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.
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
- Published in Content, Fintech, FinTECHTalents
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
- Published in Content, Embedded Finance, Fintech
Cryptocurrency: Europe’s untapped market opportunity
Tuesday 01 February 2022
Redefining your business model
Tuesday 01 February 2022
As banks globally undertake digital banking transformations, embedded finance is a fast-growing trend that many non-financial companies have begun implementing within their own strategies – but what are the best practices to get this done properly? At FTT Embedded Finance UK & Europe 2021, our rockstar panellists argued about the different approaches to enhancing value
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Credit cards that go beyond transactions
Tuesday 01 February 2022
Just as many traditional financial institutions are being forced to improve their conventional product offering due to the innovations made by Fintech companies and start-ups, credit card lenders are also set for disruption. In the more than 55 years since Barclays launched the first credit card in the UK, the financial ecosystem has shifted dramatically.
Taking financial services everywhere
Tuesday 25 January 2022
“Banking is necessary, but banks are not” Bill Gates’ 1994 famous quote is the realisation of the concept of embedded finance: The integration of financial services that are adopted by non-financial institutions. At FTT Embedded Finance UK & Europe 2021, our panel of rockstar speakers debated the big questions in embedded finance: How can we
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5 ways to improve the mortgage process
Tuesday 25 January 2022
Consumer preference around communication and experience has shifted to digital across many sectors, including mortgage lending. Certain technologies will be crucial to keeping financial service providers relevant to the next generation of borrowers. An analysis by Which? showed an average of 60 UK bank branches were closed every month in 2021. Banks say this has