Designing for life: Embracing the lifecycle approach to financial services
Thursday 18 October 2018
FinTECHTalents is, at its core, driven by communities and what they can create. By bringing together our unique mix of technologist and innovators from the across the financial services, technology, design and academic sectors we aim to share ideas and catalyse new ones. The Customer First Stream on Day 2 of the Festival brings the
- Published in Ageing, Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, Future, Innovation, Start-ups
Fortune 500 Bank Relies on Segasec to Foil Advanced Phishing Attacks
Thursday 18 October 2018
Segasec’s customer is a Fortune 500 multi-channel bank and one of the most respected financial institutions in Europe. The bank serves millions of private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises worldwide via hundreds of branch offices, insurance agencies and electronic channels. Among the bank’s services are debt capital, domestic cash equity, corporate banking, private banking,
- Published in AI, Customer Experience, data protection, Fintech, Innovation, security, Start-ups
Segasec confronts the ‘never-ending’ chase of fraudsters
Wednesday 17 October 2018
Segasec aims to provide a proactive, consolidated, end-to-end protection from phishing, which can cost billions of dollars to enterprises and brands. When not combating fraudsters, the Segasec team sip whiskey, non-alcoholic beer and enjoy listening to winners of the Eurovision Song Contest. What does Segasec do – what problem are you solving? As a leading innovator
FinTech as an urgent, long-term business differentiator
Thursday 11 October 2018
Franck Vialaron, partner and co-founder at Expand Research looks to offer an independent view of the FinTech landscape both from an incumbent and new entrant perspective. While today’s environment offers an easier environment to set up tech ventures – many incumbent banks are feeling budgetary pressures and talent challenges that can stifle innovation. Finance and
- Published in Featured, Fintech, Future trends, Innovation, Partnerships, Start-ups
Talent for a transformative world
Thursday 04 October 2018
Tech talent that is agile and ready to change society are trained at Makers Academy as many industries are experiencing a huge gap in supply and demand for engineers who can work in an agile way. The organisation looks at welcoming over 1,500 technologists into the world, examines the reasons behind the loss of female
- Published in Agile methodology, Diversity, Employment, Featured, Fintech, Future, Innovation, Start-ups, Talent
Powering the future of payments
Wednesday 03 October 2018
While payments are often seen as a commoditised service – the reality in the back end is much more complex. Form3 talks us through providing payments as a service for financial institutions and regulated FinTechs. Payments processing isn’t a new sector – what sets Form3 apart? Form3 provides cloud-native, real-time payment technology to enable financial
- Published in Cloud banking, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Payments, Start-ups
#NoBarStools
Thursday 27 September 2018
A few years ago, at a popular ‘FinTech innovation demo show’ in London, a Russian payments company brought out the scantily clad ‘Miss Russia’ to demonstrate how the audience could use their payments app to purchase her clothing line on the internet. Many people – men and women – in the audience were shocked. My
- Published in Blockchain, Blog, Customer Experience, Diversity, Featured, Fintech, Start-ups
‘Millennials don’t care about looking after their money’ – and other myths
Wednesday 26 September 2018
With 89% of millennials, and 70% of UK consumers now using applications to manage their money, Yolt aims to become a trusted tool for UK customers of all ages to end multiple app juggling and gain a clear view of their money. What does Yolt do – what problem are you solving? Yolt is the
- Published in Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Profile, Start-ups
Finding valuable insights in alternative data
Monday 24 September 2018
Hamza Khan, founder and CEO of data insights provider Suburbia, talks us through how to discover real value in new data sources, advises keeping all doors open to the unexpected, and feels no shame in expressing a love for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer (He will be forgiven 🙂 ) Tell us a bit about alternative
- Published in data protection, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Profile, Start-ups
Helping FinTechs scale like banks & banks innovate like FinTechs
Monday 17 September 2018
The Neonomics Team Enabling collaboration and partnerships between banks and new FinTech entrants is the way forward in this era of open banking according to Christoffer Andvig CEO & Co-founder of Olso-based Neonomics. Christoffer talks about the benefits of running a global team, how entrepreneurship is a constant quest for change and how his preference
- Published in Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Partnership, Partnerships, Profile, Start-ups