Innovation
Why did I join?
Wednesday 04 July 2018
About a year ago I had a thought. While I was fulfilling my emotional needs via my personal blog, Girl, Disrupted, which tends to explore my inner thoughts, outer failures and minor moments of brilliance 😉. But from a more practical point of view I needed to see what I could offer – what ‘products’
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Fintech, Innovation
The act of doing good can both energise teams and deliver tangible benefits to society
Friday 15 June 2018
We recently caught up with Kate Bolton, the Founder of Comms for Good. Kate has a passion for building communities and weaving CSR into the fabric of teams rather than delegating the activity to a separate function. The act of doing good – investing and giving back to the communities in which we work –
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Fintech, Innovation
Do large financial services companies and fintech disruptors need to partner up to survive?
Friday 01 June 2018
Despite having a substantial pool of resources to draw on, many of the big financial organisations have been slow to adapt to new technology. We speak to Matt Bunn, partner & co-founder of Capita Scaling Partner on how financial institutions can get ahead of the game by partnering with innovative fintech start-ups. ‘Fintech in the
- Published in Fintech, Innovation, Start-ups
Launching a European E-invoicing Network
Monday 09 April 2018
PSD2 has been designed to increase competition in the payment industry in Europe. Third party access also positions large tech providers with their sizable universe of users (think Alipay, Google, Facebook) and other large global payment providers as a real competitive threat to the European payment services industry. Economies of scale can be created through
- Published in Innovation
Avoiding the consequences of a looming techphobia
Monday 26 March 2018
As Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister of the UK, noted during a keynote at the Innovate Finance Global Summit (IFGS) in London, attitudes towards the dream of the internet are in danger of souring. The promise of tech driven progress has been tainted and, as the narrative goes, been scuppered by corporate interests, an engine
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Fintech, Innovation
Fantastic tech skills and where to find them
Monday 26 March 2018
In and amongst numerous conversations around innovation and ecosystems across many panels at the Innovate Finance Global Summit (IFGS), the issue of tech talent was mentioned again and again. Great ideas, customer centricity, new business models, innovative tech are not driven by machines (yet) but by humans. Institutions (big and small) flagged the issue of
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Innovation
The evolution of invoice data exchange
Thursday 01 March 2018
Charlie-India is revolutionising the traditional approach to invoicing solutions through its unique data-exchange platform. It allows banks and fintechs to implement the technology at a much faster pace than traditional API solutions.
- Published in Fintech, Innovation
Innovating for the ages
Thursday 22 February 2018
Technology has enabled and catalysed a new and improved range of financial services. Now is the time to explore how the art of the possible can be applied to meeting the challenges and needs of the non-millennial.
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Innovation
Technology and talent: innovating financial services
Monday 15 January 2018
FinTECHTalents meets the demands for tech talent whilst exploring the future trajectory of financial services and the technology driving innovation.
- Published in Employment, Innovation
Pushing The Limits Of Agile
Friday 13 October 2017
Before I explore the main topic of this article, I want to pose a question to you: What is Digital Transformation?
- Published in Innovation