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A chin wag with a recovering banker – FTT Chats Episode 27

Watch the video now!  Leda Glyptis, FinTech Provocateur joins us for our ongoing series – FTT Chats – where we sit down with the great and the good of FinTech to discuss innovation, new entrants, and emerging technologies. In this chat Leda discusses FinTech history, what innovation really means inside incumbent banks and why ‘risk of
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FinTECHTalents Virtual Nordics will be about the Forest and the Trees

Every year, in December, a tree is erected in the middle of Trafalgar Square in central London. It is covered in twinkle lights and topped with a star and shines like a beacon during the chilly and rainy weather that tends to mark the Christmas season in the UK (rather than reflect gently falling snowflakes
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Build Back Better – Part 1

As the coronavirus pandemic took a grip on our world back in April 2020, I was listening to a popular FinTech podcast and was struck by a quote from John Hope Bryant, CEO of Operation Hope: “This is a global reset of our virtues and our values and a chance for us to get it
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Lost In Books – Our Recommended Reads This Summer

For most, if not all of us, 2020 has been anything but normal. From global pandemic to recession; from sudden onset of remote work and virtual learning, we have been busy dealing with what life has thrown at us. In times of chaos and uncertainty, books can serve as a refuge. To understand how to
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Your Uber has arrived – FTT Chats Episode 26

Bijon Mehta, Global Head of Financial Services at Twilio joins us for our ongoing series – FTT Chats – where we sit down with the great and the good of FinTech to discuss innovation, new entrants, and emerging technologies. Twilio aims to create the worlds leading customer engagement platform. A core part of offering is an API
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Coming home to FinTech – FTT Chats Episode 25

Lisa Violet, Chief Auditor, Varo Bank, joins us for our ongoing series – FTT Chats – where we sit down with the great and the good of FinTech to discuss innovation, new entrants, and emerging technologies. We spoke with Lisa Violet about what it means for Varo to be the first FinTech to be granted a national
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What’s on at FinTECHTalents – Series 117

What’s on at FinTECHTalents the week of August 12th, 2020 Watch the video now
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Will every company become a FinTech Company?

Our world is full of pithy one-liners and Tweet-worthy phrases. We’ve all been to conferences where we have heard: ‘Innovate or die’ or ‘Ignore the HiPPOs’ or ‘We’re just a technology company with a banking licence.’ Many of these well-worn keynote fillers have roots in real life case studies, lessons from the trenches of innovation
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FTT Virtual North America – Innovation in your backyard

Across North America there are over 10,000 community banks and credit unions, serving a broad range of communities (from farmers to metropolitan residents) with a diverse range of needs. Embedded in their communities and with deep knowledge of the customers that they serve, do these institutions have the potential to become the true innovative and
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Building Societies: The Digital Challengers?

While the UK banking community debates the competitiveness and viability of new FinTech entrants, challenger banks and innovative, customer-focused product offerings – real disruption to the industry may emerge from an established and long-standing group – Building Societies. While the FinTech revolution evolves and matures, the overarching aim is to deliver better outcomes to end
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