Starting with the fundamentals: The Three Amigos Mohamed Ait Si Brahim, Group Chief Technology Officer at Hargreaves Lansdown, heading an engineering team of 20o people tasked with building products, sat down with us at the 2024 FTT Fintech Festival. He shared his approach to both his role and, more broadly, creating effective outcomes. When it

Innovating for Inclusion In a captivating discussion, Colin Field, Chief Executive of Saffron Building Society, shared the unique position of his organisation in the financial landscape. As well as a strong presence  in the East of England, they have a national lending footprint, as well as customers across the UK. Saffron Building Society excels in

Providing a liquid, high-quality emergency savings option through the workplace is key to improving financial security and building wealth for workers living on low and moderate incomes (LMI). It is also of great value to companies as emergency savings3 reduces the financial impact of unexpected expenses and helps mitigate the financial insecurity that fosters chronic stress

A fantastic example of effective and inspirational collaboration from the Impact Stage at Fintech Talents North America. Hear from Boss Insights, Carver Federal Savings Bank and Paybby about how they worked together to deliver better outcomes for minority and female led businesses at speed. Take the starting point of communities with historically unequal access to

FTT Identity 2021 began with a big question – which entities will act as the guardians of our digital identities? The opening panel brought together an expert group well placed to tackle this complex debate, representing between them financial services, government, telecoms and the identity industry. They considered whether responsibility would fall to national governments,

The launch of FTT Identity 2021, brought together a global community to network, learn and debate all things digital identity. Discussion sessions sparked conversations around inclusion, interoperability, privacy, customer experience, risk management and policy. Rockstar speakers shared their insights on the future of this exciting sector and provided inspiration to all those working to build

Our partners at Boss Insights collaborated with Carver Federal Savings Bank and Paybby to deliver better outcomes for minority and female led businesses at speed.  As Michael T. Pugh, CEO at Carver Federal Savings Bank notes, “More than 40% of black & brown businesses could be at risk for failure because of the pandemic, specifically

Fintech Talents Open Finance ended with a lively discussion on new opportunities for collaboration, access and the democratisation of finance. Panellists tied together many of the themes discussed across the day and brought to life some of the exciting use cases either underway or on the horizon. Tune in to learn more about how banks

“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

FinTECHTalents, Finastra, Microsoft and Accenture are running our first Open Banking hackathon this weekend 17-19 of May. Finastra will be opening-up the data from multiple APIs (retail banking, payment, corporate banking, capital markets…), that you can check here: FusionFabric.cloud API catalog and we will have mentors on-site from FinTECHTalents, Finastra, Microsoft, Accenture and others, including machine