A podcast for curious minds in the financial services industry. Working in IT in the banking sector, it is easy to focus on keeping the lights on. In this podcast, host and Financial Services Industry Managing Director at VMware, Matthew O’Neill along with fellow VMware colleagues will explore the challenges and different facets of life in banking keeping CIOs awake at night. The goal is to transform the way banks and other financial service providers work and to provide the hose to put out ...
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Looking back at looking forward, 2022 & 23
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This is not so much of a best of episode as a taster for some of the topics we have covered and to tease / encourage you to go listen to the prior episodes. 3 Takeaways: We have had a diverse group of guests, customers, partners, industry thought leaders and colleagues. The deep dive has given us a rich conversation into the heart of some of the me…
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Bridging Gaps in the Banking World: An Insightful Talk with Joy Macknight
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In this captivating conversation, we have the pleasure of hosting Joy Macknight, the first female Editor of the prestigious publication - The Banker. Join us as we journey through Joy's illustrious career, starting from her double major in biology and environmental studies to leading a team of editors and reporters covering the international bankin…
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In this episode, our podcast host, Matthew O’Neill takes us on a deep dive “Exploring DORA”, Europe’s new Digital Operational Resilience Act which is being suggested, will be as significant for Financial Services as GDPR has been to the rest of us. Matthew discusses the key provisions of DORA and how it aims to ensure the robustness and resilience …
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Understanding Platform Economies in Financial Services…with Paolo Sironi
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Episode Description: In this episode, we’re joined by Paolo Sironi, who shares his unique journey from banking to FinTech entrepreneurship and to his current role as global research leader in banking and financial markets at IBM, the Institute for Business Value. In our discussion, he emphasizes the need to understand the human being when innovatin…
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Talking about Bankers Like Us… with Dr. Leda Glyptis
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Episode Description: In this episode, we delve into a conversation with Dr. Leda Glyptis, an accomplished fintech leader and former banker. With over two decades of experience driving transformation and technology across diverse financial sectors, Leda explores the inherent ties between banking, fintech, and the current technological surge. Discove…
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Gen AI, Clever Analytics? Game Changing? or Just Fluff? … with Tony Boobier
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In this episode, we talk with Tony Boobier, a consultant, mentor, author and advisor with a specialisation with AI and financial services. Tony delves into hype surrounding AI's role in everyday life. He discusses the fear-driven perceptions of data-driven decisions, pondering the motives behind the hype, and its influence on society's view of AI. …
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Three Enterprise Technologists go into a bar… with Ian Ellis
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In this episode, we talk with Ian Ellis, Technology Strategist, Angel Investor, Venture Partner and Founder of the London Enterprise Tech Meetup. Ian Ellis is an experienced Technology Strategist who has driven C-level stakeholder engagement across some of world's leading organisations, including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Prudential Financial,…
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Flipping the script with Brian Hayes
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In this episode, we flip the script on our show and put Brian Hayes, Senior Director, Financial Services Industry Vertical at VMWare in the guest seat. We discuss the digital transformation of the financial services industry. Brian highlights the need for financial institutions to embrace digital transformation, adopt agile methodologies, and culti…
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Solving problems with technology instead of creating them, with Joe Baguley
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Welcome to Season 3, Episode 1 of Don't Break the Bank. In this episode, we speak with Joe Baguley, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, at VMware. In his own words, Joe is the connection between R&D and the field, our customers, and our partners. He drives all things around that, in terms of where we're going, what we're doing, what'…
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Building for Indestructible, with Spencer Kimball
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Spencer talks with us about building a next generation database with Cockroach Labs. He discusses the importance of distributed databases to use effectively and efficiently the commodity hardware found in the cloud, that can’t be specialized and can scale rapidly. Spencer explains about the new realities of doing business across multiple regions wi…
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The Great Reflection with Claire-Louise McSherry
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Claire-Louise is a managing Director within the Technology Sector at Russell Reynolds Associates. She is a diversity and inclusion advocate, with a passion for hiring diverse Board and executive leadership teams and building succession pipelines of female and underrepresented minority leaders. Claire-Louise chatted with us about what she calls the …
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Insuring the Future, a VC view… with Kevin McLoughlin
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In this episode, we speak with Kevin McLoughlin. Kevin is partner and co-founder at MTech Capital. He has spent 22 years in insurance investment banking. Along with his brother they created MTech Capital as a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies operating in the insurance industry. Kevin talks with us about how digital technolo…
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Ecosystems, Culture, Transformation and Parking with Zia Yusuf
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This episode features Zia Yusuf. He is Senior Vice President, Strategic Ecosystem & Industry Solutions at VMware. In this position, he leads the teams responsible for building joint horizontal and industry-centric solutions with the company’s ecosystem partners across Dell, global cloud providers (Hyperscalers), global system integrators, and globa…
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Stories that Prove Data is Not Boring with Ray O'Brien
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3 Takeaways: AI is not new, but Cloud based Machine Learning has been the game changer through providing seemingly unlimited capacity to do different kinds of projects, stand up more analytical environments, and to do trials and explore innovation, all in a way we couldn’t afford historically. Learn both technology and the business sides. If you ha…
