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.
For FinTech, AI and RegTech – Welcome back to school!
Wednesday 04 September 2019
September, when summer has started to give up its fight and the smell of a freshly sharpened pencil can send your mind back to 1985 and Mr. Brown’s Algebra class. Despite it being, technically, over half way through the year – the autumn freshness and Back to School vibe will always represent a fresh start
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation
The event for people who do and need ‘to do’
Tuesday 16 July 2019
I wandered around the exhibition hall of a FinTech conference, late last year. It doesn’t really matter which one – I have attended, covered, organised and spoken at so many of these events over the years – many of them combine into one generic spectacle. The speakers on the agenda include the head of digital
Building Societies: Challengers in our midst
Wednesday 03 July 2019
While the UK banking community debates the competitiveness and viability of new FinTech entrants, challenger banks and innovative, customer-focused product offerings – real disruption to the industry may emerge from an established and long-standing group – Building Societies. While the FinTech revolution evolves and matures, the overarching aim is to deliver better outcomes to end
- Published in Embedded Finance, Fintech, Innovation, Partnership, Start-ups
The people you see at conferences – Updated for 2019!
Wednesday 12 June 2019
Now that we are deep in Spring conference season – I thought I would update my ever popular #PeopleYouSeeAtConferences list. Now way longer than 10 items. I shall add in a few ‘suggestions from my pals on Twitter and add a few more from my travels around the FinTech universe. The old fogey who remembers
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Blog, Cyber security, Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Regulation, Start-ups
The stories that make up FinTech continue at FinTECHTalents
Wednesday 12 June 2019
“I’ve seen more startups do more demos on stage than most people should see in their lifetime,” says Liz Lumley, architect of the FinTECHTalents Festival to Christophe Langiois, CMO of The FinTech Power 50 in an interview at Barclays Rise this spring. However, that first contact, those first stirrings when you listen to a founder
Having your coffee and saving too
Wednesday 29 May 2019
If wealth is not to remain something for the wealthy, the key is to understand consumers better, get them to engage with their money and drive better financial well being through behaviour change. Given the link between money and mental health – money worries being the key source of stress for the majority of people
- Published in Customer Experience, Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Regulation, Risk, Start-ups
You need your ‘Tech’ in your ‘Fin’ (even if you don’t have to say it) Our community has spoken
Wednesday 29 May 2019
There is some debate over when the word ‘FinTech’ first came into use. I remember it being used in my New York office in the mid 1990s as a shortened, pre-hashtag, version of Financial Technology, there is evidence of a Sunday Times column from Peter Ridder that was called ‘FinTech’ in the mid 1980s, and
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Blockchain, Customer Experience, Cyber security, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Payments, Regulation, Start-ups
Do we still need ‘FinTech’?
Wednesday 22 May 2019
At last week’s FinTECH4Life event Vica Manos, managing director at Anthemis Group commented that they do not use the term ‘FinTech’ inside their venture capital operation. “We say Financial Services and the tech is assumed,” she said. The reasons behind this decision in terminology is because our industry often has disparate and differing opinions on
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Blockchain, Blog, Cyber security, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Identity, Innovation, Payments, Regulation, Robotics, Start-ups
The journey of partnership starts from within
Wednesday 22 May 2019
It was standing room only in HSBC’s headquarters in Canary Wharf for a special breakfast event during the inaugural UK FinTech Week in London. Hosted in partnership with the TECHTalents Society, Strategic Investments and Partnership in FinTech, offered insights into the journey of a bank. Raman Bhatia, Head of the HSBC Digital Bank in the
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Blog, Customer Experience, Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Partnership, Payments, Start-ups
The smart way to enter the US
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Members of the FinTech community gathered for a breakfast roundtable, at the picturesque Somerset House in London, to discuss the ins and outs of expanding into the United States. Sponsored by JobsOhio, Go West, Young Startup – The launchpad for US success, was part of the TECHTalents Society roundtable series, held during the inaugural UK
- Published in Employment, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Partnership, Start-ups