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Fintech North 2018 - Roundup
23/05/2019 8:00
FinTech North Leeds Conference 2019
The Leeds FinTech North Conference is back and bigger and better than ever. To cover the huge range of topics demanded by the rapidly expanding community in the Leeds region, we're going multi-stream.
15/05/2019 8:00
FinTech North Newcastle Forum
FinTech North returns to Newcastle for our latest seminar, which is a fringe event as part of Newcastle Start Up Week. Join us for a breakfast seminar with a range of speakers including Paid who are a north east based FinTech and one of only 10 UK FinTechs who have been going through the Barclays Techstars programme in recent months.
07/06/2019 8:00
FinTech Skills - The Roles of Universities & Businesses
FinTech North Manchester Forum, in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University. A discussion focused on the subject of skills, including speakers from new and established organisations in the Greater Manchester region, as well as senior representatives from MMU.
We only sent the mailing out yesterday, but have already got 70 people signed up for our #Compliance and #RegTech #Leeds event on Jan 17th, with @Yorkshire_BS. Click below to get signed up, this one is heading towards a #sellout ! https://t.co/Yq63TaMJQE pic.twitter.com/JkYrzRLfM9
— FinTech North (@fintechnorth) December 21, 2018
Thank you! https://t.co/wupd7IaPrY
— FinTech North (@fintechnorth) May 24, 2019
My latest blog #FinTech Energy! @ScotFinEnt @ScotDevInt @scotent @ScotFintech @fintechnorth @InnFin @FinTechAlliance @ScotlandEuropa @OBE_Global https://t.co/hhys3odFTK
— Stephen Ingledew (@IngledewStephen) May 24, 2019
Addressing the ‘FinTech perception gap’ can put the north on a level playing field with London
Speakers at the sold-out FinTech North Leeds event yesterday addressed the challenges and opportunities for the sector in the region and beyond. The ‘perception gap’ – where the vast assets of Leeds, the North, and elsewhere outside of London are not known or under-appreciated or are seen as too far away – can cause lost opportunities, according to Henri Murison, Director of the Northern ...Read More
A big thank you to @DeloitteUK_FS for sponsoring our drinks reception! 🥂🍺 #FTNLeeds19 pic.twitter.com/etR4xMBQHw
— FinTech North (@fintechnorth) May 23, 2019
Important bit of advice from @Market_Gravity: don't reinvent the wheel. If you have one novel feature, that's enough. Go where your customers already are, and are currently transacting – don't make them come to you. #FTNLeeds19
— FinTech North (@fintechnorth) May 23, 2019
Alex Cole, @Market_Gravity poses an interesting question – "if drug dealers don't need a log in to transact and reach a lot of people, why do you? Hide in plain sight! Use tools that are readily available in the first place – you don't need separate transaction tools" #FTNLeeds19
— FinTech North (@fintechnorth) May 23, 2019
"Hackers need to do customer service just like anyone else – most of their victims don't know how to buy a bitcoin, for example. So they have to be walked through the process to even buy the ransom in the first place" – Alex Cole, @Market_Gravity #FTNLeeds19 pic.twitter.com/yhiLYdveSR
— FinTech North (@fintechnorth) May 23, 2019
Last but by no means least, Alex Cole from @Market_Gravity delivers an interactive session on the dark web, and what #FinTech lessons can be learned #FTNLeeds19 pic.twitter.com/0qpDTIt24T
— FinTech North (@fintechnorth) May 23, 2019
"Interactions between humans & non humans will become closer. Banks & FinTechs need to work together to develop virtual bots of future. It seems frightening now, but the tech will mature to make virtual assistants much more real & advanced" – Armin Eiber, @BJSSLtd #FTNLeeds19
— FinTech North (@fintechnorth) May 23, 2019
Armin Eiber, @BJSSLtd delivers our Champagne Keynote. His advice for established banks? "Review your strategy & operating model to look into areas of market you're currently not working on, identify differentiators, and work with FinTechs to do this – it's a win-win" #FTNLeeds19 pic.twitter.com/8sHzKUZrkf
— FinTech North (@fintechnorth) May 23, 2019
A push vs pull debate in our #RegTech panel: would firms rather report to the regulator, or have regulators extract the data directly? Tom Simpson from @Yorkshire_BS says latter is more efficient, & could become reality as firms get more used to working with APIs #FTNLeeds19
— FinTech North (@fintechnorth) May 23, 2019
"it's not just gender and race, it's skill and background" says @BjssKarenb. "Diversity creates a better environment for people to work in – and it gives people confidence!"
— FinTech North (@fintechnorth) May 23, 2019
@northcoders teaches people to code over 12 weeks. Of the 350+ graduates, 96% now have jobs as software developers. Community, diversity and inclusion are the core values, says @amul5
— FinTech North (@fintechnorth) May 23, 2019
An important conversation now with our FinTech Skills and Diversity panel – @BlareClack is chairing. @amul5 from @northcoders and @BjssKarenb from @BJSSLtd are sharing their views. #FTNLeeds19 pic.twitter.com/sIfL2YaCza
— FinTech North (@fintechnorth) May 23, 2019
