Build Back Better – Purpose and Values Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, I focused on tackling Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), as this is an appropriate place to start when considering how to build back better. Encouragingly, this past week also saw several announcements on ESG by financial services companies – Tandem Bank acquired green lender Allium, HSBC set up a
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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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Creative destruction: Can ethics be hardwired into technology? – FTT Chats Episode 28

Watch the video now!  Katia Walsh, Chief Strategy and AI Officer, Levi Strauss 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. We spoke to Katia Walsh about her unique role at Levi Strauss which
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Build Back Better – Part 1

As the coronavirus pandemic took a grip on our world back in April 2020, I was listening to a popular FinTech podcast and was struck by a quote from John Hope Bryant, CEO of Operation Hope: “This is a global reset of our virtues and our values and a chance for us to get it
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Lost In Books – Our Recommended Reads This Summer

For most, if not all of us, 2020 has been anything but normal. From global pandemic to recession; from sudden onset of remote work and virtual learning, we have been busy dealing with what life has thrown at us. In times of chaos and uncertainty, books can serve as a refuge. To understand how to
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Will every company become a FinTech Company?

Our world is full of pithy one-liners and Tweet-worthy phrases. We’ve all been to conferences where we have heard: ‘Innovate or die’ or ‘Ignore the HiPPOs’ or ‘We’re just a technology company with a banking licence.’ Many of these well-worn keynote fillers have roots in real life case studies, lessons from the trenches of innovation
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When will banks stop worrying and learn to love Open Source?

Over 20 years ago Eric Raymond wrote a philosophical essay on a technical subject – software engineering. His story centred on two distinct styles of development: The Cathedral, where software is carefully and quietly crafted by individuals within an isolated, mostly secret development team. And The Bazaar, where chaotic, babbling open source development, miraculously coherent
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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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FinTech is …

Thanks to the cosy world of ‘FinTech Influencers’, I learned that August 1st was ‘World FinTech Day’ (thank you, Dave Birch). Whether or not Hallmark is aware of this date in the calendar was less interesting to me than the reason the date was chosen. Back in 1464, Cosimo Medici, father of modern banking and
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Open Banking – North American Style

Open Banking is taking shape in different ways across North America. From driving the development of new providers to enabling existing institutions to keep pace with a fast changing industry, the impact on financial services is significant. As the current crisis demonstrates, the swift change in the economic outlook and the situation of consumers and
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