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Finovate Blog
Tracking fintech, banking & financial services innovations since 1994
Need some Friday insight to carry you into the weekend? We’ve got you covered.
Today, we’re unveiling four videos featuring interviews with fintech experts. These videos provide valuable perspectives on the escalation in geopolitical risk, key tech trends revealed at FinovateEurope, and a comprehensive overview of what’s hot and what’s not in the fintech space. Whether you’re a seasoned industry professional or just curious about the latest developments, these videos offer valuable insights from some of the brightest minds in the field.
Keeping up-to-date in the fintech world takes more than just reading what’s going on in the fintech news cycle. It’s important to read takes on different trends and themes from across the industry, as well. To help span this gap, we’ve brought insights from thought leaders across the industry to our Streamly videos.
Today, we’re featuring six videos recorded at FinovateEurope that showcase the expertise of some of the speakers in attendance. The first, 15-minute video highlights VC investors’ thoughts on fintech valuations, M&A activity, partnerships, and more.
The remaining videos we’re showcasing today are part of Streamly’s Fintech Founders Partnership series, a set of three-to-four minute videos that detail thought leaders’ opinions on a wide range of partnership issues.
Potential partnerships– assessing the strategic fit
Partnership goals– maintaining goal alignment
Data security & privacy– sharing sensitive financial information
Want to dive into the latest trends and discussions in the fintech world? Check out the conversations we’ve curated in these four videos recorded at last month’s FinovateEurope conference. From the future of payments to the role of banks in embedded finance, these videos offer valuable insights into some of the industry’s most pressing topics.
Hear from IFX Payments’ Head of Operations Stephen Hutchinson on changes in the payments scene, Ericsson’s Head of Mobile Financial Services Solutions & Strategy Ville Sointu on the future of CBDCs in Europe, Innovate Finance’s CEO Janine Hirt on embedded finance, and Harrington Star Group’s Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer Nadia Edwards-Dashti on how fintech is engaging with DEI.
Payments in 2024: New challenges, regulations, and innovation
The future of CBDCs in Europe: What does the ECB have in store?
Embedded finance and the role of banks in its future
Driving positive changes in fintech: How is the industry engaging with DEI?
Streamly’s Code & Capital series takes a next-level look at the potential for enabling technologies to transform fintech and financial services.
In today’s first conversation, Code & Capital talks with Generative AI expert and founder of Tamang Ventures Nina Schick about the way that AI could fundamentally reshape industries and economies this century the way the Internet did decades ago. Schick also discusses use cases for Generative AI in financial services and the threat posed by AI-powered deepfakes.
An author, advisor, and keynote speaker, Schick is an expert in synthetic media, deepfakes, disinformation, cybersecurity, and the geopolitics of technology. Her debut book, Deepfakes, was released in 2020 and has been translated into five languages.
Code & Capital also talked with Head of Conversational AI at Zurich Insurance Group, Indrek Vainu. In this conversation, Vainu shared some of the real-world applications of Generative AI in areas such as risk management, fraud detection, and customer service. Vainu also discussed what financial institutions need to do in order to effectively deploy AI technologies in their businesses.
Vainu co-founded AlphaChat, a chatbot startup, that was acquired by Zurich Insurance Group in 2021. At Zurich, he leads activities globally related to Generative AI and chatbots.
Last month at FinovateEurope, I had the pleasure of conducting interviews with 14 professionals, entrepreneurs, and authors from the world of fintech and financial services. A few days ago, I shared videos of my conversations with Moneyhub’s Samantha Seaton and Finthropology’s Anette Broløs.
Today, I’m unveiling another pair of interviews from FinovateEurope. First, I sit down with Edwin Van Bommel, Head of Strategy and Innovation with ABN AMRO Bank. In his role with the bank, van Bommel is responsible for introducing new products and services to clients in the areas of artificial intelligence and distributed ledger technology.
In our conversation, van Bommel and I talk about the different ways ABN AMRO Bank is leveraging enabling technologies like embedded banking, generative AI, and distributed ledger. We also talk about the challenge of legacy systems and why they will still “play an important role in the future” of financial services.
