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

The team at VC Innovations had a full week during UK FinTech Week in London at the end of May. In between chairing sessions at the Innovate Finance Global Summit, hosting a breakfast event with HSBC and then an exclusive roundtable with JobsOhio, our Liz Lumley managed to spend a few minutes with our friends

At last week’s FinTECH4Life event Vica Manos, managing director at Anthemis Group commented that they do not use the term ‘FinTech’ inside their venture capital operation. “We say Financial Services and the tech is assumed,” she said. The reasons behind this decision in terminology is because our industry often has disparate and differing opinions on

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

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

As most of us start to plan our chocolate egg collection – we are sad to announce that there has been a burglary at TECHTalents Towers. On the eve of Pancake Day in the UK  (that’s Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras or Carnival to the rest of you) we were invaded by some Mad Bunnies. These

An audience member stood up to ask a question of the opening panel of the PowerCARD User Conference organised by HPS in Marrakesh last week. The panel, which featured Abdeslam Alaoui Smaili, CEO of HPS, and Jeroen Holscher, head of global payments practice, Capgemini, focused on new trends in the payments arena. The talk touched

In the lead up to FinTECHTalents – Generation 2019 – every week we will showcase one of our awesome, inaugural FinTech Stories companies. Pushfor is the FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week This week we bring you – Pushfor. Pushfor allows users to protect, control and securely share any content to any device, with realtime analytics

This International Women’s Day we decided to highlight some of our awesome Steering Committee members. We wanted to find out what they thought of robots, hear about some of the great projects they are working on as well as see whether the dreams they had as little girls match the professional lives they live today.

In the lead up to FinTECHTalents – Generation 2019 – every week we will showcase one of our awesome, inaugural FinTech Stories companies. Jaroona is the FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week This week we bring you – Jaroona.  The JSN (Jaroona Security Node) is a revolutionary new blockchain node that acts as an automated, distributed