Beyond Resilience - Leda Glyptis

Beyond Resilience

Patterns of Success in Fintech and Digital Transformation

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
336 Seiten
2025
Auerbach (Verlag)
978-1-032-49354-1 (ISBN)
38,65 inkl. MwSt
The vast majority of startups digital transformation programmes fail despite having both time and money, energy and resources. Why to answer this question the book amasses interviews and case studies from within big corporates and successful startups as well as industry observers, regulators, commentators and practitioners.
Is success pattern based? Is the journey of successfully building new banks or financial services businesses (either from scratch or in the context of reforming a going concern) predictable enough to be repeatable? And if there are patterns, are they within our gift to replicate? Beyond Resilience: Patterns of Success in Fintech and Digital Transformation asks these questions and seeks answers among the people who have first-hand experience of building new things and who live to tell the tale.

This book is not a hagiographic founder story that elevates the founder’s own narrative to a montage of challenge and resilience, grit, perseverance and a soaring successful crowning at the end: a narrative that, figuratively speaking, can play out while “Eye of the Tiger” is blaring in the background. Nor is the book a series of vendor testimonials that cover in a few thousand words each their own triumphant digital projects. These stories are not untrue but can be too generic to be illuminating, too vague to be helpful, and too hollow to be the whole truth.

Filled with interviews from leading fintech entrepreneurs, this book strives to tell the whole truth about building new things. It shares the stories of leaders who admit that as they built their businesses, they learned a lot, changed a lot, and made mistakes and had to course-correct. The book attests that leading new fintech ventures or digital transformations, whether they are started with a blank sheet of paper or within an established entity, is hard and unpredictable. It requires control. It requires consistency and integrity. It requires standing strong, ideally not alone but with a team of equally strong leaders.

It requires going beyond resilience.

Leda Glyptis is a seasoned fintech executive and former banker, with a career spanning two decades. She has worked in transformation and technology functions across a variety of financial services verticals and companies including BNY Mellon, QNB, 11:FS and 10x. She is the author of Bankers Like Us: Dispatches from an Industry in Transition and of the highly acclaimed #LedaWrites column on Fintech Futures. She is a frequent keynote speaker and contributor to industry publications and works as an external advisor to boards and executive teams for banks and technology companies of various sizes in several geographies. Leda is a Visiting Professor of Practice for the University of Loughborough London, focusing on fintech and the digital economy. Leda holds a BA/MA from King's College Cambridge and an MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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