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A fintech is born

Hear from Charlie Platt , President, EMEA, SAP Fioneer, as he walks us through what has been a very busy journey since being established just 16 months ago. As the banking and insurance specific products were taken out of SAP, a new and agile fintech with deep product expertise was born. Charlie shares his views
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Technology fit for a mutual

Michael Fisher, Chief Product Officer from Mutual Vision sat down with us at the Fintech Talents Festival to discuss the digital journeys of mutual sector organisations. Mutual in name and nature, Mutual Vision provides core banking plus digital products (eg online savings and lending platforms) to the UKs small and medium-sized Building Societies, as well
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FTT Lending 3.0: An Interview with Tracey Horner, Head of lendwithcare at CARE International UK

Ahead of FTT Lending 3.0 2023, I caught up with one of our Rockstar speakers Tracey Horner, Head of lendwithcare, to discuss all things microlending…   Microlending and microfinance, like all financial processes, has its champions and its critics. How is lendwithcare different from its peers? There are a number of ways that Lendwithcare is
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Growing pains for future gains

Kicking off the Fintech Talents Festival in style, I spoke to Andy Hirst, Head of Industries, GROW with SAP – a programme for scale-up companies. GROW with SAP supports companies that are under seven years old, who have achieved initial funding rounds and are now looking to expand into new countries and new product areas.
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Regulation fit for a bank

Clifford Chance always brings much needed expertise to the Fintech Talents Festival. I spoke with Diego Ballon Ossio, a Senior Associate at Clifford Chance, who pointed to some of the regulatory developments that our community needs to keep a close eye on. Understanding those regulatory requirements is fundamental to building a new products, mapping the
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Building great card products at speed

Another great conversation from the Fintech Talents Festival, this time with Venla Pouru, Director, Strategy & Growth, Enfuce. The hallmarks of modern card processing and what it means to customers are important to understand. Venla outlines what the fast-growing Enfuce, now with a UK office, can deliver to end-users. Whether a fintech or other brands
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Can access to financial services be too perfect?

Embedded finance figured prominently in my conversation with Sergiu Negut, Co-founder & CSO, fintech OS at the Fintech Talents Festival. Embedded Finance, as he notes, isn’t new but has attracted mounting attention in recent years. Sergiu shared his views on some of the most interesting developments. For the first time in almost a decade, discussions
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Collaboration is the new innovation

Nitin Iyer, Head of GTM for Platform at Finastra joined us for a fascinating chat at a buzzy (and noisy) Fintech Talents Festival. Platforms were much discussed and mentioned across six stages of content at the Fintech Talents Festival last month. It was great to get the inside view on their importance to innovation in
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Decarbonizing crypto – a step on the journey to net zero

At the Fintech Talents Festival 2022 Kirsteen Harrison, Environmental Advisor to blockchain fintech Zumo Enterprise shared her views on decarbonizing crypto. Along with our 2000+ participants, she also took the opportunity of being at the Festival to learn more about trends in fintech and to network with peers. Working with Zumo Enterprise from the outset,
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The journey from SaaS to BaaS

Josh Cogan, Lead Client Partner, Banking as a Service, Finastra sat down with us at the Fintech Talents Festival to share his thoughts on embedded finance and the Festival experience. Josh spoke to the evolution of software as a service to banking as a service. How on top of delivering bespoke online software applications, core
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