S02:E08: The Future of Global Banking with Miklós Dietz, Senior Partner, Managing Partner of Vancouver Office at McKinsey & Company

Miklós Dietz | Senior Partner, Managing Partner of Vancouver Office | The Future of Global Banking

“Winning business models are not stuck in one sector.”

— Miklós Dietz

This time, on Behind the Brand, we sit down with Miklós Dietz. Miklós leads the Global Banking Strategy and Innovation team at McKinsey. He is also the managing partner of McKinsey’s Vancouver Office. Since joining McKinsey, Miklós has led more than 450 engagements across 40 countries and 100 financial institutions. It doesn’t stop at financial services. Miklos has also served governments and regulators to support economic development, as well as helped telecom, technology, retail, consumer goods and energy companies in starting and scaling up digital businesses.

Miklos has written over 200 articles and reports that span topics such as banking, strategy, and digital transformation including “Springtime for Canada’s fintech industry?”, and is the author of the book ‘The Ecosystem Economy’. We talk about what banking systems look elsewhere in the world, how Canada’s banking system is at its largest inflection point, and why ecosystems are the business model of the future.

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S02:E07: Modernizing Payments Infrastructure with Ron Morrow, Executive Director at the Bank of Canada

Ron Morrow | Executive Director at the Bank of Canada | Modernizing Payments Infrastructure

“You want a system that is stable and reliable, but not one that is so stable and reliable that it stifles innovation and competition. So it's a challenge to find [the] trade off.

I think a lot of what is going on in the world of payments right now is trying to ensure that we are striking that right balance.”

— Ron Morrow

In this episode, we speak with Ron Morrow, the Executive Director of Payments, Supervision, and Oversight at the Bank of Canada. The Bank of Canada’s mandate is “to promote the economic and financial welfare of Canada.” In his role, Ron is responsible for the supervision of retail payment service providers and the oversight of financial market infrastructures. He also guides the Bank’s work to explore the potential design of a digital form of the Canadian dollar.

We cover everything from the modernization of money movement to the productivity crisis in Canada, and get an understanding of the new payment provider supervision under the new Retail Payment Activities Act which will come into effect in November 2024.

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S02:E06, Yves-Gabriel Leboeuf, Co-Founder and CEO at Flinks

Yves-Gabriel Leboeuf | Co-Founder and CEO at Flinks | State of Entrepreneurship in Canada

“Having competitors is fine. It's actually good… It keeps you sharp... You gotta find ways to have the right product that fits in the market against your competitors.”

— Yves-Gabriel Leboeuf

In this episode, we speak with Yves-Gabriel Leboeuf, or as we call him YG. YG is the Founder and CEO of Flinks, a company that develops tools that turn raw banking data into actionable insights. In 2021, National Bank took a managing share of Flinks with a $103M investment, including $30M in growth capital.

YG is on a mission to accelerate innovation in the banking and financial services sectors. We have a great conversation about YG’s experience as an entrepreneur, his view on Open Banking legislation, and the competition landscape in Canada.

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