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Should we be afraid of AI?
Tuesday 03 March 2020
Clara Durodié, executive chair of the Cognitive Finance Group and author of Decoding AI in Financial Services: Business Implications for Boards and Professionals discusses the concerns around AI and the possibility of providing data statements, much like consumers receive bank statements, to see how their data is being collected, used, sold and even abused. “Some
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Customer Experience, Cyber security, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Video
The uncomfortable forest of credit – for Aire’s CEO, it’s personal
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Aneesh Varma, Founder and CEO of Aire talks about his personal mission to find a ‘better way’ to deal with decisions around credit and creditworthiness and how Aire staffers are encouraged to enter ‘the uncomfortable forest’. What is Aire – what problem are you solving? Aire started with a simple purpose. For me, it was
- Published in Customer Experience, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Interviews, Regulation
FinTech of the Week is Owlin, AI-powered real-time insights for risk management
Tuesday 25 February 2020
In our ongoing series, our FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week is Owlin, which provides a news analytics tool that helps finance professionals monitor their portfolio proactively, continuously, and in real-time. In this exclusive interview, sales director Bob Koster, “The key advantages with AI and specifically machine learning or entity recognition is that we can filter
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Featured, Fintech, FinTech of the Week, Fintech of the week, FinTECHTalents, Regulation, Risk, Video
What does it mean to be a data philosopher?
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Charles Radclyffe, former head of AI at Fidelity International examines the role data and artificial intelligence will have on society, the workplace and our industries when looking at how to design a model for how the world is today and how the world should be tomorrow. “A few years ago I used to run a
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Robotics, Video
Can regulations stifle innovation? Yes, but it is all about ‘balance’.
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Julia Black, external member, Prudential Regulatory Authority looks at the trends for RegTech for 2020, the role artificial intelligence and machine learning will play in shaping innovation and how culture can impact how financial institutions and regulatory bodies find compliance solutions together. AI and machine learning will feature heavily in 2020, according to Black. “Obviously,
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Identity, Innovation, Regulation, Video
To branch or not to [bank] branch?
Tuesday 18 February 2020
The Financial Brand’s Jim Marous looks at the future of banks and the consistent chipping away of many traditional consumers banking services by new innovative entrants. “Uber was the first non-financial organisation to come out and say we have the option of becoming a banking service company beyond just our drivers,” says Marous. Currently, many
- Published in Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Start-ups, Video
FinTech of the Week is Sedicii, mapping a new future for KYC
Tuesday 18 February 2020
In our ongoing series, the FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week is Sedicii, which provides technology based on the Zero Knowledge Proof Protocol that eliminates the transmission, storage and exposure of private user data during authentication or identity verification, which reduces identity theft, impersonation and any fraud resulting from the identity theft. In part one of
Contemplating ‘The Circle of Death’ in FinTech
Tuesday 18 February 2020
Will Hackett, Head of European FinTech Practice, Pangea examines the how B2B FinTech is differentiating themselves within the market by building their own direct to market propositions to leverage, test and prove their revenue models, which Hackett says is “actually 10 times more exciting for the banks.” This direct to market approach allows FinTech companies
- Published in Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Start-ups, Video
Thinking like a startup – A guide for banks
Tuesday 18 February 2020
In this exclusive video, Pinak Vedalankar, Vice President of Technology, Publicis Sapient presents a framework for how banks can take charge of their culture and start behaving more like a startup. In terms of culture, Vedalankar outlines: An ability to experiment Create an open engineering culture Foster an open ecosystem For banks to start ‘acting
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Innovation, Start-ups, Video
The FinTech of the Week is 123signed – removing barriers to growth for companies
Tuesday 11 February 2020
In our ongoing series, the FinTECHTalents FinTech of the Week is 123signed, which offers automated client onboarding and verification. Managing Director, Quent Rickerby, discusses customer onboarding, barriers to scaling and growth and the move towards a more profitable FinTech community at FinTECHTalents 2019. Watch the video now: What is holding back the banks from automated client onboarding
- Published in Customer Experience, Data Privacy, Fintech, FinTech of the Week, Fintech of the week, FinTECHTalents, Payments, Regulation, Start-ups, Video