FinTech vs Incumbents: From competition to partnerships
Tuesday 23 June 2020
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
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
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
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
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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FinTech of the Week is AccountScore
Tuesday 31 March 2020
In our ongoing series, our FinTech of the Week is AccountScore, an analytics business which provides actionable insights and analytics on bank transaction data for clients – typically banks and financial services companies who want to learn more about their customers, prospects and applicants. Ahmed Amin, Sales Director, AccountScore, discusses the ever evolving Open Banking
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Are ‘cool banks’ delivering on FinTech?
Tuesday 10 March 2020
BankiFi’s Founding partner Conny Dorrestijn discusses Open Banking and how the entire FinTech ecosystem – banks, new FinTech entrants – can work together to support consumers and SMEs alike. “Two years ago we were all very excited about banks being very cool and having these brilliant app stores where you could shop for everything,” says
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De-risking the scaling process
Tuesday 04 February 2020
We sat down with Marc Baumgartner, CEO, Pangea, at FinTECHTalents 2019, where he talks about how to use market intelligence and Pangea resources to grow, scale and break into new markets. Watch the video now: How does Pangea support the ‘Go to Market’ strategy for FinTechs? For us, there’s two things. There’s a strategy then
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Expanding to the US with creativity and innovation
Tuesday 28 January 2020
We sat down with Terry Gore, Director of Financial Services & FinTech at JobsOhio at FinTECHTalents 2019, where he talks about growing from a ‘scrappy startup’ to expanding to the US, the importance of soft skills and how Ohio is the place for creativity, the arts and music. Watch the video now: How important is
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Taking the difficulty out of scaling and growth
Tuesday 21 January 2020
We sat down with Ben Robinson, Practice Head, Marketing and Strategy at Pangea about how they help companies build, scale and go to market in a quick and effective way at FinTECHTalents 2019. What is the current state of FinTech? If you think about the big change that’s happened from the Industrial Age to the
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