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FinTECHTalents teams up with Magna Carta on Digital Skills Report
Friday 01 June 2018
We are delighted to be partnering with Magna Carta Communications on a report mapping the UK digital skills gap. The report, as Simon notes below, is an important step, not just in quantifying the shortages and shining light onto key areas of scarcity but also in terms of informing future policy and corporate strategy. The
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment
Capturing the benefits of PSD2 – a new strategy for banks
Wednesday 30 May 2018
E-invoicing; opportunity and reward Technological development requires banks to streamline their services and create a superior user experience for their customers. It is imperative that banks look to provide new digital services to prevent client churn to fintech companies and “new banks”. Banks can capitalise on their large client base when launching new innovative services
- Published in Fintech
Accountscore takes us through open banking as a service
Monday 14 May 2018
We talk to Emma Steeley, Commercial Director at Accountscore about open banking and the Accountscore products Tell us a bit about AccountScore and your products and services on offer. AccountScore provides beautifully categorised and organised bank transaction data. In addition, we have created consents.online which is an AISP providing branded Open Banking as a Service
- Published in Blog
The Talent of Tomorrow: Schroders App Hack: Easter Edition (aka awesome girls coding)
Thursday 03 May 2018
I had the pleasure of joining the judging panel for a recent Stemettes hackathon run with Schroders. It was the most fun I’ve had at an event in ages (bearing in mind that FinTECHTalents hasn’t run yet…) and if you are thinking that the challenge of creating a mobile app to encourage Savings and Investing
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Fintech
11:FS join FinTECHTalents as a Strategic Partner for the 2018 festival
Monday 30 April 2018
We are delighted to announce that 11:FS have come on board as a media partner for FinTECHTalents 2018. We are huge fans of their podcast series and are keen to see what the team comes up with for the Festival edition of Fintech After Dark. Watch this space over the coming months for future announcements.
- Published in Employment, Fintech
Launching a European E-invoicing Network
Monday 09 April 2018
PSD2 has been designed to increase competition in the payment industry in Europe. Third party access also positions large tech providers with their sizable universe of users (think Alipay, Google, Facebook) and other large global payment providers as a real competitive threat to the European payment services industry. Economies of scale can be created through
- Published in Innovation
Avoiding the consequences of a looming techphobia
Monday 26 March 2018
As Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister of the UK, noted during a keynote at the Innovate Finance Global Summit (IFGS) in London, attitudes towards the dream of the internet are in danger of souring. The promise of tech driven progress has been tainted and, as the narrative goes, been scuppered by corporate interests, an engine
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Fintech, Innovation
Fantastic tech skills and where to find them
Monday 26 March 2018
In and amongst numerous conversations around innovation and ecosystems across many panels at the Innovate Finance Global Summit (IFGS), the issue of tech talent was mentioned again and again. Great ideas, customer centricity, new business models, innovative tech are not driven by machines (yet) but by humans. Institutions (big and small) flagged the issue of
- Published in Diversity and Inclusion, Employment, Innovation
AI and ethics: transparency in insurance
Monday 12 March 2018
Award-winning insurtech company, Spixii, explores the three features the insurance industry must consider to ensure AI better protects individuals and restores the trust between insurance companies and their customers.
- Published in AI/Machine Learning, Insurtech
Taking the apprenticeship route to industry
Friday 09 March 2018
We caught up with Jack Parsons, CEO of Big Youth Group, to celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2018, and discuss the importance of apprenticeships for the future of work and society as a whole.
- Published in Employment