REPLAY: Connect Core Banking with Finance - A Winning Digital Strategy

Continuous Innovation in Financial Services

Regulatory compliance, fierce competition, ever changing consumer preferences and evolving business models are putting Banking organizations under enormous pressure.

Finance and Procurement leaders now have increased responsibility to play an active part in driving growth, creating new business value and unlock the full potential of their business function.

Join us on the Connect Core Banking with Finance – A Winning Digital Strategy webinar, hosted in partnership with MEA Finance, to learn how banks are harnessing the power of connected data across their business.

Connected data delivers agility, resilience, and automation, providing full stakeholder visibility and a forward-looking view to make the right business decisions.

The session is a must-attend for senior finance and procurement executives who are on a digital journey and seeking to leverage the power of predictive analytics and real-time reporting.

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Featured speakers

Bhaskar Sahay

Partner, KPMG Lower Gulf Limited

Darren Clarke

Chief Financial Officer, Commercial Bank of Dubai

Amit Lalloo

FSI Enterprise Architect - ECEMEA Oracle

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Amit Lalloo

FSI Enterprise Architect - ECEMEA Oracle

Ahmad oversees the strategic direction of the Saudi based retail company, BinDawood Holding’s Danube and BinDawood stores. BinDawood and Danube have a nationwide grocery retail chain footprint of 71 stores in 15 cities across Saudi Arabia.

With a heritage spanning over 50 years, 35 of which are in grocery retail, BinDawood Holding has become of the MENA region’s largest retail operators with extensive operations including supermarkets, hypermarkets, department stores and imports providing the Kingdom the widest international offering of food and grocery items. BinDawood Holding employs more than 10,000 employees across Saudi Arabia.

Ahmad has led Danube and BinDawood through a period of revitalization and growth, continually sustaining double-digit growth for the company. Under his tenure, Danube has grown from 9 branches to 44 branches, and BinDawood to 27 branches by March 2020, with ambitious expansion plans to open more stores across the Kingdom and regional markets in the coming years. Ahmad is spearheading digitizing BinDawood Holding’s retail business, embracing the latest retail innovations such as blockchain technologies to foster transparency in the supply chain and implementing AI. He is the driving force behind the award-winning, highly innovative e-commerce platform Danube Online and the Danube App, the Middle East’s largest e-commerce grocery platform. Ahmad led the group to win ‘Retail Technology of the Year’ award at the 2018, Seamless Awards, ‘Most Admired Food & Grocery retailer in KSA’ at the 2018, Retail Middle East Awards and ‘Most Admired Online Retailer’ for Danube Online at the 2018, Retail Middle East, Saudi Arabia awards. In June 2019, Ahmad’s leadership story was featured on the cover of Forbes Middle East, where the family business, the BinDawood Group was ranked 25 in the top private Arab companies in the world. In 2019, Ahmad was awarded ‘CEO Masterclass of the Year’ at the Saudi Top Achiever Awards’ in collaboration with the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce.