg explores how “AI analogs” simulate real-world lab work with staggering speed and scale, unlocking new insights on protein folding and drug discovery. Drawing on his experience working on Isomorphic Labs' and Google DeepMind's AlphaFold 3 — an AI model for predicting the structure of molecules — Jaderberg explains how this new technology frees up researchers' time and resources to better understand the real, messy world and tackle the next frontiers of science, medicine and more. For a chance to give your own TED Talk, fill out the Idea Search Application: ted.com/ideasearch . Interested in learning more about upcoming TED events? Follow these links: TEDNext: ted.com/futureyou TEDAI Vienna: ted.com/ai-vienna Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Srirang Srikantha, Chief Executive Officer, Yethi Consulting

By end-2028, it has been suggested that 80% of testing engagements will have quality engineering transformation as a core component. One recent survey has a similar percentage of banks (81%) warning of an imminent ‘automation Armageddon’. Against that background, Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Srirang Srikantha, CEO of Yethi Consulting, a leading provider of payment solutions, quality assurance, and testing automation services tailored for the global banking and financial services sector.

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EP826: Reimagining quality engineering and automation in digital financial services

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Srirang Srikantha, Chief Executive Officer, Yethi Consulting

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EP903: Modern records management in the age of AI and digital trust 18:29

19 hours ago18:29

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Arpan Bansal, VP-Marketing (Government & GSI Initiatives) Newgen Software AI and automation are transforming how records are classified and managed. With growing concerns around issues pertaining to trust and compliance, innovation needs to be balanced alongside accountability. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Arpan Bansal, VP-Marketing (Government & GSI Initiatives) for Newgen Software, getting his perspective on what a modern records management system should be and what information governance is required.…

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EP902: Core banking – the next battleground in financial technology 10:30

2 days ago10:30

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Tom Bentley, Chief Revenue Officer, 10x Banking 10x Banking, the cloud-native core banking platform, has announced the appointment of Tom Bentley to its Executive Board as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Tom will lead the company’s global commercial and growth strategy expansion across key markets including Europe, APAC, the Middle East and Africa. Bentley brings over 15 years of global experience in core banking and FinTech, having held senior roles at Temenos, Thought Machine, and Vodeno (recently acquired by UniCredit Group). Most recently he was part of the founding team at NatWest Boxed, the embedded finance venture from NatWest Group. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Tom Bentley about his new challenge.…

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EP901: The Future of Intelligent Automation: Making AI Work for Everyone 19:18

6 days ago19:18

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Sameet Gupte, Co-founder & CEO, EvoluteIQ From tedious tasks to complex workflows, automation has come a long way, but what happens when AI, ML, and low-code/no-code converge? Intelligent Automation is reshaping how organizations operate, innovate, and scale across sectors like healthcare, finance, and tech. Vriti Gothi sits down with Sameet Gupte, Co-founder and CEO of EvoluteIQ, to discuss digital transformation, the oppourtunites and challenges, and what it takes to build resilience and agility in a rapidly changing world.…

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EP900: Making Digital Transformation Stick: Why Resilience Matters 22:42

7 days ago22:42

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Amalesh Mishra, Chief Growth Officer, QualityKiosk Digital quality is no longer just about bug-free apps; it’s about building resilience, speed, and reliability at scale. From AI-driven risk prediction to Digital Testing as a Service (DTaaS), tech leaders are rethinking software quality in a cloud-native, always-on world. In regulated sectors such as BFSI and telecom, the challenge is striking a balance between compliance and customer experience. Puja Sharma speaks with Amalesh Mishra, Chief Growth Officer at QualityKiosk, on reshaping digital assurance, tackling complexity, and staying ahead of disruption.…

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EP898: Bringing private markets infrastructure up to date 8:30

8 days ago8:30

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Edwin Chan, Regional Managing Director Europe, Carta The private markets have lagged on infrastructure but that gap in capabilities is now closing with the development of ERP solutions for the management of private capital. The alternative investment ecosystem is tentatively beginning to embrace AI, offering the prospects of clarity automation and real-time data to a world still running on spreadsheets! Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Edwin Chan, Regional Managing Director Europe for investment platform Carta.…

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EP899: Hollowing the banking core and digital coexistence 14:17

