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FinTECHTalents – a different type of FinTech event
Friday 30 November 2018
FinTech Finance’s intrepid video team joined us at this year’s launch of FinTECHTalents to meet with the exhibiting companies and network with the delegates. This highlights video captures the essence of what the FinTECHTalents community is all about – quality, partnerships and a welcoming approach to talent. “Send us your computer science students – we
Creating the Goldilocks of events
Thursday 15 November 2018
Ages ago I wrote a blog about my observations attending events and conferences (for the past 25 loooooong years). What I realised is that no matter what gathering I attended – whether it was a 20 person meetup or a suited and booted five star hotel conference looking at European Banking Regulations – delegates attend
In the words of our community – FinTECHTalents 2018 was ‘Inspired’
Friday 02 November 2018
I was sitting on a pallet late in the afternoon of of Day 2 of FinTECHTalents – the event was *almost* finished. The last sessions were winding down in the streams, the final FinTech companies were telling their stories on stage, one of our awesome live music acts was still entertaining the crowds while students
String Funding enables SMEs one token at a time
Friday 02 November 2018
When he is not gardening or programming ‘for fun’, Jin Chen, CEO of String Funding is working on developing a crowdfunding platform based on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and smart contracts. The creation of a token, using blockchain technology, significantly reduces transaction cost. The tokens created through the purchasing transactions on String Funding are backed
- Published in Blockchain, Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Risk, Start-ups
456 Day Ones ago – FinTECHTalents was an idea
Thursday 25 October 2018
Around 15 months ago Victor Cruz had an idea. That was FinTECHTalents. The idea was that this event would bring together, not only FinTech innovators from startups, growth companies and incumbent financial institutions, but also computer science students from the UK and Europe’s top universities. This event would not be an event at all, but
Building a pipeline of talent
Thursday 25 October 2018
Startups should always be thinking about recruitment, according to Magdalena Krön, Head of Rise London, FinTech Platform Lead at Barclays and Co-founder Geek Girl Meetup UK. While not a huge craft beer drinker, Magdalena will most likely indulge in a nice glass of wine at FinTECHTalents. FinTECHTalents is all about exploring the link between talent
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Blockchain, Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Partnership, Payments, Robotics, Start-ups
Jaroona aims to protect our blockchains
Thursday 18 October 2018
Christian Bacher, Co-Founder & CEO at Jaroona, talks us through how blockchain will offer ‘profound and diverse’ benefits to our society and how those benefits need protection from malicious vendors. While his technology is forward looking, Bacher’s beer is more traditional, preferring to savour a European draft lager. What does Jaroona do – what problem are you
- Published in Blockchain, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Security
How to be a moderator – a fool proof guide
Wednesday 03 October 2018
The first time I was asked to speak in public it was to moderate a panel. If I remember correctly, it was for an event on risk management held in Frankfurt. I was deep in the risk world at that time – it was the era of Basel II and super-fast Monte Carlo simulations. ‘FinTech’
- Published in Blockchain, Blog, Featured, Fintech, Innovation
#NoBarStools
Thursday 27 September 2018
A few years ago, at a popular ‘FinTech innovation demo show’ in London, a Russian payments company brought out the scantily clad ‘Miss Russia’ to demonstrate how the audience could use their payments app to purchase her clothing line on the internet. Many people – men and women – in the audience were shocked. My
- Published in Blockchain, Blog, Customer Experience, Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Fintech, Start-ups
Technology as a catalyst for change – INNOVATION TRIGGERS Day 1
Thursday 13 September 2018
Technology has had some bad press of late. Whether it be privacy invading algorithms on social networks or media-induced fear over the upcoming advances in robotics and AI– what tends to get lost is the way technology can inspire and fundamentally change business models, industry and society as a whole. Technology is but a tool
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Blockchain, Blog, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Robotics, Start-ups