Don’t Break the Bank: Run IT, Change IT
46 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago -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 the fires!
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Episodes
Looking back at looking forward, 2022 & 23
December 21, 2023 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBThis 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 meatier topics of Financial Services, Technology and FinTech. You can find all of our episodes at dontbreakthebankpodcast.com Featured Guests...
Bridging Gaps in the Banking World: An Insightful Talk with Joy Macknight
November 07, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBIn 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 banking industry. She shares intriguing insights into the challenges and innovation within the banking sector and talks about her journey to becoming th...
Exploring DORA
October 24, 2023 06:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBIn 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 of the financial system in the digital age. We'll uncover Matthew’s take on the motivations behind the act, its implications for financial instit...
Understanding Platform Economies in Financial Services…with Paolo Sironi
October 05, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBEpisode 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 innovating in the world of FinTech and banking transformation. He recounts his career-defining moments where he had to choose between doing research and ...
Talking about Bankers Like Us… with Dr. Leda Glyptis
August 29, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBEpisode 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. Discover how these domains can seamlessly integrate into the tech revolution by aligning with the established systems of traditional banks and corporati...
Gen AI, Clever Analytics? Game Changing? or Just Fluff? … with Tony Boobier
August 10, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBIn 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. The episode also explores the practical applications of Generative AI in understanding vast amounts of data. From Customer Satisfaction to Risk ...
Three Enterprise Technologists go into a bar… with Ian Ellis
June 27, 2023 14:17 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBIn 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, Microsoft and Bank of Ireland. His work involves aligning the high-level objectives for an organisation with its technology and business strategi...
Flipping the script with Brian Hayes
April 26, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBIn 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 cultivate a culture of innovation to stay competitive in the rapidly changing industry. Hayes emphasizes the importance of understanding customers' ne...
Solving problems with technology instead of creating them, with Joe Baguley
March 10, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBWelcome 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's next, and leading the technical community within VMware in EMEA. Joe shares his insights on what the customers he meets with are telling him, ...
Building for Indestructible, with Spencer Kimball
February 02, 2023 05:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBSpencer 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 with diverse databases, and what is being done to protect information and maintain continuity. He also sheds light on how CockroachDB on what they c...
The Great Reflection with Claire-Louise McSherry
December 15, 2022 05:00 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBClaire-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 great reflection, assessing the current work environment landscape and how recruitment and retention has changed in recent years. She explains how...
Insuring the Future, a VC view… with Kevin McLoughlin
November 03, 2022 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBIn 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 technology allows insurance companies to advance their operations and offer new products, but how adoption has been a slow process. As venture capital ...
Ecosystems, Culture, Transformation and Parking with Zia Yusuf
September 28, 2022 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBThis 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 global ISVs. Zia chatted with us about his outlook on economic development, emerging markets, and the use of technology to benefit and enhance busine...
Stories that Prove Data is Not Boring with Ray O'Brien
August 16, 2022 01:00 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MB3 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 have both of those, you are the junction point. You are the person, enabler, and the go to between business and technology that can be an asset f...
Innovating Through AI and Beyond with Hanna Helin
July 07, 2022 05:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB3 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 to different things. Use what you know to help propel you forward, build upon the knowledge you already have and expand it into other areas. Us...
Executing Revolutionary Transformation with Joel “Thor” Neeb
February 15, 2022 05:00 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MB3 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 pursue that vision, and whose teams are aligned behind the scenes. Key Quotes: “Evolutionary change is iterative. It's making things a little ...
Inside the Future of FinTech with its #1 Influencer with Spiros Margaris
December 21, 2021 06:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MB3 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 institutions to work out how to aid or compete. Crypto and Cash are both in our future. If you can handle the risk, try putting some of your mone...
Focusing on Talent and Not Just Technology with Colin Bannister
November 24, 2021 05:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MB3 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 solutions. Key Quotes: "Having a clear career path and journey for everybody is important.” - Colin “Technology doesn't necessarily differe...
Data is NOT Boring with Josh Simons
October 29, 2021 05:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB3 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 capabilities, especially for financial services customers, when it comes to building predictive models without violating local laws on how data is stored ...
VMworld episode - Transformation, Cybercrime and Survival with Jennifer Manry and Tom Kellermann
October 07, 2021 08:49 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MB3 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 with information security teams, operations teams and development teams to do security by design - to make it even more difficult for cyber explo...
Customer First, Customer Always with Sumit Dhawan
August 24, 2021 05:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBEpisode 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 to ensure customers are satisfied. When it comes to distributed enterprise and distributed workforce, the last thing you want is to go back t...
Adding Sprinkles to the Cloud and Hypervisor Conversation
August 10, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MB3 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 - what’s working, what’s not, and to learn from it. Key Quotes: "I think VMware is on a journey. If we're successful, people will think ver...
