Opinion
The FinTech we were promised needs to consider the Environment, Society and Governance
Tuesday 30 June 2020
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
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FinTech vs Incumbents: From competition to partnerships
Tuesday 23 June 2020
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
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FTT Virtual North America Goes Live on September 9th (EST)
Tuesday 16 June 2020
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
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Hope, Humanity and FinTech – A Community Gathers in FTT Virtual / Spring
Tuesday 16 June 2020
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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What’s on at FinTECHTalents? Series 108
Tuesday 02 June 2020
What’s on at FinTECHTalents this week?
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Until we meet again, let’s meet now
Tuesday 02 June 2020
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
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Build, buy or access – creating future proof infrastructure
Tuesday 19 May 2020
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
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Innovation in a pandemic: Why have incumbents not gone Digital Only?
Tuesday 12 May 2020
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
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The Future of Work will be a Human Experience
Tuesday 05 May 2020
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
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Bank Survival — It’s All About the Ecosystem
Tuesday 05 May 2020
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