8 days ago14:17

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Michael Breen, CCO, audax Financial Technology audax Financial Technology is a comprehensive digital banking solutions provider empowering banks and financial institutions to scale and modernise at speed. audax has enabled new business models and revenue streams for Standard Chartered under the SC nexus proposition. The result, Standard Chartered became the first global bank to provide Banking-as-a-Service in Asia. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Michael Breen, CCO of audax.…

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EP897: Could a large-scale hack of biometric data trigger a global banking crisis? 12:20

12 days ago12:20

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Michael Marcotte, Founder, Chairman & CEO, artius.ID Banks currently store customers’ biometric data on centralised systems, making it highly vulnerable and attractive to hackers. A successful breach of this data could result in group litigation from customers large enough to destabilise both the bank itself and the surrounding financial ecosystem. In 2016, Michael Marcotte co-founded the US National Cybersecurity Center , which works with companies and governments to improve national security and computer security. Now he is Founder, Chairman and CEO of artius.ID, which offers secure, self-managed individual identity solutions for S&P 500 majors.…

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EP896: Taking the fight to fincrime in real time with agentic AI 10:15

13 days ago10:15

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Adam Gable, Senior Product Director, Temenos Agentic AI helps to simplify complex processes by performing automated tasks without human intervention. Temenos unveiled its FCM AI Agent at the Temenos Community Forum (TCF 2025) in Madrid. It is an AI-enhanced compliance engine, enabling a significant reduction in false positives when screening against global and domestic watchlists in real time. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks at TCF 2025 to Adam Gable, Senior Product Director at Temenos about the evolution of the perennial problem of fincrime and the efforts to counter it.…

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EP894: How to make payments pay in the 21st century 11:31

14 days ago11:31

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Mick Fennell, Business Line Director, Payments, Temenos Payments by volume have soared, both in domestic markets and cross-border markets but, at the same time, banks margins have come under increasing pressure. Banks simply aren’t making the money out of the payments business that they used to make out of it. How do we create a system of payments that is fair, equitable, secure, and that makes sense for banks as well as their customers? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence caught up with Mick Fennell, Business Line Director, Payments at Temenos, at the company’s Temenos Community Forum in Madrid.…

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EP895: How AI is dominating the current FinTech venture capital scene 8:54

14 days ago8:54

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Thomas Cuvelier, Partner, RTP Global Venture capital firm RTP Global says it invests in ‘ambitious founders reshaping the world through technology’. The focus in FinTech funding now is very firmly on AI and likely to remain there for some time. The impact of developments in artificial intelligence are only just beginning to be felt. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Thomas Cuvelier, Partner at RTP Global.…

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EP893: How embedded finance is helping SMEs 11:03

20 days ago11:03

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Thomas Longhurst, Head of Strategic Partnerships, YouLend Embedded finance is boosting business growth for SMEs as industry dynamics are being changed by the power of partnerships. Thomas Longhurst, Head of Strategic Partnerships at global embedded financing platform YouLend speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence, beginning with his thoughts on the recent Money 20/20 conference in Amsterdam.…

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EP892: Taking nature into account in the business of lending and investing 9:08

20 days ago9:08

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Mattie Yeta, Chief Sustainability Officer, CGI Banks are under increasing pressure to understand how nature-related risks like biodiversity loss, flood risk and soil degradation may impact asset values and long-term resilience. However, many lenders lack the tools and context to interpret this data. Mattie Yeta, Chief Sustainability Officer for CGI in the UK and Australia speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence about how financial institutions are moving to incorporate nature data in credit and investment decisions.…

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EP891: Female FinTech founders – lessons to be learned from Mia Drennan 8:47

30 days ago8:47

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Mia Drennan, Founder & CEO, GLAS Mia Drennan pioneered independent loan administration and trustee services – an area traditionally dominated by banks. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Mia Drennan, Founder and CEO of GLAS, about how she disrupted financial services and thrived in the male dominated financial services – building a global finance business that turns over around £100 million ($137 million) a year. What lessons can the current crop of female entrepreneurs take to heart?…

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EP889: Loan origination and credit profiling designed to speed approvals 14:56

