What’s your GDPR status?
Tuesday 01 October 2019
Robert J Baugh, Founder & CEO, Keepabl announce their new partnership with Alpha Reply. I’m delighted to introduce Keepabl and Alpha Reply’s partnership, which brings a simple, practical and intuitive way for Alpha Reply’s customers of any type and size to get compliant and stay compliant, with GDPR. GDPR matters because non-compliance puts your organisation
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ING and CBA tackles MiFID II/MiFIR in seconds with Ascent
Tuesday 24 September 2019
ING and CBA Pinpoint MiFID-II/MiFIR Obligations in 2.5 Minutes Using Ascent. Regulatory compliance programs cost financial firms billions of dollars annually. Much of this cost is a result of the exhaustive amount of time required to manually analyze regulations and determine how it impacts the firm — a laborious process that starts all over again
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FinTech – A cause worth fighting for
Monday 05 August 2019
FinTech has been as much a response to changing public understandings of what a financial service can do for a client as it has anything. It was a new belief that traditional banks, advisors, investors just didn’t suit everyone’s needs. As engagement with the subject has risen, through budgeting apps, challenger banks and digitised investing,
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Once upon a time … in financial services
Thursday 01 August 2019
Ammar Akhtar, Yobota’s Co-Founder & CEO Fast growing FinTech company Yobata seeks to offer a cloud-based operating platform that will drag financial institutions out of the 1970s. What is Yobota – what problem are you solving? Yobota is a rapidly growing FinTech company in London. We have built a fast and flexible cloud-based operating platform for financial
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The people you see at conferences – Updated for 2019!
Wednesday 12 June 2019
Now that we are deep in Spring conference season – I thought I would update my ever popular #PeopleYouSeeAtConferences list. Now way longer than 10 items. I shall add in a few ‘suggestions from my pals on Twitter and add a few more from my travels around the FinTech universe. The old fogey who remembers
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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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Open Banking and building trust with FinTech innovation
Wednesday 22 May 2019
According to Lisa Terziman-Gutu, head of business development at Salt Edge once banks start implementing the Open Banking principles and providing services to end-customers in a new way, it will help to build trust toward the fintech innovations. You can meet Salt Edge as part of FinTech Stories stage at FinTECHTalents Generation 2019 Festival this
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The journey of partnership starts from within
Wednesday 22 May 2019
It was standing room only in HSBC’s headquarters in Canary Wharf for a special breakfast event during the inaugural UK FinTech Week in London. Hosted in partnership with the TECHTalents Society, Strategic Investments and Partnership in FinTech, offered insights into the journey of a bank. Raman Bhatia, Head of the HSBC Digital Bank in the
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Humanising Conversational Interfaces: Part 1.
Tuesday 09 April 2019
In a previous article “Human or Machine” I concluded that combining the simplicity of conversational interfaces – in the form of Messaging and AI powered chat bots – to drive understanding and prediction whilst also having humans in the loop to help with more complex tasks and make better informed decisions will be how enterprises
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The disruptive power of ladies voices
Wednesday 27 February 2019
This week a Facebook memory popped up at me. Five years ago, I was at Mobile World Congress – that annual mobile bun fight extravaganza in sunny Barcelona. I was due to interview a client of the company I was working with. He was older, a bit paunchy and American (hey, so am I). Before
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