Fintech
FinTech (financial technology) is a catch-all term referring to software, mobile applications, and other technologies created to improve and automate traditional forms of finance for businesses and consumers alike.
RegTech with a dose of Parisian style
Wednesday 27 March 2019
Fortia is a RegTech firm that likes to ‘do things differently’. They are using artificial intelligence and Deep Learning to help companies discover new insights, reduce false positive alerts, measure the confidence of negative alerts and provide the ability to speed up the analysis of critical operational data. You can meet Fortia as part of
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Regulation, Start-ups
FinTech of the Week – Yukka Lab
Wednesday 20 March 2019
In the lead up to FinTECHTalents – Generation 2019 – every week we will showcase one of our awesome, inaugural FinTech Stories companies. Yukka Lab is the FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week This week we bring you – Yukka Lab. Fact-based actionable insights. Augmented language intelligence for the financial branch! Fintech from Berlin and Zurich.
Working together to tackle fraud
Wednesday 20 March 2019
An audience member stood up to ask a question of the opening panel of the PowerCARD User Conference organised by HPS in Marrakesh last week. The panel, which featured Abdeslam Alaoui Smaili, CEO of HPS, and Jeroen Holscher, head of global payments practice, Capgemini, focused on new trends in the payments arena. The talk touched
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Customer Experience, Cyber security, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Payments, Security
Taking the tedium out of receipts
Wednesday 20 March 2019
Poor receipt management not only costs SMEs time but money. Robert Fillmore, VP and GM of EMEA, at Sensibill explains that 71% of SMEs employ tedious, manual methods to track receipts, taking up to six to eight hours a month. Beyond that, 80% of them spend an additional three hours per month reconciling receipts to
- Published in Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Payments, Start-ups
Dispelling the small business cashflow myth
Tuesday 12 March 2019
The small and midsized enterprises (SME) segment accounts for 99% of businesses, 60% of all private sector employment and 52% of all private sector turnover, yet, this segment has been traditionally underserved and neglected by banks. As a result, and similarly to other underserved verticals, the fintech industry has been showing increasing focus on building
- Published in Customer Experience, Employment, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Partnership, Risk, Start-ups
FinTech of the Week – Pushfor
Tuesday 12 March 2019
In the lead up to FinTECHTalents – Generation 2019 – every week we will showcase one of our awesome, inaugural FinTech Stories companies. Pushfor is the FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week This week we bring you – Pushfor. Pushfor allows users to protect, control and securely share any content to any device, with realtime analytics
Our standout stars for International Women’s Day
Wednesday 06 March 2019
This International Women’s Day we decided to highlight some of our awesome Steering Committee members. We wanted to find out what they thought of robots, hear about some of the great projects they are working on as well as see whether the dreams they had as little girls match the professional lives they live today.
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Cyber security, Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Robotics
Connecting teachers and learners
Wednesday 06 March 2019
“Our biggest startup lesson is finding early adopters that want to work as partners and really embedding that relationship and treating it like a partnership,” according to Pam Bateson, CEO of Thrive Partners. Speaking at FinTECHTalents 2018, Thrive Partners provides on demand mentoring and coaching services for individuals and businesses. “Our belief that conversations for
- Published in Employment, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Partnership, Start-ups
FinTech of the Week – Jaroona
Wednesday 06 March 2019
In the lead up to FinTECHTalents – Generation 2019 – every week we will showcase one of our awesome, inaugural FinTech Stories companies. Jaroona is the FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week This week we bring you – Jaroona. The JSN (Jaroona Security Node) is a revolutionary new blockchain node that acts as an automated, distributed
Basic tech skills can change lives
Wednesday 27 February 2019
“If we want products and services that are fit for purpose we need a massively diverse workforce and diverse teams to bring all of that knowledge and experience together,” says Dr. Sue Black OBE, Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist at Durham University, and all around tech icon. Speaking to Hot Topics at FinTECHTalents
- Published in Customer Experience, Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Featured, Fintech, Innovation