5 weeks ago14:56

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Ram Ramdas, Founder & Chief Evangelist, Wonderlend Hubs WonderLend Hubs offers scalable, customisable solutions that adapt to the dynamic needs of modern lenders. It is a no-code, micro-modular solution delivered as a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) model. Modular architecture or microservices allows the company to offer ‘Micro plans’, i.e. API bundles which are fully business user-configurable. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Ram Ramdas, Founder and Chief Evangelist at Wonderlend Hubs.…

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EP888: Broken windows, big breaches: how tiny AML gaps spark major trouble 13:47

5 weeks ago13:47

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Ruchi Tripathi, Vice President - Product Management for AMLOCK, Azentio Financial crime compliance is evolving—and even minor lapses like missed STRs can spark major regulatory fallout. Legacy tech adds to the challenge, creating blind spots in AML frameworks. Ruchi Tripathi, VP – Product Management at Azentio’s AMLOCK, speaks with Puja Sharma on applying the ‘Broken Window Theory’, tackling tech debt, and adapting compliance to regional needs.…

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EP886: How FinTechs fail and how we can prevent it 14:06

5 weeks ago14:06

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Elliott Limb, CEO, Cubed Over the past decade, we have seen many FinTechs rise and fall – entering the market to great fanfare only to exit extremely quietly. Why do so many FinTechs fail and what needs to happen in order to reduce the chronic failure rates among FinTech startups. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Cubed CEO Elliott Limb who says a mindset change is needed.…

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EP887: Solving cybersecurity? The need for more robust cyber resilience strategies 12:22

5 weeks ago12:22

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Steve Brodie, Chief Revenue Officer, Goldilock Physical network isolation is becoming essential in today’s cybersecurity threat landscape. Software-only solutions are no longer enough. The case for hardware-based protection has been thrown into sharp relief in recent months with high profile cases of cyber attacks that have revealed victim organisations to be, in the words of Steve Brodie of Goldilock, ‘over-connected and under-protected’. Goldilock already numbers leading banks among customers in both Europe and Asia for its award-winning network connection controllers.…

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EP884: Digitisation of payments isn’t solving the problems facing the UK construction industry 10:07

6 weeks ago10:07

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Louise Stewart, CEO, ProjectPay Payments are a crucial issue in construction where some 98% of firms in the industry are SMEs. The UK construction sector is struggling with outdated financial models and banking structures but to address these challenges needs more than just the introduction of digital payments. A recent report by platform ProjectPay highlights the sector’s cashflow issues. Louise Stewart, CEO of ProjectPay speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence.…

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EP885: Building behavioural analytics based on mobile devices and web metadata 13:18

6 weeks ago13:18

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Michele Tucci, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Credolab Credolab is a data analytics platform based on smartphone and web behavioural metadata available to any company with a mobile app and a website. The use of this alternative data acts to bolster risk assessment and credit decisioning in a privacy-safe, predictive way that improves outcomes based on traditional scoring models alone. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the issues with Michele Tucci, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Credolab.…

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EP883: The pain points in insurance and how AI is addressing them. 12:02

6 weeks ago12:02

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Ritesh Varma, VP Business Solutions Consulting, Newgen Software Investigating the opportunities and challenges involved in the implementation of artificial intelligence in the insurance sector – from ensuring fairness and compliance in underwriting via data-driven decision-making to the role AI plays in combatting fraud. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses risk assessment and claims management with Ritesh Varma, VP Business Solutions Consulting of Newgen Software.…

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EP882: How AI agents are changing financial research and analysis 11:55

6 weeks ago11:55

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Chandini Jain, Founder & CEO, Auquan Auquan offers AI agents for institutional finance and provides a glimpse into the future of work in investment banking. Agentic AI is already rewriting the role of humans in financial research and analysis – no long, for example, will junior investment bankers face ‘death by powerpoint’. AI is reshaping workflows, organisations and careers. However, the changes don’t mean humans are being left out of the loop. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the issues with Chandini Jain, Founder and CEO of Auquan.…

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EP880: Deriving actionable business insights through analytics and AI 12:43

