EP975: Listening, learning and strategising…

About this episode

Chris Walters of Finastra discusses the company's strategic pivot towards customer-led innovation and its focus on core strengths in lending, payments, and core banking.

In this interview, Chris Walters of Finastra outlines a strategic pivot toward customer-led innovation following a year of extensive global engagement with clients. He explains that the company is doubling down on its core strengths—lending, payments, and core banking—while divesting its Treasury and Capital Markets business to reinvest capital into these high-impact leadership areas. To address the increasing pressure on financial institutions to modernize, Finastra is embedding AI to automa...

People in this episode

Guest: Chris Walters

Topics covered

• customer-led innovation
• financial institutions
• AI in banking
• lending
• payments
• core banking

Keywords

• Finastra
• customer-led innovation
• AI
• lending
• payments
• core banking
• Treasury and Capital Markets

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Finastra

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