Modernization Within Regulatory Boundaries
Navigating modernization within the financial sector presents a formidable challenge. Banks grapple with intricate legacy systems, vast customer bases, and complex financial products, all while adhering to stringent regulatory demands. The competitive landscape, including agile fintechs and big tech entrants, intensifies the need for digital modernization. This panel, "Modernization Within Regulatory Boundaries," will delve into these critical issues.
Our panelists bring a wealth of experience in managing this delicate balance, successfully innovating within regulatory confines and overcoming the myriad limitations inherent in the banking industry. We will draw upon their practical insights and lessons learned, exploring real-world strategies for modernizing technology landscapes, ensuring compliance, and delivering exceptional customer experiences in a highly competitive market.
Speakers
Matthias Thiele is an experienced architect and technical leader in the banking, insurance, and industrial sectors, specializing in large-scale projects. He is passionate about solving complex problems and developing practical solutions. Matthias' expertise includes agile methodologies, software engineering and architecture, business architecture, and digitalization for the financial industry. Currently, he serves as Senior Vice President of Digital Products and Technology at Deutsche Kreditbank AG.
Sergio has 45 years of experience in IT. In the first half of his career he worked as an IT Manager and CIO in Argentine banks. Then he jumped to the “supplier side of the desk” working as a specialist in IT Architecture and Information Management in multinational IT companies (EMC & SAS). Currently he has the position of IT Architecture Manager in Banco Credicoop. Besides his dedication to IT Architecture, Sergio has studied and is a practitioner on Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence from its early days until present.
Mohamed BESSA is the Chief Data and Project Officer at Union Internationals of Banks (Société Generale Group), responsible for overseeing the implementation of the bank’s strategic plan for 2020-2025 projects. He is also an IT professor at prestigious Tunisian universities. Mohamed holds an engineering degree in Statistics and Information Analysis, a Master’s in Econometrics and Mathematics (2011), and an MBA from the University of East London (2024). With over 22 years of experience in IT transformation projects both in Tunisia and abroad, he was appointed by the Tunisian government in 2019 as an expert member of the National Council of Statistics.