Having your coffee and saving too

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
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You need your ‘Tech’ in your ‘Fin’ (even if you don’t have to say it) Our community has spoken

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
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The talent pool should be an ocean

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

Finastra FusionONE Hack – The community gathers to collaborate

FinTECHTalents supported our partner Finastra as they welcomed over 20 teams to spend the weekend at their London headquarters as part of their Open Banking Hackathon. Both internal Finastra teams joined with several teams from external organisations to develop, build and then showcase their creations, using APIs from the FusionONE platform, during a live demo
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Do we still need ‘FinTech’?

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
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Open Banking and building trust with FinTech innovation

According to Lisa Terziman-Gutu, head of business development at Salt Edge once banks start implementing the Open Banking principles and providing services to end-customers in a new way, it will help to build trust toward the fintech innovations. You can meet Salt Edge as part of FinTech Stories stage at FinTECHTalents Generation 2019 Festival this
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The journey of partnership starts from within

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
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FinTech of the Week – Form3

In the lead up to FinTECHTalents – Generation 2019 – every week we will showcase one of our awesome, inaugural FinTech Stories companies. Form3 is the FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week This week we bring you – Form3. The Form3 Financial Cloud is a flexible cloud-based platform for complete end-to-end processing of payments. Visit their
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FusionOne Hackathon

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
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The smart way to enter the US

Members of the FinTech community gathered for a breakfast roundtable, at the picturesque Somerset House in London, to discuss the ins and outs of expanding into the United States. Sponsored by JobsOhio, Go West, Young Startup – The launchpad for US success, was part of the TECHTalents Society roundtable series, held during the inaugural UK
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