FRANCESCO SCARNERA

Francesco Scarnera, Chief Executive Officer, iBe TSE

Francesco has spent over 20 years advising some of the world’s leading banks, card schemes and payment organisations on how to enhance business performance. He has led assignments for business spin-off, due diligence for business acquisition, change programme effectiveness and services transition. He has held senior roles at organisations including PwC, Accenture, French Thornton and was Managing Director of Bluerock Consulting in the UK prior to his role at iBe TSE. He is often quoted in the media, in outlets including The Daily Telegraph, London Evening Standard, The Next Web and Global Banking and Finance Review on the subject of innovation and FinTech.

Francesco advocates a customer centric approach to innovation and transformation. He believes that as individuals we are dynamically connected to devices and the world around us. This status of social connections between people, brands, products and services will only become more prolific. As such, he predicts that the bank of the future will be one that understands how people connect with the world around them and will seek to bring a new dimension to these interactions.

He champions the view that the only way large organisations will survive is by adapting and collaborating with organisations within the innovation ecosystem such as FinTechs and start ups. He urges clients to be more strategic and understand what digital technologies mean for their business. The data it will deliver to them and how they derive value from this will help them deliver a better customer-centric experience that will lead to revenue opportunities.