Lisa Moyle is a co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at VC Innovations. Previously, she was director of strategy, fintech, at Informa where she established and led a portfolio of global fintech events and activity. She also worked at techUK, where she was head of the Financial Services and Payments programme and contributed to a broad range of policy initiatives in support of financial services innovation.
Payhawk – freeing up CFOs to focus on what’s really important
Thursday 15 January 2026
Pedro Batista, UK CEO of Payhawk, sat in the hot seat and told us more about Payhawk at the last FTT Fintech Festival in London. Payhawk is the first spend management platform to bring AI-powered orchestration finance solutions designed to address the needs of CFOs. Why do CFOs love Payhawk? CFO’s love Payhawk because of
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The power of a unified payments ecosystem with PayDo
Tuesday 16 December 2025
Serhii Zakharov, CEO and Founder of PayDo, and fintech veteran of 12+ years, joined us at the FTT Fintech Festival last month and shared his thoughts on the growth of online businesses and their evolving needs – particularly for payments solutions. How have the needs of online businesses changed? As competition and complexity increases for
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Northern Ireland Fintech: Where six degrees of separation shrink to two
Thursday 11 December 2025
The Invest Northern Ireland team returned to the FTT Fintech Festival this year, joined by a diverse delegation of six companies showcasing innovative products and services for the financial services sector. The delegation included: Cantabular Fscom LoyalBe Nemstar Neueda Treliant FinTru, a member of a previous delegation, also joined the Festival this year. What are the strengths
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Stablecoins – what are they good for? Actually, quite a bit.
Tuesday 09 December 2025
Stablecoins are the talk of the town and it was no different at the FTT Fintech Festival in November. We were fortunate to have an expert both on stage and off – Bernhard Schweizer, Head of the Digital Currency Hub at SAP – to explore how the use cases for stablecoins are evolving. The Digital
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Full agenda now available for all stages: your complete innovation guide to the FTT Fintech Festival 2025
Friday 10 October 2025
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Is the future of payments fully instantaneous? An FTT Chat with Plaid
Monday 21 July 2025
We had the chance to hear about some of the exciting payments solutions being developed at Plaid when we sat down with Chris Corbett, Payments Product Lead, at FTT Payments in May. Chris is responsible for looking after the full payments suite. That includes one-time payments (payment initiation), recurring payments (largely VRP in the UK)
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Technology as solution, not strategy with Mohamed Ait Si Brahim, Group CTO, Hargreaves Lansdown
Monday 07 April 2025
Starting with the fundamentals: The Three Amigos Mohamed Ait Si Brahim, Group Chief Technology Officer at Hargreaves Lansdown, heading an engineering team of 20o people tasked with building products, sat down with us at the 2024 FTT Fintech Festival. He shared his approach to both his role and, more broadly, creating effective outcomes. When it
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#AccelerateAction on International Women’s Day 2025
Friday 07 March 2025
International Women’s Day 2025 #Accelerate Action To kick off our International Women’s Day 2025 FTT Chats series, we had the pleasure of speaking with Jessica Richards, Head of Performance and Business Management, Payments, at NatWest. Our conversation centered around her two great passions: diversity and the financial services industry. She shared her views on the
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Driving the world’s best fintech sector with Invest Northern Ireland
Tuesday 21 January 2025
We sat down with long time FTT Fintech Festival partners, Invest Northern Ireland, to catch up on all things related to the country’s fast growing fintech sector. As the regional economic development agency for Northern Ireland, they play an important role in supporting and growing businesses, attracting foreign investment, and fostering innovation across various sectors
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Composable AI – build with Financial Services in mind. An interview with Covecta
Monday 09 December 2024
AI capabilities and AI agents are a potential game-changer for frontline teams in financial services providers. As Scott Wilson, Founder & CEO of Covecta explained at the 2024 edition of FTT AI Transformation in London, their exclusive focus on the financial services sector means that they understand the unique needs of providers when it comes
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