38 Results from 2018, /startups
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
Conversation-as-a-Service is a business model involving a blended approach of people and chatbots delivering dialogue for personalised interaction and orchestrating services in context to the granularity of a dialogue-step.
11 October 2018 /ai /startups Fintech
Retired Member
I have attended the singapore fintech festival 2017, a wonderfully managed, world largest fintech festival. We had a small stall in the festival to showcase our startup. The stall was in the fintech corner, mixed up with so many other fintech startups from different part of the world. Considering the chance of getting lost in crowd, we found a our...
04 October 2018 /startups /inclusion Fintech
Jason Bell Regional Sales Director, FS&I at ServiceNow
FS&I: The new order The financial services ecosystem is transforming. While no organisation would deny the pressing need for digital transformation, I'm referring here to anther kind of change; the very structure of the financial services sector itself. A new order is emerging. Fresh vigour is in evidence across the sector. It's a time of consi...
27 September 2018 /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Over the decade since the global financial crash, charities have had a tough time securing donations. Cultural shifts mean that trust in institutions has plummeted and people are less willing to indulge doorstep or street fundraisers. Many charities have been hit further by a raft of new regulations including the General Data Protection Regulatio...
FT Weekend published a thought-provoking article by Tim Harford that explains why corporations fail to innovate. Harford gives an example of Xerox Parc who invented, back in the 70s, the world’s first personal computer, with a mouse and rich GUI. That computer inspired Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Xerox still makes photocopiers… “Organisations from n...
10 September 2018 /startups Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
The phenomenal growth of Alibaba has made many of its executives very rich but life outside the online retailer can be challenging - as former chief operating officer Li Qi has discovered. Li Qi joined Alibaba in 2000 just a year after the company was founded by Jack Ma. Li rose to become COO in 2005 but left the retailer three years later to study...
05 September 2018 /startups Whatever...
Ian Stone CEO at Vuealta
Between 2010 and 2015, the financial services industry changed drastically. In just those five years, four of today’s most successful fintech companies were launched; namely Stripe, Revolut, Starling Bank and Monzo. These launches all had one thing in common; putting the customer at the centre of the operation, untied to legacy or history. Fast fo...
03 September 2018 /startups Fintech
While your business’ budget isn’t very glamorous, it’s a vital part of your business. Failure to budget effectively will tank your business so fast your head will spin. This is because when you’re bleeding cash you’re leaking out faster than you can plug your “ship.” Of course, you won’t even know this is happening if you don’t have a budget. Unf
31 August 2018 /startups Personal Finance
ICOs vs. IPOs : What you need to know before investing By Aaron Wagener, COO, MXC Foundation Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have the potential to become a powerful means for start-ups to amass capital. Disruptive technologies are changing the world and wrestling the scope of opportunity away from the powerhouses of Wall Street and other institutio...
20 August 2018 /startups Fintech
Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Enterprise Search) at DBS Bank
With the current political polarisation of the world, we find herds of immigrants entering multiple countries in search of safety, security and with a dream to build a better and brighter future for themselves and their next generations. But the harsh reality hits soon, and they realise it takes time for them to find job that suits them. They end ...
17 August 2018 /startups Fintech innovation and startups
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