Opinion
Open Banking: The Journey and an updated Destination – Open Finance
Tuesday 13 October 2020
Experts at the coal face of Open Banking in North America look at the state of play in the progress of initiatives/development and what the future might hold. Will Open Banking be driven by regulation or will the market carve the path? Are there, for example, particular regulatory frameworks (eg around data privacy/date security) that
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Where is the Heart(land) of Banking?
Tuesday 06 October 2020
“Technology comes and goes, financial needs change over time but at the very heart of financial services, this remains a human endeavour”, Bradley Leimer The lunchtime debate at FTT Virtual North America provides a compelling and inspirational overview of how a range of financial institutions, from community banks to the first digital provider gain a
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Is ESG a ‘nice to have’ or a ‘need to have’ in 2020? – The FTT Snapshot Survey Returns!
Tuesday 06 October 2020
We at FinTECHTalents like to keep our fingers on the pulse and our noses to the wind to find out our community concerns, what our FinTech leaders are discussing and what our industry is holding up for debate. Never one to reduce our touch points we are re-launching our FTT Snapshot Surveys – a bi-monthly
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FinTECHTalents Virtual North America: “This way there be dragons, this way there be gold…”
Tuesday 29 September 2020
(Re) Building a Bank, a Fireside Chat with Hans Brown, Global Head of Enterprise Innovation and Global Chief Information Officer for Corporate Technology at BNY Mellon and Lianna Brindad, Head of Yahoo Finance UK In case you missed Hans Brown, and Lianna Brindad discussing how to bring both change and continuity to a 236 year
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Innovation and Resilience: Building Societies in Times of Crisis
Tuesday 22 September 2020
The founding of the UK’s first Building Society was an act of innovation, built entirely on the needs of the people. The, perhaps familiar, story began in the year 1775. A society, the first of it’s kind, was set up to pool the resources of its working-class members, giving each the chance to purchase land
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North America goes to the Polls – Pandemic Insight
Tuesday 22 September 2020
What has been your greatest challenge during the pandemic? (28.6%) Client engagement (15.9%) Customer service (20.6%) Onboarding new customers (28.6%) Managing remote teams (6.3%) Shifting to digital access During FinTECHTalents North America, the team ran several polls across the day. We asked our attendees a broad range of questions, from their favourite speaker quote to
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Tech Spend Survey + FinTECHTalents Virtual North America round-up
Tuesday 15 September 2020
The successful launch of FTT Virtual North America on September 9th was a function of the community that it was able to bring together. The power of a community sharing knowledge, ideas and even disagreeing, in supporting the creation of better outcomes was evident. In a time of a shared global challenge, the importance of
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Innovation is Wherever you Build it: A Digital Future for the UK’s Mutual Banking Sector
Tuesday 15 September 2020
Building Societies are long established, member-owned and uniquely purpose-driven financial institutions. Regardless of scale, they are committed to providing products and services which meet genuine need, without leaving anyone behind. This commitment will not change any time soon. But in an increasingly technology-first financial industry, the way in which Building Societies fulfil their purpose will
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Build Back Better – Purpose and Values Part 2
Tuesday 01 September 2020
In Part 1 of this series, I focused on tackling Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), as this is an appropriate place to start when considering how to build back better. Encouragingly, this past week also saw several announcements on ESG by financial services companies – Tandem Bank acquired green lender Allium, HSBC set up a
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Don’t trust anyone in FinTech who tells you not to trust anyone over 30
Tuesday 01 September 2020
Athena was the goddess of wisdom in Greek Mythology. We all know wisdom comes with experience. Knowing that I have always been puzzled by the nature of her (mythical) birth. Athena only had one parent – and wasn’t really born at all. She didn’t play as a child. She didn’t have a stroppy adolescence. She
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