Taking financial services everywhere
Tuesday 25 January 2022
“Banking is necessary, but banks are not” Bill Gates’ 1994 famous quote is the realisation of the concept of embedded finance: The integration of financial services that are adopted by non-financial institutions. At FTT Embedded Finance UK & Europe 2021, our panel of rockstar speakers debated the big questions in embedded finance: How can we
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Embedded Finance: Crypto and cards
Tuesday 05 October 2021
More great content from FTT Embedded Finance North America, with Kevin Doerr, Chief Product Officer at Marqeta and Will Reeves, Co-Founder and CEO at Fold. Listen in for a case study which explores embedding digital currencies with payments and integrating bitcoin into the wider ecosystem. Starting with rewards, Fold created a product that has introduced
Fintech for travel – Embedded for a rebound?
Tuesday 05 October 2021
Fintech for Travel – Embedded for a Rebound? The travel and tourism industries were among the hardest hit from lockdowns and restrictions introduced by governments around the world to reduce the spread of COVID. According to statistics from the Office for National Statistics, in Q2 2020 overseas residents spent 97% less than in Q2 2019 on their visits to the UK, highlighting the stark
Embedded finance: The new frontier for financial sector leadership
Monday 23 August 2021
Offering opportunities and creating challenges for incumbents and new entrants alike, one trend that is disrupting banking and payments in a big way is embedded finance. Put simply, embedded finance is the incorporation of financial functions into non-financial settings. For example, this could be a Buy Now, Pay Later lending proposition on a shopping platform
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The future of insurance is contextual
Sunday 18 July 2021
Embedded insurance is far from a recent creation. For years people have been buying insurance alongside taking out their mobile phone contract or at the point of purchase of white goods in departments stores. But the drive by businesses in many industries to better meet often complex customer needs is helping boost the growth of
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Embedded finance and the rise of the SuperApp
Tuesday 13 July 2021
Will the rise of the superapp model and more deeply embedded banking usher in new levels of democratized access to financial services and further our quest toward full financial inclusion? The future of finance is embedded When we think about banking today, we see more and more examples of how banking as a function has
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The beer and the music are back – The Fintech Talents Festival 2021
Tuesday 11 May 2021
At the start of last year, we were six people sitting in a tiny office up a thousand flights of stairs on the north side of Bloomsbury Square. The 2020 Fintech Talents Festival was taking shape in the form of dozens upon dozens of post-it notes stuck to sheets of disposable white board smoothed across
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