FinTECHTalents
Back to School – Here come the students!
Thursday 06 September 2018
When the nights draw in and the last of the summer gin is emptied, our thoughts drift from holidays and playtime, towards projects, work and planning for the future. Come September, most of us, in essence, are headed back to school. Whether your school is covered in ivy or simply the school of life –
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Blockchain, Blog, Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Robotics, Start-ups
Put your money on the table to tackle the diversity challenge
Thursday 06 September 2018
Looking at the numbers, Ashleigh Ainsely, Co-founder of Colorintech, highlights the scale of the challenge facing the industry in ensuring a more diverse workforce at all levels. As he demonstrates, greater diversity is fundamental to the future success of financial services, both in terms of securing the talent pipeline and creating products and services that best serve all economic citizens. We look forward to hearing
- Published in Blog, Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Start-ups
The power to make corporate banking ‘beautiful’
Monday 03 September 2018
Small businesses “simply want working capital. They want to know how much, how soon and what it will cost,” says Martin McCann, CEO and Co-Founder of Trade Ledger. As the Australian company establishes itself in Europe, Martin talks with FinTECHTalents about bringing the open banking revolution to corporate banking, overcoming the barriers of Excel spreadsheets
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Robotics, Start-ups
What type of FinTech’er are you? Take the Quiz!
Wednesday 29 August 2018
A well known person in the FinTech space once commented that if you couldn’t dine out on FinTech every night – you weren’t doing FinTech right. From bank elevators, to the free beer at co-working spaces – it would be hard not to bump into someone who works at a fund or an accelerator, grinding
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Fintech, Start-ups
An empowering culture should come first – CULTURE SHOCK DAY 1
Wednesday 29 August 2018
I was sitting having coffee with a well-known FinTech entrepreneur the other day who was looking at recruitment for her startup. She was talking pipeline. She wanted to hire a junior developer that would have room to grow into the role. What she didn’t want was to end up with a shortlist, where the team
- Published in Employment, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Start-ups
Is there a skills gap in UK FinTech? Take the Snapshot Survey now!
Tuesday 28 August 2018
TAKE THE SURVEY NOW! Whether you are a large, multinational universal bank or a growth startup looking to expand your team, recruitment can be a long and complicated process. How do you find the right talent, with the best mix of skills, culture fit, long term potential and impact? Many industries are competing against each
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Featured, Fintech, Innovation, Start-ups
Are you sitting comfortably? Join us for two days of FINTECH STORIES
Wednesday 22 August 2018
For those of us in the startup and innovation space, sitting down on a hard conference chair to watch a slew of companies demo and pitch is a familiar position. After a while, year in and year out, patterns emerge. Four boys in branded t-shirts playing with a stalled app on their iPhones. The establishment
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Fintech, Innovation, Robotics, Start-ups
Calling all innovators
Tuesday 14 August 2018
Are you looking to solve problems for more mature consumers? The FinTech community shouldn’t miss this opportunity to set their sights on new challenges. Given the changing demographics in the UK (and many other countries around the world), significant value can be delivered to what is an economically powerful and growing community. We are looking
- Published in Customer Experience, Diversity and Inclusion, Fintech, Innovation, Start-ups
Push it for secure content
Tuesday 14 August 2018
As customers and businesses realize the power and value of their data, issues around security and control become paramount. FinTech veteran and self-described ‘continuous mutant’, Mike Williams, CEO at Pushfor, talks about how pushing content rather than sending it reduces the risk of sensitive information falling into the wrong hands to virtually zero. We have
- Published in Data Privacy, Fintech, Innovation, Regulation, Risk, Security, Start-ups
The future of robo-advice is B2B
Sunday 12 August 2018
Belgium-based robo-advisor Investsuite makes a play for the B2B market with their own proprietary VaR approach and a team of senior bankers, computer and math experts, designers, and sector specialists who ‘understand how a real bank works.’ Bart Vanhaeren, CEO & co-founder discusses the growth of the robo-advice market, how he has never been a
- Published in Fintech, Innovation, Robotics