Finding your Tribe in FinTech – FTT Chats Episode 33

Watch the video now!   Christa Nielsen, SVP, Tribe Lead for Core Payments Platform, Dankse 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, and emerging technologies. In this chat Christa discusses how to incorporate entrepreneurial styles of
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Finding a home for startups in Finland – FTT Chats Episode 31

Watch the video now! Vesa Riihimäki, Head of Startup & Growth Business, Nordea Finland 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 chat Vesa discusses whether capital is hard to find for startups
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Build Back Better – Purpose and Values Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, I focused on tackling Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), as this is an appropriate place to start when considering how to build back better. Encouragingly, this past week also saw several announcements on ESG by financial services companies – Tandem Bank acquired green lender Allium, HSBC set up a
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Creative destruction: Can ethics be hardwired into technology? – FTT Chats Episode 28

Watch the video now!  Katia Walsh, Chief Strategy and AI Officer, Levi Strauss 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. We spoke to Katia Walsh about her unique role at Levi Strauss which
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FinTECHTalents Virtual Nordics will be about the Forest and the Trees

Every year, in December, a tree is erected in the middle of Trafalgar Square in central London. It is covered in twinkle lights and topped with a star and shines like a beacon during the chilly and rainy weather that tends to mark the Christmas season in the UK (rather than reflect gently falling snowflakes
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Build Back Better – Part 1

As the coronavirus pandemic took a grip on our world back in April 2020, I was listening to a popular FinTech podcast and was struck by a quote from John Hope Bryant, CEO of Operation Hope: “This is a global reset of our virtues and our values and a chance for us to get it
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Will every company become a FinTech Company?

Our world is full of pithy one-liners and Tweet-worthy phrases. We’ve all been to conferences where we have heard: ‘Innovate or die’ or ‘Ignore the HiPPOs’ or ‘We’re just a technology company with a banking licence.’ Many of these well-worn keynote fillers have roots in real life case studies, lessons from the trenches of innovation
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Once Relegated as a Corporate Expense, Diversity & Inclusion is Now a Matter of Survival

Diversity and Inclusion has become a buzzword in corporate America, on trend with phrases like “’lean in’ and ‘having a seat at the table’.  No matter how well-intentioned these phrases and buzzwords are, they have done little to progress true diversity and inclusion for women, minorities, and people of colour in the workplace. If we’ve
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What does the future hold for FinTech in North America?

Have we accomplished what we set out to do more than a decade ago? Have we altered the financial services landscape? Did we actually change the narrative? Financial technology, implemented thoughtfully, can act as a gateway to include more unbanked and underbanked within the formal financial services system. It can help serve people better, providing
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What’s on at FinTECHTalents? – Series 114

What’s on at FinTECHTalents this week?
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