Decentralized Finance: Global Payments CIO Guido Sacchi on the Future of FinTech | Technovation 742

Guido Sacchi, SEVP & Chief Information Officer of Global Payments, joins Peter High on the broadcast to speak about the innovation he is driving at the company and what the future of decentralized finance looks like. Guido explains his expansive purview in his role, the structure of IT at the company, and the emerging technologies he is leveraging to enhance business capabilities. He talks about co-innovating with clients and business partners, rethinking the use cases for crypto and blockchain, and expanding the metaverse concept through the payments industry. Finally, Guido talks about trends in artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, and cloud as well as the keys to his career success.

0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:48 Overview of Global Payments' Business
0:03:31 Guido's Expansive Purview
0:04:46 Centralized vs Federated: How IT is Organized at Global Payments
0:06:21 Incorporating Emerging Technologies to Enhance Business Capabilities
0:10:51 Co-Innovating with Clients and Other Business Partners
0:13:50 Landscape Ahead for Decentralized Finance, Crypto, and Blockchain
0:18:06 How the Metaverse will be Informed by the Payments Industry
0:21:32 External Partnerships Guido Has Developed
0:24:26 Tech Trends
0:26:54 Keys to Guido's Career Success
0:29:47 Outro

An audio-only version of this interview is available as episode 742 of Metis Strategy’s podcast, #Technovation with Peter High. Learn more at http://bit.ly/Technovation-742.

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