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I got a call from a trusted chum who has been a wonderful source of advice and inspiration to me in building our non-bank for the credit impaired. He is London-based, progressive, innovative and fearless. He also knows a thing or two about creating brands, with a globally successful one of his own. “Have you thought about doing a bitcoin debit c...
06 December 2017
One more month down in 2017, and the blockchain momentum is only accelerating with many more interesting applications and use cases across all industries, all geographies and all sizes of organizations. In this post I am sharing a round-up of some of the interesting stories of blockchain in action for Nov 2017. Former Credit Suisse and UBS execs...
05 December 2017
Carl Rogers Director at Finceler8
In the last few years I have been mentoring multiple early stage fintech companies through accelerator programs as well as directly. Although I should not be I am continually surprised to learn that few companies at this stage put as much effort into sales as they do on product and funding, especially in the B2B space. Whilst it is clear you need ...
30 November 2017 /startups
On 22nd November, the UK government reaffirmed its commitment to having a leading regulatory and technology environment in the UK. Within the Autumn Budget 2017 speech, the Rt Hon Philip Hammond announced a new £10bn Regulators’ Pioneer Fund, established to “help regulators to develop innovative approaches aimed at getting new products and service...
29 November 2017 /regulation /startups
Imagine taking a regular smartphone and turning it into a payment acceptance device with a simple app download. That’s the utopian dream many companies are chasing today and it could bring huge benefits to the payments ecosystem, merchants and consumers as card and mobile payments continue to grow. For small transactions, accepting a payment could...
29 November 2017 /payments
During the last decade the term “cloud” has become a mainstream keyword in most of IT topics. The cloud has changed the way institutions and companies are managing their needs. As a concept, when discussing regarding the cloud is actually talking about moving away from the product purchase orientation towards a service delivery one. Hence, custo
27 November 2017 /startups
Kunal Patel Product Manager at 1E
I get asked this question a lot by the corporate community with whom I am typically engaged with, usually this would comprise of senior figures from the BFSI community. The people I am usually in conversation with have never worked for a start-up, let alone have had any professional dealings with any. For those that know me well, I am not short of...
13 November 2017 /startups
Sarah Jackson Director at Equiniti Credit Services
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Challenger banks are doing what their name suggests, and research indicates they are gaining ground. For established lenders, replicating the characteristics of their smaller, more agile competitors, will help them defend their position. Outsourcing is the key, argues Sarah Jackson, Director, E...
09 November 2017 /retail
Patrick Chambeau Director of Marketing at IPC
While the financial services industry has traditionally been at the forefront of technological change, until recently it was cautious about embracing the cloud. Questions of trust, quality of providers, certifications, process, and teams dedicated to serve customers contributed to murky cloud adoption. But as CIO roles drastically shift from opera...
08 November 2017
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
Juniper Research believes the emergent evidence from using Chatbots has the potential to replace the tasks of targeted human workers through fluent conversations with human users. They believe that Chatbots will undertake the following key tasks: Handle conversational interactions with human users Seamlessly handoff to human agents Trigger autom...
03 November 2017 /ai /regulation
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