Is challenger banking all about the network?

At FinTECHTalents this year, Aperture’s Ben Robinson caught up with Sam Carter, the CEO of new challenger bank, Moneo, that’s set to take the Mexican banking world by storm. In this short video Sam explains: The importance of connecting with technology partners and market experts as well as potential investors at FinTECHTalents The concept of
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Brexit-proof payments with fire  

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
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Community of the future for financial services

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
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Show me the (tokenised) money

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
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The journey from spender to saver to investor

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

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
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Creating a Community for SMEs – A catch up with Charlie India

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
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RIP Open Banking – Long Live Open Finance

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
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Amazon remains focused on financial services – How can banks compete?

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
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Understanding what you can invest, save, borrow or repay

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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