In conversation with Velexa at FTT Embedded Finance & Super Apps 2022
Tuesday 03 May 2022
On 26th April our community of innovators and industry leaders, including retailers, manufacturers, financial institutions, insurers, telcos, fintechs and tech providers gathered at FTT Embedded Finance & Super Apps, where we delved into the technologies, innovations and trends that are defining the future of how financial services are devised and distributed. During the day, our
The Metaverse and Me – What does it mean for Retailers
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Embedded Insurance – Narrowing the protection gap
Tuesday 15 March 2022
According to the FCA’s Financial Lives 2020 survey, 53% of the UK’s population surveyed responded as not having insurance products. This difference between the volume of insurance that is economically beneficial for society and the volume of coverage that is actually purchased, is defined as the protection gap. The impact of this protection gap translates
International Women’s Day #BreakTheBias
Tuesday 08 March 2022
Lisa Moyle, Chief Strategy Officer, VC Innovations International Women’s Day is a great way to focus minds and take stock of where we are as a society and an industry when it comes to gender equality. In reality, as a business, that is a question that we ask ourselves, in one form or another, every
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In conversation with Alex Reddish, Tribe Payments at FTT Embedded Finance 2021
Tuesday 01 March 2022
At FTT Embedded Finance UK & Europe 2021, we interviewed Alex Reddish, Managing Director at Tribe Payments, a B2B UK fintech providing app-based banking and payments services. Founded in 2018, Tribe it is the first processor to enable its clients to harness open banking without building their own APIs. Alex shared his thoughts on the
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Bitcoins, stablecoins and [meme] coins
Tuesday 15 February 2022
There are many ways in which this panel embodied the spirit of 2021. The topic, of course, had been grabbing headlines across the year. Our panellists faced issues with travel, positive Covid tests and remote working challenges. In other words, de rigueur for the times. Last minute changes, however, didn’t diminish the quality of the
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The strategic view – open is the only way ahead
Tuesday 15 February 2022
Understanding open finance as a strategic direction will be critical for financial institutions who want to stay relevant. But is open finance the only realistic strategy given the way financial services has changed? Our panel – The strategic view: open is the only way ahead, sat down on the FTT Open Finance stage at the
Emerging tech – Evolving FinServ
Tuesday 08 February 2022
What’s more exciting than emerging technology? Emily Nicolle, then Fintech Correspondent with Financial News (she’s since moved to Bloomberg as a Crypto Blogger) , led a panel at the Fintech Talents Festival of what she termed incumbents (does google fall into that category now?) to discuss how the pace of technology change has accelerated over
Trust, transparency and citizen ID – Future Identity on-demand
Tuesday 01 February 2022
When it comes to digital identity, we talk a lot about cybersecurity, online avatars, and cryptographic credentials… It can sometimes be easy to overlook something crucial, that fundamentally a digital identity is attached to a human being. At the Future Identity and Fintech Talents festival, sessions explored in depth how to make the digital world a
Open banking and the lifelong financial journey
Tuesday 01 February 2022
Until 2018, every stage of the customer’s financial journey was typically owned by traditional banks. Regulation opened competition by requiring banks to share customer’s data to third parties of the customer’s choice. Open finance has granted entry into the market for new players, and fintechs are digitising processes at one or more stages of the
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