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Innovating Through AI and Beyond with Hanna Helin
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3 Takeaways: Be open minded in your work and development. This includes everything from how you work, where you work, and what you work on. Consider taking risks and exploring new experiences, while also taking advantage of utilizing new tools and technologies to aid your work. Leverage your expertise in different ways while also gaining exposure t…
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Executing Revolutionary Transformation with Joel “Thor” Neeb
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3 Takeaways: The hardest (and most important thing) your company can do is invest in cultural and operational transformation. Don’t sell your technology, sell business outcomes empowered by the right technology. The most successful companies we read about in five years will be the ones that best communicate a common vision, have the strategy to pur…
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Inside the Future of FinTech with its #1 Influencer with Spiros Margaris
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3 Takeaways: The future of finance is in the hands of non-financial companies thanks to embedded finance. This enables companies to embrace FinTech solutions for their customers to sell more of their core product. As this is an added service, it can be priced competitively as the margin comes from the core product. It’s up to legacy financial insti…
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Focusing on Talent and Not Just Technology with Colin Bannister
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3 Takeaways: An organization is more defined by the people that work there than the technology they create. Make sure employees know what their value is to an organization and encourage them to define their goals. Seek out mentors and offer mentorship. The education on both sides makes it possible to challenge old ways of thinking and discover new …
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3 Takeaways, beyond Data is NOT boring: The data that you throw away is the data that tomorrow you might be able to use. For instance, as part of a machine learning model that could bring true value to an organization. It's important for organizations to have explicit statements about their AI ethics. Federated learning has some magical capabilitie…
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VMworld episode - Transformation, Cybercrime and Survival with Jennifer Manry and Tom Kellermann
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3 Takeaways: Nonpublic market information, like planned mergers and acquisitions and market strategies, are now being specifically targeted by cybercriminals as high value targets. Customers see cybersecurity as a competitive issue. They are increasingly investing in proactive security measures like DevSecOps and looking for greater collaboration w…
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Customer First, Customer Always with Sumit Dhawan
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Episode Notes 3 Takeaways: Spend lots of time with customers. That’s the best way to effectively communicate the services on offer and to get an honest barometer check on how well a customer’s needs are being met. Creating a broad, customer-focused definition of success motivates the entire organization to think about how and what needs to be done …
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Adding Sprinkles to the Cloud and Hypervisor Conversation
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3 Takeaways: Technology changes are hard, but they're never quite as hard as the people, process and organizational changes that need to happen - the culture changes. The notion of agile portability is critical and getting progressively easier. When going through a digital transformation, it’s really important to talk about it openly as a community…
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The Future! Crystal Ball Gazing with Finance and Tech Industry Insiders
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3 Takeaways: Security and especially cybersecurity is a scary reality across financial services. New technologies bring new risks and the bad guys only have to be successful once to make it worth their while. Listen to Tom and Chris for thought-provoking approaches. People should be seen as an investment, not a cost. To get the most from this inves…
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Optimal Strategies for Exchanges, The Cloud and Keeping It All Running with Allison Krill
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3 Takeaways: For exchanges, geographical sovereignty is a big deal when it comes to cloud data service providers. Because exchanges support many different regulators, they need to think about where the data sits, who operates that platform and who has access to the data - even if it’s encrypted. Security and data protection are important when consi…
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If Only I Had Known That Before I Joined...with Jennifer Manry
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3 Takeaways: Always invest time and effort in eliminating non-value added work and automating where possible. You can't continue to come back and ask for more money without demonstrating that you’re being responsible with the budget already given. Make sure your tech experts feel connected to the customer experience. Ask IT to do ride alongs - list…
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Don’t Put Pigs in a Ferrari...No, seriously! with Louise Öström
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3 Takeaways: Be very clear about why you want to go to a cloud model, and make sure you can get out when you want. The keys to success are attitude, belief and people. Hire people with diverse skill sets and actively encourage them to collaborate. If going to a cloud model is about cost savings, don’t put old workloads into something fancy. Don’t p…
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Get Out of the Spreadsheets and Into the Cloud with James Forrester
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3 Takeaways: When moving an application to the cloud, focus on the velocity of the move and the ability to revert rather than doing a lot of the optimization work on paper beforehand. Move and then optimize. Try to consolidate layers of redundant regulation that may have built up within an application over time. It saves customers time and money. M…
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Innovating in How We Innovate – From Ideas to Results with Chris Wolf
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Episode Notes 3 Takeaways: Before kicking off an innovation project, make sure the proposed product has a clear business purpose and route to market. There are two kinds of innovation; Incremental Innovation - make things we already have better; and Disruptive Innovation - to change the game with something new or reimagined. The pandemic has increa…
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Howlers on the Hunt: Chasing Cybercrime Threats with Tom Kellerman
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3 Takeaways: Cyber attacks targeting market strategies and nonpublic market information are growing. The healthcare sector has become a more vulnerable target for extortion because of the pandemic. Organizations should proactively hunt out cyber threats before digital transformations or the rollout of new technologies. Key Quotes: “The healthcare s…
