Charlie Onions is a conference producer leading on several event properties across the year, including FTT Building Societies, FTT DeFi & FTT Lending 3.0. Charlie regularly contributes to the VC Innovations newsletter, exploring myriad topics in the world of financial services.
Innovating the supply chain
Wednesday 10 May 2023
by Charlie Onions
Eric Van Loon, Deputy CEO at Finventory, spoke to our Chief Strategy Officer Lisa Moyle at FTT Lending 3.0 about challenges in supply chain finance, in particular, asset-backed lending. Finventory, a SaaS provider, supports banks and other financial institutions to safely and securely provide much needed inventory finance to corporates. Speaking on the relevance of
- Published in Blog, Community & Events, Content, Embedded Finance, Fintech, FTT Lending, Innovation, Interviews, Risk
Automation for the nation
Monday 24 April 2023
by Charlie Onions
Chris Kneen, Managing Director for UK & Ireland at Provenir, spoke to our Chief Strategy Officer Lisa Moyle at FTT Lending 3.0 about Provenir’s AI-powered approach to decisioning as well as the continued desire for new and alternative data points in the financial services and technology sectors. Enabling banks and other financial institutions to enrich
- Published in Blog, Community, Community & Events, Data Privacy, Fintech, FTT Lending, Innovation, Interviews, Risk
Forging the future of fintech
Monday 17 April 2023
by Charlie Onions
Andrei Gaman, Commercial Vice President at FintechOS, talks us through the opportunities for financial institutions to stand out to their customers and differentiate themselves in the market. Enabling financial institutions to build, launch and manage their own fintech products is at the core of what FintechOS does. Looking at the key drivers for these institutions,
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Unlocking the potential of open banking
Friday 14 April 2023
by Charlie Onions
George Dunning, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at Bud, talks us through the challenges facing would-be-borrowers and how open banking can help to empower the financially underserved in society. Utilising transactional data to better meet the needs of borrowers is at the heart of Bud’s mission. By assessing a wider scope of borrower data, they
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FTT Lending 3.0: the wrap up
Wednesday 05 April 2023
by Charlie Onions
Last week our community convened for FTT Lending 3.0, our one-stop-show on the 29th of March where we explored a colourful cross-section of the entire lending ecosystem. Across two powerhouse stages, the sector’s biggest names sat down to discuss the tech, trends and innovations powering the future of lending. Household-names, alternative lenders, fintechs, building societies,
- Published in Blog, Community, Community & Events, Content, Fintech, FTT Lending, Innovation, Partnership, Regulation
FTT Chats Lending 3.0 Series: Rachael Hunnisett, Green Mortgage Campaign Lead, Green Finance Institute
Tuesday 14 March 2023
by Charlie Onions
Rachael Hunnisett, Green Mortgage Campaign Lead at the Green Finance Institute joins us in the latest edition of our FTT Chats Series. Ahead of our FTT Lending 3.0 event we’ve been catching up with key players in the lending ecosystem to discuss the trends, drivers and challenges facing the sector at large. In this episode,
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Scores on the doors: Alternative credit models & the financially excluded
Tuesday 28 February 2023
by Charlie Onions
“The devil works hard, but the credit scoring system works harder,” according to up-and-coming credit agency NogginHQ in their one-of-a-kind zine, explaining their mission to modernize traditional credit assessments. This sentiment is echoed in the increasing popularity of alternative credit scoring methods, as well as the fintechs behind them. Financial inclusion plays a major role
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alternative credit scoring, credit score, financial inclusion, nogginhq, Splash, totallymoney
What’s trending in lending? – SME finance
Tuesday 28 February 2023
by Charlie Onions
FTT Lending 3.0 is upon us! Ahead of the biggest lending show in the UK, we’re taking a closer look at a key theme for the sector: SME Finance. With a record number of small to medium businesses uncertain about getting a loan, how are today’s lenders and fintechs innovating to serve these underserved companies?
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Navigating the Cost of Living crisis as a Lender – FTT Chats Lending 3.0 Series
Tuesday 14 February 2023
by Charlie Onions
Gerald Chappell, CEO & Co-Founder at Abound joins us in the latest edition of our FTT Chats series. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been catching up with key players in the lending ecosystem to discuss the the trends, drivers and challenges facing the sector at large. In this episode, we’re delving into data-driven consumer
- Published in FTT Lending, Innovation, Interviews, Partnership
FTT Lending 3.0: An Interview with Tracey Horner, Head of lendwithcare at CARE International UK
Tuesday 17 January 2023
by Charlie Onions
Ahead of FTT Lending 3.0 2023, I caught up with one of our Rockstar speakers Tracey Horner, Head of lendwithcare, to discuss all things microlending… Microlending and microfinance, like all financial processes, has its champions and its critics. How is lendwithcare different from its peers? There are a number of ways that Lendwithcare is
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