The Future! Crystal Ball Gazing with Finance and Tech Industry Insiders
July 13, 2021 05:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MB3 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 investment, focus on getting the best from people by playing to their differences and strengths (or as René Carayol calls them, their Spikes) rathe...
Optimal Strategies for Exchanges, The Cloud and Keeping It All Running with Allison Krill
June 24, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MB3 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 considering a move to the cloud, but it’s necessary to make the business case. When you look at cloud fit, you need to decide whether you retain what...
If Only I Had Known That Before I Joined...with Jennifer Manry
June 10, 2021 05:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MB3 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 - listen to someone on the desk. Do empathy interviews and talk to people. The growth mindset of the organization - the willingness to do new thing...
Don’t Put Pigs in a Ferrari...No, seriously! with Louise Öström
May 27, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MB3 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 put the pigs in the ferrari. Key Quotes: "You can make a hundred PowerPoint slides, but the magic happens on the ground. And the magic happen...
Get Out of the Spreadsheets and Into the Cloud with James Forrester
May 13, 2021 05:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB3 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. Make sure the IT teams are seen as the heroes of the cloud transformation process because the applications they support typically produce some o...
Innovating in How We Innovate – From Ideas to Results with Chris Wolf
April 29, 2021 05:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBEpisode 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 increased interest in augmented reality and virtual reality possibilities in the realm of training and on-site quality assurance. Key Quotes: "T...
Howlers on the Hunt: Chasing Cybercrime Threats with Tom Kellerman
April 13, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MB3 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 sector has been dealing with a secondary infection--their own cyber crime pandemic, and ransomware is to blame.” - Tom “SolarWinds was proba...
The Futurologist’s Take on Financial Services with Thimon de Jong
March 31, 2021 05:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB[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** 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 fi...
Focus on Operations Before Strategy with Bask Iyer
March 18, 2021 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBMulti-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, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware. You can find Matthew on [LinkedIn](https:/...
One year of our podcast – looking back on 2020 and forward to 2021
February 03, 2021 14:51 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBWe 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.
Extending VMware’s DNA – the Blockchain platform as a foundation for de-centralized applications with Tanya Shastri and Brendon Howe
January 05, 2021 10:22 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBIn 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, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware. You can find Matthew on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewoneill...
Tales from the frontline: how AXA handled the pandemic, as told by its transformation expert with Violeta Ciurel
November 18, 2020 17:03 - 45 minutes - 42.3 MBOver 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 of Don’t Break The Bank, our podcast for curious minds in the financial services industry, we speak to Violeta Ciurel, insurance giant AXA’s t...
Getting a hundred thousand users working remotely in a fortnight – digital workspaces in the pandemic with Guru Venkatachalam and Spencer Pitts
November 02, 2020 10:25 - 49 minutes - 46.1 MBWe’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 leading experts on digital workspaces, Spencer Pitts and Guru Venkatachalam, talk about how banks and other FS providers are keeping their workfo...
Racing to a future that’s still emerging: the CTO view of financial services
August 26, 2020 12:18 - 47 minutes - 44 MBIn episode 8 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...
Racing to a future that’s still emerging: the CTO view of financial services with Greg Lavender
August 26, 2020 12:18 - 47 minutes - 44 MBIn 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 bank again. **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office ...
From bank heist to hostage situation – financial services and cybercrime with Tom Kellermann
August 05, 2020 08:24 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBThrough 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 what financial service providers can do to combat it. **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Direc...
The next frontier in innovation: the sustainability opportunity for banks with Nicola Acutt
July 02, 2020 09:49 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBIs 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 sustainability – extremely pertinent when more FS providers are aspiring to be technology companies with banking licenses. **About Matthew** Ma...
If only... with Enrico Boverino
June 09, 2020 16:24 - 43 minutes - 40.7 MBIn 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 Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware. You can find Matthew on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin....
Pushing on and driving transformation with Martin Eves
April 27, 2020 13:25 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBIn 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 Office of the CTO at VMware. You can find Matthew on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewoneill/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.co...
Pushing on and driving transformation
April 27, 2020 13:25 - 31 minutes - 162 MBIn 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 Office of the CTO at VMware. You can find Matthew on LinkedIn and Twitter. About Brian Brian Hayes is an audiophile, dad, builder of sheds...
Unprecedented times with Rory Choudhuri
March 27, 2020 15:22 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBRecorded 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 Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware. You can find Matthew on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewoneill/) and [Twitter](https...
Cyber security & banking with Scott McKinnon
January 28, 2020 10:08 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBIt 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 implications if they get it wrong. **About Matthew** Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technolo...
End User Computing with Spencer Pitts
January 28, 2020 10:06 - 55 minutes - 51 MBSpencer 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 Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware. You can find Matthew on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin....
Setting the scene with Joe Baguley
January 28, 2020 10:05 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBMatthew 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://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewoneill/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/MatthewON).