Innovation
FinTech of the Week is Aire
Tuesday 17 March 2020
In our ongoing series, our FinTECHTalents FinTech of the week is Aire, a credit insight service on a mission to make credit equitable for everyone. Providing a range of credit risk and affordability insights, Aire drives fairer decision-making across the customer lifecycle for lenders. Andy Moffat, Business Development Director at Aire, discusses the inherent issues
FinTech of the Week is Yobota
Tuesday 10 March 2020
In our ongoing series, our FinTECHTalents FinTech of the week is Yobota, which provides a platform to enable financial institutions to create and run innovative financial products much faster than other core banking solutions on the market. In a special two part interview, Founder and CEO, Ammar Akhtar talks about core banking, working with incumbent
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Are ‘cool banks’ delivering on FinTech?
Tuesday 10 March 2020
BankiFi’s Founding partner Conny Dorrestijn discusses Open Banking and how the entire FinTech ecosystem – banks, new FinTech entrants – can work together to support consumers and SMEs alike. “Two years ago we were all very excited about banks being very cool and having these brilliant app stores where you could shop for everything,” says
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Students bring an ‘open mind’ to FinTech
Tuesday 10 March 2020
Dr. Malgorzata Sulimierska, Senior Lecturer in Banking and FinTech (Accounting and Finance) discusses how the talent of the future (students) are exploring and researching the evolving technologies and innovative practices shaping the financial services industry today. Dr. Sulimierska also discusses the new ‘FinTech’ programme at the University, which was launched last year. “When I was
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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
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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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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
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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,
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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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