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All hail the collective experience
Tuesday 17 March 2020
I was working in New York in the mid-1990s when our boss brought a TV into the office and set it up on a bookshelf. We all gathered round and tuned into the news. About 20 minutes later O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron
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Social distancing need not mean social isolation
Monday 09 March 2020
As we move towards a period of uncertainty where the most basic of human instincts, connecting face-to-face to learn and explore collaboration may be curtailed for a number of weeks or even months. Large scale events, such as the Mobile World Congress and SXSW, have been put on hold, which has caused a certain amount
- Published in Blog, Community & Events, Customer Experience, Featured, Opinion
Do you want to define FinTech for the next decade? Call for speakers FTT2020
Tuesday 03 March 2020
As we settle into 2020, we here at FinTECHTalents have been busy chatting to cool people, monitoring the trends and finding out what our community wants from our most ambitious Festival to date – FTT2020. This year (if you can forgive the obvious) we will be looking at how we as an ecosystem plan on
What Big Questions will define FinTech for the next decade?
Tuesday 04 February 2020
Now in our third year the FinTECHTalents Festival has emerged as the most engaging, dynamic and creatively curated FinTech experience of the year. The Festival was started with the belief that you can have networking and lead generation opportunities within an event that is also informative, thought provoking and a whole lot of fun. 2020
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Is challenger banking all about the network?
Monday 16 December 2019
At FinTECHTalents this year, Aperture’s Ben Robinson caught up with Sam Carter, the CEO of new challenger bank, Moneo, that’s set to take the Mexican banking world by storm. In this short video Sam explains: The importance of connecting with technology partners and market experts as well as potential investors at FinTECHTalents The concept of
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#BreakTheCycle Charity Challenge to launch at FinTECHTalents – sponsor a bike!
Wednesday 23 October 2019
This time last year at FinTECHTalents, while I was hosting a pop-up photography exhibition for MQ Mental Health, I had one of my big ideas. Some of you will remember it as I did my usual thing when I get an idea and bounced around like Tigger telling anyone who would listen. Now, one year
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Blog, Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents
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
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
FinTech – A cause worth fighting for
Monday 05 August 2019
FinTech has been as much a response to changing public understandings of what a financial service can do for a client as it has anything. It was a new belief that traditional banks, advisors, investors just didn’t suit everyone’s needs. As engagement with the subject has risen, through budgeting apps, challenger banks and digitised investing,
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Once upon a time … in financial services
Thursday 01 August 2019
Ammar Akhtar, Yobota’s Co-Founder & CEO Fast growing FinTech company Yobata seeks to offer a cloud-based operating platform that will drag financial institutions out of the 1970s. What is Yobota – what problem are you solving? Yobota is a rapidly growing FinTech company in London. We have built a fast and flexible cloud-based operating platform for financial
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