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Temenos Talks: A Sibos Spotlight Podcast

Temenos has launched a podcast miniseries to share expert knowledge about the hottest topics everyone will be discussing at SIBOS this year. With discussions ranging from how to accelerate corresponding banking and how to mitigate the risks of instant payments, to the history and future of BIAN and ISO20022 – we’ve got you covered.

Correspondent Banking – Make the Good Times Roll Again

Correspondent banking is undergoing two parallel transformations – the fragmentation of payments channels and networks, and the consolidation of correspondent banking relationships. The prizes and the stakes have never been higher for banks.

Temenos and Microsoft come together to define how to deliver cutting edge cross-border payments and account servicing capabilities on the Cloud.

Join this session to find out what it takes to succeed in this dynamic market. If you are attending SIBOS, join this session live at the Exhibitor Stage 2 on Wednesday, 20th September at 12:45 PM.

Mick Fennell

Global Payment Lead, Temenos

With over 30 years’ in banking software, and 20+ years’ experience in the global payments eco-system, Mick is a highly-skilled business and market development specialist. In his current role at Temenos he is responsible for driving the global business growth strategy of Temenos’ award-winning payments offerings and supporting clients with their ambitions to scale and prepare for the future. Mick is well-versed in the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for payments professionals. As a passionate advocate for change he has a number of unique insights on payments transformation; from cloud and SaaS adoption, to the need for an infrastructure that grows, evolves and complies with the ever-changing market landscape. Prior to his role at Temenos, Mick held senior roles at Volante Technologies and Misys Banking Systems from product management to client engagement, to go-to-market activities in both global and regional geographies, including: UK and Ireland, Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.

Peter Hazou

Director of Business Development, Microsoft

Peter Hazou is Director of Business Development at Microsoft in the Financial Services Industry team responsible for corporate & commercial banking globally with a special focus on payments & transaction banking businesses.  Prior to Microsoft, Peter was a payments industry banker for 30+ years in the EMEA region.  He was the UK & EMEA Regional Head for GTB at HSBC as well as the CEEMEA Regional Head for GTS at Citigroup before that.  He headed EMEA Market Management for Treasury Services at BNY Mellon in London and was Head of GTB Strategy at UniCredit in Milan.  His background is in Product Management for Payments at Chase Manhattan Bank.  He began his career in New York as a credit officer in correspondent banking at Manufacturers Hanover Trust.

Collaborative Finance in a Fragmented World

This year’s SIBOS theme is “Collaborative Finance in a Fragmented World. How does Temenos, particularly the Exchange, help our customers operate and stay competitive in a fragmented world?  Hear from one of our Exchange partners, Thunes, and how they enable financial institutions to make payments around the world. ​

Join this session to find out how connecting financial institutions with third-party fintech providers to improve customer experience.

Mick Fennell

Global Payment Lead, Temenos

With over 30 years’ in banking software, and 20+ years’ experience in the global payments eco-system, Mick is a highly-skilled business and market development specialist. In his current role at Temenos he is responsible for driving the global business growth strategy of Temenos’ award-winning payments offerings and supporting clients with their ambitions to scale and prepare for the future. Mick is well-versed in the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for payments professionals. As a passionate advocate for change he has a number of unique insights on payments transformation; from cloud and SaaS adoption, to the need for an infrastructure that grows, evolves and complies with the ever-changing market landscape. Prior to his role at Temenos, Mick held senior roles at Volante Technologies and Misys Banking Systems from product management to client engagement, to go-to-market activities in both global and regional geographies, including: UK and Ireland, Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.

Dawei Wang

Head of Strategic Partners, Thunes

Dawei leads strategic partnerships for Thunes globally, a venture backed leading cross-border payments network. He previously lead corporate strategy and M&A for the business. Prior to Thunes Dawei was a strategy consultant and banker with EY-Parthenon and JPMorgan respectively, where he regularly advised the CXOs of some of the largest global financial institutions, PE/VC investors, and FinTechs on their most pressing strategic and capital-related agenda.

Martin Bailey

Director of Innovation and Ecosystem, Temenos​

Martin Bailey has worked in Technology for over 3 decades and is very passionate about innovation and Fintech. He leads the Innovation and Ecosystem teams in Temenos which include the Temenos Exchange, home to a set of complementary solutions from the Fintech community. He believes in delivering enhanced value to customers by combining the world class banking products that Temenos produce, extended using the extensibility framework and integrated with the right solutions from the Temenos Exchange.

BIAN & ISO 20022

In this episode, the hosts discuss the history of the BIAN (Banking Industry Architecture Network) standard and its alignment, or lack thereof, with ISO20022, and how recent updates within BIAN are reversing that trend somewhat and generating greater alignment for certain aspects of BIAN with ISO20022.   Join this session to find out what it takes to succeed in this dynamic market.

Mick Fennell

Global Payment Lead, Temenos

With over 30 years’ in banking software, and 20+ years’ experience in the global payments eco-system, Mick is a highly-skilled business and market development specialist. In his current role at Temenos he is responsible for driving the global business growth strategy of Temenos’ award-winning payments offerings and supporting clients with their ambitions to scale and prepare for the future. Mick is well-versed in the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for payments professionals. As a passionate advocate for change he has a number of unique insights on payments transformation; from cloud and SaaS adoption, to the need for an infrastructure that grows, evolves and complies with the ever-changing market landscape. Prior to his role at Temenos, Mick held senior roles at Volante Technologies and Misys Banking Systems from product management to client engagement, to go-to-market activities in both global and regional geographies, including: UK and Ireland, Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.

