What’s on at FinTECHTalents – Series 117

What’s on at FinTECHTalents the week of August 12th, 2020 Watch the video now
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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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FTT Virtual North America – Innovation in your backyard

Across North America there are over 10,000 community banks and credit unions, serving a broad range of communities (from farmers to metropolitan residents) with a diverse range of needs. Embedded in their communities and with deep knowledge of the customers that they serve, do these institutions have the potential to become the true innovative and
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Building Societies: The Digital Challengers?

While the UK banking community debates the competitiveness and viability of new FinTech entrants, challenger banks and innovative, customer-focused product offerings – real disruption to the industry may emerge from an established and long-standing group – Building Societies. While the FinTech revolution evolves and matures, the overarching aim is to deliver better outcomes to end
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In a Post- Pandemic Apocalypse, the Financial Newsroom Continues to Adapt

Much like the rest of the world, the media landscape is changing in front of our eyes. The shift to digital media has long been in flight and broader trends such as cable-cutting and mobile device reliance, means that news consumption via digital mediums will continue to skyrocket. There is no shortage of content and
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No, you can’t fake it til you make it with digital – FTT Chats Episode 24

Jim Marous, Co-publisher of the Financial Brand, Owner & CEO of the Digital Banking Report and Host of Banking Transformed 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, Marous discusses how the
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What’s on at FinTECHTalents – Series 116

What’s on at FinTECHTalents the week of August 5th Watch the video now
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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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Once Relegated as a Corporate Expense, Diversity & Inclusion is Now a Matter of Survival

Diversity and Inclusion has become a buzzword in corporate America, on trend with phrases like “’lean in’ and ‘having a seat at the table’.  No matter how well-intentioned these phrases and buzzwords are, they have done little to progress true diversity and inclusion for women, minorities, and people of colour in the workplace. If we’ve
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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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