In this session, you will get to know about banking finance itself with our guest speaker named Hasintha Gunawickrema⁠ currently working as a Chief Controlling Officer with HSBC. She has also worked with Barclays and Marks and Spencer serving in financial roles and this will be a great session for you to tune into if you see banking fintech as a career. Our discussion mostly revolves around the following pointers mentioned... 1. Introduction about you. 2. Tell us about your journey with Oxford and HBS. 3. Let’s talk about your early professional career where you worked as a business analyst and then shift to a financial analyst. What makes your transition to financial roles 4. You have worked with Barclays and Marks and Spencer, what is your takeaway from these capable firms in terms of your personal growth 5. Let’s talk about your journey with HSBC where you have spent almost 16 years of your career starting your role as a management accountant to COO and then CCO. 6. What are the innovations you feel going to happen in this industry which looks certain? 7. I would like to know your views on banking globalization and any suggestions that blockchain and CBDC might solve time-consuming international exchanges. 8. You are mostly into risk management. Would you like to discuss any recent innovative risk fraud exposed and the way it gets captured? 9. We are in a very transitional phase where we see a lot of downturns in the job market, ChatGPT, and other innovations. Where do you think current banking is going and what further adoption might be possible? 10. How do you see Innovation in Fintech looks 5 or 10 years ahead?