June 03, 2017 at 07:36PM
Deutsche Bank is making a big bet on financial technology.
The German bank is investing in fintech startups. It just opened a fourth innovation lab, this time in the financial district in New York. A chunk of its website is dedicated to digital banking.
Now it's making a push to advise financial technology companies, too.
The German bank has hired Tommaso Zanobini as its global head of financial technology, based in New York. He was most recently the global head of financial technology and services at Jefferies, and he was previously the global head of technology services at Barclays.
The fintech group at Deutsche Bank is a joint venture between the financial institutions group and the tech, media, and telecoms group, and Zanobini will report to financial institutions specialist Celeste Guth and tech banker Mark Keene. In his new role, he will work with Rahul Singla, the Americas financial technology head, and Vipin Chhajer, the European head.
His hire marks the fourth managing-director-level hire in Deutsche Bank's financial institutions group in 2017. John Cryan, the bank's CEO, now oversees the business on the management board.
The appointment comes at an interesting time for the financial technology industry. Morgan Stanley said in a note this month that venture-capital firms, which poured $117 billion into fintech startups from 2012 to 2016, had been pulling back on their investments. Established financial firms are positioned to step up their spending, meanwhile.
"Financials and payments incumbents are likely to be emboldened to step up R&D and take the investment lead, and this combination of VC/incumbent behavior represents a paradigm shift that should benefit incumbents'" return on investment, Morgan Stanley said.
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