Former Swiss banker is now getting 100-plus banking businesses to go digital worldwide: Here’s why, how

Former Swiss banker is now getting 100-plus banking businesses to go digital worldwide: Here’s why, how

Dubai: As an ambitious kid, Swiss national Alexandre Gaillard recalled often secretly wishing to one day build his own bank. The now 40-year-old former banker is closer to realising his dream after having started two businesses in the last 15 years and is now getting hundreds of banks to go digital. “My family owned textile and real estate businesses, so I always had an entrepreneurial mind-set. So after spending years working in various banking roles in the finance industry, I got to start my first business in Switzerland when I was 26 years old,” Gaillard said. “My first financial technology company was built in 2008, but sadly it failed. I learnt a lot from this, and started a second one as a family-owned firm over nine years ago in Geneva, and got banks, insurers and governmental entities to digitise how they manage investments, and automate related tasks.” Having digitally on-boarded 120-plus banks, wealth managers, insurers, brokers and other companies across three continents, Gaillard's business recently automated a Arab private bank and a french retail bank in Switzerland, while also signing up with embassies in the region. With a base now being set up in Dubai, Gaillard said he found the