Live panel debate sponsored by
LIVE PANEL DEBATE - Thursday 27 Jan 2022, 10:00 GMT
The right integration strategies to drive B2B revenue opportunities
- Legacy modernisation and cloud migration – getting greater value from legacy assets while transitioning to a cloud-native setup – what to prioritise when it comes to open banking?
- Expanding the capability landscape for Open Banking through cloud adoption, cross-industry ecosystems and Open API powered platforms
- Identifying new revenue opportunities in the Open Banking ecosystem –From data monetisation to commercialising open APIs and beyond
- Perspectives on the road to open finance – building the digital marketplace of tomorrow with TPPs, and slick integration to create personalised omni-channel experiences that drives consumer engagement
Speakers include
Conrad Ford
Conrad Ford
Chief Product & Strategy Officer Allica BankConrad Ford is Chief Product & Strategy Officer at Allica Bank (www.allica.bank), recently named by Deloitte as the UK’s fastest-growing fintech firm ever, and backed by TCV – investors in the likes of Netflix, Revolut and Spotify. Allica is reimagining banking for established SMEs with the latest technology. Previously Conrad was sole founder of Funding Options – a fintech listed in the 2022 FT 1000 list of Europe’s fastest-growing firms – that latterly sold to leading neobank Tide.
Ellie Duncan
Ellie Duncan
Head of Editorial & Broadcast Open Banking ExpoFormer Financial Times Group journalist Ellie Duncan has a decade of experience across financial services. While arguably best-known for her asset management work, she has also covered open banking, credit, private equity and entrepreneurship.
Jason Maude
Jason Maude
Chief Technology Advocate Starling BankJason Maude is a coder, coach, and public speaker. He has over a decade of experience working in the financial sector, primarily in creating and delivering software. He is passionate about explaining complex technical concepts to those who are convinced that they won’t be able to understand them. He currently works at Starling Bank as their Chief Technology Advocate and host of the Starling podcast.
Karthik T.S
Karthik T.S
Head - Centre of Excellence Torry HarrisKarthik heads the Centre of Excellence and Products team at Torry Harris Integration Solutions (THIS). Over the last two decades, Karthik has worked extensively with Telcos, Banks and Financial institutions, helping define their integration strategy and onwards to realize specific digital business objectives. In his current role, he spearheads organization-wide initiatives, productizing solutions to accelerate enterprise digital imperatives. Karthik has co-authored the book – “Digital API Economy – Beneficiaries, Enablers and Catalysts.”
Stefania Ricci
Stefania Ricci
Strategy and Propositions Head, Commercial Business Transformation Lloyds Banking GroupStef is a proposition development professional with experience in leading multidisciplinary teams to develop customer-centric solutions for large banks. She is passionate about financial services innovation and the application of new technologies to solve problems and generate sustainable returns.
After her early banking career at Royal Bank of Scotland, Stef joined Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) in 2016 to lead the proposition design for a digital wealth proposition. Subsequently, she was appointed as a member of the Business Banking board in LBG as head of Business Design, focusing on accelerating the digitization of services for SMEs and creating innovative propositions. Recently, her focus broadened to encompass the definition of the future propositional catalogue and operating model in LBG Commercial Bank, enabled by more agile and modular technology.
Stef has a Bachelor Degree in Development Studies with Applied Statistics and a Master’s degree in Applied Social Science (Italy). In the UK, she completed a Master’s degree in Management Research from the University of Manchester. Stef mentors individuals within her company and externally, promoting social and workplace inclusion with a particular focus on the intersectionality between gender, race, sexual orientation and other categories of diversity. She is a proud mother of three boys.