The stories that make up FinTech continue at FinTECHTalents
Wednesday 12 June 2019
“I’ve seen more startups do more demos on stage than most people should see in their lifetime,” says Liz Lumley, architect of the FinTECHTalents Festival to Christophe Langiois, CMO of The FinTech Power 50 in an interview at Barclays Rise this spring. However, that first contact, those first stirrings when you listen to a founder
Having your coffee and saving too
Wednesday 29 May 2019
If wealth is not to remain something for the wealthy, the key is to understand consumers better, get them to engage with their money and drive better financial well being through behaviour change. Given the link between money and mental health – money worries being the key source of stress for the majority of people
- Published in Ageing, Customer Experience, Employment, Featured, Fintech, FinTECH4Life, FinTECHTalents, Regulations, Risk, Start-ups
You need your ‘Tech’ in your ‘Fin’ (even if you don’t have to say it) Our community has spoken
Wednesday 29 May 2019
There is some debate over when the word ‘FinTech’ first came into use. I remember it being used in my New York office in the mid 1990s as a shortened, pre-hashtag, version of Financial Technology, there is evidence of a Sunday Times column from Peter Ridder that was called ‘FinTech’ in the mid 1980s, and
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Blockchain, Customer Experience, Cyber security, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Fun, Innovation, Payments, RegTech, Start-ups
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
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Blog, Customer Experience, Diversity, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Partnership, Payments, Start-ups, TECHTalents Society
FusionOne Hackathon
Wednesday 15 May 2019
FinTECHTalents, Finastra, Microsoft and Accenture are running our first Open Banking hackathon this weekend 17-19 of May. Finastra will be opening-up the data from multiple APIs (retail banking, payment, corporate banking, capital markets…), that you can check here: FusionFabric.cloud API catalog and we will have mentors on-site from FinTECHTalents, Finastra, Microsoft, Accenture and others, including machine
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Customer Experience, Cyber security, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Payments, Press, Security
Talent can create big things
Monday 13 May 2019
Pol Navarro, Chief Digital Officer at TSB talks about how banks can attract new talent by offering frameworks that allow them to change the rules and make big impacts immediately. “We think that the future of financial services will be about a combination of talent from different sources. People that understand banking and know how
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, AITECHTalents, Customer Experience, CyberTECHTalents, Diversity, Employment, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Start-ups, Talent
FinTech of the Week – Riskinnov
Wednesday 08 May 2019
In the lead up to FinTECHTalents – Generation 2019 – every week we will showcase one of our awesome, inaugural FinTech Stories companies. Riskinnov is the FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week This week we bring you – Riskinnov. Riskinnov provides risk analysis, assessment and forecasting and helps you assessing the risks you are and/or will
- Published in Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, FinTech of the Week, FinTECHTalents, Regulations, Risk, Start-ups
Infographic from Sensibill: How the self-employed can drive banking revenue in the UK
Wednesday 08 May 2019
You can meet Sensibill at this year’s FinTECHTalents Festival – Generation 2019 in November.
- Published in Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Payments, Start-ups
FinTech of the Week – Be-IQ
Wednesday 24 April 2019
In the lead up to FinTECHTalents – Generation 2019 – every week we will showcase one of our awesome, inaugural FinTech Stories companies. Be-IQ is the FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week This week we bring you – Be-IQ. Be-IQ are financial behaviour specialists, combining cutting-edge academic and scientific research to create a multi award winning
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, FinTech of the Week, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Start-ups
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
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, AITECHTalents, Blog, Customer Experience, Featured, FinTECHTalents, Start-ups