On the 23rd of August 2023, MEA Finance, in partnership with Oracle hosted a roundtable in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Focused on Corporate and Transaction Banking in the era of the Cloud, this highly engrossing debate tackled the growing role of the cloud and AI, and the changes we can expect in this increasingly important sector.
Talking points included:
- Leveraging cloud and new agile innovations to give corporate customers better-working capital control via cash management, liquidity management, and virtual account management
- Tools to make better credit decisions via digitizing credit and lending life cycle
- Changes in the payments landscape and its implications: cross border, instant payments, ISO 20022 migration
- How adopting the right strategy can support your business and meet ever-changing customer and regulatory requirements
Present at the event were…
| Alinma Bank | Saleh Abdullah Almogarry | Head of Architecture |
| Alinma Bank | Yagoub Yousef AlSulaiman | Head of Transformation Management |
| Banque Saudi Fransi | Abdullah Al Wehaiby | Acquiring Product Manager – E-Pay |
| Banque Saudi Fransi | Abdulrahman Khan | Products and Innovation |
| Banque Saudi Fransi | Afnan Al-Ammar | Acquiring Product Manager – POS |
| Banque Saudi Fransi | Sultan Alrajhi | Project Management |
| BNP Paribas | Naj Aktam | Head of Cash Management |
| Link Consulting | Jose Afonso Pires | Member of the Board |
| Riyad Bank | Amol Bahuguna | SVP, Head of Corporate Technology, Innovation and Change Management |
| SAB | Esraa Diwali | Digital Payments |
| SAB | Yogesh Kapoor | Head of Enterprise Transformation |
| Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) | Abdulaziz Assiri | Infrastructure Development Head |
| Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) | Hailah Almajhad | Head of Systems |
| Saudi Payments | Krishnaswamy Sriganth | Senior Consultant |
| Saudi Payments | Mohammed A. AlKhatlan | IT Strategy & Architecture – Senior Director |
| Saudi Payments | Mohammed AlJaser | Senior Enterprise Architect |
| Standard Chartered Bank | Ahmed Najmeldine | COO |
| Standard Chartered Bank | Oleksandr Savchenko | Director – Head of Trade, Working Capital & Transaction Banking |
| The Saudi Investment Bank | Eyad Sameer Sawaqed | Head – Treasury & Payments Systems, Service Development |
| The Saudi Investment Bank | George Hadid | IT Senior Business Relationship Manager, Service Demand |
| Oracle Financial Services | Akram Alnabulsi | Cloud Solution Engineering Director |
| Oracle Financial Services | Badr Tharwat | MEA CTO |
| Oracle Financial Services | Fahad Alturief | Vice President – Cloud, Saudi Arabia, Levant & North Africa Markets |
| Oracle Financial Services | Hisham Esaadi | Channels Director |
| Oracle Financial Services | Houssam Chaker | Head of Sales, Banking – Middle East |
| Oracle Financial Services | Parag Ekbote | Head Business Development Corporate Banking APJ & MEA |
The event was moderated by Andrew Cover, MEA Finance.
