Lisa Moyle is a co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at VC Innovations. Previously, she was director of strategy, fintech, at Informa where she established and led a portfolio of global fintech events and activity. She also worked at techUK, where she was head of the Financial Services and Payments programme and contributed to a broad range of policy initiatives in support of financial services innovation.
The future of FinTech is with the shopkeepers and SME entrepreneurs.
Tuesday 08 December 2020
The SME market (small to medium sized enterprises) has long been a difficult market to serve for the financial services industry. The FinTech movement has spawned quite a few innovative, digital-first entrants aimed at serving this market – traditionally underserved and under-supported by traditional, incumbent banks. However, 2020 brought further difficulties to this sector in
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Digital Identity: a nut that remains to be cracked
Tuesday 08 December 2020
COVID-19 has accelerated digital lives at a speed that could not have been (or certainly was not) predicted. Confirming ‘who’ we are in the digital world has become critically important. Digital identity has been discussed for many years as the missing infrastructure, as the internet and the businesses built around it, has grown rapidly. Progress,
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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
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Influencers – What are they good for?
Tuesday 24 November 2020
I can hear the chorus from Twitterati now: ‘Absolutely nothing!’ But I wanted to take a step back and examine – without ego or bias – what role people who have a flair for communication and a significant social media following play in an industry like FinTech. We all know what ‘influencer’ means in the
Data Protection & Privacy – FTT Chats Episode 41
Tuesday 24 November 2020
Emma Maconick, Partner, Shearman & Sterling 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. A masterclass on the complex terrain of data usage, protection, ethical practices and the regulatory landscape. This is one interview where
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Is the Future of Financial Services More Local than You Think? – FTT Chats Episode 40
Tuesday 24 November 2020
Simon Jones, Chief Customer Officer at ClearBank joined 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. The discussion partly focused on the impact of Coronavirus on the ways customers are engaging with financial service providers. Simon
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What’s your view on the UK FinTech Review? – an FTT Snapshot Survey
Tuesday 17 November 2020
We at FinTECHTalents like to keep our fingers on the pulse and our noses to the wind to find out our community concerns, what our FinTech leaders are discussing and what our industry is holding up for debate. Never one to reduce our touch points our FTT Snapshot Surveys are a bi-monthly Big Question to gather the
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FinTech’s Rich Pageant – Defining FinTech is becoming broader and more varied
Tuesday 10 November 2020
As long as there have been financial products, there have been tools, procedures and services needed to create, manage, and deliver those products. Whether it is a telegraph machine, spitting out a ticker tape on Wall Street in the 1930s or a Python developer creating simple and complex, but not complicated, code to build a
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Payments – The Gateway to Consumer Confidence – FTT Chat Episode 39
Tuesday 10 November 2020
Matt Cockayne, Chief Commercial Officer at Yapily, 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. Open Finance and Open Banking featured prominently in our discussion as Cockayne noted the role that Payments play as the
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