7 Results from 2015
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
A famous quote from investor Warren Buffet goes along the lines of: "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” I’m going to turn that quote around. Banks, banking and the financial services industry will be transformed (for the better) in the next ten years because someone planted a seed in FinTech ...
09 November 2015 /startups
Now that I find myself running an accelerator in the FinTech space I get asked a lot of questions. What is the value for the startups? What do the banks get out of it? Are any real projects completed? I often sit on panels, next to representatives from banks - many of whom have publically invested hundreds of millions of dollars, pounds and euro...
08 October 2015 /retail /startups
There are times and dates in your life when you look back and think – yes, that was when my life did a pivot. When you feel your world turn and find yourself facing a new and sometimes scary direction. I’m not talking about dates you plan and know in advance – like when you graduate from university or get married – but dates that take you by surpri...
25 June 2015 /startups
...and I loved it. Payments professionals from a wide range of geographies gathered in Barcelona for Nacha’s Payments Innovation Alliance last week. The main topics of conversation centred on real-time payments, the upcoming PSD II, new entrants to the market and, of course, the blockchain. While the actual sessions themselves were under the Chath...
11 June 2015 /payments
I had dinner on Sunday night with three 13 year old girls. They were the daughter and two friends, of a close friend of mine I hadn't seen in a while. In addition to catching up on old times over a bottle of wine (with the mother, of course) I took the dinner table opportunity to ask the girls a few questions. You see, they were all born in 2001....
26 May 2015 /retail Disruption in Retail Banking
It has long been my personal feeling, based on over 20 years writing about banks (or banking or financial services or FinTech, what have you) that anyone who thinks it would be a good idea to start a bank should have their heads examined. However, as of January 2015, 26 banks were in discussion with the Bank of England’s Financial Conduct Authori...
05 February 2015 /retail Disruption in Retail Banking
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...
30 January 2015 /startups
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