The Banker Podcast

Liz Lumley sits down with Alex Jimenez, strategist, fintech influencer, writer, speaker, and currently principal consultant at Backbase, to discuss what happened to the pandemic-driven acceleration we were all promised and what non-finance-related event you should attend next.

Liz Lumley sits down with Sophie Winwood, co-founder and CEO of WVC:E, and operating partner at Foxe Capital, to talk about start-ups, funding, fintech and… women.Sophie also serves as the first contributor to The Banker exchange time capsule. Listen to the end to find out what she added.

As the IMF and World Bank spring meetings get underway in Washington, Aliya Shibli talks with John Everington about the challenges surrounding the 21st replenishment process of the International Development Association, following her interview with Akihiko Nishio, the World Bank’s vice-president of development finance.

Liz Lumley and Amalia Illgner sit down with Keith Bear, fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, to discuss whether tokenisation can enhance the functioning of the monetary system. They also discuss the recently launched Project Agorá from the Bank for International Settlements that builds on its unified ledger concept and whether Swift should be worried by these developments.

Michael Klimes and Aliya Shibli sit down with Liz Lumley to talk about how a bad reputation for excessive work hours, lack of broader purpose and growing competition from other industries is forcing investment banks to change to attract young talent.

This week, Liz Lumley and Anita Hawser sit down with Emma Hagan, chief risk and compliance officer at ClearBank (and soon to be UK CEO), and former chief risk officer for Emea at SVB to talk about why she feels it is inevitable that another bank collapse of the kind that brought down SVB will happen again.