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Digital journeysOctober 2 2017

Hellenic Bank’s innovation head builds open banking marketplace

Joy Macknight asks the group head of digital banking and innovation at Hellenic Bank, Natasha Kyprianides, to outline her digital vision for the Cypriot bank and explain how the bank is responding to the move to open application programming interfaces.
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Natasha Kyprianides has devoted much of her 17-year career in banking to digital disruption. She rejoined Hellenic Bank two-and-a-half years ago to lead its digital banking and innovation operations, with a mandate to transform the customer-facing digital channels of the Cypriot bank.

“I put together the bank’s digital vision and, consequently, the digital strategy that we keep iterating. The main objective is to take the bank in an omni-channel direction, initially with a mobile-first approach and now we are looking at an application programming interface [API]-first approach,” she explains.

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Joy Macknight is the editor of The Banker. She joined the publication in 2015 as transaction banking and technology editor. Previously, she was features editor at Profit & Loss, editorial director at Treasury Today and editor at gtnews. She also worked as a staff writer on Banking Technology and IBM Computer Today, as well as a freelancer on Computer Weekly. She has a BSc from the University of Victoria, Canada.
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