FTT21
Finding your next big adventure – Fintech Leaders Series
Tuesday 29 June 2021
Leaders build companies and create products and inspire teams in large and small organizations in many different sectors around the world. They are the type of people that not only produce great results but attract and retain talent that go on serve as great leaders themselves. Who are those people in Fintech? What drove them
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Everything you think you know about Fintech is false
Tuesday 29 June 2021
I tell the story of ‘My first hackathon’ often. It lives as the intro to a keynote address, I give called ‘The Fintech Mindset’. Quite simply, the story goes like this: A PR friend of mine invites me to ‘London’s first payments hackathon’ at Google Campus in East London. Now, I had no idea what
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Not afraid of the hard things – Fintech Leaders Series
Tuesday 22 June 2021
Leaders build companies and create products and inspire teams in large and small organizations in many different sectors around the world. They are the type of people that not only produce great results but attract and retain talent that go on serve as great leaders themselves. Who are those people in fintech? What drove them
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A glimpse of the future in a teenagers bedroom
Tuesday 15 June 2021
My 16th year old son has a small group of besties he talks to every day. One girl lives in Newcastle, another boy lives in Kent (and goes to his school) and a third is based in Atlanta, Georgia – a state his American mother has never been to. This is a group my son
What makes a fintech leader?
Tuesday 15 June 2021
Nary a day goes by without a hashtag heavy LinkedIn post or Twitter thread extolling the wisdom of a ‘great leader’. You have all seen them – ‘Here are the five things Jeff Bezos does before the sun come up’; ‘These are the three books Warren Buffet says you should have read by now’ and
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All are welcomed in the Fintech Big Tent
Tuesday 01 June 2021
At least once a week I hear the reply: ‘Oh, I’m not Fintech’. These people usually work at a large bank or a technology company that was established before 2008. Further discussion reveals that they are involved in projects to update business models, introduce new technology, or to find someplace to introduce digital processes in
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