Designing for life: Embracing the lifecycle approach to financial services
Thursday 18 October 2018
FinTECHTalents is, at its core, driven by communities and what they can create. By bringing together our unique mix of technologist and innovators from the across the financial services, technology, design and academic sectors we aim to share ideas and catalyse new ones. The Customer First Stream on Day 2 of the Festival brings the
- Published in Ageing, Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, Future, Innovation, Start-ups
Jaroona aims to protect our blockchains
Thursday 18 October 2018
Christian Bacher, Co-Founder & CEO at Jaroona, talks us through how blockchain will offer ‘profound and diverse’ benefits to our society and how those benefits need protection from malicious vendors. While his technology is forward looking, Bacher’s beer is more traditional, preferring to savour a European draft lager. What does Jaroona do – what problem are you
- Published in AI, Blockchain, data protection, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, security
Segasec confronts the ‘never-ending’ chase of fraudsters
Wednesday 17 October 2018
Segasec aims to provide a proactive, consolidated, end-to-end protection from phishing, which can cost billions of dollars to enterprises and brands. When not combating fraudsters, the Segasec team sip whiskey, non-alcoholic beer and enjoy listening to winners of the Eurovision Song Contest. What does Segasec do – what problem are you solving? As a leading innovator
WORKSHOP – Tech Skills – Your Organisation’s Superpower or Achilles’ Heel?
Thursday 11 October 2018
Join Pluralsight and the FinTECHTalents community for the special breakout workshop at the Ultimate FinTech Festival! Where: Innovation Hub at Plexal (part of HereEast) When: 2:00 PM on October 31st (Day 2 of the Festival) Who: Denise Hudson Lawson, Advanced solutions architect, Pluralsight The ultimate challenge in today’s world is to find, hire, develop and
- Published in Change management, Diversity, Employment, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Talent
FinTech as an urgent, long-term business differentiator
Thursday 11 October 2018
Franck Vialaron, partner and co-founder at Expand Research looks to offer an independent view of the FinTech landscape both from an incumbent and new entrant perspective. While today’s environment offers an easier environment to set up tech ventures – many incumbent banks are feeling budgetary pressures and talent challenges that can stifle innovation. Finance and
- Published in Featured, Fintech, Future trends, Innovation, Partnerships, Start-ups
A digital identity platform for the mobile age
Wednesday 10 October 2018
Country music and red wine fan, Antonio Virzì seeks to turn Android & iOS smartphones into secure and easy-to-use personal devices that can replace traditional smart-card and token-based digital identities allowing users to easily authenticate online, authorise transactions, sign legal documents, provide consent and more. What does biid do – what problem are you solving?
- Published in data protection, Featured, Fintech, Identity, Innovation, Risk, Robotics, security
Talent for a transformative world
Thursday 04 October 2018
Tech talent that is agile and ready to change society are trained at Makers Academy as many industries are experiencing a huge gap in supply and demand for engineers who can work in an agile way. The organisation looks at welcoming over 1,500 technologists into the world, examines the reasons behind the loss of female
- Published in Agile methodology, Diversity, Employment, Featured, Fintech, Future, Innovation, Start-ups, Talent
Powering the future of payments
Wednesday 03 October 2018
While payments are often seen as a commoditised service – the reality in the back end is much more complex. Form3 talks us through providing payments as a service for financial institutions and regulated FinTechs. Payments processing isn’t a new sector – what sets Form3 apart? Form3 provides cloud-native, real-time payment technology to enable financial
- Published in Cloud banking, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Payments, Start-ups
How to be a moderator – a fool proof guide
Wednesday 03 October 2018
The first time I was asked to speak in public it was to moderate a panel. If I remember correctly, it was for an event on risk management held in Frankfurt. I was deep in the risk world at that time – it was the era of Basel II and super-fast Monte Carlo simulations. ‘FinTech’
- Published in AI, Blockchain, Blog, Featured, Fintech, Innovation
#NoBarStools
Thursday 27 September 2018
A few years ago, at a popular ‘FinTech innovation demo show’ in London, a Russian payments company brought out the scantily clad ‘Miss Russia’ to demonstrate how the audience could use their payments app to purchase her clothing line on the internet. Many people – men and women – in the audience were shocked. My
- Published in Blockchain, Blog, Customer Experience, Diversity, Featured, Fintech, Start-ups