FinTECHTalents
Embedded finance and the rise of the SuperApp
Tuesday 13 July 2021
Will the rise of the superapp model and more deeply embedded banking usher in new levels of democratized access to financial services and further our quest toward full financial inclusion? The future of finance is embedded When we think about banking today, we see more and more examples of how banking as a function has
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Digital identity & vaccine passports
Tuesday 13 July 2021
Hailed as an effective way to get industries like travel and events moving again, vaccine passports have received a great deal of interest from national governments and travellers looking to go abroad, as well as apprehension by some on privacy grounds. The concept behind a vaccine passport is simple. Through either a physical pass or
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FTT Building Societies – The Customer at the Heart of Digital Transformation
Tuesday 13 July 2021
At 2020’s launch of FTT Building Societies the day kicked off with an exploration of how members sit at the heart of everything. Any digital innovation has to be driven by improved experience – creating meaningful interaction and a seamless journey for customers. Discover how mobile apps, digital identity solutions and conversational AI are enhancing
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The regulatory briefing: Fintech Talents North America
Tuesday 06 July 2021
Financial Services and fintech moves fast and that pace of change has accelerated over recent years. Given that change and the whole range of new partners that are part of that fast-changing ecosystem, it is important to take the time to understand how the regulatory regime has moved and evolved as well. It is equally
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What’s the latest on strong customer authentication?
Tuesday 06 July 2021
At FTT Identity 2021, we were joined by a panel of experts from Starling Bank and the Payment Systems Regulator in the UK, and FIDO Alliance and Capital One in the US. They discussed the latest initiatives, policies, technologies and demands driving strong customer authentication. It was very interesting to compare the commonalities and differences
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Finding your next big adventure – Fintech Leaders Series
Tuesday 29 June 2021
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
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Everything you think you know about Fintech is false
Tuesday 29 June 2021
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
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The rise of “The Embedders”
Tuesday 29 June 2021
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
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Credit unions & fintechs: How to create a more perfect union
Tuesday 22 June 2021
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
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Retooling branches for the future
Tuesday 22 June 2021
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
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