News and Views by the Fintech Times

The Fintech Times Podcast Team speak on Embedded Finance and how small businesses in the UK will have to utilize technology in order to ride the post-pandemic spending boom. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, research, and par...

The Fintech Times Podcast team talk about the regulations regarding the Buy Now Pay Later sector and the benefits and flaws on how consumers engage with financial guidance from influencers. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, r...

The Fintech Times Podcast Team have a discussion about gender diversity within Fintech. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, research, and partnership opportunities at thefintechtimes.com and follow The Fintech Times across all...

The Fintech Times Podcast Team break down Digital Banking, along with its benefits, and discuss how it fits into modern society. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, research, and partnership opportunities at thefintechtimes.com...

The Fintech Times Podcast Team talk on how the Coronavirus has affected businesses, and will continue to effect businesses in the future. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, research, and partnership opportunities at thefintech...

The Fintech Times Podcast Team talk about the topic of the month, GameTech, and speak about how Fintech can benefit it and from it. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, research, and partnership opportunities at thefintechtimes....

The Fintech Times Podcast team discuss Cybersecurity, cyber attacks due to Brexit and Covid-19, smart devices & home privacy and the development of smart technology into 2021. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, research, and p...

The Fintech Times Podcast team speak on the highs and lows of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, specifically focusing on the last couple of months and near future. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, research, and partnership...

On this weeks episode of News & Views, The Fintech Times Podcast team cross oceans to talk about expansion in Asia and the range of opportunities Fintech in South Africa creates for the Fintech and wider tech industries. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discov...

The Fintech Times Podcast Team speak on two recently posted articles posted on The Fintech Times, one regarding contactless technology, and the other focused on UK Hightstreet Banks. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, research...

The Fintech Times Podcast Team speak on two Fintech Times articles posted during this festive season! The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, research, and partnership opportunities at thefintechtimes.com and follow The Fintech Tim...

The Fintech Times Podcast Team talk about two recently published Fintech Times articles titled 'Self Financial Study Finds All Bank Branches to Close by 2034' and 'Recycled Plastic Cards Now Available in Over 200 Countries With GREENPAY', and take a deep dive into both topics. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, wit...

The Fintech Times Podcast Team dive into a Fintech Times article titled 'Green What? Half of Brits Admit They Don’t Understand Green Finance' and discuss what exactly Green Finance is and what we can expect to see from it. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Disc...

The Fintech Times Podcast team talk of an interesting article published recently regarding the 'Fostering Fintech and Wider Tech Youth Entrepreneurial Empowerment in Africa'. Hosts Include: Manisha Patel & Polly Harrison Read the article here: https://thefintechtimes.com/fostering-fintech-and-wider-tech-youth-entrepreneurial-empowerment-in-africa/ The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers str...

The Fintech Times Podcast team discuss a recently published article titled 'Alexa Offers Fintech News and Insights Via BNP Paribas Asset Management'. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, research, and partnership opportunities a...

The Fintech Times Podcast crew discuss an article titled: Survey Evaluates Personalisation, Digitisation, Loyalty Trends Across Generations. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, research, and partnership opportunities at thefint...

In This episode of The Fintech Times News & Views, we discuss an article evolved around Cyber Security, how to stay safe online and how companies are attempting to keep our data safe. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, researc...

In this episode of The Fintech Times News & Views, we discuss a survey which finds that UK Workers Are “Losing the Will to Zoom”. We discuss the effects of Zoom calls as well as the positives and negatives of recurring Zoom meetings on mental health and work flow management. The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with...

Partnerships and collaborations Technology platform Nium is to provide neobank Unifimoney with international remittance capability. Following the partnership, Unifimoney can also send funds overseas to Europe and Asia within the app ‘at a lower FX rate than banks’. VTB Bank and the  Skolkovo Foundation have signed a partnership agreement in order to to ‘solve problems of big data management in the...

James Cahill and Yvonne Pichert are the new vice presidents at advisory firm MDOTM. The fintech says the pair’s international expertise in asset management will be key in accelerating and consolidating its global expansion. Moving jobs UK challenger bank Tandem has hired Paul Noble as its new chief commercial officer. In addition to developing green mortgages and savings accounts, Noble will help...

Launches & announcements Mobile payments company Auka renames to Settle. The company says the change is in order to unify and best reflect its mobile payments product offering. In addition, its mission is to become the number one mobile payments platform in Europe. Emirates NBD has launched a digital supply chain financing platform for its corporate and institutional clients. It says the smartSCF...

Investment & Funding European digital investment platform Bitpanda has closed a $52 million series A funding round led by Valar Ventures . The large-scale investment will drive Bitpanda’s expansion, as well as ‘position the company as a leader in transforming Europe’s financial industry’. In addition, it will be used to recruit ‘some of the world’s leading talent’. Following the investment, Valar...

Fintech appointments Former HSBC Group COO Andy Maguire joins  Thought Machine as new chair. The cloud native core banking technology firm hopes Maguire will aggressively pursue its international growth plans over the coming years. In addition to Maguire’s appointment, Thought Machine says it will unveil new clients in the coming months. Stephen Reidy will drive strategic growth at GoCardless afte...

It’s Pension Awareness Day #PAD20 Investment manager SEI says a new partnership with Moneyhub will turbocharge its master trust offering to help members save more for retirement. Moneyhub’s machine learning technology will be used to offer ‘easy-to-plan retirement saving functions’ to SEI’s institutional clients. Moneyhub and its powerful, insightful open finance solutions seamlessly support our v...

The Fintech Times News &Views Podcast delivers strategic insight into the trends redefining global financial services, with commentary from industry leaders and innovators. Discover more coverage, interviews, research, and partnership opportunities at thefintechtimes.com and follow The Fintech Times across all major social platforms.