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Tech visionJanuary 2 2020

Scotiabank leverages its footprint for innovation

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. Joy Macknight reports.
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Achieving alignment across the bank and securing commitment to a single digital transformation strategy was the first step in Scotiabank’s journey, according to Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Deschamps, the bank's group head of international banking and digital transformation.

While Scotiabank has operations in more than 40 countries, just six represent 80% of its earnings: Canada, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru and its wholesale operations in the US. From a digital transformation perspective, the bank has focused on where it has large retail businesses: its home market and the four Pacific Alliance countries.

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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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