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Payhawk – freeing up CFOs to focus on what’s really important

Thursday 15 January 2026 by Lisa Moyle

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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Tagged under: AgenticAI, ai, CFO, financial tools, innovation, Office of Finance, spend management, Splash

From automation to agentic AI with Rohit Dhawan, Lloyds Banking Group

Monday 05 January 2026 by Micha Paramitha

Authority, autonomy, and outcomes At FTT Fintech Festival, we had the opportunity to speak with Rohit Dhawan, Director and Group Head of AI & Advanced Analytics at Lloyds Banking Group, to discuss the practical realities of leading AI strategy, governance, and execution at enterprise scale. Rohit leads the group-wide AI strategy, sets the roadmap, and

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Tagged under: AgenticAI, ai, FTT AI Transformation, Governance, Splash

The power of a unified payments ecosystem with PayDo

Tuesday 16 December 2025 by Lisa Moyle

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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Tagged under: Business banking, cross border payments, multicurrency payments, Payments, Splash

Northern Ireland Fintech: Where six degrees of separation shrink to two

Thursday 11 December 2025 by Lisa Moyle

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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Tagged under: fintech, fintech hubs, FTT Fintech Festival, Invest Northern Ireland, Regtech, Splash

Stablecoins – what are they good for? Actually, quite a bit.

Tuesday 09 December 2025 by Lisa Moyle

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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Tagged under: blockchain, digital currency, Regulation, Splash, stablecoins

Governing AI that works with Paul Dongha, Head of Responsible AI and AI Strategy at Natwest

Tuesday 02 December 2025 by Micha Paramitha

How organisations build AI they can trust At FTT Fintech Festival, we had the opportunity to speak with Paul Dongha, Head of Responsible AI and AI Strategy at NatWest, about what it takes to establish robust AI governance in modern organisations. Paul explained that governance is ultimately about enabling organisations to deploy AI systems with