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Moving beyond the credit scores with Zak Lambert of Plaid
Friday 22 May 2026
Real-time data, smarter decisioning and a shift beyond traditional credit models are redefining the future of lending. At FTT Lending last March, we had a chat with Zak Lambert, Head of Product, Plaid , who joined us to unpack what this transformation really means for the industry, and why the pace of change is accelerating.
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Driving smarter SME Lending with Ylva Oertengren, COO, Simply Asset Finance
Friday 15 May 2026
At FTT Lending this past March, we sat down with Ylva Oertengren, COO and Co-Founder of Simply Asset Finance to talk about SMEs. Over the past nine years, Simply has lent more than £2 billion to SMEs across the UK, building flexible, tech-enabled platforms along the way. But at the heart of it, Simply Asset Finance’s
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Responsible lending with Neil Kadagathur, CreditSpring
Wednesday 13 May 2026
At FTT Lending this past March, we had the chance to sit down with Neil Kadagathur, CEO and Co-Founder of Creditspring, to explore what responsible lending looks like in practice. For Neil, it is rooted in a clear principle: building the business around customer outcomes from outset, rather than adapting to regulation after the fact.
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Compliance, Technology, and Smarter Decisioning with Matthew Addison, LendingMetrics
Tuesday 05 May 2026
At FTT Lending we sat down with Matthew Addison, Chief Commercial Officer at LendingMetrics, to explore how lenders can balance tightening regulation with the need to innovate. With over 15 years in the market and supporting more than 85 UK clients, LendingMetrics sits at the heart of credit decisioning transformation. As regulatory pressure increases around
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Embedded Finance and AI Agents – what will deliver for merchants?
Tuesday 24 February 2026
Embedded Finance helps merchants grow and thrive Michaela Weber SVP, Strategic Business Development and GM of Payments, at BigCommerce, shared her thoughts at the last FTT Fintech Festival in London. Part of the Commerce group, it is focused on providing a flexible ecommerce platform for companies like Brompton, White Stuff and Harvey Nichols They are
What do people want to know about Pensions – Robert Cochran, Scottish Widows
Wednesday 11 February 2026
What do people want to know about pensions? At the last FTT Fintech Festival we sat down with Robert Cochran, Workplace Savings Engagement and Innovation Specialist with Scottish Widows and asked him about his views on pensions, a hugely important and, for many people, intimidating topic. He noted that the number one question that people
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Payhawk – freeing up CFOs to focus on what’s really important
Thursday 15 January 2026
Pedro Batista, UK CEO of Payhawk, sat in the hot seat and told us more about Payhawk at the last FTT Fintech Festival in London. Payhawk is the first spend management platform to bring AI-powered orchestration finance solutions designed to address the needs of CFOs. Why do CFOs love Payhawk? CFO’s love Payhawk because of
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Is the future of payments fully instantaneous? An FTT Chat with Plaid
Monday 21 July 2025
We had the chance to hear about some of the exciting payments solutions being developed at Plaid when we sat down with Chris Corbett, Payments Product Lead, at FTT Payments in May. Chris is responsible for looking after the full payments suite. That includes one-time payments (payment initiation), recurring payments (largely VRP in the UK)
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Technology as solution, not strategy with Mohamed Ait Si Brahim, Group CTO, Hargreaves Lansdown
Monday 07 April 2025
Starting with the fundamentals: The Three Amigos Mohamed Ait Si Brahim, Group Chief Technology Officer at Hargreaves Lansdown, heading an engineering team of 20o people tasked with building products, sat down with us at the 2024 FTT Fintech Festival. He shared his approach to both his role and, more broadly, creating effective outcomes. When it
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Digital Innovation and Banking Identity – FTT Chat with Martin Sladecek
Tuesday 25 March 2025
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