Brexit-proof payments with fire
Tuesday 26 November 2019
Dublin-based fire.com seeks to support corporate, SMEs, sole traders and self-employed workers with quick and simple integrated payments solutions. What is fire.com – what problems are you solving? fire.com is the complete solution for integrated payments. It is designed for businesses and other financial institutions to get easy access to a range of payment services. It supports
- Published in Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Payments
Community of the future for financial services
Tuesday 05 November 2019
Italian banking body, CBI, takes to the FinTECHTalents stage to outline CBI Globe – it’s newly launched Global Open Banking Ecosystem. CBI has been serving the Italian payments market for 20 years – what brings you to FinTECHTalents? The Italian banks, like most continental retail banks, are facing different challenges related to improved profitability, fulfilling
- Published in Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Partnership, Payments, Start-ups
Show me the (tokenised) money
Sunday 03 November 2019
I was listening to a panel about Security Tokens last week and couldn’t avoid thinking that I somehow time-travelled to 2029, scratching my head in an attempt to remember what Michael J Fox did to go back in time… While some of the content was deep, it generally felt like a(nother) missed opportunity to talk
- Published in Blockchain, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Payments
The journey from spender to saver to investor
Tuesday 29 October 2019
FinTech challenger brand, Dozens hopes to offer products designed to help people reach their financial goals, whatever they may be, because every journey is different – even if that journey starts at “the worst high street in Britain”. What is Dozens – what problem are you solving? Dozens is a new FinTech that offers a
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Joining the dots and the bigger picture in innovation
Wednesday 16 October 2019
I hung out with our FinTECHTalents partners, FinTech Finance at this year’s London Sibos event where I sat down with several people to chat about FinTech and innovation over the past 10 years and what we can expect from the future. Here I chat with Drew Graham, Director, Digital Strategy at Barclays Bank. We talked
- Published in Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Identity, Innovation, Payments, Video
Creating a Community for SMEs – A catch up with Charlie India
Wednesday 16 October 2019
I caught up with one of our returning FinTech Stories companies, Charlie India at the year’s Sibos event in London. Here I sit down with co-founder and CEO Katalin Kauzil. We chat about: Working with SWIFT Digital invoice management for SME online banking Enabling a community ecosystem foster collaboration within the SME sector Thank you
RIP Open Banking – Long Live Open Finance
Tuesday 08 October 2019
I hung out with our FinTECHTalents partners, FinTech Finance at this year’s London Sibos event where I sat down with several people to chat about FinTech and innovation over the past 10 years and what we can expect from the future. Here I chat with Gavin Littlejohn, who is flying the flag for more open
- Published in Customer Experience, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, Identity, Innovation, Partnership, Payments, Start-ups, Video
Amazon remains focused on financial services – How can banks compete?
Tuesday 08 October 2019
FinTech Stories company, PayKey, looks at the march of Amazon and Amazon Pay and its impact on traditional banking. “Amazon is investing in enabling faster, frictionless payments to help boost marketplace sales… the company remains very focused on building financial services products. In a sense, Amazon is building a bank for itself — and that
- Published in Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Payments
Understanding what you can invest, save, borrow or repay
Tuesday 03 September 2019
As a pioneer in Open Banking, OpenWrks is looking to support the 23 million people within the UK that have money worries who are traditionally, and wrongfully, under served. The focus on helping people keep track of how much they spend is made easier by the occasional rhubarb gin and tonic, while chilling out to
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Creating customer engagement in a hyper-connected space
Tuesday 16 July 2019
When not relaxing with ice cold beer and chilling out summer dance tunes, the team at PayKey looks to build partnerships with banks to offer customers instant access to financial services. What is PayKey – what problem are you solving? PayKey enables banks and digital wallets to address one of the most significant challenges they currently face:
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