On 30th March our community came together for FTT Lending 3.0, where we explored the key trends, innovations and technologies that are powering the future of lending.
During the day, our Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Lisa Moyle, sat down with Susie Aliker, Chief Executive at Tandem Bank. The two discussed the key highlights across the day, the importance of greener financial options and how Tandem Bank is flowing these greener and fairer choices into their product portfolio, which of course, includes lending.
Tandem was founded as one of the original neo banks to provide greener and fairer financial choices, with a particular focus on the mainstream customer. Susie acknowledges that there is still a lot of work to do in incentivising customers in the drive to net zero, but she has a positive outlook and emphasises that there is already a great awareness of the need to make changes.
Tandem has recently conducted research in this area, finding that more than half of British consumers have not made any changes since COP26. Research also shows that most people are, understandably, prioritising the current cost of living crisis over climate change.
Although we see some element of take up, there are a significant number of challenges around understanding what needs to be done. We need to build a programme for awareness, and incentives will play a crucial part in “making climate change move from the slipstream into the mainstream”.
Listen to the full interview below where Susie discusses Tandem’s exciting plans to disrupt financial services and how the “cross-section between financial services, digital and a purpose led strategy” can enable this.
Look out for all the latest updates on this year’s Fintech Talents Festival – coming to The Brewery, London on the 14th & 15th November 2022. This year you can look forward to content on six stages, covering fintech, embedded finance, community banking, open finance, digital identity, DeFi and more.
