I first saw a demo of Robinhood – the commission-free trading app at an event in Singapore. I fell in love. The promise of FinTech – at its very heart – was desire to democratize finance. If only more people had access to tools and services that would allow them to control their wealth, and

FinTechs have been created to transform the banking industry. Digital-centric, they started with a small niche — payment offerings, they then quickly moved onto the backend of financial services, providing a multitude of new solutions. Throughout the years, some have moved from being a standalone proposition to partner with incumbents. Although not all partnerships have

Content, Community & Experience – digital by design and created for the North American market As the realities of Covid-19 and what it meant for our industry became apparent, it also became clear that a return to normal or something approximating it was not imminent. Though March seems a very long time ago, in the

We launched FinTECHTalents Virtual / Spring with an over arching mission – to try and gather our FinTech community in an online space that was interesting, engaging and interactive. We counted ourselves lucky that we weren’t in an environment where we had to rush to migrate a previous physical event onto the internet. That is

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My mother in the US often comments to me: “Oh my, if this was 100 years ago, you would’ve left on a boat and that would have been it. We would just be waiting for a few written letters a year.” I was born in the US. I moved to the UK in 1997 to

Digital transformation is, demonstrably, a job not yet done. Put that alongside a large contingent of technologically nimble new entrants and you have the seeds for a shakeup of the financial services industry in the ways in which it goes about building or re-tooling its digital foundations. In an increasingly competitive industry in which the

Coronavirus has dialled up the urgency for digital only banking. However don’t be fooled by the excitement, digital only banking is starting to gain momentum yes but it will take a few more years before we see a truly cashless world. Typically, startups and medium size financial institutions hold their data on modern digital platforms

The robots are coming… Artificial intelligence is replacing manual work… Business meetings will take place in an augmented reality… We’ve all seen the headlines about what the future of work might look like. Last year, the Office for National Statistics in the UK estimated that 7.4% of jobs are at high risk of being automated

At the end of last year, FinTECHTalents partners Aperture met with some leading experts to understand their view on the future of financial services. One message kept reoccurring; unity is key for survival. Collaboration for greater power “An ecosystem chain of services that are interconnected will be very powerful and we’ll start to see new