Opinion
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
Embedded Finance: Investing in win-win-win for all
Tuesday 08 February 2022
In a relatively short amount of time embedded finance has become a multi-billion pound sector. According to research from Lightyear Capital, embedded finance is on track to grow to £164 billion in revenue by 2025, up from £16 billion in 2020, indicating the vast potential of this sector. Firms in the finance industry are increasingly
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Raising the bar on digital – FTT Chats Ep 55
Monday 23 August 2021
Michael Haney, Head of Digital Core at Technisys, speaks to Technisys’ ambition to be the leading global software provider to power digital banking. Thinking about financial services and the extent to which that activity will become ‘embedded’ into a broad range of day-to-day experiences, Technisys can play a key role in translating that into a
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Caveat Emptor – Buy Now Pay Later – the Credit Score Risk?
Tuesday 17 August 2021
It’s not hard to see why consumers have embraced Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services with open arms in recent years. According to research from Finder.com, 37% of Brits say they have used a BNPL service in the past with more than half of BNPL users reporting to use these services more since the beginning of COVID. While BNPL is growing increasingly popular, especially among Millennials,
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Building a digital lending system – methods, learnings and insights
Tuesday 17 August 2021
Digital lending has been one of the key areas of focus in the digitalisation efforts of financial service providers during recent years, with Covid 19 accelerating it further and at an unprecedented pace. It is estimated that the digital lending platform market will account for $15.3 billion by 2026, up from $3.5 billion in 2018.[1]
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Abandon ship! Running barefoot and inclusivity – FTT Bookmark 27
Tuesday 10 August 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
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How payment cards can take crypto mainstream
Tuesday 03 August 2021
How payment cards can take crypto mainstream The number of cryptocurrencies now exceeds 5,200, according to Investing.com, evidence that cryptocurrencies are increasingly viewed as viable stores of value. However, the technology that supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Coin, and Dogecoin trading has some inherent limitations. Even the most popular cryptocurrencies today are not easily accessible for everyday
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Let The Record Show
Tuesday 03 August 2021
Confessions of Creating My First Pre-Recorded Conference Talk Recording yourself is hard! Recording yourself is downright uncomfortable! Nevertheless, with us all working from home for the past year it has become a more common format for conference talks. Live talks are still happening, and for tips and tricks for that format I recommend you
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The mutual benefits of technology in mortgages
Tuesday 03 August 2021
Building societies were created to help their members overcome one of the biggest financial challenges most of us will face: buying a home. Nearly a third of people in the UK have a mortgage from a building society. Building societies operate differently to lending banks. They are mutual organisations that are owned by their members,
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Going big with embedded finance, frozen money and bad gum – FTT Bookmark Issue 25
Tuesday 27 July 2021
Going Big with Embedded Finance, Frozen Money and Bad Gum 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
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