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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Women in FinTech: Clare Flynn Levy, founder and CEO of Essentia Analytics

If you go to as many conferences as I do in the financial services and technology space (or FinTech for the hashtag friendly) you are used to bumping into the same people over and over again. You are also familiar with looking out into the sea the exhibition hall, and rows of the plenary sessions to be met with a recurring sight. Waves of dark sui...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

This year's scandal is brought to you by the forex market

About a year ago I had a coffee with a former foreign exchange trader (as you do) who said to me. "Liz, the next big scandal is going to be around all these banks rigging the foreign exchange market, and no one is reporting on it! It will be bigger than Libor!" Well, a quick Google search revealed that quite a few trading and FX leaning ...

/regulation Financial Risk Management

Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Revenue and Billing Management Sibos Roundtable

On the heels of the recent Revenue and Billing Management Report, Finextra and Oracle held a breakfast roundtable with senior bankers at this year’s Sibos to discuss the real world experiences when dealing with the complex and changing world of revenue and billing management. In addition to representatives from Oracle, the roundtable was attended ...

/payments /regulation Future Finance

Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

It takes 20 years to make a FinTech Diva

On October 4, 1994 I walked into the NYC offices of Waters Information Services to start work as a reporter on Inside Market Data (and two other publications - which are not really around in the same format). I had majored in journalism and political science and following stints as a stringer for the Associated Press and as an intern at a fashion ...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Tips to survive Sibos in Boston

So Swift sent out a list on 'How to survive Sibos' on its events page. It included tips like 'download Sibos Issues and 'Sibos Daily News' ??!! Or, maybe, (here's a thought) you could just bookmark Finextra.com for a week! I don't go without food or sleep for four days doing videos on payments, T2S and intraday liquidity for my health ya know! Hrru...

/sibos Whatever...

Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

What type of FinTech'er are you? Take the Quiz!

No one is talking about Tech these days without talking about FinTech, or financial technology to you. There are funds, accelerators, startups galore in this space. But where do you fit in? But what type of FinTech’er are you? Well, take the quiz and find out! Banks and bankers are: Lovely people, lots of fun - do you know the person in charge of ...

/startups Finance 2.0

Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Everything is FinTech awesome!

Ok - so, those of you who follow me on Twitter know that we supplied our nine year old son an Osper card - which is a pre-paid MasterCard for youngsters. He’s been busy frittering away a year's worth of Christmas and birthday money. Oh well. One of his many purchases was a copy of The Lego Movie. So, I have now seen this movie 400 times and I can'...

/startups Finance 2.0

Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

One group to unite them all...Or...?

OK - so yesterday saw the 'standing room only' launch of the new UK-wide industry group Innovate Finance. The industry body, heading by Level 39's own Claire Cockerton was kicked off by the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osbourne (whom some people in the audience got a little too excited about, not naming any names...Duena Blomstrom*) *S...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Who is the all time leading football goal scorer?

A few weeks ago Nicole Anderson, CEO of Simulocity invited me to 'Finance for Female Entrepreneurs: Challenges and Opportunities' at Level 39. Lots of women, lots of chat, (wine served before the panel debate *natch*) and eight women on stage! Eight! (I'm surprised the audience didn't come out in hives ;-) Video available here. The women on stage ...

/startups Whatever...

Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

It's not do or do not do; it's try and try and try...then do

A while ago I attended a conference (I know, shocker) where someone on stage commented that no bank would ever have been allowed to release 'Square', with the amount of bugs the US payments startup experienced at its launch. Square, as you all know, offers the square-shaped merchant dongle that enables mobile transactions. Now this isn't a discuss...

/startups Disruption in Retail Banking

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