Challenger Banks - an insight into banking beyond the big names.

Changing Careers with Conrad Chua

For decades, banking meant the usual suspects of big household names. There were national champions and only a few truly global financial institutions and almost no new entrants. Technology and regulatory changes have ushered in an age of challenger banks. Banks that offer new products or repackaged existing products for retail and business customers. Will these challenger banks survive and what do they do that incumbents don't do? We hear from two speakers connected to Cambridge Judge Business School, Tim Harvey-Samuel and Dickson Ma. Tim Harvey-Smith spent more than 20 years in equity capital markets and teaches the Finance Concentration for the Cambridge MBA. He is on the board of UK-based challenger bank that caters to SMEs. MBA alumnus, Dickson Ma, worked in finance and the entertainment industries in Hong Kong and was part of the team that started Alipay's operations in Hong Kong. He also worked in livi bank, a virtual bank in Hong Kong.