Guy Rachkam

Chief Business Architect, BIAN

Guy Rackham has worked in finance and technology for over 30 years, specializing in business and technical architecture development and approaches for more than half of that time. Guy has worked in senior technology positions at international banks including Goldman Sachs and Standard Chartered and at several major software and consulting firms including Logica, Coopers & Lybrand, IBM and PriceWaterhouse. For the last seven years Guy has worked as an independent specialist spending the majority of his time as the lead architect at BIAN.

John Schlessinger

Chief Enterprise Architect,  Temenos

John is the chief enterprise architect for Temenos, the banking software company. He previously led the enterprise architecture practice at Atos consulting and before that alternated being chief architect for a software company, with being a consulting enterprise architect. John started his career at IBM after getting a degree in Physics and Philosophy at Oxford. He has taken over 30 program products to market in various product management roles and has run integration projects in capital markets, retail banking and insurance.

James Buckley

Executive Vice President, Temenos

James Buckley has been working in business transformation and technology in the banking, insurance, government and supply chain sectors over the past thirty years. He has specialised in systems and business transformation programmes in Europe and Asia deploying core banking  and digital solutions to enable change. James has engaged in major programmes of change across Europe, the US and East Asia. He has worked with more than 30 financial services organisations over that period, with global banks such as HSBC and Santander, large regional banks such as USAA, IBK in Korea and PostFinanz in Switzerland.  He is also an active member of the strategic advisory board at BIAN and is particularly focussed on how BIAN can become increasingly relevant in a changing Financial Services landscape. 

Instant Payments, Instant Risks

Instant payments bring instant risk. With Temenos Payments,  Financial Crime Mitigation and our Explainable AI, we can ensure customers are able to move funds instantly and internationally while protecting customers from fraud and decrease money laundering risks. 

Mick Fennell

Global Payment Lead, Temenos

With over 30 years’ in banking software, and 20+ years’ experience in the global payments eco-system, Mick is a highly-skilled business and market development specialist. In his current role at Temenos he is responsible for driving the global business growth strategy of Temenos’ award-winning payments offerings and supporting clients with their ambitions to scale and prepare for the future. Mick is well-versed in the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for payments professionals. As a passionate advocate for change he has a number of unique insights on payments transformation; from cloud and SaaS adoption, to the need for an infrastructure that grows, evolves and complies with the ever-changing market landscape. Prior to his role at Temenos, Mick held senior roles at Volante Technologies and Misys Banking Systems from product management to client engagement, to go-to-market activities in both global and regional geographies, including: UK and Ireland, Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.

Adam Gable

Product Director: Financial Crime, Treasury & Risk, Temenos

Adam Gable is responsible for the product planning and execution of Temenos’ Financial Crime, Treasury and Financial Risk Management solutions. With a background in development and treasury, Adam worked for a number of international banks before crossing the fence to the software industry where he has gained a track-record of building and taking to market leading Universal and specialist banking systems. His overarching focus being to help banks mitigate financial and reputational risk, reduce overheads and better serve their customers.

Secure Instant Payments on IBM cloud

What is the IBM FS Cloud and how does the collaboration between Temenos and IBM benefit customers?

Temenos Payments Hub is now validated by the IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services, an industry-defined security and compliance control framework. Whilst other Cloud Service Providers require clients to build and maintain custom controls, we’ve done the work for you.

With our work together, IBM and Temenos are empowering banks to embrace instant payments while overcoming challenges in security, governance, compliance and strategic re-platforming.

Join our host Mick, as he discusses the process to validation with our own Jag Jhajj and how this validation benefits our customers with IBM’s Prakash Pattni.

Mick Fennell

Global Payment Lead, Temenos

With over 30 years’ in banking software, and 20+ years’ experience in the global payments eco-system, Mick is a highly-skilled business and market development specialist. In his current role at Temenos he is responsible for driving the global business growth strategy of Temenos’ award-winning payments offerings and supporting clients with their ambitions to scale and prepare for the future. Mick is well-versed in the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for payments professionals. As a passionate advocate for change he has a number of unique insights on payments transformation; from cloud and SaaS adoption, to the need for an infrastructure that grows, evolves and complies with the ever-changing market landscape. Prior to his role at Temenos, Mick held senior roles at Volante Technologies and Misys Banking Systems from product management to client engagement, to go-to-market activities in both global and regional geographies, including: UK and Ireland, Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.

Prakash Pattni

Managing Director, Financial Services, IBM

Prakash Pattni is Managing Director, Financial Services Digital Transformation, responsible for partnering with IBM’s financial services clients to deliver their transformational outcomes through IBM Cloud. Prakash brings deep financial services experience gained across technology, investment banking operations and finance and has led numerous initiatives including public cloud transformation, agile and product model implementation and infrastructure modernization. Prakash uses his extensive client side experience and understanding of the challenges faced by financial services organizations to help IBM clients accelerate their digital transformation journeys.

Jag Jhajj

Global Partner Architect, Temenos

Jag Jhajj is the Global Partner Architect at Temenos, responsible for managing the technology agenda and relationships with strategic partners.  Prior to Temenos, Jag began his career at IBM where for the past 28 years he has been instrumental in evangelising technology and modernising banking architectures globally.   In recent years he was responsible for managing the global relationships with strategic fintechs.