Community & Events
Where is the Heart(land) of Banking?
Tuesday 06 October 2020
by Lisa Moyle
“Technology comes and goes, financial needs change over time but at the very heart of financial services, this remains a human endeavour”, Bradley Leimer The lunchtime debate at FTT Virtual North America provides a compelling and inspirational overview of how a range of financial institutions, from community banks to the first digital provider gain a
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Is ESG a ‘nice to have’ or a ‘need to have’ in 2020? – The FTT Snapshot Survey Returns!
Tuesday 06 October 2020
by Lisa Moyle
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 we are re-launching our FTT Snapshot Surveys – a bi-monthly
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Was 1984 the birth of FinTech in the Nordics? – FTT Chats Episode 36
Tuesday 06 October 2020
by Lisa Moyle
Watch the video interview now! Nils-Robert Persson, Chairman at Vermiculus Financial Technology and former CEO of OM 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 Nils-Robert discusses exchanges, clearing systems, and
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Open Banking, evolving and growing, in Europe – FTT Chat Episode 37
Tuesday 06 October 2020
by Lisa Moyle
Watch the video interview now! Rūta Merkeviciute, Head of Division for E-money and Payment institution supervision, Bank of Lithuania 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 Rūta discusses the benefits
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The magic of infrastructure is what it enables
Tuesday 29 September 2020
by Lisa Moyle
In 1956, then US President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act, which created the Interstate Highway System. The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, to give it its full name, is a network of controlled-access highways that extend throughout the continuous United States. Having served as the Supreme Commander of
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FinTECHTalents Virtual North America: “This way there be dragons, this way there be gold…”
Tuesday 29 September 2020
by Lisa Moyle
(Re) Building a Bank, a Fireside Chat with Hans Brown, Global Head of Enterprise Innovation and Global Chief Information Officer for Corporate Technology at BNY Mellon and Lianna Brindad, Head of Yahoo Finance UK In case you missed Hans Brown, and Lianna Brindad discussing how to bring both change and continuity to a 236 year
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Building products that are trusted and loved – FTT Chats Episode 34
Tuesday 29 September 2020
by Lisa Moyle
Watch the interview now! Søren Rode Jain Andreasen, Chief Digital Officer at Danske Bank 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 Søren discusses applying ‘startup principals’ to product development and
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The Urgency of Great Customer Experience & The Future of the Branch – FTT Chats Episode 35
Tuesday 29 September 2020
by Lisa Moyle
Watch the interview now! For this edition of FTT Chats – our ongoing series where we sit down with the great and the good of FinTech to discuss innovation, new entrants, and emerging technologies – we were joined by two speakers from LogMeIn, Nick Pegram, Director, specialising in AI Products and Celine Allain, Financial
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Innovation and Resilience: Building Societies in Times of Crisis
Tuesday 22 September 2020
by Laura Camplisson
The founding of the UK’s first Building Society was an act of innovation, built entirely on the needs of the people. The, perhaps familiar, story began in the year 1775. A society, the first of it’s kind, was set up to pool the resources of its working-class members, giving each the chance to purchase land
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North America goes to the Polls – Pandemic Insight
Tuesday 22 September 2020
by Lisa Moyle
What has been your greatest challenge during the pandemic? (28.6%) Client engagement (15.9%) Customer service (20.6%) Onboarding new customers (28.6%) Managing remote teams (6.3%) Shifting to digital access During FinTECHTalents North America, the team ran several polls across the day. We asked our attendees a broad range of questions, from their favourite speaker quote to
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