Wouldn’t it be great to #AskaRockStar your most pressing questions? We think so as well. I mentioned last week that most people go to events to learn something and/or to network (and they rarely get both). While our community managers are busy working on the connections being scheduled for the FinTECHTalents – we thought we

A thought provoking blog post from Gabriel Turner, Product Manager, iProov. Presentation Attack Detection or “PAD” is increasingly a hot topic within the biometrics industry. While this is definitely a step in the right direction, cyber-thieves are still diligently exploiting security gaps in identity proofing and strong customer authentication. Exclusive focus on presentation attacks alone

Over the Summer season, we here at FinTECHTalents placed several members of our Steering Committee in the hot seat and asked them to comment on some of the major themes we will explore as part of the Festival in November. Find out whether our community feels technology, on its own, can inspire and determine if

Verifying who you are doing business with has become more challenging. 123signed was developed to fully automate the entire verification process of KYC via a simple single integration, accessing numerous global KYC databases. What is 123signed – what problem are you solving? 123signed is automating the very complex environment of corporate and consumer onboarding and

Our friends from Sensibill made you a flowchart to find out. Thanks to Silicon Valley, we have plenty of examples of what it means to not have an ethical data culture. Uber’s “God View”; Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal; Google’s hacked Nest cams. And while hefty fines and public outcries are helping drive some change, it’s

I wandered around the exhibition hall of a FinTech conference, late last year. It doesn’t really matter which one – I have attended, covered, organised and spoken at so many of these events over the years – many of them combine into one generic spectacle. The speakers on the agenda include the head of digital

Powered by naturally sweetened cola and a passion for creating comfort for the end user, iProov aims to offer secure and simple solutions for online identity. In a world of manipulated photos and masks, deep fake video and replay attacks iProov is trying bring back a level of trust in the digital world. What is iProov –

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

“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

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