I tell the story of ‘My first hackathon’ often. It lives as the intro to a keynote address, I give called ‘The Fintech Mindset’. Quite simply, the story goes like this: A PR friend of mine invites me to ‘London’s first payments hackathon’ at Google Campus in East London. Now, I had no idea what

The rise of “The Embedders’ When Walmart, the world’s largest company by revenue, announced earlier this year they are planning to launch their own fintech start-up and hired two Goldman Sachs veterans, it became clear this conglomerate is preparing to become a major force in the financial sector. In an industry like retail, where razor thin

Are credit unions and fintechs friends, competitors or collaborators? Fintech Talents North America brought together an impressive panel of innovative leaders from credit unions to explore how they can create beneficial working partnerships with innovative fintechs to the benefit of both their organizations and, crucially, their end customers and communities. The pandemic upended many of

There have been some major news stories in the world of identity over the past few weeks. The Tokyo 2020 organisation announced contactless, real-time face recognition will be used at this year’s Olympic games. In the UK, the extent of public anxiety and confusion over the use of medical identity data became clear, as the

Your weekly resource for noteworthy news, fascinating features, and fintech titbits that caught our eye. Whether you live by your Twitter lists, save your Google Alerts or simply scroll through LinkedIn for insights and commentary – there is a wealth of content that weaves a global story around fintech. Our job at Fintech Talents is

The scale and pace of bank branch closures over the past decade has been unprecedented. Once the heart of thriving communities, building societies and banks are rapidly becoming a thing of the past in hundreds of towns and villages. According to a Which analysis, almost 4,300 physical bank branches have closed since the beginning of

Leaders build companies and create products and inspire teams in large and small organizations in many different sectors around the world. They are the type of people that not only produce great results but attract and retain talent that go on serve as great leaders themselves. Who are those people in fintech? What drove them

Your weekly resource for noteworthy news, fascinating features, and fintech titbits that caught our eye. Whether you live by your Twitter lists, save your Google Alerts or simply scroll through LinkedIn for insights and commentary – there is a wealth of content that weaves a global story around fintech. Our job at Fintech Talents is

Designing digital identity to meet high levels of trust, while ensuring credentials are interoperable, portable and protect the holder’s personal data, is no easy task. Customers are becoming more and more aware of their online identities, they want security, data privacy and control. On many occasions, when verifying your identity online you are really verifying

My 16th year old son has a small group of besties he talks to every day. One girl lives in Newcastle, another boy lives in Kent (and goes to his school) and a third is based in Atlanta, Georgia – a state his American mother has never been to. This is a group my son