SBM magazine / 11-2018

EVENT
CEE SME Banking Club Conference 2018
For the fourth time, SME Banking Club
gathered SME Bankers in Warsaw (Poland)
at the CEE SME Banking Conference 2018,
which was held on October 29-30 and devoted
to financial services for SMEs in that region
(#CEE18).
More than 100 attendees from 20 countries took
part in this year’s conference.
Day one of the conference on October 29 was
devoted to the topic of cooperation between
banks and FinTechs, and started with on-site
visits to Innovation ING Lab — a space that
supports creative thinking and innovations
within ING Bank Śląski; and LeaseLink — a
FinTech leasing company that provides online
leasing to entrepreneurs (for more details, see
p. 39).
The program continued with a panel discussion
on Models for Cooperation Between Banks
& FinTechs.
Maciej Marszalek from The Heart Warsaw talked
about Why and How Banks Should cooperate
with FinTechs.
Why
Balazs Topor (Raiffeisen Bank International)
summed up the results of RBI’s first
Accelerator program – Elevator Lab 1.0.
One of the main key factors for the successful
implementation of solutions with start-ups is
serious, dedicated resources and agility on the
bank’s part. Kamila Wincenciak presented RBL_
- Accelerator program in Alior Bank (Poland),
During the on-site visits to Innovation ING Lab
(Warsaw, October 29, 2018)
which was launched in September this year (for
more details, see pp. 8-9). Paulina Skrzypińska
and Michał Miszulowicz presented a Start-up
Code that was implemented within BGŻ BNP
Paribas in Poland to accelerate the purchasing
process for new technological solutions and
templates for documents for the so-called Proof
of Concept (for more details, see p. 6).
We are in an era in which production
and distribution are being replaced
by experience, ease, simplicity and
transparency
Entry barriers are much easier to overcome
— technology, regulations, access to
capital
Customer experience and expectations
spread across industries
...they even spread within industries but
across borders!
Millennials are turning...40
How
Innovate on the Core
Challenge your Core
Venture out and experiment
Open Up
During the panel discussion on Models for Cooperation Between Banks & FinTechs. Left to right:
Balazs Topor (Raiffeisen Bank International), Kamila Wincenciak (Alior Bank), Michał Miszulowicz
(BGŻ BNP Paribas), Paulina Skrzypińska (BGŻ BNP Paribas), Maciej Marszalek (The Heart Warsaw)
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NOVEMBER 2018