Diversity and Inclusion
Impacting Society for Good – Does FinTech have an Answer? – FTT Chats Episode 32
Tuesday 15 September 2020
Watch the video now! Kristian Luoma, Head of OP Lab, OP Financial Group 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 Kristian discusses financial health, how a move towards a cashless
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Build Back Better – Purpose and Values Part 2
Tuesday 01 September 2020
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
Tuesday 01 September 2020
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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Creative destruction: Can ethics be hardwired into technology? – FTT Chats Episode 28
Tuesday 25 August 2020
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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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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Once Relegated as a Corporate Expense, Diversity & Inclusion is Now a Matter of Survival
Tuesday 04 August 2020
Diversity and Inclusion has become a buzzword in corporate America, on trend with phrases like “’lean in’ and ‘having a seat at the table’. No matter how well-intentioned these phrases and buzzwords are, they have done little to progress true diversity and inclusion for women, minorities, and people of colour in the workplace. If we’ve
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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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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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What’s on at FinTECHTalents? – Series 114
Wednesday 22 July 2020
What’s on at FinTECHTalents this week?