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Russoft Webinar · August 12, 2020

Digitalization and Technologies

How a large fintech becomes an IT company with a banking license

/ Digitalization and Technologies · Russoft 2020

Slide contents

  1. 1. Digitalization and Technologies

    How a large fintech becomes an IT company with a banking license

  2. 2. What we'll talk about

    From digital ecosystems to TechRadar

    Digital ecosystems: how engineering is organized

    Digital Transformation Game Plan

    Bank 4.0 and product portfolio evolution

    TechRadar, future vectors, and resources

  3. 3. 01. Digital Ecosystems

    Where the products of a large fintech live

  4. 4. Digital ecosystems engineering org

    Four major streams

    Mobile app — flagship channel

    Web — public sites and customer portals

    Marketing — performance, acquisition, growth

    Project streams + shared platform

  5. 5. 02. Digital Transformation

    ThoughtWorks Digital Transformation Game Plan

  6. 6. 7 principles of digital transformation

    Digital Transformation Game Plan

    Maximize customer value

    Define success + align to value

    Invest in people + embrace constraints

    Data product + technology excellence

  7. 7. 03. Bank 4.0

    Distribution × Experience

  8. 8. Banking evolution, per Brett King

  9. 9. One product grew into an ecosystem

    From single product to ecosystem

    Credit and debit cards — core business

    Investments, brokerage services, and insurance

    Consumer lending and lifestyle services

    B2B: acquiring, accounting, payroll

  10. 10. IT company with a banking license

    Technology is the competitive advantage

    Thousands of engineers in product development

    Own infrastructure and platform

    In-house ML models and data products

    Open source + tech brand

  11. 11. 04. TechRadar

    A tool for managing technology

  12. 12. What is TechRadar

    A map of an organization's technology bets

    Makes technology decisions visible

    Aligns teams on stack choices

    Public signal to the industry

    Living onboarding/architecture document

  13. 13. A ring is a decision, not an opinion

  14. 14. Where we're heading next

    Technology vectors of development

    ML/data products in every team

    Platform self-service for developers

    Cloud-native and containerization

    Open APIs, partnerships, and banking-as-a-service

  15. 15. References and Materials

    Transformation, platforms, delivery

    ThoughtWorks Radar + Game Plan

    Brett King — Bank 4.0

    Team Topologies — Skelton & Pais

    Accelerate — Forsgren, Humble, Kim

  16. 16. Thank you!

    polomodov.tech

    All slides and links — in the Telegram channel

    Alexander Polomodov, Technical Director & Fellow, T-Technologies

    @book_cube