Interviews
Building great card products at speed
Tuesday 03 January 2023
Another great conversation from the Fintech Talents Festival, this time with Venla Pouru, Director, Strategy & Growth, Enfuce. The hallmarks of modern card processing and what it means to customers are important to understand. Venla outlines what the fast-growing Enfuce, now with a UK office, can deliver to end-users. Whether a fintech or other brands
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Can access to financial services be too perfect?
Tuesday 03 January 2023
Embedded finance figured prominently in my conversation with Sergiu Negut, Co-founder & CSO, fintech OS at the Fintech Talents Festival. Embedded Finance, as he notes, isn’t new but has attracted mounting attention in recent years. Sergiu shared his views on some of the most interesting developments. For the first time in almost a decade, discussions
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Collaboration is the new innovation
Tuesday 13 December 2022
Nitin Iyer, Head of GTM for Platform at Finastra joined us for a fascinating chat at a buzzy (and noisy) Fintech Talents Festival. Platforms were much discussed and mentioned across six stages of content at the Fintech Talents Festival last month. It was great to get the inside view on their importance to innovation in
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Decarbonizing crypto – a step on the journey to net zero
Tuesday 13 December 2022
At the Fintech Talents Festival 2022 Kirsteen Harrison, Environmental Advisor to blockchain fintech Zumo Enterprise shared her views on decarbonizing crypto. Along with our 2000+ participants, she also took the opportunity of being at the Festival to learn more about trends in fintech and to network with peers. Working with Zumo Enterprise from the outset,
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The journey from SaaS to BaaS
Tuesday 06 December 2022
Josh Cogan, Lead Client Partner, Banking as a Service, Finastra sat down with us at the Fintech Talents Festival to share his thoughts on embedded finance and the Festival experience. Josh spoke to the evolution of software as a service to banking as a service. How on top of delivering bespoke online software applications, core
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Embedded finance – let’s get digital (and physical)
Tuesday 06 December 2022
During what was a very busy Fintech Talents Festival, we were delighted to be able to find time to sit down with Jeff Parker, GM – International, Marqeta. He shared some of his thoughts on what has been a very exciting year for Marqeta – high growth, new partners and new geographies covered. As a
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Crime and punishment in crypto
Tuesday 29 November 2022
Diederik Van Wersch, Director, Mid-Market EMEA, Chainalysis, joined us for a sit down at the Fintech Talents Festival. Chainalysis was born out of a need for crypto businesses to address some fundamental challenges (eg even getting a bank account). In an industry with a trust problem, Chainalysis provides much needed compliance and investigatory services across
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Embedded Finance: Knowing your customer and your customer’s customer
Tuesday 29 November 2022
Onsite at the Fintech Talents Festival – Joelle Boehme, Commercial Lead, Embedded Finance, Adyen spoke to us about Adyen’s approach to embedded finance and how the infrastructure they’ve built has developed. Adyen empowers platforms to deliver seamless payments to their end users. The next frontier is to make that customer experience even smoother by offering
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Take note, when it comes to crypto, finding the right partner is fundamental
Tuesday 22 November 2022
Onsite at the Fintech Talents Festival with Nick Jones, CEO, Zumo enterprise. Nick took time out from a very busy Festival to share a bit of insight into Zumo Enterprise and what they’ve been up to recently. As one of the FCA registered crypto asset businesses in the UK, they’ve been busy taking their stack
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Embedded finance and the importance of following the customer eyeballs
Tuesday 18 October 2022
In the latest edition of our FTT Chats series, we took the opportunity to sit down and speak Nikhil Batheja, Executive Director, CIB Technology, API Architecture & Strategy at J.P. Morgan. about what he sees as some of the exciting trends in the financial services sector. As Nik will be joining us for FTT Embedded
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