Digital identity for a digital economy
Tuesday 21 June 2022
At Future Identity North America on May 12th, we were joined by Upendra Mardikar, CSO of Snap Finance, Denny Prvu, Global Director of IAM at the Royal Bank of Canada and Elizabeth Garber, Former VP of Digital Products at Santander. Bringing together a wealth of experience in the financial services sector and a diversity of
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Financial wellness: A goal whose technology has come
Tuesday 07 June 2022
In March 2022 the US annual inflation rate reached 8.5% – the highest level recorded since December 1981. Inflation, together with the pandemic, and rising gas prices have taken a toll, with 47% of low-income consumers reporting in a recent study that they do not feel financially healthy. These were the sobering statistics with which
Using technology to support sustainable, headache free growth
Tuesday 24 May 2022
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The High Cost of Cheap Biometrics
Tuesday 24 May 2022
The high cost of cheap biometrics Banks and financial institutions are spoilt for choice when it comes to selecting a vendor in the remote identity verification industry. Once dominated by a handful of established firms, the sector has rapidly grown as a direct result of the pandemic increasing demand for a range of digital services.
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Changing Banks’ Approach to Financial Wellness
Tuesday 19 April 2022
Changing Banks’ Approach to Financial Wellness Fintechs are finally having their moment in the sun. Last year, venture capital firms showered fintechs with record-breaking funding – a 169% increase since 2020 according to CB Insights’ 2021 State of Venture Report – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Researchers predict funding will surge beyond
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The New Frontier of Banking is In the Metaverse, Not The Matrix
Tuesday 12 April 2022
In an iconic movie movement, Morpheus (played by Laurence Fishburn) presents Neo (the infamous Keanu Reeves) in The Matrix two possibilities: A blue pill that will take him back to his comfortable, familiar reality and a red pill that will expose him to a world of truth. We all know which choice he made. The
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The great product re-bundling journey has begun
Tuesday 08 February 2022
Tech-driven banking began innovating and addressing specific needs and was coined “The great un-bundling”. Currently we are seeing trends towards the opposite direction, as fintechs have begun to ‘re-bundle’ some of these innovations in an effort to scale up and increase market share. What are the benefits and challenges of these trends? At FTT Embedded
Open banking and the lifelong financial journey
Tuesday 01 February 2022
Until 2018, every stage of the customer’s financial journey was typically owned by traditional banks. Regulation opened competition by requiring banks to share customer’s data to third parties of the customer’s choice. Open finance has granted entry into the market for new players, and fintechs are digitising processes at one or more stages of the
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Starting from fresh: the benefits of building a greenfield bank
Tuesday 25 January 2022
Why do established banks create new entities rather than devoting resources to improving the existing organisation? What are the drivers that underpin that strategic decision? In the buy, partner, rent or create decision making tree, what are the benefits of starting from scratch? The decision clearly comes with some eye caching job titles (Ivan
Time is money: innovation in SME Finance
Tuesday 07 December 2021
On 16th November, the open finance community took their seats to hear from some of the leaders in SME finance. The panel, titled , Open for business: innovation in SME finance, explored some of the key challenges that SMEs are facing at this stage in the pandemic, how open banking is accelerating the process of
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