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The rise of “The Embedders”
Tuesday 29 June 2021
The rise of “The Embedders’ When Walmart, the world’s largest company by revenue, announced earlier this year they are planning to launch their own fintech start-up and hired two Goldman Sachs veterans, it became clear this conglomerate is preparing to become a major force in the financial sector. In an industry like retail, where razor thin
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Credit unions & fintechs: How to create a more perfect union
Tuesday 22 June 2021
Are credit unions and fintechs friends, competitors or collaborators? Fintech Talents North America brought together an impressive panel of innovative leaders from credit unions to explore how they can create beneficial working partnerships with innovative fintechs to the benefit of both their organizations and, crucially, their end customers and communities. The pandemic upended many of
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The only digital identity news you need to know
Tuesday 22 June 2021
There have been some major news stories in the world of identity over the past few weeks. The Tokyo 2020 organisation announced contactless, real-time face recognition will be used at this year’s Olympic games. In the UK, the extent of public anxiety and confusion over the use of medical identity data became clear, as the
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Sometimes a nudge is not enough – FTT Bookmark Issue 21
Tuesday 22 June 2021
Your weekly resource for noteworthy news, fascinating features, and fintech titbits that caught our eye. Whether you live by your Twitter lists, save your Google Alerts or simply scroll through LinkedIn for insights and commentary – there is a wealth of content that weaves a global story around fintech. Our job at Fintech Talents is
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Retooling branches for the future
Tuesday 22 June 2021
The scale and pace of bank branch closures over the past decade has been unprecedented. Once the heart of thriving communities, building societies and banks are rapidly becoming a thing of the past in hundreds of towns and villages. According to a Which analysis, almost 4,300 physical bank branches have closed since the beginning of
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Not afraid of the hard things – Fintech Leaders Series
Tuesday 22 June 2021
Leaders build companies and create products and inspire teams in large and small organizations in many different sectors around the world. They are the type of people that not only produce great results but attract and retain talent that go on serve as great leaders themselves. Who are those people in fintech? What drove them
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A glimpse of the future in a teenagers bedroom
Tuesday 15 June 2021
My 16th year old son has a small group of besties he talks to every day. One girl lives in Newcastle, another boy lives in Kent (and goes to his school) and a third is based in Atlanta, Georgia – a state his American mother has never been to. This is a group my son
What makes a fintech leader?
Tuesday 15 June 2021
Nary a day goes by without a hashtag heavy LinkedIn post or Twitter thread extolling the wisdom of a ‘great leader’. You have all seen them – ‘Here are the five things Jeff Bezos does before the sun come up’; ‘These are the three books Warren Buffet says you should have read by now’ and
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The great impostor – Tackling tech impostor syndrome
Tuesday 15 June 2021
When we were young, we relished the opportunity to pretend to be someone else. Perhaps you were a fan of playing astronaut. Or pretending you were a wizard at Halloween when you were wee. Or later when you pretended to be older and more grown up to sneak into an older rated film. Don’t worry,
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Is digital identity the key to greater financial inclusion?
Tuesday 08 June 2021
Despite decades of financial inclusion efforts, barriers preventing access to financial services continue to exist for individuals across the globe. One such critical barrier, is the lack of an official, foundational form of identification. An estimated one billion people worldwide are unable to prove their identity, while millions more have forms of ID that cannot
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