Digital
From Frustration to Foundation: Interview with Joel Perlman, Senior Managing Director & Co-founder, OakNorth
Thursday 17 July 2025
We had the privilege of speaking with Joel Perlman, Senior Managing Director and Co-Founder of OakNorth, about his entrepreneurial journey and how the digital-first bank is reshaping SME lending. From his early experiences with failure to the creation of OakNorth, Joel shares how the bank is empowering mid-market businesses with a data-driven approach to credit.
- Published in FTT Lending, Interviews
Lending’s pressure test: What’s holding the industry back and how to break through
Thursday 03 July 2025
In a rapidly evolving market, lenders are facing pressure from every direction; tight margins, rising expectations, regulatory uncertainty, and the ever-looming shadow of legacy systems. But where are the real roadblocks, and what role can collaboration and technology play in overcoming them? We asked lending and financial services leaders one essential question at FTT Lending:
- Published in FTT Lending
FTT Chats: Anant Patel, CEO of Judopay, wired in Fabrick
Friday 20 June 2025
- Published in FTT Mutuals
FTT Chat: BR-DGE share expansion plans and orchestration success
Monday 16 June 2025
Behind the checkout curtain: Helen Owen talks payments orchestration at BR-DGE In our latest conversation, we caught up with Helen Owen, VP of Marketing at BR-DGE, to hear what’s powering their fast-paced growth and how they’re helping merchants make the most of every online payment. With transaction volume expected to grow by 200x, international expansion
- Published in FTT Mutuals
Empowering Members, One Loan at a Time: A Conversation with Ciara Davies, CEO of Metro MoneyWise Credit Union
Tuesday 10 June 2025
Who says that credit unions can’t innovate? Ciara Davies, Metro Moneywise Credit Union In the latest edition of FTT Chats, we sit down with Ciara Davies, CEO of Metro Moneywise Credit Union, a financial cooperative committed to improving the financial well-being of its members. Ciara shared the inspiring origin story of the credit union, which
- Published in FTT Mutuals
From data to decisions: A Chat with Liam Gray, Account Management Leader, Plaid
Tuesday 29 April 2025
Simplifying data, enhancing user experience: Liam Gray, Account Management Leader, Plaid At FTT Lending last month we had the chance to sit down with Liam Gray, Account Management Leader, Plaid for an insightful conversation about how Plaid is helping shape the future of lending. As the leader of the Account Management and Customer Growth team
- Published in FTT Lending
The Future of Smarter Lending: A Deep Dive with Kate Bullman, GDS Link
Tuesday 22 April 2025
From Data to Decision: Kate Bullman, Head of Partnerships and European Sales, GDS Link At this year’s FTT Lending, we caught up with Kate Bullman, Head of Partnerships and European Sales at GDS Link. With over 25 years in retail banking, decisioning, and data, Kate shared how GDS Link is helping lenders cut through complexity
- Published in FTT Lending
Simple, Seamless, Beautiful – A conversation with Jack Smith, CEO, Love Finance
Tuesday 11 March 2025
The Future of Lending with Jack Smith, CEO of Love Finance In our latest interview in our FTT Chats series, we had the opportunity to speak with Jack Smith, Chief Executive of Love Finance, a leading business loan provider in the UK. Jack shared the mission behind Love Finance: to make the business loan process
- Published in FTT Mutuals
Technology fit for a mutual
Tuesday 17 January 2023
Michael Fisher, Chief Product Officer from Mutual Vision sat down with us at the Fintech Talents Festival to discuss the digital journeys of mutual sector organisations. Mutual in name and nature, Mutual Vision provides core banking plus digital products (eg online savings and lending platforms) to the UKs small and medium-sized Building Societies, as well
- Published in Interviews, Video
The Digitisation of Mortgages
Tuesday 01 November 2022
Innovation has been the hallmark of the banking industry in recent years. From the rise of challenger banks that offer high-levels of customer experience to the growth of banking-as-a-service and advanced forms of customer authentication such as biometrics; there seems to be no stopping the wave of innovative products, solutions and services on offer in
- Published in Blog
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