finance
The value of connectivity for fintech
Tuesday 24 January 2023
Karen Bradbury, FS Sector Lead from Invest NI provides an overview of the dynamic fintech scene in Northern Ireland. That includes a growing cluster of home-grown companies with an emerging specialty on cyber security and regtech. She touches on the importance of re-engaging post pandemic and the value of face-to-face interaction. Accompanying Karen at the
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Hit the road with Fintech Talents – Paris, Stockholm and Berlin
Tuesday 17 January 2023
Hit the road with Fintech Talents Three cities, one-week, endless opportunities European fintech firms search for opportunities in 2023 Like virtually every other industry, the European fintech ecosystem has been massively impacted by the spread of COVID. Some fintechs that were well-placed to offer valuable services during the pandemic and post-pandemic landscape rapidly grew, while
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All the world’s a fintech stage: the highlights
Tuesday 29 November 2022
The Fintech Talents Festival brought that sentiment to life across six lively stages of content. Each highlighted how the borders of fintech are forever shifting and how our community grows as a consequence. From high street retailers to high street banks, the Fintech Talents community is unique. All the world’s a fintech stage The
Embedded Finance: Knowing your customer and your customer’s customer
Tuesday 29 November 2022
Onsite at the Fintech Talents Festival – Joelle Boehme, Commercial Lead, Embedded Finance, Adyen spoke to us about Adyen’s approach to embedded finance and how the infrastructure they’ve built has developed. Adyen empowers platforms to deliver seamless payments to their end users. The next frontier is to make that customer experience even smoother by offering
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Fighting ecommerce fraud and cybercrime with SCA
Tuesday 25 October 2022
Ecommerce fraud on the rise Even before the pandemic forced many purchases online, a shift to digital transactions was well underway. Sales online now account for more than 25% of all retail sales in the UK, an increase from around 15% five years ago, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). There is no
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4 common traits of companies that succeed in Embedded Finance
Tuesday 04 October 2022
When a company that isn’t a financial institution integrates financial services into their customer experience, we refer to it as embedded finance. As consumers, we have grown accustomed to taking advantage of the frictionless benefits of embedded finance. By making financial services a by-product of the apps they use and the goods and services they
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Boosting savings with payments
Tuesday 06 September 2022
New Research: Digital Payments and the New Opportunity to Increase Savings (Charvi Gandotra, Senior Strategy and Innovation Manager, Commonwealth) The adoption of digital payments solutions, including peer-to-peer apps, digital wallets, and contactless payments apps, has seen significant growth since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, 59% of Americans now use more apps to
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What can DeFi offer TradFi? Onsite interview with Sohail Raja, Societe Generale
Tuesday 02 August 2022
On 12th July our community came together for the launch of FTT DeFi, the one-day show where we explored the key opportunities and challenges in decentralised finance, digital assets and Web3. During the day, Amélie Arras, Marketing Director at Zumo Enterprise sat down with Sohail Raja, Head of Electronic Execution Platforms and UK Chief Digital
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What’s next for embedded finance?
Tuesday 26 July 2022
Intense competition German-based lemon.markets is one of the companies that recently raised €15 million to support the launch of its product that gives non-financial firms the ability to offer stock trading services. Synovus Bank in the US has already created a money-as-a-service offering that joins together payment processing, banking and lending solutions. Berlin-based Banxware bills itself as
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In conversation with Zumo Enterprise at FTT Embedded Finance & Super Apps
Tuesday 19 July 2022
We recently hosted FTT Embedded Finance & Super Apps, a live event exploring the technologies, innovations and trends re-defining the future of how financial services are crafted and distributed. A huge community of innovators and industry leaders, including retailers, manufacturers, financial institutions, insurers, telcos, fintechs and tech providers came together, offering a unique diversity of
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