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Follow our blog for expert insights into the FinTech sector. Read on for articles, news and thought leadership pieces on a selection of trending topics, including AI, VR and robotics

Embedded finance
In a relatively short amount of time embedded finance has become a multi-billion pound sector. According to research from Lightyear Capital, embedded finance is on track to grow to £164 billion in revenue by 2025, up from £16 billion in 2020, indicating the vast potential of this sector.  Firms in the finance industry are increasingly
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ESG is dominated by environmental sustainability goals, but social issues also play a critical part in a more sustainable future for society and financial services. As highlighted by a recent article on LinkedIn, financial inclusion features as a target in 8 of the UN’s 17 Sustainability Goals. The pandemic placed many in unprecedented positions; multiple
Citizen identity
When it comes to digital identity, we talk a lot about cybersecurity, online avatars, and cryptographic credentials… It can sometimes be easy to overlook something crucial, that fundamentally a digital identity is attached to a human being. At the Future Identity and Fintech Talents festival, sessions explored in depth how to make the digital world a
Open Banking
Until 2018, every stage of the customer’s financial journey was typically owned by traditional banks. Regulation opened competition by requiring banks to share customer’s data to third parties of the customer’s choice. Open finance has granted entry into the market for new players, and fintechs are digitising processes at one or more stages of the
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Redefining your business model

As banks globally undertake digital banking transformations, embedded finance is a fast-growing trend that many non-financial companies have begun implementing within their own strategies – but what are the best practices to get this done properly? At FTT Embedded Finance UK & Europe 2021, our rockstar panellists argued about the different approaches to enhancing value
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Just as many traditional financial institutions are being forced to improve their conventional product offering due to the innovations made by Fintech companies and start-ups, credit card lenders are also set for disruption. In the more than 55 years since Barclays launched the first credit card in the UK, the financial ecosystem has shifted dramatically.
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Why do established banks create new entities rather than devoting resources to improving the existing organisation? What are the drivers that underpin that strategic decision? In the buy, partner, rent or create decision making tree, what are the benefits of starting from scratch?   The decision clearly comes with some eye caching job titles (Ivan
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Taking financial services everywhere

“Banking is necessary, but banks are not” Bill Gates’ 1994 famous quote is the realisation of the concept of embedded finance: The integration of financial services that are adopted by non-financial institutions. At FTT Embedded Finance UK & Europe 2021, our panel of rockstar speakers debated the big questions in embedded finance: How can we
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