FinSights from the FinLabs: Tune in to digital transformation

This podcast episode is focused on Unconscious Bias, a very important subject related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), which is a core part of our company’s culture. We discuss about banishing these biases to create an eco-system where everyone’s uniqueness, capabilities and talent is celebrated. With us, we have Shane L. Windmeyer, Founder and Executive Director of Campus Pride, a US based, leading national nonprofit organization, dedicated to building future leaders and creating more inclusive communities for LGBTQ+ people and allies at colleges and universities across the country. We also have Frank Ojeda joining us today, Senior Associate, Visa, and Immigration, who’s also a regional DEI Champion for our Same Difference initiative.

In this episode, we dive into a very interesting conversation with our award-winning Data Science expert, Anantha Sharma, and hear from him on applying Data Science to solve real-world problems. Anantha has been a part of the Synechron Financial Innovation (FinLabs) team and has contributed to several award-winning Synechron accelerator programs. In this podcast, we will explore different types of use cases within the financial services industry and beyond, for which various data science models and proofs of concept can be developed into valuable tools and solutions for dealing with real-life busine

In this special episode, we sit down to talk with Mark Westgate, who is a Managing Consultant at Synechron's Singapore office and Moritz Muller, General Manager of Asia and Head of Product at Squirro. Together we discussed the future of insights for Financial Services and the insurance industry. We also looked at the key trends to watch out for, how insights have accelerated the pace of change in financial services so far, and what we can expect in the coming years, including the business value insights can provide.

After a successful series on various tech topics ranging from Asset Management, Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) to Banking & Innovation to ESG, we present you our first podcast on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Synechron’s own DEI campaign, SAME DIFFERENCE. In this episode, we’ll be discussing the latest trends, news, and strategies focused on these themes across the full recruitment lifecycle, from hiring, to retention, to advancing hired employees and most importantly the WHY behind DEI programs. To kick off our first episode, Joyce Pogge, Senior Associate from our NY Marketing team has two really special guests – May Yang, Global Head of Operations at Synechron, and Sasha Michelle, Senior Manager of Business Development based in Synechron’s US Central office.

In this episode, we sit down to talk with Phil Sturmer, Director and Head of Business Consulting at Synechron London, about Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) within the buy-side industry and how asset managers and investment managers are looking at how they can achieve seamless onboarding for their end-customers, who in the market is doing this well and should buy-side firms look at a building or buying their solutions?

In this episode, we come back to FinSights to talk to  Rajul Mittal, Head of Sustainable Finance at Synechron Amsterdam and Bermet Dordoeva, Senior Consultant at Synechron Amsterdam, about ESG’s increasingly important role within financial services, what investors want, the development of global metrics and standards and is the E in ESG in a league of its own?

Synechron Marketing Associate Joyce Pogge from New York, sits downs with Sandeep Kumar, Managing Director at Synechron and Head of Synechron’s InvestTech Accelerators, to discuss how asset management firms are accelerating and applying innovation, how the buy-side can gear up to ‘catch up’ to the sell-side and how they’re looking to take advantage of various emerging technologies to accelerate their transformation.

In our inaugural episode, Synechron’s Marketing team talks to Tim Coates, Synechron’s Head of Digital in APAC, about innovation in financial services, digital strategies and paths taken for differentiation, the commoditization of banking and what it means for the industry and so much more.