Technology
Building a digital identity ecosystem – FID 2021
Tuesday 15 February 2022
When it comes to digital identity, technology is not the problem. The necessary architectures and solutions are already being built but the surrounding frameworks and legal elements remain to be solved. How can we build a digital identity ecosystem, centred around users? And which parties will play a role in the future identity ecosystem? At
Emerging tech – Evolving FinServ
Tuesday 08 February 2022
What’s more exciting than emerging technology? Emily Nicolle, then Fintech Correspondent with Financial News (she’s since moved to Bloomberg as a Crypto Blogger) , led a panel at the Fintech Talents Festival of what she termed incumbents (does google fall into that category now?) to discuss how the pace of technology change has accelerated over
Driving adoption of Digital Identity – FID Festival 2021
Tuesday 14 December 2021
With digitisation, comes changing user behaviour, increased risk, and an evolving regulatory landscape. The need for trusted digital identity is clear, but which factors will drive widespread adoption across different sectors? How can digital identity solutions gain user trust, by keeping in mind privacy, data protection and ease of use? Which solutions will gain support
Future gazing with emerging tech
Monday 18 October 2021
The advent of Fintech disrupters fundamentally changed the financial sector. Many established incumbents embraced innovative cloud solutions in a bid to gain a tech advantage over up-start competitors. But the rapid pace of innovation is a challenge for all financial firms, with a balance between maintaining complex technological ecosystems and incorporating new tech not being
- Published in Embedded Finance, Fintech
FTT Building Societies – Key takeaways
Tuesday 12 October 2021
The second edition of FTT Building Societies on 6th October was a unique virtual gathering of building societies, credit unions, fintech and tech providers. Our community shared personal experiences of adopting technologies within their organisations and dived deeper into specific technologies to discover the most beneficial solutions and the practicalities of implementation. We opened the
- Published in Blog, Content, FTT Building Societies
Identity systems built for everyone, by everyone
Tuesday 07 September 2021
Identity exclusion is closely linked to socio-economic exclusion. Financial services and products are very often the starting point for establishing a digital identity, but not everyone has financial access. There are a number of reasons for this and it’s an issue that affects not only those in developing countries, but all across the world. Many
- Published in Content
Making financial product design inclusive
Tuesday 27 July 2021
With thousands upon thousands of financial products vying for the attention of time-poor consumers, the right financial product design that draws people in can be the difference between making a long-term customer or losing a sale to a competitor. Meeting the often complex needs and requirements of a diverse user base during the design process
Is digital identity the key to greater financial inclusion?
Tuesday 08 June 2021
Despite decades of financial inclusion efforts, barriers preventing access to financial services continue to exist for individuals across the globe. One such critical barrier, is the lack of an official, foundational form of identification. An estimated one billion people worldwide are unable to prove their identity, while millions more have forms of ID that cannot
- Published in Content, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation
Password Protected: the door to digital life
Tuesday 23 March 2021
A very spirited virtual roundtable with a top-flight panel (run under the Chatham House Rule), explored the ways in the cyber security landscape has changed. With people working remotely where possible and conducting more and more activity online, the security perimeter has expanded significantly over the past year. From the attic to the kitchen table,
- Published in Community & Events, Content, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Opinion