Innovation
Taking the difficulty out of scaling and growth
Tuesday 21 January 2020
We sat down with Ben Robinson, Practice Head, Marketing and Strategy at Pangea about how they help companies build, scale and go to market in a quick and effective way at FinTECHTalents 2019. What is the current state of FinTech? If you think about the big change that’s happened from the Industrial Age to the
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Changing pace, refreshing skill sets and FinTech opportunities
Tuesday 21 January 2020
We sat down with Mark Homans, Senior Relationship Director at Santander UK, to talk about the 25 year old Santander Universities Programme at FinTECHTalents 2019. Watch the video now: Can you tell us about the Santander Universities Programme? Santander Universities has been globally established now for 25 years. The programme was established by our chairman,
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Tech-first is about culture – From top to bottom
Monday 20 January 2020
We sat down with Andrew Smith, CTO, ClearBank to talk about what it means to be a Chief Digital Officer, creating a ‘tech-first’ culture and why he considers himself lucky that ClearBank was imagined from a blank sheet of paper at FinTECHTalents 2019. Watch the video now: Where do you stand on whether banks still
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Is Open Source eating FinTech?
Tuesday 07 January 2020
We sat down with Nigel Abbott, Regional Director, North EMEA at GitHub to talk about how Open Source fits in today’s regulatory and competitive landscape at FinTECHTalents 2019. Watch the video now. What is the role of GitHub and Open Source software in innovation? You go from a launching a product in 2008 with no
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Lighter, friendlier, more ethical FinTech
Tuesday 07 January 2020
We sat down with Matt Locsin, Head of Innovation at Publicis Sapient to talk about the forces of change in FinTech, short and long term goals and what incumbent banks need to do to rise to the challenge at FinTECHTalents 2019. Watch the video now: How are incumbent banks working with the forces of change?
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Is challenger banking all about the network?
Monday 16 December 2019
At FinTECHTalents this year, Aperture’s Ben Robinson caught up with Sam Carter, the CEO of new challenger bank, Moneo, that’s set to take the Mexican banking world by storm. In this short video Sam explains: The importance of connecting with technology partners and market experts as well as potential investors at FinTECHTalents The concept of
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The entrepreneurial vibe that is pushing growth at Starling Bank
Monday 16 December 2019
We sat down with Anne Boden, CEO at Starling Bank to talk about SMEs, startup expansion and cheeky tweets about USD accounts at FinTECHTalents 2019. Watch the video now. You are entrepreneurial. How does that vibe translate here? Well it’s been quite a journey getting to where we are today and our role in life
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If the customers aren’t better off – FinTech is useless
Monday 16 December 2019
We sat down with Aritra Chakravarty, CEO at Dozens to talk about the future of banking, customer incentives and providing a platform for use by banks and emerging FinTech companies at FinTECHTalents 2019. Watch the video now. Do banks play a central role in our future? In the debate I sort of differentiated between banking
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Dark secrets, financial services and Open Source
Monday 16 December 2019
We sat down with Nigel Abbott, Regional Director, North EMEA at GitHub to talk about how Open Source is being used in financial services at FinTECHTalents 2019. Watch the video now. Is Open Source a ‘dark secret’ in financial services? I think for a number of reasons I would suspect that there’s an element of
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Community of the future for financial services
Tuesday 05 November 2019
Italian banking body, CBI, takes to the FinTECHTalents stage to outline CBI Globe – it’s newly launched Global Open Banking Ecosystem. CBI has been serving the Italian payments market for 20 years – what brings you to FinTECHTalents? The Italian banks, like most continental retail banks, are facing different challenges related to improved profitability, fulfilling
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