Fintech
FinTech (financial technology) is a catch-all term referring to software, mobile applications, and other technologies created to improve and automate traditional forms of finance for businesses and consumers alike.
Finding your next big adventure – Fintech Leaders Series
Tuesday 29 June 2021
Leaders build companies and create products and inspire teams in large and small organizations in many different sectors around the world. They are the type of people that not only produce great results but attract and retain talent that go on serve as great leaders themselves. Who are those people in Fintech? What drove them
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Everything you think you know about Fintech is false
Tuesday 29 June 2021
I tell the story of ‘My first hackathon’ often. It lives as the intro to a keynote address, I give called ‘The Fintech Mindset’. Quite simply, the story goes like this: A PR friend of mine invites me to ‘London’s first payments hackathon’ at Google Campus in East London. Now, I had no idea what
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The rise of “The Embedders”
Tuesday 29 June 2021
The rise of “The Embedders’ When Walmart, the world’s largest company by revenue, announced earlier this year they are planning to launch their own fintech start-up and hired two Goldman Sachs veterans, it became clear this conglomerate is preparing to become a major force in the financial sector. In an industry like retail, where razor thin
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Credit unions & fintechs: How to create a more perfect union
Tuesday 22 June 2021
Are credit unions and fintechs friends, competitors or collaborators? Fintech Talents North America brought together an impressive panel of innovative leaders from credit unions to explore how they can create beneficial working partnerships with innovative fintechs to the benefit of both their organizations and, crucially, their end customers and communities. The pandemic upended many of
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The only digital identity news you need to know
Tuesday 22 June 2021
There have been some major news stories in the world of identity over the past few weeks. The Tokyo 2020 organisation announced contactless, real-time face recognition will be used at this year’s Olympic games. In the UK, the extent of public anxiety and confusion over the use of medical identity data became clear, as the
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Sometimes a nudge is not enough – FTT Bookmark Issue 21
Tuesday 22 June 2021
Your weekly resource for noteworthy news, fascinating features, and fintech titbits that caught our eye. Whether you live by your Twitter lists, save your Google Alerts or simply scroll through LinkedIn for insights and commentary – there is a wealth of content that weaves a global story around fintech. Our job at Fintech Talents is
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Retooling branches for the future
Tuesday 22 June 2021
The scale and pace of bank branch closures over the past decade has been unprecedented. Once the heart of thriving communities, building societies and banks are rapidly becoming a thing of the past in hundreds of towns and villages. According to a Which analysis, almost 4,300 physical bank branches have closed since the beginning of
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Not afraid of the hard things – Fintech Leaders Series
Tuesday 22 June 2021
Leaders build companies and create products and inspire teams in large and small organizations in many different sectors around the world. They are the type of people that not only produce great results but attract and retain talent that go on serve as great leaders themselves. Who are those people in fintech? What drove them
- Published in Blog, Community & Events, Content, Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Interviews, Start-ups
Goldman Sach’s CEO to DJ at Fintech Talents Festival (that is a lie) – FTT Bookmark Issue 20
Tuesday 15 June 2021
Your weekly resource for noteworthy news, fascinating features, and fintech titbits that caught our eye. Whether you live by your Twitter lists, save your Google Alerts or simply scroll through LinkedIn for insights and commentary – there is a wealth of content that weaves a global story around fintech. Our job at Fintech Talents is
- Published in Embedded Finance, Featured, Fintech, Innovation
Decentralised identity in banking – The chicken and the egg, or the hare and the tortoise?
Tuesday 15 June 2021
Designing digital identity to meet high levels of trust, while ensuring credentials are interoperable, portable and protect the holder’s personal data, is no easy task. Customers are becoming more and more aware of their online identities, they want security, data privacy and control. On many occasions, when verifying your identity online you are really verifying
- Published in Featured, Fintech, Identity, Innovation