What does Deliveroo mean for banks?
Wednesday 03 July 2019
Speaking to HotTopics at FinTECHTalents 2018, Pol Navarro, CDO, TSB outlines his views on agile, collaboration and customer-focused teams. What does a productive culture look like? I think that for me when we think about culture it all starts with a customer. Especially thinking about how we can design products and services for customers in
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The stories that make up FinTech continue at FinTECHTalents
Wednesday 12 June 2019
“I’ve seen more startups do more demos on stage than most people should see in their lifetime,” says Liz Lumley, architect of the FinTECHTalents Festival to Christophe Langiois, CMO of The FinTech Power 50 in an interview at Barclays Rise this spring. However, that first contact, those first stirrings when you listen to a founder
The talent pool should be an ocean
Wednesday 29 May 2019
The team at VC Innovations had a full week during UK FinTech Week in London at the end of May. In between chairing sessions at the Innovate Finance Global Summit, hosting a breakfast event with HSBC and then an exclusive roundtable with JobsOhio, our Liz Lumley managed to spend a few minutes with our friends
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Finastra FusionONE Hack – The community gathers to collaborate
Wednesday 29 May 2019
FinTECHTalents supported our partner Finastra as they welcomed over 20 teams to spend the weekend at their London headquarters as part of their Open Banking Hackathon. Both internal Finastra teams joined with several teams from external organisations to develop, build and then showcase their creations, using APIs from the FusionONE platform, during a live demo
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FusionOne Hackathon
Wednesday 15 May 2019
FinTECHTalents, Finastra, Microsoft and Accenture are running our first Open Banking hackathon this weekend 17-19 of May. Finastra will be opening-up the data from multiple APIs (retail banking, payment, corporate banking, capital markets…), that you can check here: FusionFabric.cloud API catalog and we will have mentors on-site from FinTECHTalents, Finastra, Microsoft, Accenture and others, including machine
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Customer Experience, Cyber security, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Payments, Press, Security
The Broken Jar
Wednesday 27 March 2019
I recently gave a presentation at a conference for an audience of women in financial services. I went through my journey to entrepreneurship and shared what I have learned along the way. I also spoke about the challenges of being on my own – without the corporate and administrative support that we take for granted;
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Working together to tackle fraud
Wednesday 20 March 2019
An audience member stood up to ask a question of the opening panel of the PowerCARD User Conference organised by HPS in Marrakesh last week. The panel, which featured Abdeslam Alaoui Smaili, CEO of HPS, and Jeroen Holscher, head of global payments practice, Capgemini, focused on new trends in the payments arena. The talk touched
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The jobs of the future will need curiosity, creativity and communication
Wednesday 13 February 2019
“There’s no magic formula in terms of how to prepare for the future or what the future landscape of jobs will look like,” says Diana Biggs, Head of Digital Innovation HSBC. Speaking to HotTopics at FinTECHTalents 2018, Biggs advises the FinTech industry to focus on some core skills that will be transferable and have the
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Wondering how to weather the perfect cyber security storm?
Wednesday 23 January 2019
Our media partner, FinTech Finance finds out how to deal with cyber security at a breakfast briefing hosted by Pushfor founder John Safa and PR veteran Mark Borkowsi in London this January. “Don’t have your pet name in your password” laughs Mark Borkowski as he opens the talk. Set against the backdrop of London’s The Ivy
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What’s missing in the War for Tech Talent
Tuesday 15 January 2019
Anyone who has seen me on a panel about technology talent or innovation (or even seen me sitting in the audience when there’s a mic nearby) will know I have strong views on how and where the capital markets (and other areas of the financial services industry, I’m sure) are going wrong in trying to
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