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At FTT Payments, Grant Evans, Head of Sales, Integrated & Platforms – UK & EMEA at Global Payments and co-host of The Payments Shed Podcast, shared his perspective on the trends impacting the payments landscape. One of the most significant shifts, he notes, is not entirely new, but still widely underappreciated – the rapid growth of
Embedded lending presents a significant opportunity to better serve SME financing needs, delivering access to credit directly within the channels they already use. Luke Trayfoot, Global Head Of Strategic Partnerships at YouLend shared how that growth is already happening, quietly powered by distribution partnerships rather than traditional, direct lending channels. At FTT Embedded Finance &
Real-time data, smarter decisioning and a shift beyond traditional credit models are redefining the future of lending. At FTT Lending last March, we had a chat with Zak Lambert, Head of Product, Plaid , who joined us to unpack what this transformation really means for the industry, and why the pace of change is accelerating.
At FTT Lending this past March, we sat down with Ylva Oertengren, COO and Co-Founder of Simply Asset Finance to talk about SMEs. Over the past nine years, Simply has lent more than £2 billion to SMEs across the UK, building flexible, tech-enabled platforms along the way. But at the heart of it, Simply Asset Finance’s
At FTT Lending this past March, we had the chance to sit down with Neil Kadagathur, CEO and Co-Founder of Creditspring, to explore what responsible lending looks like in practice. For Neil, it is rooted in a clear principle: building the business around customer outcomes from outset, rather than adapting to regulation after the fact.
At FTT Lending we sat down with Matthew Addison, Chief Commercial Officer at LendingMetrics, to explore how lenders can balance tightening regulation with the need to innovate. With over 15 years in the market and supporting more than 85 UK clients, LendingMetrics sits at the heart of credit decisioning transformation. As regulatory pressure increases around
At FTT Lending, we spoke with Julian Cork, Chief Operating Officer of Landbay, about the role of AI in enhancing customer outcomes in the mortgage lending sector. Landbay, one of the UK’s largest buy-to-let lenders, has delivered over £4 billion in loans, using technology to make the lending process faster, safer and more efficient. Julian shared
At FTT Lending we had the opportunity to speak with Martin Rehak, CEO, Resistant AI, about one of the pressing challenges in lending today: the rapid rise of AI-driven fraud. As lending becomes faster and more automated, criminal tactics are evolving at the same pace. Martin shared the key issue is not speed itself, but
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