Computer Says No – But Trained Mortgage Advisors Can Still Say Yes
Tuesday 17 November 2020
by Laura Camplisson
At FTT Building Societies on 21st October, Alex Beavis, Head of Mortgage Products at Skipton Building Society and Matt Lowndes, Innovation Director at the Mortgage Advice Bureau discussed the Changing Landscape of Lending. In this fireside chat they talked about the potential impact of everything from Machine Learning to Distributed Ledger, to Open Banking and
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Technology Should not Replace Humans – It Should Empower Them
Tuesday 10 November 2020
by Laura Camplisson
If we were to have made note of the most commonly used phrase at FTT Building Societies on 21st October, it would most likely have been “lovely to virtually meet you”, or “your microphone is still on mute”, or perhaps “we’ll have to have a drink in person one of these days!” But beyond these
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Giving customers what they want and what they might not know they need – FTT Chats Episode 39
Tuesday 13 October 2020
by Laura Camplisson
Hali Khan, Vice President – EMEA at Zafin joined us for our ongoing series – FTT Chats – where we sit down with the great and the good of FinTech to discuss innovation, new entrants, and emerging technologies. During our chat Hali discussed the fundamental notion of customer-centricity, for financial institutions truly looking to put their customer
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Embrace the grey!
Wednesday 20 February 2019
by Lisa Moyle
“Don’t worry, I won’t hold your age against you.” This was said to me almost two years ago in the London office of a global bank for an internal comms role. I was 45 years old. <== Huh? It is quite some time before I qualify for a bus pass in the UK and I
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How do you disrupt a culture? Tokyo is starting with itself.
Thursday 14 February 2019
by Lisa Moyle
Olympic parks have had a chequered history throughout the modern games. Many have been left to rot, some have almost bankrupted their host nations, while others are built on, enhanced and expanded. I am working from a co-working space, housed within the former Press Centre of the 2012 London Summer Games as I type. The
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Wondering how to weather the perfect cyber security storm?
Wednesday 23 January 2019
by The Press
Our media partner, FinTech Finance finds out how to deal with cyber security at a breakfast briefing hosted by Pushfor founder John Safa and PR veteran Mark Borkowsi in London this January. “Don’t have your pet name in your password” laughs Mark Borkowski as he opens the talk. Set against the backdrop of London’s The Ivy
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FinTech of the Week – AccountScore
Tuesday 15 January 2019
by Our Community
At the launch of FinTECHTalents last year, 20 companies took to the stage to tell their stories, showcase their development and demonstrate their products. We called the stage FinTech Stories. This stage will be re-created this year for FinTECHTalents – Generation 2019 with some returning faces as well as some new and exciting FinTech offerings.
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What’s missing in the War for Tech Talent
Tuesday 15 January 2019
by Our Community
Anyone who has seen me on a panel about technology talent or innovation (or even seen me sitting in the audience when there’s a mic nearby) will know I have strong views on how and where the capital markets (and other areas of the financial services industry, I’m sure) are going wrong in trying to
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FinTECHTalents – Generation 2019 – Bigger, Braver, Bolder, Tech-ier
Thursday 10 January 2019
by Lisa Moyle
The 2019 FinTECHTalents Steering Committee is ready to roll with a Bigger, Braver, Bolder, Tech-ier Festival experience. Many on our Steering Committee were with us from the start – when FinTECHTalents was just an idea to bring the full FinTech ecosystem under one roof. Many more have joined us on our journey to highlight financial
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Ecosystems are messy – and that’s a ‘good thing’
Wednesday 12 December 2018
by The Press
FinTech Finance interviewed VC Innovations director of FinTech, Liz Lumley at this years FinTECHTalents about the missing element at FinTech conferences (the students) and how real work ecosystems are messy and chaotic, while that is something that many fail to get their heads around, that is how collaboration and partnerships happen. “If you are a
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