Digital Builders as the driving force behind FinTech innovation – FTT Chats Episode 42
Thursday 26 November 2020
Ian Johnson, MD (Europe), Marqeta joins us for our ongoing series – FTT Chats – where we sit down with the great and the good of FinTech to discuss innovation, new entrants, and emerging technologies. In this chat Ian discusses the role of Digital Builders as the catalyst for the API economy, embedded finance, and Open Banking.
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This is Lending 3.0
Tuesday 24 November 2020
A bank is a regulated entity that takes deposits and offers loans. It was the lucrative nature of the latter part of a bank’s remit that allowed financial institutions to offer the former to consumers at a relatively low cost. But that was the old world – a world of balancing cheque books, inconvenient branch
Influencers – What are they good for?
Tuesday 24 November 2020
I can hear the chorus from Twitterati now: ‘Absolutely nothing!’ But I wanted to take a step back and examine – without ego or bias – what role people who have a flair for communication and a significant social media following play in an industry like FinTech. We all know what ‘influencer’ means in the
What’s your view on the UK FinTech Review? – an FTT Snapshot Survey
Tuesday 17 November 2020
We at FinTECHTalents like to keep our fingers on the pulse and our noses to the wind to find out our community concerns, what our FinTech leaders are discussing and what our industry is holding up for debate. Never one to reduce our touch points our FTT Snapshot Surveys are a bi-monthly Big Question to gather the
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FinTech’s Rich Pageant – Defining FinTech is becoming broader and more varied
Tuesday 10 November 2020
As long as there have been financial products, there have been tools, procedures and services needed to create, manage, and deliver those products. Whether it is a telegraph machine, spitting out a ticker tape on Wall Street in the 1930s or a Python developer creating simple and complex, but not complicated, code to build a
Data, credit, customers and Open Finance – How the industry is fine tuning our financial futures
Tuesday 10 November 2020
US Elections, FinTech innovation and showing your story
Tuesday 03 November 2020
My husband crept into bed at 3:00 am on a Wednesday morning four years ago. I was half asleep and vaguely aware of the movement of the mattress and the creaks in the bed. “Don’t wake up,” he whispered in a dark, quiet voice. My eyes flew open. Staying up all night during a general
Let us define FinTech – One more time – An FTT Snapshot Survey
Tuesday 03 November 2020
We know that many of you had some difficulty accessing our latest bi-monthly Big Question Snapshot Survey the other week. Rest assured our FinTECHTalents gremlins have been banished and our helpful elves have fixed our access issues. We are not one to deny our community a voice. So we are re-launching this ‘Define FinTech’ Snapshot
Anne and Tom – My part in their breakup*
Tuesday 27 October 2020
An email landed early in 2015 from my superior at the daily newswire where I worked. It read: ‘It looks like your agenda is unravelling’ and linked to a news article. I was putting together a FinTech event and had booked both veteran banker, Anne Boden, and FinTech entrepreneur, Tom Blomfield, as speakers. Their topic?
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FTT Virtual Nordics – Where Identity Ruled and the World Discussed
Tuesday 27 October 2020
During FTT Virtual Nordics on 14th October, many aspects of innovation, specific to the region, were discussed. As a collection of smaller countries, the Nordics have a long history of collaboration and partnership between nations. The importance of building strong infrastructure and foundations was also discussed and mentioned in several panels on the day, from