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Fintech innovation and startups

Disruption, destruction, harmony and creation; Fintech’s new frontier – a place to discuss the cutting edge of innovation.

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10 Funding Options To Raise Startup Capital For Your Business

Most business startups usually begin with high hopes and investor confidence. However, a few circumstances can either make or mar any business startup. A comprehensive research conducted by experts has shown that business startups within the first year often capitulate due to a myriad of reasons. The salient requirement for any business to prosper ...

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Victor Martin

Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot

Revolutionize Your Finance Industry Business With FinTech Mobile Apps

The environment in the financial service industry is complicated, and this makes business in this industry not so customer-friendly. However, FinTech has been introduced for more than five years now and promises a vast scope for improving customer experience. The FinTech space has a large room for improvement in the traditional FinServe (Financial...

Nick Ogden

Nick Ogden Founder and Director at RTGS.global

How do Fintech entrepreneurs get help?

One interesting option is through the SETsquared Entrepreneur Programme for Tech Start-ups which has its next 2-day programme in Guildford - 1st and 2nd February 2018. SETsquared is the world's largest university based business incubator and has supported over 1,000 hi-tech start-ups to develop and raise more than £1.25bn of investment This progr

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Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

CHATBOTS UNDER-HYPE: THE NEW FRONTIER TO SIMPLIFY COMPLEX KNOWLEDGE PART 1

The Opportunity The simplification of Complex Knowledge is a paradigm shift opportunity for chatbots, with the potential to bring benefits to every person and every organisation on the planet. The Definition Complex Knowledge is any combination of regulatory, statutory, legal, tax, tariff, policy and procedure matter, which is primarily found w...

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Keith Stonell

Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire

Insurtech and Bots in 2018: Should insurers dream of electric sheep?

The movie Blade Runner (and the novel it is based on, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) depicts a future world where artificial intelligence is taking over. It is a striking dystopia where robots – the replicants – have more humanity than their human masters. Reimagining the future of insurance can get a little bleak too. Insurers might be con...

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Independent Asset Managers need to become polygamous

Independent asset managers shall maintain relationships not only to custodians. Due to disintermediation and distributed ledger technology they will be able to profit from a much broader range of financial assets. Independent asset managers usually run a very traditional business model, focusing on discretionary asset management. They are very tigh...

Jose Carvalho

Jose Carvalho Senior Vice President, Global Commercial Payments at American Express

Financial foundations for a fintech start-up

Starting a business is never an easy feat. But in the fast-moving and competitive world of fintech, and with worldwide economic and geopolitical conditions changing every day, start-ups in the fintech sector need to keep one step ahead. As well as making sure business plans, hiring strategies and regulatory compliance are spot on, it’s essential to...

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Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

How to torpedo the Catalonian economy, in about 25 minutes

Catalonia is not a part of the SEPA Area; it has no central bank and so it has no Eurosystem member. Its financial infrastructure is, however, SEPA-compliant, meaning domestic and cross-border high-value payments are made and received through TARGET2, domestic low-value through Iberpay, and cross-border low-value through Iberpay and EBA STEP2. Bank...

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Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

GARTNER RESEARCH EARLY STAGE ENTERPRISE CHATBOT INSIGHTS THE REVOLUTION OF CONVERSATIONS

Gartner Group have recently identified the following four emergent trends for using Chatbots in the Enterprise: 1. Call Center Help Desk: Chatbots are reducing the cost of customer queries by handling more and more of the customer conversations, with handoffs to help desk workers when appropriate. 2. Operational Approvals: Chatbots are reducing t...

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Kunal Patel

Kunal Patel Product Manager at 1E

Is The FinTech Bubble About to Burst?

It’s been well documented that the financial services industry needed some form of disruption and a move away from the traditional models. The industry as we know it has become too out-dated in the modern, digital world that we now live in. True product innovation, improved customer UX/UI were always going to be a problem for large financial insti...

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