Diversity and Inclusion
Exciting technology holds great promise for solving great challenges
Thursday 19 July 2018
Robotics, blockchain, and Japanese management culture have all fascinated Mitesh Soni, Senior Director, Innovation and Fintech at Finastra. Today we pick the mind of our newest FinTECHTalents Steering Committee member, as our community looks forward to creating a future that better serves stakeholders across the economy. He gives his views on planning a career, what
- Published in Blockchain, Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Fintech, Innovation, Robotics
Fintech in corporate and investment banking: a collaborative story
Wednesday 11 July 2018
We caught up with Liesl Bebb-McKay, of the FOUNDeRY, RMB’s disruption & innovation unit about fintech developments happening across Africa and her views on a diverse workforce of the future 1. Can you tell us a bit about the FOUNDeRY and how it operates? You can read all about the FOUNDeRY here https://www.foundery.co.za/. FOUNDeRY is
- Published in Blockchain, Diversity and Inclusion, Fintech, Innovation
FinTech is real, not a talking point
Tuesday 10 July 2018
Many years ago (well four years ago) the braver Fintech-y conferences would invite speakers from the ‘innovation world’. Gurus and thought leaders and (my favourite job title of all time) futurists, who would venture onto the stage to give a talk or sit on a panel. These folks were meant to scare the dark suited
- Published in Blockchain, Blog, Diversity and Inclusion, Employment
Why did I join?
Wednesday 04 July 2018
About a year ago I had a thought. While I was fulfilling my emotional needs via my personal blog, Girl, Disrupted, which tends to explore my inner thoughts, outer failures and minor moments of brilliance 😉. But from a more practical point of view I needed to see what I could offer – what ‘products’
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Fintech, Innovation
The act of doing good can both energise teams and deliver tangible benefits to society
Friday 15 June 2018
We recently caught up with Kate Bolton, the Founder of Comms for Good. Kate has a passion for building communities and weaving CSR into the fabric of teams rather than delegating the activity to a separate function. The act of doing good – investing and giving back to the communities in which we work –
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Fintech, Innovation
FinTECHTalents teams up with Magna Carta on Digital Skills Report
Friday 01 June 2018
We are delighted to be partnering with Magna Carta Communications on a report mapping the UK digital skills gap. The report, as Simon notes below, is an important step, not just in quantifying the shortages and shining light onto key areas of scarcity but also in terms of informing future policy and corporate strategy. The
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment
The Talent of Tomorrow: Schroders App Hack: Easter Edition (aka awesome girls coding)
Thursday 03 May 2018
I had the pleasure of joining the judging panel for a recent Stemettes hackathon run with Schroders. It was the most fun I’ve had at an event in ages (bearing in mind that FinTECHTalents hasn’t run yet…) and if you are thinking that the challenge of creating a mobile app to encourage Savings and Investing
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Fintech
Avoiding the consequences of a looming techphobia
Monday 26 March 2018
As Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister of the UK, noted during a keynote at the Innovate Finance Global Summit (IFGS) in London, attitudes towards the dream of the internet are in danger of souring. The promise of tech driven progress has been tainted and, as the narrative goes, been scuppered by corporate interests, an engine
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Fintech, Innovation
Fantastic tech skills and where to find them
Monday 26 March 2018
In and amongst numerous conversations around innovation and ecosystems across many panels at the Innovate Finance Global Summit (IFGS), the issue of tech talent was mentioned again and again. Great ideas, customer centricity, new business models, innovative tech are not driven by machines (yet) but by humans. Institutions (big and small) flagged the issue of
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Innovation
Innovating for the ages
Thursday 22 February 2018
Technology has enabled and catalysed a new and improved range of financial services. Now is the time to explore how the art of the possible can be applied to meeting the challenges and needs of the non-millennial.
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Innovation