Don’t trust anyone in FinTech who tells you not to trust anyone over 30

Athena was the goddess of wisdom in Greek Mythology. We all know wisdom comes with experience. Knowing that I have always been puzzled by the nature of her (mythical) birth. Athena only had one parent – and wasn’t really born at all. She didn’t play as a child. She didn’t have a stroppy adolescence. She
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What does the future hold for FinTech in North America?

Have we accomplished what we set out to do more than a decade ago? Have we altered the financial services landscape? Did we actually change the narrative? Financial technology, implemented thoughtfully, can act as a gateway to include more unbanked and underbanked within the formal financial services system. It can help serve people better, providing
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Finding Your Heart

In the Future of Work will be a Human Experience, I ended with a rallying call that appeared to resonate (it was the most shared quote from that article): “Let’s put humans at the heart of why we do everything we do.” According to Steve Jobs, “”Remembering that you are going to die is the
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Parenting and COVID-19: A reflection on inequality based on assumptions from a distant past

The assumption made by U.S. CEOs, CIOs, policy makers, and politicians is that back-to-work and back-to-school orders exist in a vacuum — or rather in 1953. The ‘all clear’ to go back to work and school on modified or hybrid models assumes there is a caretaker at home at all times, flexible and adaptable to
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Four Ways to Rethink Social Media in the Financial Services Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic has done more than shake up the way we live our daily lives. It’s magnified major gaps in the financial services industry, particularly how financial institutions connect, engage, and communicate with customers online through social media. Before the pandemic, banks and credit unions leveraged social media marketing to some extent. A 2019
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Hope, Humanity and FinTech – A Community Gathers in FTT Virtual / Spring

We launched FinTECHTalents Virtual / Spring with an over arching mission – to try and gather our FinTech community in an online space that was interesting, engaging and interactive. We counted ourselves lucky that we weren’t in an environment where we had to rush to migrate a previous physical event onto the internet. That is
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What’s on at FinTECHTalents?

What’s on at FinTECHTalents this week?
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Breaking down the barriers for better retirement – FTT Chats Episode 8

Alistair McQueen, Head of Savings & Retirement at Aviva PLC  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 FTT Chat, McQueen discusses supporting customers in their retirement with better language, the potential of
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Bank Survival — It’s All About the Ecosystem

At the end of last year, FinTECHTalents partners Aperture met with some leading experts to understand their view on the future of financial services. One message kept reoccurring; unity is key for survival. Collaboration for greater power “An ecosystem chain of services that are interconnected will be very powerful and we’ll start to see new
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A Five Generation Workplace

Populations that are both living and working longer are having a profound impact on the workplace. As many of us sit in our homes working instead of our offices, it is clear to us that the world of work is changing. Although a pandemic has necessitated and accelerated remote working arrangements, it is worth remembering
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