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TechvisionMarch 18 2022

HSBC's mission-based banking

The global head of platforms at HSBC Commercial Banking is bringing the Silicon Valley mindset to a 156-year-old bank. Liz Lumley reports.
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HSBC's mission-based banking

While at Google, where he worked on various e-commerce initiatives such as Google Pay in Singapore and the design of the ill-fated Google Plex in the US, Aman Narain got into the habit of making lists. 

A Google document was kept open where Mr Narain would “obsessively” keep track of “things I was learning along the way”, and areas where he would think: “If only I’d known this when I was in banking before.”

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Liz Lumley is deputy editor at The Banker. She is a global specialist commentator on global financial technology or “fintech”. She has spent 30 years working in the financial technology space, most recently as director at VC Innovations and architect of the Fintech Talents Festival, managing director at Startupbootcamp FinTech London and an editor at financial services and technology newswire, Finextra. She was named Journalist of the Year for Technology and Digital Finance at State Street’s UK Press Awards for 2022.
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