What’s on at FinTECHTalents? Series 108
Tuesday 02 June 2020
What’s on at FinTECHTalents this week?
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Until we meet again, let’s meet now
Tuesday 02 June 2020
My mother in the US often comments to me: “Oh my, if this was 100 years ago, you would’ve left on a boat and that would have been it. We would just be waiting for a few written letters a year.” I was born in the US. I moved to the UK in 1997 to
Build, buy or access – creating future proof infrastructure
Tuesday 19 May 2020
Digital transformation is, demonstrably, a job not yet done. Put that alongside a large contingent of technologically nimble new entrants and you have the seeds for a shakeup of the financial services industry in the ways in which it goes about building or re-tooling its digital foundations. In an increasingly competitive industry in which the
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Innovation in a pandemic: Why have incumbents not gone Digital Only?
Tuesday 12 May 2020
Coronavirus has dialled up the urgency for digital only banking. However don’t be fooled by the excitement, digital only banking is starting to gain momentum yes but it will take a few more years before we see a truly cashless world. Typically, startups and medium size financial institutions hold their data on modern digital platforms
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The Future of Work will be a Human Experience
Tuesday 05 May 2020
The robots are coming… Artificial intelligence is replacing manual work… Business meetings will take place in an augmented reality… We’ve all seen the headlines about what the future of work might look like. Last year, the Office for National Statistics in the UK estimated that 7.4% of jobs are at high risk of being automated
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Bank Survival — It’s All About the Ecosystem
Tuesday 05 May 2020
At the end of last year, FinTECHTalents partners Aperture met with some leading experts to understand their view on the future of financial services. One message kept reoccurring; unity is key for survival. Collaboration for greater power “An ecosystem chain of services that are interconnected will be very powerful and we’ll start to see new
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COVID-19 and the Digital Divide
Tuesday 28 April 2020
Social distancing, and for some complete isolation, has elevated the importance of digital inclusion. As we have all experienced, the need to rein in our physical interactions has nudged or rather shoved us into the online world for an ever-broadening range of daily activities. The sense of urgency is real and moves to a level
Digital Identity: a nut that remains to be cracked
Tuesday 21 April 2020
Covid-19 is accelerating digital lives at a speed that could not have been (or certainly was not) predicted even a few months back and confirming ‘who’ we are in the digital world has become critically important. Digital identity has been discussed for many years as the missing infrastructure as the internet and the businesses built
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When disruption came wrapped in a big red bow
Tuesday 21 April 2020
A few years ago, I found myself engaged in one of my more frequent activities. Having a drink with a banker. Sitting in Helsinki with a lovely glass of wine, the banker turned to me and asked: ‘So, Liz – take a guess on what was the most significant date in corporate banking in the
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Seven ‘Top Tips’ for Success
Tuesday 14 April 2020
You might think it strange that we are offering ‘Seven Top Tips for Success’ in this time of lockdowns, social distancing, and global crisis. However, when COVID-19 started becoming something we could not ignore, we began to ask some serious questions about our business and product offerings. We concluded that what we do, and what