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Build Back Better – Purpose and Values Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, I focused on tackling Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), as this is an appropriate place to start when considering how to build back better. Encouragingly, this past week also saw several announcements on ESG by financial services companies – Tandem Bank acquired green lender Allium, HSBC set up a
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Don’t trust anyone in FinTech who tells you not to trust anyone over 30

Athena was the goddess of wisdom in Greek Mythology. We all know wisdom comes with experience. Knowing that I have always been puzzled by the nature of her (mythical) birth. Athena only had one parent – and wasn’t really born at all. She didn’t play as a child. She didn’t have a stroppy adolescence. She
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Regulating crypto and FinTech – a full inbox for regulators – FTT Chats Episode 30

Watch the video now!  Steven Gatti, Partner and Head of the Financial Regulatory Practice at Clifford Chance, 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. His practice spans the contentious matters of financial regulation
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Technology & Ethics – The right thing to do is also the best thing to do – FTT Chats Episode 29

Watch the video now!  Megan Gordon, Partner and one of the leaders in the Clifford Chance US technology practice, 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. Looking at the new entrants into the
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Creative destruction: Can ethics be hardwired into technology? – FTT Chats Episode 28

Watch the video now!  Katia Walsh, Chief Strategy and AI Officer, Levi Strauss 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. We spoke to Katia Walsh about her unique role at Levi Strauss which
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A chin wag with a recovering banker – FTT Chats Episode 27

Watch the video now!  Leda Glyptis, FinTech Provocateur 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 Leda discusses FinTech history, what innovation really means inside incumbent banks and why ‘risk of
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FinTECHTalents Virtual Nordics will be about the Forest and the Trees

Every year, in December, a tree is erected in the middle of Trafalgar Square in central London. It is covered in twinkle lights and topped with a star and shines like a beacon during the chilly and rainy weather that tends to mark the Christmas season in the UK (rather than reflect gently falling snowflakes
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Build Back Better – Part 1

As the coronavirus pandemic took a grip on our world back in April 2020, I was listening to a popular FinTech podcast and was struck by a quote from John Hope Bryant, CEO of Operation Hope: “This is a global reset of our virtues and our values and a chance for us to get it
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Looking into an Open Future

Open banking is coming to North America and is taking shape in different ways across the continent. Whether driven by policy and regulation or market forces, the impact will be felt across the financial services sector. From catalysing the development of new providers to enabling existing institutions to keep pace with a fast-changing industry, the
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Fear & Ethics in Technology

Technology and the change it propels so often outpace not only the comprehension of those on the outside of its development but also a full reckoning of its impact on individuals, businesses, entire industries, institutions and broader society. Its path of creative destruction creates countless new opportunities and use cases but also raises new concerns.
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