Solving the hardest problem in banking
Wednesday 16 October 2019
In the run up to the FinTECHTalents Festival we sat down with Paul Taylor, co-founder and CEO of Thought Machine to find out how cloud adoption can change the entire culture of a bank, why startups should focus on markets that have huge upside potential and are dormant or ignored by others and why ‘wine
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Amazon remains focused on financial services – How can banks compete?
Tuesday 08 October 2019
FinTech Stories company, PayKey, looks at the march of Amazon and Amazon Pay and its impact on traditional banking. “Amazon is investing in enabling faster, frictionless payments to help boost marketplace sales… the company remains very focused on building financial services products. In a sense, Amazon is building a bank for itself — and that
- Published in Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Payments
Digital transformation that you need – not just what you asked for
Tuesday 08 October 2019
Most companies, in any industry, need to bring their business into the digital age. According to Kian Gould, AOE Founder & CEO, if they don’t, their long-term success, revenue streams and sustainability of their business model are threatened. We help companies in achieving this transition or, if you will, digital transformation. What does AOE do –
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Doing real listening, not work listening
Tuesday 08 October 2019
Thrive Partners returns to FinTECHTalents hosting our Strategy Stage on Day 2 of the Festival. Here CEO and founder, Pam Bateson talks about their story so far and how supporting people to do their jobs with “with flair and creativity” is a true measure of success. So, what’s new? Any new products, super star team
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation
What’s your GDPR status?
Tuesday 01 October 2019
Robert J Baugh, Founder & CEO, Keepabl announce their new partnership with Alpha Reply. I’m delighted to introduce Keepabl and Alpha Reply’s partnership, which brings a simple, practical and intuitive way for Alpha Reply’s customers of any type and size to get compliant and stay compliant, with GDPR. GDPR matters because non-compliance puts your organisation
- Published in Blog, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Identity, Regulation, Security, Start-ups
Riskinnov – The FinTech Story so far…
Tuesday 01 October 2019
At the launch of FinTECHTalents in 2018 – Riskinnov introduced us to risk analysis, assessment and forecasting that helps you assess the risks you are and/or will be facing. Riskinnov returns for FinTECHTalents 2019. We caught up with the team to hear about ‘the story so far…’ What’s new? A new global challenge to wealth
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YellowDog – The FinTechStory so far…
Tuesday 01 October 2019
At the launch of FinTECHTalents in 2018 – YellowDog commanded the stage with their story on how to unleash unlimited computing power in order to harness available and underutilised computers in the cloud. YellowDog returns for FinTECHTalents 2019. We caught up with the team to hear about ‘the story so far…’ So, what’s new? Any
- Published in Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation
Risk management for an interconnected world
Tuesday 01 October 2019
The gang at FNA not only appreciate the complexity of mapping multifaceted relationships to better understand modern financial markets, they also take the time to appreciate Mancunian beer that showcases local artists. What is FNA – what problem are you solving? Since the financial crisis of 2007–2008, regulators and supervisors have recognised the interconnected nature
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ING and CBA tackles MiFID II/MiFIR in seconds with Ascent
Tuesday 24 September 2019
ING and CBA Pinpoint MiFID-II/MiFIR Obligations in 2.5 Minutes Using Ascent. Regulatory compliance programs cost financial firms billions of dollars annually. Much of this cost is a result of the exhaustive amount of time required to manually analyze regulations and determine how it impacts the firm — a laborious process that starts all over again
- Published in Blog, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Regulation
Inventing a helicopter from looking at dragonflies
Tuesday 24 September 2019
Ceri Godwin, Director of Growth & Advisory, EmTech, Santander UK sat down with us after the FinTECHTalents Steering Committee ‘donuts & danish’ breakfast this summer. Here she talks about FinTech for good, ‘out of the box’ thinking and her dream ‘fireside chat’ guest. Watch the video now. What is FinTech for good? For me it’s
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