Tomasz Motyl – CIO of Aion Bank – Redefining the industry with a bold vision of digital native bank by CIONET published on 2021-07-21T15:29:30Z How to complete #DigitalTransformation in five months? How to convert one of the world’s oldest banking institutions into a new innovative and digital native bank? In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode Tomasz Motyl, co-founder and CIO of Aion Bank, talks with Hendrik Deckers about doing the impossible. In just over five months the team of Aion Bank successfully completed a deep transformation project which brought to life a bold vision of creating an all-inclusive banking. Aion Bank offers its clients a completely new business model based on subscriptions. But this is only one of the things that makes this bank special. Others include: ✅ Simplifying the processes and the operation model ✅ Connection to Open Banking which gives the customer complete transparency of the market ✅ Offering better services at lower price: for fixed monthly subscription fee the customers receive the full scope of services ranging from daily banking products, competitive rates for loans, smart tools to save on household bills, deposits and loans ✅ Fully digital bank powered by Vodeno Cloud Platform Aion Bank has become a role model for the entire IT ecosystem. Tomasz modestly says: “We are following the nowadays standards for the new IT companies”, but truth to be told, Aion Bank is setting new standards and redefining the industry. Table of contents: 01:25 | Introduction and Tomasz Motyl’s background 03:34 | About Aion Bank 06:24 | What makes Aion Bankdifferent 10:42 | David & Goliath and startup attitude 13:48 | Attracting talents 15:40 | IT operating model 16:45 | Cloud strategy 17:11 | Data as the core of the business 18:30 | Changing role of CIO 21:24 | New attitude to sourcing teams 22:51 | Process of continuous learning 24:05 | Tomasz’s leadership style 24:58 | What drives Tomasz? 26:01 | MBTI: The Entertainer 29:40 | Tomasz’s mentors 30:36 | Personal mantra 31:02 | Tomasz’s core values & the best things in life 34:56 | Tomasz’s fears & the most brilliant failure 37:18 | Advantages of the community 38:50 | Advice for people starting out Genre Technology
