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