Welcome to the Age of the Digital Builder
Tuesday 12 January 2021
We sat down with Ian Johnson, Managing Director (Europe) at Marqeta and Cyril Chiche, Co-Founder & CEO of Lydia at FTT Open Finance to discuss what it means to be a Digital Builder and how that has been put into practice at Lydia. As Ian Johnson explains, the Age of the Digital Builder is one
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Unlocking the Power of FinTech Partnerships
Tuesday 01 December 2020
Without extensive budgets or large technical teams, in-house development may not be an option for smaller financial institutions looking to digitalise. Partnerships with FinTech providers can act as a powerful route to leveraging the benefits of external technologies and solutions. At FinTECH Talents Building Societies last month, the day closed with a practical discussion on
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FinTech for Schools and The Future of FinTech
Tuesday 17 November 2020
Innovate Finance has given a new-look to its FinTech for Schools initiative. Check out some of the new features aimed at students and industry: A mobile web app. Have a sneak preview here! Virtual work experience – in conjunction with Innovate Finance partner Speakers for Schools Masterclasses – short, snappy videos from our members offering their expertise
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Looking into an Open Future
Tuesday 18 August 2020
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?
Tuesday 11 August 2020
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
Monday 03 August 2020
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
Tuesday 30 June 2020
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
Tuesday 14 April 2020
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?
Tuesday 10 March 2020
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!
Wednesday 23 October 2019
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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