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The Futurologist’s Take on Financial Services with Thimon de Jong
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[Thimon de Jong](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thimon/?originalSubdomain=nl) is a keynote speaker and founder of the strategy foresight firm [Whetston](https://www.whetston.com/). Thimon walks us through his predictions for the future of office life, the fate of cash and his idea for a bank app that could be the next big thing. **About Matthew** Matt…
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Focus on Operations Before Strategy with Bask Iyer
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Multi-industry CIO [Bask Iyer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/baskiyer/) leads the Global Industry Solutions team for VMware. Bask tells us why every CIO needs to focus on operations before strategy, why nobody actually wants disruption, and how authenticity is key to creating a healthy workplace. **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, g…
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One year of our podcast – looking back on 2020 and forward to 2021
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We started Don’t Break The Bank to ask and answer the questions that we didn’t know we had when we worked in banking. With a year of shows behind us, Brian and I look back at some of our top episodes, consider what we’ve learnt from our guests, and attempt to suggest what 2021 might bring.بقلم VMware
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Extending VMware’s DNA – the Blockchain platform as a foundation for de-centralized applications with Tanya Shastri and Brendon Howe
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In this episode, Matthew and Brian are joined by VMware Vice Presidents of Blockchain, Tanya Shastri and Brendon Howe. Together, they explore the current state of Blockchain, why VMware has a Blockchain team, and the merits of an Enterprise Blockchain platform. **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director…
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Tales from the frontline: how AXA handled the pandemic, as told by its transformation expert with Violeta Ciurel
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Over the course of 2020, we’ve had the opportunity to share conversations with some of VMware’s top experts, about issues that are keeping financial services professionals up at night. But we benefit from also sharing views from people in similar roles or positions and how they are handling the same challenges we’re wrestling with. In this episode …
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Getting a hundred thousand users working remotely in a fortnight – digital workspaces in the pandemic with Guru Venkatachalam and Spencer Pitts
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We’ve all had our worlds turned upside down in 2020 but as we begin to shift to a new normal, what are the long-term impacts to the way different industries actually work? For many in the financial services sector, the enforced shift to remote working has accelerated what were previously trends on the horizon. In our latest episode, two of VMware’s…
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Racing to a future that’s still emerging: the CTO view of financial services with Greg Lavender
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In episode 9 of the podcast Matthew and Brian are joined by VMware’s CTO, Greg Lavender for a fascinating conversation about everything he’s learnt in making the switch from customer side to customer advocate. Greg offers great insight into what he’s hearing from FS organisations today and advice on what he would do differently if he worked for a b…
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From bank heist to hostage situation – financial services and cybercrime with Tom Kellermann
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Through necessity, the Financial Services sector is one of the most secure in the world; it’s also one of the most targeted by sophisticated cyber criminals (or adversaries). In our latest episode, one of the world’s leading cyber security experts, Tom Kellermann, talks with us about how the threat has gone from bank heist to hostage situation, and…
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The next frontier in innovation: the sustainability opportunity for banks with Nicola Acutt
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Is sustainability shaking off its CSR/tick box origins and taking its place as a true differentiator and innovator? To find out, Matthew and Brian are joined by Nicola Acutt, VMware’s Vice President for Sustainability, in the latest episode of Don’t Break the Bank. Nicola shared some fascinating insights and relates them to VMware’s own route to su…
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In this episode, Matthew and Brian are joined by Enrico Boverino. The three compare notes on the missed opportunities they’ve experienced on both the vendor and buy-side of the financial services industry and look at how differing priorities effect how they make and manage change. **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Indust…
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Pushing on and driving transformation with Martin Eves
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In this episode, Matthew and Brian speak with Martin Eves, director for Cloud Foundation in EMEA at VMware, all about how enterprises within the financial services industry are rising to the challenges of technology evolution. **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the …
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Unprecedented times with Rory Choudhuri
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Recorded on March 24 2020, Matthew O'Neill, Brian Hayes and Rory Choudhuri discuss business continuity during a global pandemic and the challenges financial services organisations face when undertaking this radical shift to remote working. **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology …
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Cyber security & banking with Scott McKinnon
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It doesn't matter what bank you work for, or where you are in the world, there's one thing that units all IT decision-makers at banks - cyber security. In this episode, Matthew chats to Scott McKinnon, Business Solutions Architect at VMware, about how the threats banks face are changing, what that means for the security they put in place, and the i…
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End User Computing with Spencer Pitts
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Spencer Pitts, Chief Technologist for EUC in EMEA for VMware, joins Matthew to chat all things End User Computing. They discuss how banks and other financial service providers are transforming the way they work, the implications and the steps they take to overcome those obstacles. **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Indust…
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Matthew is joined by Joe Baguley, CTO for EMEA at VMware, to discuss everything from mainframes to applications, the state of IT to the existence of cash. **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware. You can find Matthew on [LinkedIn](https://…
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