The beer and the music are back – The Fintech Talents Festival 2021
Tuesday 11 May 2021
At the start of last year, we were six people sitting in a tiny office up a thousand flights of stairs on the north side of Bloomsbury Square. The 2020 Fintech Talents Festival was taking shape in the form of dozens upon dozens of post-it notes stuck to sheets of disposable white board smoothed across
The MacGyvers of community banking
Tuesday 13 April 2021
Another highlight from Fintech Talents North America – Lianna Brinded, Head of Yahoo Finance UK sat down with Jill Castilla, CEO of Citizens Bank of Edmond. It is a fascinating story of the 120-year-old, one branch Community Bank in Oklahoma and their journey from a troubled institution following the financial crisis to a model of
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Equality is not a women’s issue, it’s a business issue
Tuesday 09 March 2021
Over my tenure within the Financial Services industry, I continue to observe women finding their presence within this vertical, specifically in the Credit Union space. As we celebrate International Women’s Day, I appreciate an article, from CU Times last March which inspired a call to action for our industry to “challenge stereotypes, fight bias, broaden perceptions,
PPP partnership to support minority owned businesses
Tuesday 02 March 2021
Our partners at Boss Insights collaborated with Carver Federal Savings Bank and Paybby to deliver better outcomes for minority and female led businesses at speed. As Michael T. Pugh, CEO at Carver Federal Savings Bank notes, “More than 40% of black & brown businesses could be at risk for failure because of the pandemic, specifically
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Monzo, Bitcoin and COVID-19-FTT Bookmark Issue 1
Tuesday 26 January 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
If you were a FinTech genie in 2020, what wish would you grant?
Tuesday 08 December 2020
What was our wish? For a year that is far from normal, with many of us being socially isolated, our first ‘obvious’ choice would have been: To be able to meet people in person. As much as we have lamented the hassle of travel and as much as we appreciate the convenience of virtual conferences,
Building Banking for an Unknown Future – FTT Chats Episode 43
Tuesday 01 December 2020
Elliot Limb, Chief Customer Officer at Mambu joined us for our ongoing series – FTT Chats – where we sit down with the great and the good of FinTech to discuss innovation, new entrants, and emerging technologies. We chatted about ‘knowns and unknowns’ in the future of banking and reflected on the accelerated adoption of digital solutions
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Fintech: Key to Driving Financial Wellness, But NOT the Only Key
Tuesday 03 November 2020
During FTT Building Societies on 21st October, there was one issue of great importance which discussion continued to circle back to. As the mutual banking sector navigates an acceleration towards digital, it is important to acknowledge that innovation is not an end in itself. For Building Societies, new technologies should always be implemented with the
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US Elections, FinTech innovation and showing your story
Tuesday 03 November 2020
My husband crept into bed at 3:00 am on a Wednesday morning four years ago. I was half asleep and vaguely aware of the movement of the mattress and the creaks in the bed. “Don’t wake up,” he whispered in a dark, quiet voice. My eyes flew open. Staying up all night during a general
Is ESG a ‘nice to have’ or a ‘need to have’ in 2020? – The FTT Snapshot Survey Returns!
Tuesday 06 October 2020
We at FinTECHTalents like to keep our fingers on the pulse and our noses to the wind to find out our community concerns, what our FinTech leaders are discussing and what our industry is holding up for debate. Never one to reduce our touch points we are re-launching our FTT Snapshot Surveys – a bi-monthly