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.
Creating the Goldilocks of events
Thursday 15 November 2018
Ages ago I wrote a blog about my observations attending events and conferences (for the past 25 loooooong years). What I realised is that no matter what gathering I attended – whether it was a 20 person meetup or a suited and booted five star hotel conference looking at European Banking Regulations – delegates attend
Shifting Pathways – Dispelling myths and finding your road to FinTech
Thursday 15 November 2018
Yolt, the smart thinking money app, took part in FinTECHTalents to debunk myths around millennial money habits and stereotypical career paths. Our aim: to correct myths and unjust stereotypes whilst showing there really is no single way to reach your career goal. Indeed, 65% of jobs that the next generation will do don’t even exist
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Start-ups
Barclays, Transferwise and the curse of Sassy Magazine
Friday 09 November 2018
I was 14 years old when I put my August 1986 copy of Seventeen magazine in the trash. I remember it well. I was at my family’s beach house close to Cape Cod. It was the ‘Back to School’ issue. Jennifer Connelly was on the cover. She looked beautiful, tall and slim with long thick
- Published in Customer Experience, Fintech, Innovation, Partnership, Start-ups
Facebook’s data record a ‘catastrophe,’ says AI head of one of the world’s largest asset managers
Wednesday 07 November 2018
Oscar Williams-Grut, Senior City Correspondent, Yahoo Finance UK The head of artificial intelligence (AI) at one of the world’s largest asset managers has said Facebook’s (FB) recent record on user data is a “catastrophe.” Charles Radclyffe, the head of AI at Fidelity Asset Management appeared on a panel discussing “Ethics, privacy, and independence in the
- Published in Data Privacy, Fintech, Regulation
How to stop your job from becoming redundant – top bankers share their tips
Wednesday 07 November 2018
Oscar Williams-Grut, Senior City Correspondent, Yahoo Finance UK Upskilling. Continuous learning. In-work training. Whatever you call it, top bankers agree that finance workers will have to keep learning across their careers if they want to stay relevant — and keep their jobs — in a fast-changing industry. “I think one of increasing skill sets of
- Published in Employment, Fintech
Hip-hop, hamburgers and workplace diversity: how firms can be more inclusive
Wednesday 07 November 2018
Oscar Williams-Grut, Senior City Correspondent, Yahoo Finance UK Is diversity just about race, gender, culture, religion, and sexuality? Not according to Barclays’ Kirsty Rutter. The chief innovation officer of Barclays UK was asked about how banks and finance firms can improve their diversity efforts at the FintechTalents conference this week in London. Rutter said she
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Fintech
Saving for a home – one step at a time
Friday 02 November 2018
StepLadder came to FinTECHTalents this year to show the community that Generation Rent can get on the property ladder via money circles. What does StepLadder do – what problem are you solving? We’re helping First Time buyers own their own home faster (& better)! We are here to fix a broken system for generation rent.
- Published in Customer Experience, Fintech, Innovation, Risk, Start-ups
In the words of our community – FinTECHTalents 2018 was ‘Inspired’
Friday 02 November 2018
I was sitting on a pallet late in the afternoon of of Day 2 of FinTECHTalents – the event was *almost* finished. The last sessions were winding down in the streams, the final FinTech companies were telling their stories on stage, one of our awesome live music acts was still entertaining the crowds while students
String Funding enables SMEs one token at a time
Friday 02 November 2018
When he is not gardening or programming ‘for fun’, Jin Chen, CEO of String Funding is working on developing a crowdfunding platform based on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and smart contracts. The creation of a token, using blockchain technology, significantly reduces transaction cost. The tokens created through the purchasing transactions on String Funding are backed
- Published in Blockchain, Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Risk, Start-ups
The importance of secure communications during mergers and acquisitions
Monday 29 October 2018
PushFor demonstrates the power of security by design to mitigate risks in the mergers & acquisitions process. Pushing – rather than sending sensitive information – allows mobile executives to collaborate and share sensitive information safely. Mike Williams, CEO, Pushfor Mergers and acquisitions take place every day (there were 2,183 globally in 2017 alone) with a
- Published in Data Privacy, Fintech, Identity, Innovation, Risk, Security, Start-ups