Megalou: Technological Innovation is fundamental to Piraeus Bank’s core strategy

The pivotal relation of technology successful the planetary banking assemblage — and astatine Piraeus Bank successful peculiar — was highlighted by Christos Megalou, CEO of Piraeus Bank, speaking astatine the sheet titled “The Banking System and the New Generation of Unicorns” astatine the Delphi Economic Forum XI.

The sheet explored the outlook for the banking assemblage and its links with emerging innovative businesses successful Greece and internationally, bringing together manufacture leaders for an in-depth treatment of existent challenges and opportunities. As Megalou noted, “we are talking astir something that is very adjacent to my bosom and to the DNA of Piraeus Bank.”

Making specific notation to Snappi — which represents the bank’s dynamic enlargement into the promising neobanking marketplace — helium added that “it is so our engagement with technology that initiated this travel a fewer years ago.”

Megalou besides made extended notation to Greece’s technology ecosystem, stressing that “we are truly fortunate successful Greece to person such an ecosystem, but besides fortunate that overmuch much has been built connected the backmost of strong technological education, the capabilities of our people, their outward-looking mindset, and their quality to make planetary businesses starting connected a small standard and scaling up.”

The CEO of Piraeus Bank further noted that the slope stands acceptable to concern such initiatives, with a peculiar absorption connected strategic sectors such arsenic defence, and encouraged those with the thrust and capableness to prosecute this path.