Is debt always bad? Yes, no and … it depends
Tuesday 30 March 2021
Loans, funding and credit offer much needed liquidity to businesses and personal accounts. These injections of capital also create debt, which can often mushroom to unhealthy levels – especially for those most vulnerable to exploitation or desperation. Does that mean that lending and financial health will always be at odds? Is it possible to balance cheap access to
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The Covid response – What are the long term effects?
Tuesday 16 March 2021
The 2020 global pandemic has thrown a wrench into how many of us work, live and build businesses. What role do lenders play in economic revival? Leading voices in the business lending space gathered at FTT Lending 3.0 to discuss and shed light on how the industry has responded to the global pandemic, the realities of the
A lending experience tailored for each customer – FTT Chat ep 46
Tuesday 16 February 2021
Christopher Kneen, SVP, Sales & Operations EMEA at Provenir, joins 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. In this chat, Christopher discusses personalisation and tailored customer experiences and how lenders identify and integrate with new
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A silver lining for lending – FTT Chat ep 45
Tuesday 16 February 2021
Tomer Guriel, CEO at ezbob, joins 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. In this chat, Tomer discusses the new relationships being formed by banks and SMEs, creating an Amazon or Netflix experience for customers
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Learning to love your mortgage
Tuesday 02 February 2021
Home Sweet Home, Home is where the Heart is, an Englishmen’s Home is his Castle – there are many an age-old phrase to convey the warmth, stability and protection that comes from owning your own home. Home is the soft light at the end of a cold dark day. Home is the place your children
Lending tailored to your person – FTT Lending 3.0
Tuesday 26 January 2021
Many aspects of our personal life – accessing higher education, taking control of our personal finances, purchasing high-priced household items – has a ‘financial product’ at its heart. That ‘financial product’ usually falls in the lending camp. Fixed loans, credit cards, bridging loans, student loans – all these products will be part of the outgoings
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Is lending the key to COVID recovery?
Tuesday 19 January 2021
Disruption, stress tests, market shocks – none of these words and phrases are unfamiliar to those who work in financial services. However, reading an academic paper from a leading business school or listening to a buzzy keynote address is very different from living through the events that underpin these words. The 2020 global pandemic, caused
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Digital Builders as the driving force behind FinTech innovation – FTT Chats Episode 42
Thursday 26 November 2020
Ian Johnson, MD (Europe), Marqeta joins 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. In this chat Ian discusses the role of Digital Builders as the catalyst for the API economy, embedded finance, and Open Banking.
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This is Lending 3.0
Tuesday 24 November 2020
A bank is a regulated entity that takes deposits and offers loans. It was the lucrative nature of the latter part of a bank’s remit that allowed financial institutions to offer the former to consumers at a relatively low cost. But that was the old world – a world of balancing cheque books, inconvenient branch