financial services
Austin calling: Future Identity Festival and FTT Fintech Festival land in the Silicon Hills this December
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Wednesday, October 14, 2026, London: VC Innovations is bringing two of its flagship events to Austin, Texas, on December 8 – 9, 2026, as the FTT Fintech Festival and Future Identity Festival take place side by side at the JW Marriott Austin. Together, both festivals will feature 100+ speakers. Across two days and four content
Festival fever builds as the FTT Fintech Festival returns to London
Thursday 01 October 2026
Thursday 1st October 2026, London: The FTT Fintech Festival, Future Identity Festival, FTT Mutuals, FTT AI Transformation, FID Fraud & FinCrime and FID IAM return to The Brewery, London, on 9th – 10th November 2026, welcoming an expected 2,500+ attendees from across financial services, technology, and the wider innovation economy for the UK’s largest fintech
Nobody is asking their bank for a bot. Snappi Bank on how AI supports a more human experience
Tuesday 15 September 2026
At FTT AI Transformation this summer, we spoke with Ioanna Tsekoura, Head of Customer Experience at Snappi, Greece’s first licensed neobank. With a career rooted in understanding people, Ioanna is now leading customer experience at a bank built from the ground up. As she explains, the opportunity to design a new banking proposition from scratch
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Customer Experience
Where AI is taking SME lending next? with Mario Husha, CTO, Lovey
Wednesday 02 September 2026
AI is moving at a pace that can leave regulation, infrastructure and even internal teams playing catch-up. But that doesn’t mean that lenders should slow down. Lenders need to be smarter about where AI should be introduced. We had a chat with Mario Husha, CTO, Lovey at FTT AI Transformation in June. Mario shared how
- Published in Blog
Margus Simon, Komerční Banka: The risk of AI? Not innovating fast enough
Friday 21 August 2026
We sat down with Margus Simon Chief Digital Officer, Komerční Banka at FTT AI Transformation last June to discuss the shift AI is bringing to financial services. Margus has spent the last seven years leading a complete modernisation of the institution. Under his leadership, the bank replaced its core banking system, rebuilt digital channels, modernised
- Published in Blog
From resistance to excitement – How to make AI work with Lucile Flamand
Wednesday 19 August 2026
We sat down with Lucile Flamand for a chat about what really makes AI transformation stick. As the former Chief Transformation Officer at Bibby Financial Services, she was responsible for overseeing transformation initiatives across nine countries, Lucile discovered that resistance to AI stems less from change management challenges and more from an education gap. People
- Published in Blog
From experimentation to enterprise value with Covecta
Friday 07 August 2026
One message stood out at FTT AI Transformation: the conversation around AI agents has shifted from exploration to execution. Speaking with us at the event, Ben Thomas, Founder and CRO, Covecta, explored how organisations can move beyond abstract discussions and focus on the practical realities of deploying agentic AI across banks and lending institutions. Ben
- Published in Blog
Overcoming barriers and deploying AI agents successfully: a discussion with WRITER
Tuesday 04 August 2026
Farrukh Aman, Vice President, Corporate & Retail Banking Solutions at WRITER, sat down to speak with us at the summer edition of FTT AI Transformation. As leader of the financial services practice, he works closely with clients across the sector to guide them through scaling AI, deploying it responsibly and supporting providers in defining use
- Published in Blog
Transforming SME Finance with Luke Trayfoot, YouLend
Saturday 27 June 2026
Embedded lending presents a significant opportunity to better serve SME financing needs, delivering access to credit directly within the channels they already use. Luke Trayfoot, Global Head Of Strategic Partnerships at YouLend shared how that growth is already happening, quietly powered by distribution partnerships rather than traditional, direct lending channels. At FTT Embedded Finance &
- Published in AI/Machine Learning
Moving beyond the credit scores with Zak Lambert of Plaid
Friday 22 May 2026
Real-time data, smarter decisioning and a shift beyond traditional credit models are redefining the future of lending. At FTT Lending last March, we had a chat with Zak Lambert, Head of Product, Plaid , who joined us to unpack what this transformation really means for the industry, and why the pace of change is accelerating.
- Published in AI/Machine Learning