The Metaverse and Me – What does it mean for Retailers
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Expanding to the US with creativity and innovation
Tuesday 28 January 2020
We sat down with Terry Gore, Director of Financial Services & FinTech at JobsOhio at FinTECHTalents 2019, where he talks about growing from a ‘scrappy startup’ to expanding to the US, the importance of soft skills and how Ohio is the place for creativity, the arts and music. Watch the video now: How important is
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Show me the (tokenised) money
Sunday 03 November 2019
I was listening to a panel about Security Tokens last week and couldn’t avoid thinking that I somehow time-travelled to 2029, scratching my head in an attempt to remember what Michael J Fox did to go back in time… While some of the content was deep, it generally felt like a(nother) missed opportunity to talk
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What does Deliveroo mean for banks?
Wednesday 03 July 2019
Speaking to HotTopics at FinTECHTalents 2018, Pol Navarro, CDO, TSB outlines his views on agile, collaboration and customer-focused teams. What does a productive culture look like? I think that for me when we think about culture it all starts with a customer. Especially thinking about how we can design products and services for customers in
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You need your ‘Tech’ in your ‘Fin’ (even if you don’t have to say it) Our community has spoken
Wednesday 29 May 2019
There is some debate over when the word ‘FinTech’ first came into use. I remember it being used in my New York office in the mid 1990s as a shortened, pre-hashtag, version of Financial Technology, there is evidence of a Sunday Times column from Peter Ridder that was called ‘FinTech’ in the mid 1980s, and
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Do we still need ‘FinTech’?
Wednesday 22 May 2019
At last week’s FinTECH4Life event Vica Manos, managing director at Anthemis Group commented that they do not use the term ‘FinTech’ inside their venture capital operation. “We say Financial Services and the tech is assumed,” she said. The reasons behind this decision in terminology is because our industry often has disparate and differing opinions on
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Rolling up your sleeves and getting involved
Wednesday 27 March 2019
I’m very inspired by the application of technology rather than the technology itself. For us, we’re looking at a whole range of where they can best help to serve our customers better. So what we were looking at is areas such as machine learning so that we can have real insight into how to better
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FinTech of the Week – Jaroona
Wednesday 06 March 2019
In the lead up to FinTECHTalents – Generation 2019 – every week we will showcase one of our awesome, inaugural FinTech Stories companies. Jaroona is the FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week This week we bring you – Jaroona. The JSN (Jaroona Security Node) is a revolutionary new blockchain node that acts as an automated, distributed
Can you engineer serendipity?
Thursday 07 February 2019
Sometime in the spring of 1995, I attended my first ever industry event at the New York Hilton. FinTech, as a word, was barely used (outside of our little office in Soho). The trade show was filled with trading turrets and real-time market data vendors. There were panel sessions, keynotes address and several floors of exhibitors.
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The collaboration journey started with a hackathon
Thursday 31 January 2019
Finastra ran its first internal hackathon in Paris, five years ago, says Chirine Bourgerie, Director Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Venture at Finastra, which sparked the company’s journey with fostering innovation through collaboration. Speaking at FinTECHTalents 2018, Bourgerie describes that first hackathon as “really amazing.” Finastra found that there were so many interesting ideas that emerged when the
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