FinTech Magazine October 2020 | Page 114

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“ So many companies have ‘ core values ’ that are simply , what I call , ‘ permission to play values ’. They ’ re not unique to them and so they don ’ t become a shared language ”

— Patrick Sells , CIO , Quontic Bank
interest in innovation which befits his role at Quontic Bank , he states that early experiences taught him the value of trying to imagine operations from different perspectives . “ When you ’ re in the middle of doing something it ’ s really hard to reimagine things . But , when you are able to truly step back and reframe the world around you , you can easily find innovation . A lot of what I ’ ve done at Quontic Bank has been saying , ‘ Okay , what if we thought about it very differently ?’” Indeed , the Bank is no stranger to accolades itself ; it was recently ranked as one of Bankrate ’ s 2020 ‘ Top Online Banks ’. When asked what he attributes this success to , Sells claims that Quontic Bank ’ s culture and mission to redefine what a ‘ digital bank ’ is has been pivotal to its acclaim with customers and the wider industry .
Corporate culture could be Quontic Bank ’ s most important quality . Based on a four-pillar philosophy , Sells makes a clear distinction between his organisation ’ s approach to culture and others : “ So many companies have
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