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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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Payments and the logistics sector – FTT Chat with James Brindley-Raynes
Friday 21 February 2025
Maersk’s “global local strategy”: Cash, digital wallets, apps and everything in between Join us as we dip into the complicated world of payments within the international logistics sector! Head of Digital Customer Journey at Maersk, James Brindley-Raynes, shares some of the challenges Maersk faces as well as topics covered at the FTT Fintech Festival in
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Better, faster, cheaper – FTT Payments with Adam Gagen
Monday 10 February 2025
The Future of Payments: Insights from Adam Gagen at Revolut We sat down with Adam Gagen, Global Head of Government Affairs at Revolut late last year to discuss the exciting developments across the payments landscape and at Revolut. Adam is at the coalface of discussions around regulation and policy and spends much of his time
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The rise of payments orchestration: A BR-DGE to innovation
Thursday 13 June 2024