Peter Hazou articles

Peter Hazou

Director of Business Development, Financial Services, Microsoft

Peter Hazou is Directory of Business Development at Microsoft, responsible for corporate and commercial banking. A career banker, he was the EMEA Regional Head of GTB at HSBC and the CEEMEA Regional Head for GTS at Citigroup, and previously served as Head of Strategy for transaction banking at UniCredit in Milan. He began his career in New York as a credit officer at Manufacturers Hanover Trust.

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Published January 23, 2025

6 min read

5 ways that AI modernization is transforming trade financing

Trade finance is now undergoing rapid and fundamental changes, thanks to the advent of cloud and AI technologies. Microsoft is helping to modernize and take full advantage of these technologies.

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Published April 13, 2023

4 min read

From data to insights: New revenue opportunities for commercial banking

Clearly, finance is about data. Data is the connective tissue that brings context, value, and understanding of risks through its continuous, real-time flow. In financial services, as with other experiential industries, data is the pivot on which transformation is happening across all market segments, be they enterprise or consumer.

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Published January 12, 2021

5 min read

5 questions banks should consider for digital transformation

Banks have seen dramatic technology advancements across the business, particularly in payments.

Published December 14, 2020

4 min read

Harnessing the opportunity of ISO20022 for financial services organizations

Emerging global payment standard ISO 20022, put forth by the ISO technical committee responsible for the fields of banking and financial services, aims to create a common language and model for payments data, one that can be applied by any agent in the industry and implemented across any network.

Published October 3, 2018

2 min read

Real-time payments and the transformation of bank business models

Learn how banks are using Microsoft AI technology to empower real-time payments and enable new business models at Sibos 2018.

Published July 24, 2017

2 min read

Making Sense of Data: The Cornerstone of a Frictionless Customer Experience in Banking

At Microsoft, we understand there are new models needed for data management, and the potential benefits that mastered data will create.

Published April 26, 2017

2 min read

Payments: process improvements or game changers?

In this new reality, insights, simplicity and anticipation of client needs frame both customer expectations and how they wish to be served.

Published October 15, 2015

4 min read

Helping banks get more out of applications, the cloud and big data: Microsoft at Sibos 2015

Mining data for customer insight is nothing new, but today there is more rich data available than ever before

Published October 11, 2015

3 min read

Eat or be eaten? Fighting off the financial services fintech feeding frenzy begins with a solution

Fintech. It’s been called the financial services version of the industrial revolution.