Advice to FinTechs: Find your business sponsor
Tuesday 23 February 2021
by Our Community
Navigating big organisations can be a daunting job, especially for a small FinTech that is keen to find its first partner. In this journey, FinTech SMEs can get lost with big corporations, demoing and presenting their solution to countless teams as they try to get the deal closed. In some cases, Fintechs have a clear
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Bringing a bit of DJ Mashup Magic to FinTech – FTT Chat – Episode 44
Tuesday 09 February 2021
by Liz Lumley
Tom Bentley, Head of Growth at Vodeno, joins 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. In this chat, Tom discusses the emerging trends of ‘banking as a service’, embedded finance and the wish to transfer
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New Trends for Bank and FinTech Partnerships
Tuesday 09 February 2021
by Our Community
The relationship between FinTechs and Banks has evolved over the years, with the most recent focus on collaboration and partnerships. Although partnerships between FinTechs and Banks have not always been plain sailing, many have learned from the experiences, good and bad, and are now better positioned to partner and collaborate. Nonetheless, creating a partnership between
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Anne and Tom – My part in their breakup*
Tuesday 27 October 2020
by Liz Lumley
An email landed early in 2015 from my superior at the daily newswire where I worked. It read: ‘It looks like your agenda is unravelling’ and linked to a news article. I was putting together a FinTech event and had booked both veteran banker, Anne Boden, and FinTech entrepreneur, Tom Blomfield, as speakers. Their topic?
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Where FinTech found its True North – FTT Virtual Nordics
Tuesday 20 October 2020
by Liz Lumley
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FinTech vs Incumbents: From competition to partnerships
Tuesday 23 June 2020
by Our Community
FinTechs have been created to transform the banking industry. Digital-centric, they started with a small niche — payment offerings, they then quickly moved onto the backend of financial services, providing a multitude of new solutions. Throughout the years, some have moved from being a standalone proposition to partner with incumbents. Although not all partnerships have
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Hope, Humanity and FinTech – A Community Gathers in FTT Virtual / Spring
Tuesday 16 June 2020
by Liz Lumley
We launched FinTECHTalents Virtual / Spring with an over arching mission – to try and gather our FinTech community in an online space that was interesting, engaging and interactive. We counted ourselves lucky that we weren’t in an environment where we had to rush to migrate a previous physical event onto the internet. That is
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Successful Startups and Working with Barclays – FTT Chats Episode 13
Tuesday 02 June 2020
by Liz Lumley
Magdalena Krön, Rise Global FinTech Platform Director joins 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. In this FTT Chat, Krön discusses successful startups, working with Barclays and the impact and response to COVID-19. “I
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Re-imagining Trade and Payments – FTT Chats Episode 7
Tuesday 19 May 2020
by Liz Lumley
Sachin Shah, Executive, Transactional Products and Services, Standard Bank joins us for our ongoing series – FTT Chats – where we sit down with the great and the good of FinTech to discuss innovation, new entrants, emerging technologies and, what we all hope will be a temporary topic, the current pandemic. In this FTT Chat,
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Bank Survival — It’s All About the Ecosystem
Tuesday 05 May 2020
by Our Community
At the end of last year, FinTECHTalents partners Aperture met with some leading experts to understand their view on the future of financial services. One message kept reoccurring; unity is key for survival. Collaboration for greater power “An ecosystem chain of services that are interconnected will be very powerful and we’ll start to see new
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