Explore our library of partner interviews and videos designed to shine a light on the most pressing issues in fintech.
Partner Interviews
MWC23 Barcelona: Serigne Dioum, MTN
Tuesday 28 Mar 2023 | MWC23 | Partner Spotlights | Resources | Videos |
Hear the full interview from Serigne Dioum, Chief Digital and Fintech Officer from MTN as he shares their latest fintech plans and strategy including mobile wallets, payments and e-commerce, value added services and lending services.
MWC23 Barcelona: Dion Price, Trustonic
Friday 24 Mar 2023 | MWC23 | Partner Spotlights | Resources | Videos |
Dion Price, CEO of Trustonic shared his insights into how their embedded cybersecurity company is helping to solve payment challenges at MWC23 Barcelona.
MWC23 Barcelona: Dou Huichang, Whale Cloud
Friday 24 Mar 2023 | MWC23 | Partner Spotlights | Resources | Videos |
Dou Huichang, VP, Payment Business Group, Whale Cloud discusses the digital payment trends for Telcos, what's required to succeed including digital lifestyle products in the form of super-apps, delivery of payments and more.
MWC22 Africa: Mariam Cassim – Vodacom Financial and Digital Services
Thursday 10 Nov 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources |
Mariam Cassim, Chief Executive Officer at Vodacom Financial and Digital Services joined us at MWC Africa to share her insights into the huge opportunities for fintech in telcos such as having trusted brand, access to customers, distribution and big data an
MWC22 Africa: Akinwale Goodluck – AfricaNenda
Thursday 10 Nov 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources |
Akinwale Goodluck, Deputy Chief Executive Officer from AfricaNenda discusses their flagship report - State of Instant and Inclusive Payment Systems (SIIPS), trends, barriers what opportunities are next for Africa.
MWC22 Africa: Emmanuel Khisa – Smart Africa
Thursday 10 Nov 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources |
Emmanuel Khisa, Project Lead, e-Payments and e-Commerce at Smart Africa shares his insights into how Smart Africa is supporting the financial digital transformation such as integration of payments across the continent.
MWC22 Africa: Puneet Chopra – YABX
Thursday 10 Nov 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources |
Puneet Chopra, Chief Growth Officer at Yabx explained how they are working with partners to leverage AI and alternative data analytics to create scalable digital lending programs within the Africa and Asia regions.
MWC22 Las Vegas: Blake Picolo – TeleSign
Tuesday 8 Nov 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources |
Blake Picolo, Senior Manager of Product at TeleSign shares the latest developments in digital identity and cybercrime, the TeleSign solutions being used to secure platforms and combat fraud including OTP authentication and KYC.
MWC22 Las Vegas: Clare Messenger – JT International
Monday 7 Nov 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources |
Clare Messenger, Head of Fraud Protection Services at JT International shares insights into account take-over fraud, what's next for authorised push payment fraud and latest financial solutions for identity and data.
MWC22 Las Vegas: Blair Cohen – AuthenticID
Monday 7 Nov 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources |
Blair Cohen, Founder and President from AuthenticID talks about how they are helping Telcos to solve one of the biggest problems today, identity with their latest solutions.
MWC22 Las Vegas: Rajesh Sabari – Telcoin
Monday 7 Nov 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources |
Rajesh Sabari, Chief Commercial Officer from Telcoin explains how they are leveraging blockchain technology to created decentralised financial products to the vast 1.7 billion unbanked population in the world.
MWC22 Las Vegas – Ling Wu – TBCASoft
Monday 7 Nov 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources |
Ling Wu, Founder and CEO at TBCASoft shared his insights, the challenges and solutions for cross boarder cashless payments.
MWC22 Las Vegas: Said Bakadir – Qualcomm
Friday 4 Nov 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources | Videos |
Said Bakadir, Senior Director, Product Management XR at Qualcomm shares his thoughts on the power of XR devices, IoT and Metaverse platforms, how collaboration can tackle challenges with partners including Telcos and what's next for Qualcomm.
Mobile 360: Worldpay from FIS
Wednesday 24 Aug 2022 | M360 | Partner Spotlights | Resources |
Hear from Jeff DeLong, Director of Vertical Growth from Worldpay talk about the latest developments of digital payments, the key fintech trends including digital wallets and more.
