Anar Qasem, Vice President of MENA, Cleareye.ai Trade-based money laundering is how criminals move dirty money across borders disguised as legitimate trade. Banks are spending millions but are still missing most suspicious activities, in part because 80% of global trade operates on open account terms with minimal documentation. So, what can be done? Anar Qasem, Vice President of MENA for Cleareye.ai, discusses solutions with Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence.

Jeeja Gopinath, Managing Director, Zentis AI & Techvantage.ai Artificial Intelligence is moving beyond experimentation to become a core driver of transformation across banking, financial services, and FinTech. But as institutions grapple with legacy systems, regulatory scrutiny, and the need for responsible innovation, translating AI vision into real-world impact remains a challenge. In this episode, Vriti Gothi speaks with Jeeja Gopinath, Managing Director at Zentis AI and Techvantage.a...

Pedro Arnt, Chief Executive Officer, dLocal dLocal simplifies cross-border transactions in emerging markets, connecting global enterprise merchants with billions of emerging market consumers across APAC, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. Through the "One dLocal" concept (one direct API, one platform, and one contract), global companies can accept payments, send payouts, and settle funds globally—without the need to manage separate processors or set up local entities of their own. Ro...

Veena Nair, Head of Content, Humanity Protocol Humanity Protocol aims to verify people, not passwords through palm biometrics converted into zero-knowledge proofs so platforms can block bots and fraud while keeping biometric data private and off-chain. It works on a smartphone and is already rolling out to users and enterprise pilots in finance. The firm is backed by Animoca and was most recently valued at over $1 billion. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Veena Nair, Head of Content ...

Chandrasekhar Somasekhar, Chief Technology Officer, cleareye.ai The business of trade finance is traditionally exhaustively documented but mix in a large language model (LLM) and that business can suddenly become much less of a challenge for those who must review the documentation. Chandrasekhar Somasekhar is CTO of cleareye.ai and also leads the firm’s Product Engineering team. He discusses the adoption and use cases of LLMs in trade finance with Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence.

Prabhakar Reddy, Founder & CEO, OpenFX OpenFX is building a real-time, open and transparent FX network, aiming to solve the last-mile problem in international money movement by using stablecoins as an intermediary – bringing FX transactions kicking and screaming into the 21st century! Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the future of FX, and how spreads and fees are already being compressed, with Prabhakar Reddy, Founder and CEO of OpenFX

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...