Looking into an Open Future

Open banking is coming to North America and is taking shape in different ways across the continent. Whether driven by policy and regulation or market forces, the impact will be felt across the financial services sector. From catalysing the development of new providers to enabling existing institutions to keep pace with a fast-changing industry, the
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Building Societies: The Digital Challengers?

While the UK banking community debates the competitiveness and viability of new FinTech entrants, challenger banks and innovative, customer-focused product offerings – real disruption to the industry may emerge from an established and long-standing group – Building Societies. While the FinTech revolution evolves and matures, the overarching aim is to deliver better outcomes to end
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Finding Your Heart

In the Future of Work will be a Human Experience, I ended with a rallying call that appeared to resonate (it was the most shared quote from that article): “Let’s put humans at the heart of why we do everything we do.” According to Steve Jobs, “”Remembering that you are going to die is the
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FinTech of the Week is CBI

In our ongoing series our FinTech of the Week is CBI S.c.p.a which is a think tank for precompetitive innovation for the Italian financial industry in the transactional services market. Currently there are around 416 participating intermediaries who offer services to around three million businesses and public administrations. CBI offers all customers a flexible, secure
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Discovering the potential of machine learning

Clara Durodié, executive chair of the Cognitive Finance Group and author of Decoding AI in Financial Services: Business Implications for Boards and Professionals discusses the industry’s understanding of machine learning, and whether business leaders can maximise on machine learning. “So the problem is that we cannot progress and use the right tools and make the
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Are ‘cool banks’ delivering on FinTech?

BankiFi’s Founding partner Conny Dorrestijn discusses Open Banking and how the entire FinTech ecosystem – banks, new FinTech entrants – can work together to support consumers and SMEs alike. “Two years ago we were all very excited about banks being very cool and having these brilliant app stores where you could shop for everything,” says
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#BreakTheCycle Charity Challenge to launch at FinTECHTalents – sponsor a bike!

This time last year at FinTECHTalents, while I was hosting a pop-up photography exhibition for MQ Mental Health, I had one of my big ideas. Some of you will remember it as I did my usual thing when I get an idea and bounced around like Tigger telling anyone who would listen. Now, one year
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Building Societies: Challengers in our midst

While the UK banking community debates the competitiveness and viability of new FinTech entrants, challenger banks and innovative, customer-focused product offerings – real disruption to the industry may emerge from an established and long-standing group – Building Societies. While the FinTech revolution evolves and matures, the overarching aim is to deliver better outcomes to end
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FinTech of the Week – CharlieIndia

In the lead up to FinTECHTalents – Generation 2019 – every week we will showcase one of our awesome, inaugural FinTech Stories companies. CharlieIndia is the FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week This week we bring you – CharlieIndia. The CharlieIndia Invoice HUB is a white label e-invoicing platform, which enables you to launch your own
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Calling all innovators

Are you looking to solve problems for more mature consumers? The FinTech community shouldn’t miss this opportunity to set their sights on new challenges. Given the changing demographics in the UK (and many other countries around the world), significant value can be delivered to what is an economically powerful and growing community. We are looking
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