Scepticism and the challenges beyond for Facebook’s Libra
So Facebook has announced plans for its cryptocurrency project, known as Libra. According to Facebook it will “enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people”. But to get...
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London Tech Week opinion 4: Beyond the unicorns
The latest opinion piece from participants at this year’s London Tech Week is from Tim Rea, an investor into the BGF (previously known as British Growth Fund). Here he looks at how unicorns are not the only success story for London Tech...
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London Tech Week opinion 3: The coming of age moment
With London Tech Week held recently various tech sector executives have kindly offered to provide their opinions of this year’s London Tech week.
Here are the opinions already published:
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Fintech IT chiefs earn more than chief financial officers
The combination of a talent shortage and the rapid growth of the fintech industry in the UK is pushing up salaries by as much as 25%. This is according to a report from recruitment company...
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London Tech Week opinion 2: UK tech is more than just London
With London Tech Week held recently various tech sector executives have kindly offered to provide their opinions of this year’s London Tech week.
Here are the opinions already published:
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Lloyds bank adds savings and credit card to open banking
Customers of Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland will be able to see their savings and credit card accounts at each bank alongside their current accounts, following the launch of new open banking functionality, by the banking group.
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London Tech Week opinion 1: Incorporating diversity in your company
As I was on another assignment most of this week I didn’t manage to cover London Tech Week as much as I would have liked. I did manage to interview Russ Shaw, of Tech London Advocates before the show, which 0 Comments
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Currencycloud takes Lego approach to payments infrastructure: Fintech Interview 22
Cross border payments fintech Currencycloud is offering emerging financial services firms the ability to build a payments infrastructure through its own version of Lego. Its API based service, which sits in the Amazon Web Services cloud is broken into payments infrastructure modules, each with...
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London Tech Week role heightened as London needs a showcase to give clarity amid Brexit haze
Not strictly fintech but worth a plug is London Tech Week. The annual tech event, in its sixth year will see over 200 events held right across the capital, during the week.
After all as part if it today (Monday 10 June) will see the launch of the 0 Comments
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HSBC drops Connected Money and integrates best features to main mobile banking app
HSBC is turning off another of its pioneering fintech apps and integrating the most popular parts into its main mobile app. The bank is taking the popular parts of its money management app, Connected Money, and integrating them into its main...
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