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2013

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Willem Lambrechts

Managing Director at Drebbel

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Bio Running a technology brokerage with strong focus on financial services and financial markets. Career History After 4 years in the merchant navy I have been in international B2B technology sales. For the last 4 and a half years I have been running Drebbel Technology Brokers. The 13 years before that I was in charge of the BT Radianz business in Northern Europe.

Blogs

Fintech innovation and startups

The pre-seed funding gap.

16 Feb 2023

56 % drop in fintech investments...interesting number... however, the headline doesn't tell it all... The total amount invested in fintechs fell 56 %, ok. However , the total number of investments in fintech dropped only by 18 %. If it were for rising interests exclusively, the number of investments would have gone down proportionally... Where the...

Sustainable compliance

ESG and International Sales : how to marry them?

15 Apr 2022

Covid-19, or rather the measures taken to try and prevent the virus from spreading, had a major impact on the global society. This is not likely to become the hot news of the day... Environment, Sustainability and Governance (ESG) and the growing number of measures taken to enforce the ESG focus in enterprise boardrooms and investment committees is...

Capital Markets Technology

What a day! Fix Emea 2022 in London

29 Mar 2022

What a day last Thursday! 2 years and 2 weeks elapsed since the last FIX EMEA trading conference in London! An absolute eternity! I felt excited like a schoolboy leaving home for the first day of the new school year… Who will be there again? Who switched classes? How did things go over the last 2 years? How well did it feel, getting on the Eurostar...

Cloud Banking out of the Box

Public Cloud - Private Cloud - or no cloud?

14 Dec 2021

Amazon, Google, Azure,...all three public cloud providers were forced to inform their clients and shareholders about vulnerabilities in the software they use and make available to their customers. Nobody will deny that cloud services offer a lot of advantages compared to on-premise systems and software. Not surprisingly however, security is the big...

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Blockchain and European payments: banks in the defensive mode

Interesting article, Carlo, but I think you mix up 2 different things : an operational issue on one hand and a technology that could be envisaged to help it solve at the other. It looks like you are an advocate of blockchain technology and there is nothing wrong with that. However blockchain is just one possible way to address the challenge and possibly not the best or most efficient one, but that is a different debate...Thanks for shedding your light on the matter!

09 Apr 2020 Reply Read article

FinTech Myth busting - Selling Technology to Banks

This is a truly revealing and relevant article about propably the most neglected but undoubtedly the most critical activity related to building a solid financial technology business. An absolute prerequisite for possible success is a solid sales strategy and a team of industry experts that have built a trusted relationship with the targeted financial institutions. I invite every starting and scaling fintech to find those experts. In the exceptional case that the expert is found, another issue pops up : the absence of a sensible sales budget. Thank you, Roger, for putting the finger on a universal problem! Willem

02 Dec 2019 Reply Read article

FINTECH - REGTECH - HOW ABOUT SALES?

Hi Scott, thanks for your comment! Much appreciated! We may possibly be able to help you out. Kind invitation to visit www.drebbel.eu. I look forward to talking to you!

14 Aug 2019 Reply Read article

Rabobank constructs physical model to understand IT architecture

I think this is a great initiative by a bank and an example to be followed. But....it is only a first step, albeit a crucial one. Once this overview has been created, a logical next step has to be taken. At the end of the day, a bank is not a static warehouse of IT systems; it is a dynamic factory that process masses of transactions and flows of data. The logical next step, at least as crucial as the first one, is getting real-time view on those flows, by tracking them, not only on an IT - level, but more importantly on the business transaction level. This picture shows the warehouse, what it's all about is the transaction flow. The good news is that the technology, and no , it is not disruptive, does exist and is architected in such a way that it is meant to be agnostic of any changes in processes, systems or applications. More than happy to provide you with more information.

23 Aug 2017 Reply Read article