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Hit the road with Fintech Talents – Paris, Stockholm and Berlin

Hit the road with Fintech Talents Three cities, one-week, endless opportunities European fintech firms search for opportunities in 2023 Like virtually every other industry, the European fintech ecosystem has been massively impacted by the spread of COVID. Some fintechs that were well-placed to offer valuable services during the pandemic and post-pandemic landscape rapidly grew, while
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Growing pains for future gains

Kicking off the Fintech Talents Festival in style, I spoke to Andy Hirst, Head of Industries, GROW with SAP – a programme for scale-up companies. GROW with SAP supports companies that are under seven years old, who have achieved initial funding rounds and are now looking to expand into new countries and new product areas.
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Regulation fit for a bank

Clifford Chance always brings much needed expertise to the Fintech Talents Festival. I spoke with Diego Ballon Ossio, a Senior Associate at Clifford Chance, who pointed to some of the regulatory developments that our community needs to keep a close eye on. Understanding those regulatory requirements is fundamental to building a new products, mapping the
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FTT Embedded Finance & Super Apps North America

FTT Embedded Finance & Super Apps We gathered our growing North American community for FTT Embedded Finance & Super Apps live and in person in San Francisco on December 1st.  It was wonderful to meet past attendees and new delegates face to face having discussed embedded finance virtually over the past few years. We are
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Collaboration is the new innovation

Nitin Iyer, Head of GTM for Platform at Finastra joined us for a fascinating chat at a buzzy (and noisy) Fintech Talents Festival. Platforms were much discussed and mentioned across six stages of content at the Fintech Talents Festival last month. It was great to get the inside view on their importance to innovation in
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Decarbonizing crypto – a step on the journey to net zero

At the Fintech Talents Festival 2022 Kirsteen Harrison, Environmental Advisor to blockchain fintech Zumo Enterprise shared her views on decarbonizing crypto. Along with our 2000+ participants, she also took the opportunity of being at the Festival to learn more about trends in fintech and to network with peers. Working with Zumo Enterprise from the outset,
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The journey from SaaS to BaaS

Josh Cogan, Lead Client Partner, Banking as a Service, Finastra sat down with us at the Fintech Talents Festival to share his thoughts on embedded finance and the Festival experience. Josh spoke to the evolution of software as a service to banking as a service. How on top of delivering bespoke online software applications, core
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Embedded finance – let’s get digital (and physical)

During what was a very busy Fintech Talents Festival, we were delighted to be able to find time to sit down with Jeff Parker, GM – International, Marqeta. He shared some of his thoughts on what has been a very exciting year for Marqeta – high growth, new partners and new geographies covered. As a
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All the world’s a fintech stage: the highlights

The Fintech Talents Festival brought that sentiment to life across six lively stages of content. Each highlighted how the borders of fintech are forever shifting and how our community grows as a consequence. From high street retailers to high street banks, the Fintech Talents community is unique.    All the world’s a fintech stage  The
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Crime and punishment in crypto

Diederik Van Wersch, Director, Mid-Market EMEA, Chainalysis, joined us for a sit down at the Fintech Talents Festival. Chainalysis was born out of a need for crypto businesses to address some fundamental challenges (eg even getting a bank account). In an industry with a trust problem, Chainalysis provides much needed compliance and investigatory services across
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