6 weeks ago12:43

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Jorge Lluch, Co-Founder & COO, Abacum Abacum is a financial planning and analysis platform which recently raised $60 million in a Series B funding round. Businesses are under increasing pressure to forecast accurately, and AI-driven planning tools are themselves seen as a critical component to assist CFOs in forecasting revenue, planning headcount and building in the ability to cope with unforeseen macroeconomic headwinds. Jorge Lluch, Co-Founder and COO of Abacum speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence.…

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EP881: The promise of blockchain: end-to-end visibility and improved financial tracking 10:25

6 weeks ago10:25

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Liat Shetret, Vice President, Global Policy & Regulation, Elliptic Debanking is not a new issue but despite efforts by jurisdictions like the USA and Australia introducing legislation to remove barriers for crypto firms, debanking remains a significant obstacle globally. The bottom line? Banks are hesitant to engage with crypto due to perceived risk – but could they be mistaken? Liat Shetret, Vice President, Global Policy & Regulation at blockchain data and intelligence platform Elliptic talks through the issues with Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence.…

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EP878: Using artificial intelligence in business and tackling the AI talent gap 12:58

6 weeks ago12:58

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Daniel Sanchez Grant, SVP International Corp Sales & UK Country Director, AlphaSense There is a global AI talent gap. Rising demand for skilled staff in the area of artificial intelligence has seen AI expertise become the most in-demand skill set in technology with firms struggling to fill roles. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the problem together with the uses of data-driven decisions with Daniel Sanchez Grant, SVP International Corp Sales & UK Country Director of AlphaSense.…

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EP879: Harnessing AI for the benefit of the global financial community 14:25

6 weeks ago14:25

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Rachel Levi, Head of AI, Swift The financial services sector has been using the predictive capabilities of traditional AI for years in use cases such as liquidity management and cash forecasting. However, the introduction of generative AI has created a vast range of opportunities for firms to improve customer support, drive smarter decision-making, and speed up content creation. Rachel Levi, Head of AI at Swift takes Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence through the impact of AI in financial services.…

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EP877: Banking in the Fast Lane—Why Regulation is a Guardrail, Not a Roadblock 20:52

9 weeks ago20:52

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Shalini Sankarshana, MD, Planview India’s banking sector is sprinting through a marathon of digital disruption—and the smartest players are using regulation not as a roadblock, but as guardrails for innovation. In this episode, Shalini Sankarshana, Managing Director at Planview®—an expert in Strategic Portfolio Management and Digital Product Development—tells Gloria Methri of IBS Intelligence why banks like Axis and SBI are racing ahead, how speed and security must go hand in hand, and why the future belongs to those who collaborate, not compete.…

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EP875: How AI is transforming the $7 billion expenses management market 8:23

9 weeks ago8:23

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Aidana Zhakupbekova, Chief Financial Officer, Rydoo Topics in the spotlight include the workplace and compliance benefits of AI, and the integration of AI in existing financial systems. You’ll also hear comment on the role of smart audit AI in combatting expense fraud. Aidana Zhakupbekova, Chief Financial Officer of expense management platform Rydoo, speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence.…

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EP876: AI in asset management – from efficiency gains to strategic decisioning 11:01

9 weeks ago11:01

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Russell Andrews, Head of Wealth & Asset Management Vertical EMEA, FIS The focus on AI implementation in asset management has so far been largely on improving efficiency in routine, low value tasks. Building data lakes and warehouses is the foundational work necessary to enable AI-driven decision-making at scale. True value will emerge when AI is fully integrated into portfolio management and risk analysis. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Russell Andrews, Head of Wealth & Asset Management Vertical EMEA at FIS.…

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EP874: Infrastructure Without Awareness Isn’t Inclusion 18:39

9 weeks ago18:39

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Sarika Agarwal, Chief Business Officer, Findi India’s FinTech journey is at an inflection point—where building digital rails is no longer enough. True financial inclusion demands solutions rooted in a local context, blending the physical with the digital to meet users where they are. Sarika Agarwal, Chief Business Officer at FindiPay, speaks with Puja Sharma on embracing cash as a bridge, not a barrier, to align with public infrastructure while plugging access gaps. The focus must shift from scale alone to trust, usability, and sustainable execution.…

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EP873: Solving the paradox at the heart of payments – rising volumes but shrinking margins 13:22

11 weeks ago13:22