Interviews
For SMEs it’s all about the data, data, data when it comes to funding
Tuesday 14 February 2023
Raffaela Kestel, Senior Product Director at Validis, speaks the barriers that SMEs face in securing funding. It’s a big issue – 100,000 SMEs to the tune of £4 billion of funding are being rejected by lenders. Getting SMEs what they need when they need it is central to their mission. Validis extract data, normalize it
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Navigating the Cost of Living crisis as a Lender – FTT Chats Lending 3.0 Series
Tuesday 14 February 2023
Gerald Chappell, CEO & Co-Founder at Abound joins us in the latest edition of our FTT Chats series. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been catching up with key players in the lending ecosystem to discuss the the trends, drivers and challenges facing the sector at large. In this episode, we’re delving into data-driven consumer
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Bringing clarity to complexity – digital assets
Tuesday 07 February 2023
This week we share a conversation with Stephen Richardson, SVP from Fireblocks. Fireblocks is a secure digital asset infrastructure company. They provide technology that empowers custodians (from global financial institutions such as BNY Mellon through to market making firms and hedge funds) to securely manage digital asset private keys, interact with different participants in the
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Financial activism – can fintech save the world?
Tuesday 24 January 2023
Can fintech save the world? We ask Paul Trotter, Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Atom Bank to answer some big questions. Hint – fintech can’t do everything but there is a lot that can be achieved. As he says, with a will, fintech finds a way. He also shares his views as to what the road
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The value of connectivity for fintech
Tuesday 24 January 2023
Karen Bradbury, FS Sector Lead from Invest NI provides an overview of the dynamic fintech scene in Northern Ireland. That includes a growing cluster of home-grown companies with an emerging specialty on cyber security and regtech. She touches on the importance of re-engaging post pandemic and the value of face-to-face interaction. Accompanying Karen at the
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A fintech is born
Tuesday 17 January 2023
Hear from Charlie Platt , President, EMEA, SAP Fioneer, as he walks us through what has been a very busy journey since being established just 16 months ago. As the banking and insurance specific products were taken out of SAP, a new and agile fintech with deep product expertise was born. Charlie shares his views
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Technology fit for a mutual
Tuesday 17 January 2023
Michael Fisher, Chief Product Officer from Mutual Vision sat down with us at the Fintech Talents Festival to discuss the digital journeys of mutual sector organisations. Mutual in name and nature, Mutual Vision provides core banking plus digital products (eg online savings and lending platforms) to the UKs small and medium-sized Building Societies, as well
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FTT Lending 3.0: An Interview with Tracey Horner, Head of lendwithcare at CARE International UK
Tuesday 17 January 2023
Ahead of FTT Lending 3.0 2023, I caught up with one of our Rockstar speakers Tracey Horner, Head of lendwithcare, to discuss all things microlending… Microlending and microfinance, like all financial processes, has its champions and its critics. How is lendwithcare different from its peers? There are a number of ways that Lendwithcare is
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Growing pains for future gains
Tuesday 10 January 2023
Kicking off the Fintech Talents Festival in style, I spoke to Andy Hirst, Head of Industries, GROW with SAP – a programme for scale-up companies. GROW with SAP supports companies that are under seven years old, who have achieved initial funding rounds and are now looking to expand into new countries and new product areas.
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Regulation fit for a bank
Tuesday 10 January 2023
Clifford Chance always brings much needed expertise to the Fintech Talents Festival. I spoke with Diego Ballon Ossio, a Senior Associate at Clifford Chance, who pointed to some of the regulatory developments that our community needs to keep a close eye on. Understanding those regulatory requirements is fundamental to building a new products, mapping the
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