Community & Events
Building Societies: The Digital Challengers?
Tuesday 11 August 2020
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
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What’s on at FinTECHTalents – Series 116
Wednesday 05 August 2020
What’s on at FinTECHTalents the week of August 5th Watch the video now
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When will banks stop worrying and learn to love Open Source?
Tuesday 04 August 2020
Over 20 years ago Eric Raymond wrote a philosophical essay on a technical subject – software engineering. His story centred on two distinct styles of development: The Cathedral, where software is carefully and quietly crafted by individuals within an isolated, mostly secret development team. And The Bazaar, where chaotic, babbling open source development, miraculously coherent
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What does the future hold for FinTech in North America?
Monday 03 August 2020
Have we accomplished what we set out to do more than a decade ago? Have we altered the financial services landscape? Did we actually change the narrative? Financial technology, implemented thoughtfully, can act as a gateway to include more unbanked and underbanked within the formal financial services system. It can help serve people better, providing
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Finding Your Heart
Monday 03 August 2020
In the Future of Work will be a Human Experience, I ended with a rallying call that appeared to resonate (it was the most shared quote from that article): “Let’s put humans at the heart of why we do everything we do.” According to Steve Jobs, “”Remembering that you are going to die is the
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FinTech is …
Monday 03 August 2020
Thanks to the cosy world of ‘FinTech Influencers’, I learned that August 1st was ‘World FinTech Day’ (thank you, Dave Birch). Whether or not Hallmark is aware of this date in the calendar was less interesting to me than the reason the date was chosen. Back in 1464, Cosimo Medici, father of modern banking and
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What’s on at FinTECHTalents? Series 115
Wednesday 29 July 2020
What’s on at FinTECHTalents this week?
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Parenting and COVID-19: A reflection on inequality based on assumptions from a distant past
Tuesday 28 July 2020
The assumption made by U.S. CEOs, CIOs, policy makers, and politicians is that back-to-work and back-to-school orders exist in a vacuum — or rather in 1953. The ‘all clear’ to go back to work and school on modified or hybrid models assumes there is a caretaker at home at all times, flexible and adaptable to
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Winning the hearts and minds of customers – The Vox Pop Report
Tuesday 28 July 2020
Customers expect fast action and are quick to respond when they do not get it. In a digital world, 24/7, always on access, is the expectation and is accelerating rapidly. We set out, along with our partners at LogMeIn, to gather a snapshot of how financial services providers were striving to meet those fast-changing expectations
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Credit Unions, Innovation and the Opportunity in Earning Trust – FTT Chats Episode 23
Tuesday 28 July 2020
Benjamin Maxim, AVP of Digital Strategy, MSU Federal Credit Union 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 FTT Chat, Maxim talks about creating an innovation centre at MSU, how credit
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