
Welcome to RFI Global’s Banking Uncovered - the podcast that goes behind the industry PR, the media spin, the product awards and the investor reports to look at what’s really going on in the industry. Using customer data we focus on how are customers behaving, how behaviour is changing and how institutions are reacting to new customer needs. At the same time as the rapid development and enhancement of data capability, the impact of generative AI and the emergence of stronger fintech propositions, traditional banks have invested heavily in their digital capabilities. As the industry stalwarts, challengers and fintechs continue to compete in this new digital and physical world, we bring together divergent opinions and viewpoints. Talking to CEOs, founders, global experts and leaders in banks, payments, fintechs and challengers spanning the globe, we ask the big questions facing the industry. In depth interviews and panel discussions, combined with RFIs global customer data lake will ask: · What are evolving needs of customers and what are the key trends? · What are the next innovations that will meet these? · Which players are responding to new and emerging customer needs and what propositions are working? · Are new and upcoming regulations going to impact the market and how?
Episodes

Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
Episode 37 - Perfecting the business banking life cycle
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
Wednesday Oct 10, 2018
This week, we caught up with some of the key speakers from the Global Business Banking Conference held in Sydney to discuss their approach to perfecting the business banking lifecycle and the Australian SME banking landscape.
Ganesh Chandrasekkar, General Manager - SME Banking, Westpac shared his view on the crossroads that SMEs in Australia are facing at the moment and the concept of ‘second acts’.
Raymond Ma, General Manager - AU & NZ, Alibaba Cloud explained the opportunities for SMEs in the Australian market and some exciting banking partnerships they have coming up.
Tania Motton, Customer Executive NAB Partners Southern, NAB defined how she sees the fintech/bank relationship continuing to play out and shared some exciting new initiatives at the bank.
The Global Digital Banker is an insight-backed podcast series focused on key trends, market insights, thought leadership and best practice within the fast growing and dynamic world of digital banking.
www.globaldigitalbanker.com

Wednesday Oct 03, 2018
Episode 36 - Value over utilities - AI, self-service and digital advice
Wednesday Oct 03, 2018
Wednesday Oct 03, 2018
Michelle Joliat, MD & Head of Wealth Digitization, Robotics & Process Transformation at BMO Financial Group shares BMO’s key priorities and upcoming opportunities within digital as well as challenges faced with deploying new technologies and how to overcome them.
Jason Daly, VP Product, Digital & Strategy at Manulife explains the role digital advice plays in financial services today, how to encourage customer trust to drive digital usage and the technologies he believes will truly stand the test of time.
The Global Digital Banker is an insight-backed podcast series focused on key trends, market insights, thought leadership and best practice within the fast growing and dynamic world of digital banking.
www.globaldigitalbanker.com

Wednesday Sep 26, 2018
Episode 35 - Winning the customer of the future
Wednesday Sep 26, 2018
Wednesday Sep 26, 2018
Listeners will discover what it takes to improve digital performance across customer experience and satisfaction, how to win the all-important main bank relationship as well as economic, competitive and regulatory factors affecting the UK’s retail banking sector.
Guests include: Suvo Sarkar, SVP & Head of Retail Banking; Emirates NBD, Maha El Dimachki, Head of Payments, FCA; Neal Cross, MD & Chief Innovation Officer, DBS Bank; Daniel Kjellen, CEO and Founder, Tink; Jonathan Wood, SVP, Consumer Applications, Mastercard
The Global Digital Banker is an insight-backed podcast series focused on key trends, market insights, thought leadership and best practice within the fast growing and dynamic world of digital banking.
www.globaldigitalbanker.com

Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Episode 34 - Personalisation - The key to winning mortgage customers in canada
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Cyrielle Chiron, Managing Director – North & Latin America at RFi Group shares consumers insights into the Canadian mortgage markets across demographics, channel preference and drivers of satisfaction.
The Global Digital Banker is an insight-backed podcast series focused on key trends, market insights, thought leadership and best practice within the fast growing and dynamic world of digital banking.
www.globaldigitalbanker.com

Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
Episode 33 - UK mortgage market - what's trending now?
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
This episode focuses on what’s trending in the UK mortgage market.
Victoria Bateman, Managing Director – EMEA at RFi Group shares consumers trends in the first home buyer market, drivers behind re-mortgaging, tactics for consumer retention and channel variances.
Next up, I sat down with John Coffield, Head of Mortgages at Paradigm Mortgage Services who discusses the current state of the UK mortgage market, re-mortgaging as a switching opportunity for lenders and the influence of digital on loan applications.
The Global Digital Banker is an insight-backed podcast series focused on key trends, market insights, thought leadership and best practice within the fast growing and dynamic world of digital banking.
www.globaldigitalbanker.com

Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
Episode 32 - Cyber security - the key risk areas not to be overlooked by banks
Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
With the growing shift towards digital for banks and financial services organisations and with regulation around data privacy and security continuing to be a focus globally, it is now more important than ever for institutions to assess and tighten their approach to cyber security.
This week, we sat down with Francis Kaitano, Cyber Security Lead Architect at Fusion Networks who shares the key risk areas that financial institutions are facing at the moment, the most common types of attacks and how to avoid them and the role of regulation in the global environment.
The Global Digital Banker is an insight-backed podcast series focused on key trends, market insights, thought leadership and best practice within the fast growing and dynamic world of digital banking.
www.globaldigitalbanker.com

Wednesday Aug 29, 2018
Episode 31 - Driving your mobile strategy - what success looks like to consumers
Wednesday Aug 29, 2018
Wednesday Aug 29, 2018
This week’s episode focuses on mobile banking strategy and what success looks like to consumers. Cyrielle Chiron, Managing Director for North & Latin America at RFi Group explains the drivers behind mobile banking satisfaction, the most commonly performed tasks for mobile banking, key consumer frustrations and how to overcome them to drive engagement and usage.
The Global Digital Banker is an insight-backed podcast series focused on key trends, market insights, thought leadership and best practice within the fast growing and dynamic world of digital banking.
www.globaldigitalbanker.com

Wednesday Aug 22, 2018
Episode 30 - New payments players - where did they all come from?
Wednesday Aug 22, 2018
Wednesday Aug 22, 2018
No matter where consumers are in the world, digital interactions with banks are increasing in frequency. In the US, UK and Australia the percentage of daily users of digital banking has increased on average, by 6%, bringing them almost in line with China which has a daily user base of 34%.
The theme this week focuses on the new to market entrants within the digital banking and payments space who started as major companies not involved within banking or financial services. We caught up with Eleanor Page, RFi Group’s Global Commercial Director, who shares a number of case studies around these new entrants, which industries and regions have been most active in this space and some unique data points around digital payments globally.
The Global Digital Banker is an insight-backed podcast series focused on key trends, market insights, thought leadership and best practice within the fast growing and dynamic world of digital banking.
www.globaldigitalbanker.com

Thursday Aug 16, 2018
Episode 29 - PFM tools - beyond categorisation and pie charts
Thursday Aug 16, 2018
Thursday Aug 16, 2018
Research from RFi Group’s latest Global Digital Banking Study shows that 1 in 4 consumers globally use their mobile phones for budgeting. With the number of FinTechs and Banks offering Personal Financial Management tools to consumers continuing to rise, it is becoming more important to deepen the value offered by such tools beyond categorisation of expenditure.
For this week’s episode we caught up with Peter Myatt, CEO and Founder of Bean who shares the journey behind Bean’s success, the importance of customer feedback and how they differentiate themselves in the market.
The Global Digital Banker is an insight-backed podcast series focused on key trends, market insights, thought leadership and best practice within the fast growing and dynamic world of digital banking.
www.globaldigitalbanker.com

Wednesday Aug 08, 2018
Episode 28 - The current and future drivers of obtaining main bank relationship
Wednesday Aug 08, 2018
Wednesday Aug 08, 2018
RFi Group research shows that only 40% of consumers globally will ever switch their main bank. In today’s episode we take a look into the importance of transactional relationships on acquiring main bank status along with the current and future drivers of main bank relationships.
Gerald Ferguson shares insights on the shift towards transactional banking relationships, opportunities from life stage switching and the current and future drivers of main bank relationships.
Michael Jordaan explains the catalyst behind launching Bank Zero, the digital banking scene in South Africa and how they differentiate themselves from other competition in the market.
The Global Digital Banker is an insight-backed podcast series focused on key trends, market insights, thought leadership and best practice within the fast growing and dynamic world of digital banking.
www.globaldigitalbanker.com