MWC22 Barcelona: ANT Group
Thursday 12 May 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources | Videos |
Hear Zhang Yi, Senior Solution Architect at Ant Group Singapore share insight into how Ant Group is safeguarding customers with solutions within the Asia financial institutions, how to leverage telco data for insights and thoughts on MWC22 Barcelona.
MWC22 Barcelona: Prove
Thursday 12 May 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources | Videos |
We caught up with Keiron Dalton, VP International from Prove at MWC22 Barcelona to find out why the FinTech Forum is important, and the latest trends within digital identity, scams and FinTech.
MWC22 Barcelona: Mawari
Thursday 12 May 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources | Videos |
We caught up with Luis to find out how FinTech is an essential part of the metaverse, how the GSMA FinTech Forum will help create collaboration within the ecosystem and what the next big trends are for FinTech.
MWC22 Barcelona: Celo
Tuesday 10 May 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources | Videos |
Julia Carbajal, Global Head of Telecom & Media from celo shared her thoughts on MWC22 Barcelona, the latest developments in FinTech including technology through blockchain, and how to telco industry can disrupt fintech.
MWC22 Barcelona: Deutsche Telekom
Thursday 5 May 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources | Videos |
Jens Herrmann, Senior Expert Corporate Strategy at Deutsche Telekom caught up with us to discuss the latest digital assets developments within Fintech, and the challenges and trends within the industry.
MWC22 Barcelona: Huawei
Thursday 5 May 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources | Videos |
Lauren Jones, Head of Payment Standards & Policy from Huawei Consumer Business Group joined us at MWC22 Barcelona and we caught up with her to find out the importance of fintech within Huawei, thoughts on GSMA FinTech Forum and what's next for FinTech.
MWC22 Barcelona: Telefónica Tech
Thursday 5 May 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources | Videos |
Glyn Povah, Head of Global Product Development, Digital Identity from Telefónica Tech shares his thoughts on the GSMA FinTech Forum and what's next for digital identity within FinTech.
MWC22 Barcelona: iconectiv
Thursday 5 May 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources | Videos |
George Cray, SVP from iconectiv shared his thoughts on how the FinTech Forum will help the ecosystem at MWC22 Barcelona.
MWC22 Barcelona: Block
Wednesday 4 May 2022 | MWC22 | Partner Spotlights | Resources | Videos |
Billionaire Jim McKelvey, co-founder of Block (formerly Square), put the rationale behind launch of his company’s latest products down to wanting to overcome problems that bother him personally and hopefully, in turn, the wider ...
MWC21 Barcelona: Minna Technologies
Monday 19 Jul 2021 | MWC21 | Partner Spotlights | Resources |
The GSMA Financial Services team caught up with Joakim Sjöblom, Co-founder and CEO of MinnaTechnologies at MWC21 Barcelona.
MWC21 Barcelona: Hexagon Group
Monday 19 Jul 2021 | MWC21 | Partner Spotlights | Resources |
Andraž Oblak, CEO at Hexagon Group shares his thoughts and insights into their real-time fraud prevention solution for telco operators to offer to financial services and banks in order to validate or check their clients’ status.
Partner Use Cases
Embedded Finance – the time is now
Tuesday 25 Apr 2023 | Partner Use Case | Publication | Resources |
The embedded finance revolution is creating many commercial opportunities. And it is putting the companies that deliver connectivity in the prime position to participate in the new markets, including Telcos.
Singtel – Phone Scams
Tuesday 4 Jan 2022 | Partner Use Case | Resources |
Watch the latest video from Singtel to learn about phone scams, what to look out for when fraudsters are using Singtel’s name with callers claiming to be Singtel technicians, security.
Turkcell Telco Anti Fraud
Tuesday 27 Apr 2021 | Partner Use Case | Resources |
Turkcell has launched their solution, Telco Anti Fraud, using AI machine learning, API based software and telco infrastructure to detect and protect customers from fraud threats.
Barclays – Mobile Authentication
Thursday 15 Apr 2021 | Partner Use Case | Resources |
Watch the latest video from Barclays to see how they are using the mobile authentication functionality of number verify within their app when customers register their details safely and securely.
