Is lending the key to COVID recovery?
Tuesday 19 January 2021
Disruption, stress tests, market shocks – none of these words and phrases are unfamiliar to those who work in financial services. However, reading an academic paper from a leading business school or listening to a buzzy keynote address is very different from living through the events that underpin these words. The 2020 global pandemic, caused
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Opening the Door to Financial Inclusion with Digital Identity
Tuesday 12 January 2021
Despite decades of financial inclusion efforts, barriers preventing access to financial services continue to exist for individuals across the globe. One such critical barrier, is the lack of an official, foundational form of identification. An estimated one billion people worldwide are unable to prove their identity, while millions more have forms of ID that cannot
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Welcome to the Age of the Digital Builder
Tuesday 12 January 2021
We sat down with Ian Johnson, Managing Director (Europe) at Marqeta and Cyril Chiche, Co-Founder & CEO of Lydia at FTT Open Finance to discuss what it means to be a Digital Builder and how that has been put into practice at Lydia. As Ian Johnson explains, the Age of the Digital Builder is one
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Reasons to be cheerful #1 for 2021 – Open Finance Content Now Available On-Demand
Tuesday 12 January 2021
Whilst most of us have no desire to return to 2020, there were some bright spots and FTT Open Finance was certainly one of them. It was somehow fitting that we ended our year with a virtual event that focused on the potential of being open when so much around us was closed. We kicked
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Will lending bring the disruption we’ve all been waiting for? – The FTT Lending 3.0 Big Question Debate
Tuesday 12 January 2021
Over the weekend, many in the FinTech Twittersphere mourned the end of US digital bank – Simple. People ask about the impact of @simple on the industry, but the people who know @shamir_k @i2pi — even those that have had just a few conversations from time to time — know that it was these two
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How Open Banking Will Take Off – An Interactive Session with Yapily
Tuesday 15 December 2020
One of the highlights from the recent FinTECHTalents Open Finance event was an interactive discussion exploring how Open Banking Will Take Off. A panel of some of the leading FinTech innovators leveraging Open Banking explained how it had allowed them to deliver better outcomes to customers and users. Rosin Levine, Head of Banks at Flux,
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We can all be the innovator of the year; we only need to try
Tuesday 15 December 2020
As I start wrapping up for Christmas and New Years break, I look back on 2020 and consider what an odd year this was professionally. Who would have guessed that all our plans would be put in a box, waiting for sunnier days? Or have they? The reality is that many people, after a few
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FinTECHTalents – The Best of 2020!
Tuesday 15 December 2020
It is rather basic to say that 2020 has been a challenging and unusual year for many. But in reality, it was still a year. Startups raised funds. Banks and FinTech companies still entered into partnerships. Events and conferences still happened – albeit online, via webcam and home WiFi. Our busy elves at VC Innovations
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Innovation at the Heart of the Community
Tuesday 08 December 2020
When we talk about innovation in financial services, we often focus on the digital-first challengers, the future-proofing banks or even the influence of Big Tech. But if there was one sentiment echoed throughout the day at FinTECHTalents Virtual Building Societies, it was this: Innovation is Wherever You Build It. We should not overlook the power
The future of FinTech is with the shopkeepers and SME entrepreneurs.
Tuesday 08 December 2020
The SME market (small to medium sized enterprises) has long been a difficult market to serve for the financial services industry. The FinTech movement has spawned quite a few innovative, digital-first entrants aimed at serving this market – traditionally underserved and under-supported by traditional, incumbent banks. However, 2020 brought further difficulties to this sector in