Zain Kuwait hosts insightful talk with Gartner at Innovation Campus

Zain Kuwait hosts insightful talk with Gartner at Innovation Campus

KUWAIT: Zain Kuwait recently hosted an insightful talk with Gartner, the global research and consulting firm, to discuss the future of open banking and the role of technology and digital transformation applications in developing the banking sector. During the session, Zain executives explored the company’s most recent efforts in empowering banks and financial institutions to embrace digitalization in order to keep up with the accelerating changes in today’s markets. The session was held at the Zain Innovation Campus (ZINC) in the company’s headquarters in Shuwaikh and was attended by Zain Kuwait CEO, Eaman Al Roudhan and the company’s executive team.

The talk was joined by Zain Group’s Chief Investment and Digital Transformation Officer, Malek Hammoud and Gartner VP Analyst, Vittorio D’Orazio and was also attended by many Kuwaiti entrepreneurs and startup owners whom Zain invited exclusively to the event. The session covered a number of strategic topics related to the future of banking, such as banking-as-a-service, open banking, the recent accelerating growth of digital banks, and the role played by new technologies in developing the banking sector.

Technologies such as 5G, managed cloud services, cloud computing, datacenters, digital applications, and more are offered by Zain to empower financial institutions and startups to