Building the building society of the future – FTT Building Societies
Tuesday 09 November 2021
As we look to the future of mutual banking, changing customer expectations mean that improving customer experience will be crucial to the building society’s presence in the community. Technologies have the potential to create seamless and faster customer journeys, as well as improving the suitability and accessibility of products. In this fireside chat from FTT
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Beyond open banking: open finance meets financial wellbeing for mutuals
Tuesday 26 October 2021
Following from the brilliant FTT Building Societies virtual experience on 6th October, we recap some of the highlights of the day. This panel explored the benefits and challenges of open banking for mutual financial organisations. Open banking offers a viable solution to many problems that mutual organisations may face and can empower building societies and
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FTT Building Societies – Key takeaways
Tuesday 12 October 2021
The second edition of FTT Building Societies on 6th October was a unique virtual gathering of building societies, credit unions, fintech and tech providers. Our community shared personal experiences of adopting technologies within their organisations and dived deeper into specific technologies to discover the most beneficial solutions and the practicalities of implementation. We opened the
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Digital tools for digital inclusion
Monday 27 September 2021
Millions of people in the UK and around Europe are excluded from essential banking services. From challenges with managing money to physical accessibility barriers, more needs to be done by building societies and credit unions to ensure all citizens are able to utilise cutting-edge financial tools. Nationwide Building Society recently introduced new bank cards that are the
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Regtech and the Mutual Sector
Tuesday 07 September 2021
How Regtech is boosting agility and improving the adoption of emerging technologies The increasing regulatory burden placed on credit unions is costing them billions in compliance costs. According to the Credit Union National Association (CUNA), US credit unions spend more than $6 billion a year on dealing with regulatory compliance and this figure is growing by hundreds of millions of dollars
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Banking on Net Zero – Can building societies lead the way?
Monday 05 July 2021
The conversation around how to best transition to Net Zero for businesses is becoming increasingly urgent as the impacts of climate change approach. Like other financial institutions, building societies have a vital role to play in the route to Net Zero and the future low carbon economy. Customer expectations are also driving the urgency in
Credit unions & fintechs: How to create a more perfect union
Tuesday 22 June 2021
Are credit unions and fintechs friends, competitors or collaborators? Fintech Talents North America brought together an impressive panel of innovative leaders from credit unions to explore how they can create beneficial working partnerships with innovative fintechs to the benefit of both their organizations and, crucially, their end customers and communities. The pandemic upended many of
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The future of work – Are we heading back to the office?
Tuesday 11 May 2021
It is a sign of the times and the accelerated pace of change that our views about work have been upended over the past year. Most of us have lived through the snail’s pace of change in many organisations over the years and once considered flexible hours or the odd work from home day a
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The Credit Union View – Fintech Talents North America
Tuesday 02 February 2021
In the run up to Fintech Talents North America, we are speaking to credit unions and community banks across North America to gather their views on how they see the future unfolding in their corner of the financial services sector. This time we hear from Travis Kasten, President/ CEO of the Service First Federal Credit
The Great Acceleration
Tuesday 26 January 2021
Digital by default and at short notice has been a hallmark of the recent pandemic. For financial institutions across North America, Covid 19 and the mitigation measures adopted did not discriminate between institutions. Whether a small credit union or a large international financial services provider, the need to shift to digital channels and ways of
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