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Diederick Van Thiel

Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | Ecology Innovations | IKANO | Channel

AI Leadership Learnings from the World Economic Forum 2024

In a blogpost from May 2023, I explored how AI is reshaping the dynamic world of finance. Like many others I also concluded that the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) already has had a profound impact, serving as a game-changer. We know that by now! But what to do if you are a CEO or business leader in this transforming world of (gen)AI?...

/retail /sustainable Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | Ecology Innovations | IKANO | Channel

Unlocking Underwriting Potential: The Power of Data-Driven Transformation

In the midst of economic uncertainties and emerging challenges, traditional insurance and banking business models face threats that demand adaptation as a necessity rather than a choice. While banks have made some progress in their transformations, they still lack the leadership required to unlock new business and operating models that can restore...

/retail /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | Ecology Innovations | IKANO | Channel

Unlocking Embedded Finance: Dynamic Data and AI Leading the Way

Embedded Finance: Redefining Financial Services Small businesses starting today may never interact with a conventional bank. By logging into their e-commerce or accounting platform, they can open a deposit account, order a debit card, and meet most of their financing needs. The operators of these platforms are not usually banks. Rather, they are s...

/retail /inclusion Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | Ecology Innovations | IKANO | Channel

Harnessing The Power of AI: Navigating Macro-Economic Instability

INSPIRATION FROM RESPONSIBLE AI-USE CASES IN FINANCIAL SERVICES AND RETAIL Pause or accelerate AI-development? Some of the biggest names in tech are calling for artificial intelligence labs to stop the training of the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing “profound risks to society and humanity.” Elon Musk was among the dozens of...

/retail /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | Ecology Innovations | IKANO | Channel

War of the Titans: Tech Banks Lock Horns in the Battle for Customers through Open Banking

Unlocking the Future of Finance: The Bold New World of Open Finance We are moving towards an open finance world in which customers decide who they share their data with. Open finance refers to a transformative movement in the financial industry that enables secure and regulated access to financial data and services through open APIs, fostering inn...

/retail /predictions Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Diederick Van Thiel

Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | Ecology Innovations | IKANO | Channel

Urgently Resetting Banks' Growth Strategy in the Current Climate

The current banking climate is facing a lot of changes and challenges that banks need to address urgently. Credit Suisse was recently acquired by UBS for $2 billion, while Silicon Valley Bank was split over First Citizens and HSBC. Additionally, the FED and ECB have raised interest rates, and the global workforce is shifting towards being mostly m...

/wealth /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Diederick Van Thiel

Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | Ecology Innovations | IKANO | Channel

REVOLUTIONIZING VENTURE CAPITAL How AI based structured investment can improve VC ROI by 45%

Vision on the future of venture capital The pandemic has exposed value chain fragility and stress-tested all sectors and industries. Innovation has become the new arms race. According to Mc Kinsey Global Research of Executives companies have accelerated their digitization by three or four years and the share of digitally enabled products in their ...

/startups /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | Ecology Innovations | IKANO | Channel

The embedded finance transformation: Think big! Think smart! Be bold! And do it!

CEO’s: what a stretch! The C-level job is more demanding than ever before. On one hand smart decision-making is pushed by the revolutionizing digital experience needs of younger generations. In my last blog on embedded finance, I wrote that nowadays, people are online almost continually, searching for products and solutions, watching videos on Ins...

/retail Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | Ecology Innovations | IKANO | Channel

COOL! REVOLUTIONIZE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE FOR EMBEDDED FINANCE

The Experience age transformation of personal finance The age of experience is deeply transforming markets and will do so even more. More than a decade ago, when I was Chief Marketing Officer at ING, I wrote my book ‘Got EQ? Cool!’ to support my fellow CMO’s with practical approaches to win the hearts and minds of their customers. The book reached...

/payments /retail Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | Ecology Innovations | IKANO | Channel

Game-changers: Harnessing the power of alternative data

The tied-on-points World Championship finale This weekend Verstappen and Hamilton will battle head-to-head for the formula one World Championship. It’s going to be a battle on team strategy, car, and driver performance. A battle fuelled with smart big data strategies and zillions of data from sensors. Formula One is one of the most competitive and...

/cloud /markets Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

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