Follow our blog for expert insights into the FinTech sector. Read on for articles, news and thought leadership pieces on a selection of trending topics, including AI, VR, and robotics.
Exciting technology holds great promise for solving great challenges
Thursday 19 July 2018
Robotics, blockchain, and Japanese management culture have all fascinated Mitesh Soni, Senior Director, Innovation and Fintech at Finastra. Today we pick the mind of our newest FinTECHTalents Steering Committee member, as our community looks forward to creating a future that better serves stakeholders across the economy. He gives his views on planning a career, what
- Published in Blockchain, Robotics
Fintech in corporate and investment banking: a collaborative story
Wednesday 11 July 2018
We caught up with Liesl Bebb-McKay, of the FOUNDeRY, RMB’s disruption & innovation unit about fintech developments happening across Africa and her views on a diverse workforce of the future 1. Can you tell us a bit about the FOUNDeRY and how it operates? You can read all about the FOUNDeRY here https://www.foundery.co.za/. FOUNDeRY is
- Published in AI, Blockchain
The Innovation Re-Education (RED) Centre
Tuesday 10 July 2018
Many years ago (well four years ago) the braver Fintech-y conferences would invite speakers from the ‘innovation world’. Gurus and thought leaders and (my favourite job title of all time) futurists, who would venture onto the stage to give a talk or sit on a panel. These folks were meant to scare the dark suited
- Published in Blockchain, Change management, Diversity, Employment, Featured, Uncategorized
Why did I join?
Wednesday 04 July 2018
About a year ago I had a thought. While I was fulfilling my emotional needs via my personal blog, Girl, Disrupted, which tends to explore my inner thoughts, outer failures and minor moments of brilliance 😉. But from a more practical point of view I needed to see what I could offer – what ‘products’
- Published in Change management, Diversity, Employment, Fintech, Fintech company, Future, Future trends, Innovation, Talent
The act of doing good can both energise teams and deliver tangible benefits to society
Friday 15 June 2018
We recently caught up with Kate Bolton, the Founder of Comms for Good. Kate has a passion for building communities and weaving CSR into the fabric of teams rather than delegating the activity to a separate function. The act of doing good – investing and giving back to the communities in which we work –
- Published in Change management, Diversity, Fintech, Future trends, Innovation
Trust – how to build a company that behaves
Friday 08 June 2018
One of the highlights of Money 2020 was from Dan Ariely, Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Economics at Duke University and Chief Behaviour Officer at Lemonade. After days of talking about tech driven product innovation, it was truly insightful to hear about how financial services can be re-imagined by an understanding of human behaviour. Trust
- Published in Change management, Future, Future trends
Do large financial services companies and fintech disruptors need to partner up to survive?
Friday 01 June 2018
Despite having a substantial pool of resources to draw on, many of the big financial organisations have been slow to adapt to new technology. We speak to Matt Bunn, partner & co-founder of Capita Scaling Partner on how financial institutions can get ahead of the game by partnering with innovative fintech start-ups. ‘Fintech in the
- Published in Fintech, Fintech company, Future, Future trends, Innovation, Start-ups
FinTECHTalents teams up with Magna Carta on Digital Skills Report
Friday 01 June 2018
We are delighted to be partnering with Magna Carta Communications on a report mapping the UK digital skills gap. The report, as Simon notes below, is an important step, not just in quantifying the shortages and shining light onto key areas of scarcity but also in terms of informing future policy and corporate strategy. The
- Published in Diversity, Employment, Talent
Capturing the benefits of PSD2 – a new strategy for banks
Wednesday 30 May 2018
E-invoicing; opportunity and reward Technological development requires banks to streamline their services and create a superior user experience for their customers. It is imperative that banks look to provide new digital services to prevent client churn to fintech companies and “new banks”. Banks can capitalise on their large client base when launching new innovative services
- Published in Fintech, Fintech company, Future, Future trends
The Talent of Tomorrow: Schroders App Hack: Easter Edition (aka awesome girls coding)
Thursday 03 May 2018
I had the pleasure of joining the judging panel for a recent Stemettes hackathon run with Schroders. It was the most fun I’ve had at an event in ages (bearing in mind that FinTECHTalents hasn’t run yet…) and if you are thinking that the challenge of creating a mobile app to encourage Savings and Investing
- Published in Diversity, Employment, Fintech, Talent, Uncategorized