The stories that make up FinTech continue at FinTECHTalents
Wednesday 12 June 2019
“I’ve seen more startups do more demos on stage than most people should see in their lifetime,” says Liz Lumley, architect of the FinTECHTalents Festival to Christophe Langiois, CMO of The FinTech Power 50 in an interview at Barclays Rise this spring. However, that first contact, those first stirrings when you listen to a founder
Removing the friction from authentication
Wednesday 12 June 2019
US-based biometric authentication platform ID R&D holds court on both sides of the coast in America – in New York and Silicon Valley. While they work on solving the problem of providing user- friendly customer on boarding without compromising on security – the team like to sit back and listen to folk-inspired rock music straight
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Do we still need ‘FinTech’?
Wednesday 22 May 2019
At last week’s FinTECH4Life event Vica Manos, managing director at Anthemis Group commented that they do not use the term ‘FinTech’ inside their venture capital operation. “We say Financial Services and the tech is assumed,” she said. The reasons behind this decision in terminology is because our industry often has disparate and differing opinions on
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Open Banking and building trust with FinTech innovation
Wednesday 22 May 2019
According to Lisa Terziman-Gutu, head of business development at Salt Edge once banks start implementing the Open Banking principles and providing services to end-customers in a new way, it will help to build trust toward the fintech innovations. You can meet Salt Edge as part of FinTech Stories stage at FinTECHTalents Generation 2019 Festival this
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Talent can create big things
Monday 13 May 2019
Pol Navarro, Chief Digital Officer at TSB talks about how banks can attract new talent by offering frameworks that allow them to change the rules and make big impacts immediately. “We think that the future of financial services will be about a combination of talent from different sources. People that understand banking and know how
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We need to bring women into this industry
Wednesday 08 May 2019
Julie Wall, Senior Lecturer at University of East London has a call to action in order to solve both the talent gap and diversity issues in financial services and technology. “The search for talent is a big challenge at the moment. There is going to be a skills shortage, but I am optimistic that it
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Infographic from Sensibill: How the self-employed can drive banking revenue in the UK
Wednesday 08 May 2019
You can meet Sensibill at this year’s FinTECHTalents Festival – Generation 2019 in November.
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Humanising Conversational Interfaces: Part 1.
Tuesday 09 April 2019
In a previous article “Human or Machine” I concluded that combining the simplicity of conversational interfaces – in the form of Messaging and AI powered chat bots – to drive understanding and prediction whilst also having humans in the loop to help with more complex tasks and make better informed decisions will be how enterprises
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Investment decisions – Made to measure
Wednesday 03 April 2019
When she isn’t chilling out to songs of Bristol-based singer songwriter Rothwell, Melanie Palmer, CMO at Exo Investing takes a critical view of the term ‘robo-advice’ and talks us through how their team of data scientists uses data and AI to create tailored investment decisions for individuals. You can meet Exo Investing as part of
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Mad Bunny Hunt – Help us find our tickets and they could be yours!
Wednesday 03 April 2019
As most of us start to plan our chocolate egg collection – we are sad to announce that there has been a burglary at TECHTalents Towers. On the eve of Pancake Day in the UK (that’s Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras or Carnival to the rest of you) we were invaded by some Mad Bunnies. These
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