Lebanon’s central bank recently went live with a national payment scheme. Ali Nahle, senior executive director and head of the IT department, talks about its success and discusses the national clearing house and government payment scheme, which are next on the agenda.
As Qatar's mobile payments market has rapidly changed, Qatar National Bank's adaption to and roll-out of new technology has had to change with it. The bank's general manager of information technology explains how it has managed to stay ahead of the game.
CME Group's senior managing director and chief information officer discusses the need for around the clock coverage and the technology that has allowed the company to provide this across asset classes and with microsecond-level performance.
A Surendran, a general manager and head of international banking with Federal Bank of India, tells The Banker about the bank's innovative payments strategy designed to improve access to banking channels and boost the provision of electronic transactions.
The vice-managing director for IT at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's headquarters, Zhang Ying, explains the bank's plans to move more of its IT functions in house and discusses the technological challenges of a firm boasting 259 million individual customers.
After spending well over a decade building out UBS's electronic trading business, Tim Wildenberg made the move to Citi in search of fresh challenges. He tells The Banker why he switched banks, and discusses the opportunities and priorities of his new role.