In our second video interview, Indrek Vainu, Head of Conversational AI at Zurich Insurance Group, and I talk about the challenge and opportunity of artificial intelligence in financial services. We discussed ways that generative AI, for example, is bringing innovation to both the front and back office. Vainu also shared what he believes are the next steps in AI adoption in fintech and financial services.
In his role as Head of Conversational AI at Zurich Insurance Company, Vainu leads activities globally that are related to Generative AI and chatbots. He co-founded AlphaChat, a chatbot startup that was acquired by Zurich Insurance Group in 2021.
We had the privilege of sitting down and interviewing three remarkable women leaders in the fintech industry last month. As we bid farewell to Women’s History Month, we are thrilled to share the wealth of knowledge and experience they shared with us.
In our interview videos below, you’ll hear from Nadia Edwards-Dashti, Co-Founder at Harrington Star Group; Jen Godderidge, CEO & Founder at ATMO Technologies; and Chantal Swainston, Founder at The Heard.
These leaders delve into a variety of topics including personal and professional development, strategies for retaining female talent, the importance of empowering women in fintech, driving meaningful change within organizations, the role of coaching and mentoring, and the vital aspects of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
In the northern hemisphere, springtime is just a few days away. And along with the melting of snow and blooming of flowers, we’ve also seen growth in a previously frozen area of fintech. That’s because there has been a resurgence of interest in digital and decentralized currencies, thanks to the escalating price of Bitcoin, which has seen record highs this week, topping out at over $73,800 yesterday.
There are two major driving factors behind Bitcoin’s surge: the recent launch of the Bitcoin ETF and the upcoming Bitcoin halving event that is expected to take place in April. The effect of these two events have transcended Bitcoin, however, and have not only had a positive impact on other digital currencies, but also on the traditional finance sector.
We recently had the opportunity to interview a few experts in the space to gain a better understanding of the current digital currency landscape. Check out the videos below to see Nordea’s Ville Sointu’s thoughts on the digital Euro, Finthropology’s Anette Broløs’ ideas on CBDCs and the challenges of replacing cash, and Coin Telegraph’s Jillian Godsil’s perception on what it will take to fully melt the previously frozen crypto sector.
En route to FinovateEurope in London last month, a cab driver asked me what I did for a living. After giving it a few moments of thought (“fintech research analyst” doesn’t always cut it), I told him, “I get to meet interesting people and ask them interesting questions.”
This year at FinovateEurope, I had the opportunity to sit down with more than a baker’s dozen of fintech entrepreneurs, analysts, and authors to talk about some of the top trends in fintech and financial services. Here, as part of our Finovate Speaker Series, I’m looking forward to sharing these conversations with you over the next few weeks.
First up, in commemoration of International Women’s History Month, my interviews with Samantha Seaton, CEO of Moneyhub, and Anette Broløs, founder of Finthropology.
Samantha Seaton is CEO of open banking, open finance, and open data platform Moneyhub. The company’s technology helps transform data into personalized digital experiences and initiate payments. Seaton is also a Non-Executive Director at the Charities Aid Foundation Bank and at The Investing and Savings Alliance (TISA).
In our conversation, Seaton discusses the contemporary “obsession with personalization.” We also talk about the latest trends in financial services, the impact of AI, and what financial services can learn from other sectors when it comes to best leveraging new technologies.
How can the study of human cultures benefit banks? We posed this question to Dr. Anette Broløs, co-founder and Director of Finthropology.
For all the discussion of the power of data in financial services in recent years, Broløs believes that companies in this space have not yet done all they can do in order to take advantage of qualitative research that can help them become more customer-centric. As the co-author of the soon-to-be-released book, Customer-Centric Innovation in Finance, Broløs explains how methods common in anthropology can be effectively applied to financial services, potentially revealing insights that banks have been missing for years.
In the landscape of financial services, fintech trends are always evolving and keeping up with competitors requires embracing change and innovation.
In this blog post, we’ve curated a selection of videos that delve into key areas shaping the industry’s future: customer experience, disruptive technology, and the strategic implementation of AI. Whether you’re a banking executive looking to enhance customer engagement or a fintech professional exploring new avenues for growth, these insights offer valuable perspectives on navigating the challenges and opportunities ahead.
