FinTech Magazine - March 2022 | Page 37

SUNRISE BANKS quickly to be able to provide that real-time access to data so that Wole and our other partners can make decisions to move into new markets .”
Building a Better Banking Future In the coming 12 to 18 months , Sunrise will continue to build with both fintech partners and its customers ’ demands and needs in mind .
“ Automating the ordinary and personalising the extraordinary is something we ' re saying a lot around the bank ,” Toft says . For fintech partnerships that means digitising and automating more operations and continuing to develop API capabilities . “ We ' re just trying to get better and faster so that we can continue to scale with our fintech partnerships .”
And for customers , it means meeting and exceeding expectations . “ I think the expectation of speed is here today and everybody ' s still trying to catch up to where the consumer expects to be ,” Toft says . “ There ' s this sense that in the future , every company is going to be a fintech company , and I believe that in some ways , with every day that goes by , technology becomes more and more important to a bank . That is going to be the key if we look ahead to 2030 : really making sure that you have a core agile process for technology within your organisation . That ’ s what we ’ re building today .” fintechmagazine . com 37