Corporate finance and new technologies.
Interview by Jean Pierre MAUREAU
Q: New technologies are revolutionizing the finance function and opening up new solutions for companies of all sizes. Your company, Aston iTrade Finance, a platform for adding value to customer invoices, was voted FinTech of the Year 2015 by Bercy. Can you tell us how the finance function has evolved?
A.deL.L. : We can identify two phases. Over the last few years, the finance function has been equipped with locally-installed software and purchased licenses, while the SaaS mode has brought flexibility, but without allowing true customization of services. The second phase, over the last three years, has seen an exponential acceleration in the integration of available technologies. FinTechs are fundamentally different from software publishers.