oliver bussmann

FinTech startups and technologies such as blockchain are disrupting the financial services industry. On this episode, we talk with a financial services leader about transformation in this important global industry.

Our guest is Oliver Bussmann, former Group Chief Information Officer of UBS from June 2013 to March 2016 and currently head of his own advisory firm. At UBS, he successfully led a major IT transformation effort, instituted a new group-wide innovation framework and established UBS as a pioneer in the development of blockchain for use in financial services.

Oliver Bussmann is the Group CIO for UBS AG, based in Zurich. UBS is the biggest bank in Switzerland, operating in more than 50 countries with about 63,500 employees globally, as of 2012. It is considered the world's largest manager of private wealth assets; with over CHF2.2 trillion in invested assets, a leading provider of retail banking and commercial banking services in Switzerland.