Bank-Fintech Fusion

John Peckham and Tiana Brown will help you discover the top 4 best practices your teams can adopt by establishing a commitment to operational alignment. Business unit assessments should be an...

What is change management and how is it implemented? To successfully implement process improvement, everyone must be on board and committed. Tune in as Tiana talks about the importance of...

Tiana will be joined by John Peckham, fellow Principal at CCG as they walk through how to execute on areas of opportunities. We have a choice to continue, change, or cancel...

Tiana will discuss how to diagnose the health of your business unit by covering three important areas of business: process, risk, and client services. Listen in to understand how to...

Listen to Tiana Brown, principal at CCG Catalyst discuss the three key steps to follow to identify your business unit’s role in supporting the overall enterprise strategy. Knowing the purpose...

The baby boomer generation, the generation that created modern technology as we know it. Baby boomers are getting ready for retirement and have a lot on their minds. The current...

Ismail Chaib and the Open Bank Project have been working on open APIs for banking since before the word “fintech” was even a thing.

Kris Hansen has a dual role that may be unique in financial services. He is Chief Technical Officer of both the Canadian challenger bank Koho and the early-stage fintech investor group Portag3 Ventures, also Canada-based.

These roles give him an overview of the entire fintech funding landscape. He also knows intimately, perhaps painfully, how banks actually work. Earlier in his career he was Director of Solutions Architecture for RBC, and in this role he mapped out the entire operations of a bank. He could pull out a piece of paper and diagram the workings of a bank in minutes.

This insight allows him to do things differently at Koho and not be stuck, as he put it, “in the constructs of the 70s and 80s.”

Listen to this episode to hear Hansen discuss the Canadian banking and fintech scene, how banks can build things differently and better, and the outlook for venture funding for today’s up and coming startups.

Kris Hansen has a dual role that may be unique in financial services. He is Chief Technical Officer of both the Canadian challenger bank Koho and the early-stage fintech investor group Portag3 Ventures, also Canada-based.

These roles give him an overview of the entire fintech funding landscape. He also knows intimately, perhaps painfully, how banks actually work. Earlier in his career he was Director of Solutions Architecture for RBC, and in this role he mapped out the entire operations of a bank. He could pull out a piece of paper and diagram the workings of a bank in minutes.

This insight allows him to do things differently at Koho and not be stuck, as he put it, “in the constructs of the 70s and 80s.”

Listen to this episode to hear Hansen discuss the Canadian banking and fintech scene, how banks can build things differently and better, and the outlook for venture funding for today’s up and coming startups.

Naveen Jain has been using his analytical chops to solve problems for credit unions for years. The number of credit unions may have shrunk by almost 20% in the last five years, but the industry is not exactly in crisis. The most progressive institutions, Jain says, continue to grow their assets.

Part of being a progressive credit union is working successfully with fintechs. Credit unions bring highly trusted relationships with members, a viable economic model and crucially, for the progressors, a willingness to adapt and change. Progressive credit unions can often make decisions faster than banks, and are therefore highly attractive partners for fintech innovators. Listen to this podcast to hear about Jain's work at CULytics, and the opportunities credit unions have to help put new technology into the hands of consumers.