At Sibos 2025, Deya Innab, Deputy CEO of Eastnets, explains how the company is positioning itself at the heart of secure payments and compliance. Having started at Eastnets as Product Director and later becoming Chief Strategy Officer, Innab now focuses on aligning teams so they can both run today’s business and prepare for tomorrow’s opportunities. Eastnets, which has been supporting secure financial inclusion for more than 40 years, helps banks and financial institutions keep payments safe and compliant worldwide.
Innab says Eastnets attends Sibos not just to showcase products, but to listen, observe market shifts and help shape the future of financial services. Eastnets stresses that compliance now sits at the core of finance, yet traditional ways of fighting financial crime can’t keep up with fast-moving threats and exploding data volumes. For Innab, AI is essential not only to speed up processes, but to make detection more efficient, proactive and adaptive so institutions can stay ahead of criminals.
Within Eastnets, AI is being embedded as part of the culture rather than treated as a one-off tool as teams are encouraged to experiment with simple, high-impact use cases that quickly show value. Innab notes that AI is enabling things that simply weren’t possible before, surfacing new insights and ideas that change how people work.
Eastnets also argues that compliance has long been viewed as a brake on innovation because it has lagged behind other parts of the business in adopting technology. By combining compliance with trusted AI and other technologies instant compliance data updates, Innab believes it can shift from back-office burden to front-line enabler. In their view, regulatory change is a catalyst for innovation, pushing banks to adopt agile, globally interoperable solutions that keep them compliant across 100+ jurisdictions while still safely supporting new business models and financial inclusion
