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Iain MacLennan

Iain MacLennan

Head of Trade & Supply Chain Finance at Finastra
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Bio Iain is responsible for the strategic roadmap and delivery of Trade and Supply Chain Finance products for Finastra. Career History Iain joined Finastra in January 2019, from Lloyds Banking Group where he spent 6 years in several leadership roles in Technology and Group Transformation supporting the Commercial Bank. He was most recently the Engineering Lead within the Commercial Servicing Lab delivering Agile change improving the overall Customer and Colleague Experience across all sectors. Prior to Lloyds Iain held Change and Technology roles with Barclays, Deutsche Bank, ING Barings and Swiss Bank Corporation, primarily in Global Transaction Banking.

Blogs

Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Creating an intelligent trade finance ecosystem

02 May 2024

With the growing demand for a consumer-like personalized interaction in trade workflows, alongside efforts to digitalize the industry, there is an emphasis on the need for ecosystem collaboration in trade finance. Agility and collaboration between banks, fintechs, and other third-party software providers will help drive innovation in meeting custo...

Financial Supply Chain

2024: will this be the year of truly digital trade?

14 Dec 2023

The trade finance industry is on a modernization journey. Reflecting on 2023, the year ahead will see the digitalization of trade finance take center stage. And it’s about time. With an expected focus on regulation, challenges will be seen across the board as the adoption of AI and ML continues to rise. So what can we expect from 2024? Digitizing...

Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

The future of trade finance – views from Sibos

05 Oct 2023

Trade digitization, driven by advances in technologies such as blockchain and AI, has been a topic of conversation at Sibos for the last several years. Yet challenges remain, contributing to the widening of the trade finance gap. Many transactions still rely on paper due to traditional practices and fragmented supply chains across jurisdictions. M...