CTO & Chief Data Officer, Bank Leumi
Search every verified Ilan Buganim interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ilan Buganim, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Data Officer at Bank Leumi, spoke at the DLD 2019 conference about the use of data in banking. He stated that 73% of Millennials in the United States would consider consuming banking services from non-bank companies such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook, viewing them as trusted providers. Buganim also discussed the Cambridge Analytica incident, saying that Facebook exposed open APIs and that data was subsequently sold and used to manipulate elections in America, which he described as an example of the power and misuse of data. In a 2017 interview at Money 20/20, Buganim said that Bank Leumi aimed to be "the Google and the Facebook of the financial industry" with the launch of its mobile-only bank, Pepper. He described the bank's digital transformation as moving from branch-based services to mobile and internet platforms, emphasizing the need for proactive, real-time banking with less friction. Buganim noted that "data is king" and that organizations believe data will help solve problems and reduce customer friction.
“What we can see here is that 73% of the population in the United States which are considered Millennials agree to take or to consume banking from non-banks like Amazon, Google, Facebook — they see these giants as trusted enough to provide them banking.”
“What happened with Cambridge Analytica: Facebook exposed open APIs and information were sold afterwards to Russians who used this data to manipulate the elections in America, which is the power of data and the misuse of data that you can make when you are not keeping the data of your customers.”
“We said that we want to be the Google and the Facebook of the financial industry.”
“Now data is king — organizations believe data will solve yesterday's problems and help reduce friction with customers.”
Ilan Buganim - Bank Leumi Opening Panel.
At Money 20/20 2017 in Las Vegas, we sat down with Ilan Buganim, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Digital Officer at Bank Leumi, Israel to talk about the digital transformation of the banking industry
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