Maldives central bank governor Ali Hashim is overseeing the modernisation of banking law and technology, with plans to adopt open APIs and attract foreign investors.

Nasdaq’s head of sell-side and buy-side technology Valerie Bannert-Thurner talks about the impact of machine intelligence and behavioural science in surveillance and investigations.

The head of innovation at the Italian banking association talks about a real-life application of distributed ledger technology to drive efficiency in an interbank reconciliation process.

The IDB's president talks about the changes he has observed in Latin America over the past decade-and-a-half, and the increasing importance of development finance.

The head of SEB’s innovation platform talks to The Banker about its efforts to disrupt itself.

South Sudan’s minister for finance and economic planning tells The Banker about the economic benefits of peace.

Angola’s finance minister talks to John Everington about debt reduction, fighting corruption and the country’s quest for diversification.

The group head of international banking and digital transformation at Canada’s Scotiabank is a firm believer in building a flexible and open technology architecture to take advantage of the innovation ecosystem. 

The proliferation of US sanctions is not helping build resilience, while climate change risk is being ignored by policy-makers, former deputy Treasury secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin tells The Banker. 

As UN secretary general special advocate for inclusive finance for development, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands speaks to The Banker about getting technology right for financial inclusion and gender disparity among the underbanked.