Opinion
Should innovation teams adopt a FinTech or a TechFin approach?
Tuesday 17 November 2020
“You need to first identify the problem before engaging with FinTechs.” The above statement comes from the line of thought that all innovations should start with the problem. And only once the issue is fully understood one should move into the technology. Although that may be correct in other industries, I would like to think
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FinTech’s Rich Pageant – Defining FinTech is becoming broader and more varied
Tuesday 10 November 2020
As long as there have been financial products, there have been tools, procedures and services needed to create, manage, and deliver those products. Whether it is a telegraph machine, spitting out a ticker tape on Wall Street in the 1930s or a Python developer creating simple and complex, but not complicated, code to build a
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Payments – The Gateway to Consumer Confidence – FTT Chat Episode 39
Tuesday 10 November 2020
Matt Cockayne, Chief Commercial Officer at Yapily, 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. Open Finance and Open Banking featured prominently in our discussion as Cockayne noted the role that Payments play as the
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Innovating the way to Sustainable Development Goals
Tuesday 10 November 2020
Charlotte Hausemer, Vice President – Innovation and Product Strategy for Trade and Treasury solutions Americas, BNP Paribas, outlines how Sustainable Development goals must be embedded in Financial Services. Technology and innovation (including Open Finance) have crucial roles to play in enabling and accelerating positive outcomes. How can FinTechs reinvent the financial sector with green and
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US Elections, FinTech innovation and showing your story
Tuesday 03 November 2020
My husband crept into bed at 3:00 am on a Wednesday morning four years ago. I was half asleep and vaguely aware of the movement of the mattress and the creaks in the bed. “Don’t wake up,” he whispered in a dark, quiet voice. My eyes flew open. Staying up all night during a general
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Corporate Hackathons: How far have we come?
Tuesday 03 November 2020
Hackathons seem to be in Vogue this year, potentially boosted by global organisations and employees working remotely. However, and similar to other innovation methods, particularly innovation labs, they create a love-hate reaction in the financial services industry. Having been a judge of hackathons throughout the years, I keep going backwards and forwards on this matter
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Let us define FinTech – One more time – An FTT Snapshot Survey
Tuesday 03 November 2020
We know that many of you had some difficulty accessing our latest bi-monthly Big Question Snapshot Survey the other week. Rest assured our FinTECHTalents gremlins have been banished and our helpful elves have fixed our access issues. We are not one to deny our community a voice. So we are re-launching this ‘Define FinTech’ Snapshot
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Open Minds for Open Finance
Tuesday 27 October 2020
The goals and vision for the financial services sector are ambitious. The use and uptake of Open Banking may still be in its infancy, but the destination of the policy has changed. The industry is now working towards Open Finance. Regardless of the approach – regulatory push or market incentives – the industry is undergoing
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Anne and Tom – My part in their breakup*
Tuesday 27 October 2020
An email landed early in 2015 from my superior at the daily newswire where I worked. It read: ‘It looks like your agenda is unravelling’ and linked to a news article. I was putting together a FinTech event and had booked both veteran banker, Anne Boden, and FinTech entrepreneur, Tom Blomfield, as speakers. Their topic?
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A Manifesto for Payment Innovation
Tuesday 13 October 2020
Yapily have launched an ebook that outlines the current state of payments and how Open Banking will change digital payment infrastructure for businesses. If you have an interest in payments, or your business suffers from high transaction fees, card issues or you are exploring Open Banking – this one’s for you. Payments are at a
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