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Social distancing need not mean social isolation
Monday 09 March 2020
As we move towards a period of uncertainty where the most basic of human instincts, connecting face-to-face to learn and explore collaboration may be curtailed for a number of weeks or even months. Large scale events, such as the Mobile World Congress and SXSW, have been put on hold, which has caused a certain amount
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FinTech of the Week is Charlie India creating a seamless world for SMEs
Tuesday 03 March 2020
In our ongoing series, our FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week is Charlie India which provides online services and technology for invoicing for the SME market. In this exclusive interview, Katalin Kauzli, CEO, Charlie India talks about working with banks to offer a seamless, end to end e-invoicing solution and launching their enterprise offering. “E-invoicing is
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Should we be afraid of AI?
Tuesday 03 March 2020
Clara Durodié, executive chair of the Cognitive Finance Group and author of Decoding AI in Financial Services: Business Implications for Boards and Professionals discusses the concerns around AI and the possibility of providing data statements, much like consumers receive bank statements, to see how their data is being collected, used, sold and even abused. “Some
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Customer Experience, Cyber security, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Video
Do you want to define FinTech for the next decade? Call for speakers FTT2020
Tuesday 03 March 2020
As we settle into 2020, we here at FinTECHTalents have been busy chatting to cool people, monitoring the trends and finding out what our community wants from our most ambitious Festival to date – FTT2020. This year (if you can forgive the obvious) we will be looking at how we as an ecosystem plan on
Our Standout Stars for International Women’s Day 2020
Tuesday 03 March 2020
For International Women’s Day 2020 we, once again, are showcasing the awesome women in our community. This year we asked our standout stars what empowers them, what items are ‘on their list’ and who would they most like to sit down with for a ‘fireside chat’. Their answers are as varied as they are inspirational.
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The uncomfortable forest of credit – for Aire’s CEO, it’s personal
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Aneesh Varma, Founder and CEO of Aire talks about his personal mission to find a ‘better way’ to deal with decisions around credit and creditworthiness and how Aire staffers are encouraged to enter ‘the uncomfortable forest’. What is Aire – what problem are you solving? Aire started with a simple purpose. For me, it was
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FinTech of the Week is Owlin, AI-powered real-time insights for risk management
Tuesday 25 February 2020
In our ongoing series, our FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week is Owlin, which provides a news analytics tool that helps finance professionals monitor their portfolio proactively, continuously, and in real-time. In this exclusive interview, sales director Bob Koster, “The key advantages with AI and specifically machine learning or entity recognition is that we can filter
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What does it mean to be a data philosopher?
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Charles Radclyffe, former head of AI at Fidelity International examines the role data and artificial intelligence will have on society, the workplace and our industries when looking at how to design a model for how the world is today and how the world should be tomorrow. “A few years ago I used to run a
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Robotics, Video
Can regulations stifle innovation? Yes, but it is all about ‘balance’.
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Julia Black, external member, Prudential Regulatory Authority looks at the trends for RegTech for 2020, the role artificial intelligence and machine learning will play in shaping innovation and how culture can impact how financial institutions and regulatory bodies find compliance solutions together. AI and machine learning will feature heavily in 2020, according to Black. “Obviously,
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Identity, Innovation, Regulation, Video
To branch or not to [bank] branch?
Tuesday 18 February 2020
The Financial Brand’s Jim Marous looks at the future of banks and the consistent chipping away of many traditional consumers banking services by new innovative entrants. “Uber was the first non-financial organisation to come out and say we have the option of becoming a banking service company beyond just our drivers,” says Marous. Currently, many
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