Chris Skinner

AUGUST 10, 2017

The thing that I was noting is the chasm between bank leadership teams, who are generally men over 50, and FinTech startups, who typically have young visionaries and significant diversity. A year ago, I wrote a piece about Fin and Tech being like Father and Son.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

As the payments landscape evolves and becomes ever more digital in scope, and as FinTech firms make inroads into traditional financial services, regulators are looking at FinTech credit — and how it might be defined and shaped. Now, under Kathy Kraninger’s leadership, the CFPB said this requirement should be removed.

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William Mills

APRIL 2, 2025

Fintech companies must be prepared to respond effectively when a crisis strikes. Below are key steps fintech leaders should take when managing a crisis. Fintech companies should clearly outline the steps they are taking, whether its enhanced security measure, improved protocols or greater investment in risk management.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Vista Equity Partners is reportedly thinking about selling a stake in London-based FinTech Finastra. FinTechs in Europe have been experiencing a rise in value as many investors look for alternatives to run-of-the-mill, brick-and-mortar banks. Bloomberg is reporting that the sale could value Finastra at $10 billion with debt included.

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Perficient

MARCH 5, 2025

” podcast, Jim Hertzfeld had the pleasure of speaking with Efi Pylarinou, a renowned FinTech expert, speaker, and author of “ The Fast Future Blur. Listen to the full episode to stay updated on the latest trends in FinTech and financial services. In the latest episode of the “What If? Subscribe to the “What If?

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Chris Skinner

AUGUST 3, 2016

I like to point at the fact that the Bank of England is taking a leadership role in FinTech, but it goes wider and deeper than this. Before the Global Financial Crisis, it was independent and part of the … The post The Bank of England: taking the lead in #FinTech appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

It was a slow week for B2B FinTech funding rounds, but investors nevertheless provided an impressive sum to industry startups. B2B FinTech firms were noticeably absent from this week’s roundup, with funding targets instead based in India, Brazil, Spain and the U.K. Interestingly, U.S. The company raised $6.7

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Alex Jimenez

DECEMBER 17, 2024

2024 proved to be a year where banking and fintech continued to mesh into a single industry. Collaboration Over Competition: Banks and Fintech Joining Forces This year, Ive emphasized how the relationship between fintech and banks has evolved from rivalry to collaboration. Whats Next? The growth of embedded finance.

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 21, 2017

I’ve blogged about how I see leadership in the developing (developed now) economies of China and India, and the new innovation models of emerging economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, but not quite in the way in which I see them now. The more I think about it, we have three major FinTech models, each with their own unique blend of thinking.

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Chris Skinner

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

I was impressed as he is part of the executive leadership team of the bank and not the CIO. I was talking with a senior banker, who told me that he was in charge of the Artificial Intelligence program in the bank.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 21, 2017

What strikes me most is that millennials tend to be the ones creating and leading many of the FinTech start-ups like the Collinson brothers at Stripe (28 and 26 years old), Ollie Purdue of Loot (23 years old) or Edward Maslaveckas, CEO and co-founder of Bud (26 years old). This is part of the reason I challenge bank leadership teams.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

As well-funded rivals pounce, Dwolla founder and CEO Ben Milne is looking for new leadership and a new strategy.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 21, 2018

I sometimes think I’m too harsh on the financial community, with my continual banter about core systems change, lack of digital leadership, inability to see how critical digital is to their future and the impact FinTech is making on global financial structures.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

FinTechs have had to take on a leadership role to embracing an imbedded payments experience. That led one FinTech, Zoop , to step onto the market with a FinTech- and Payments-as-a-Service business model. "For You already have everything here inside this very same solution and platform.".

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 11, 2020

2020 is the wildest downward ride in the market since 1929, which, one would think, is taking its toll on the fintech ecosystem serving banks and credit unions. And the industry’s two largest fintech providers, FIS and Fiserv, reported organic revenue declines largely due to economic impact to the payments market. It’s one big sandbox.

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Bobsguide

MAY 18, 2022

CompatibL, a leading provider of risk management solutions and professional services for the financial industry, has been named the winner of the Best Risk Management Platform Award in the sixth annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards program for its innovative CompatibL Cloud Platform. About the FinTech Breakthrough Awards.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Companies that scored highest in this year’s Best Fintechs to Work For ranking go beyond the basics of strong pay packages, generous benefits and effective leadership to take a more holistic interest in their employees’ lives, according to the data.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2017

Citi Group named long-time executive Yolande Piazza the head of Citi Fintech today. Piazza, a 30-year financial technology veteran, who has been serving Citi in a variety of roles since 1988, will lead the group’s efforts in mobile, payments, and general fintech innovation.

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Let's Talk Payments

AUGUST 15, 2017

As influential as the FinTech community may seem to dedicated parties, the environment that entrepreneurs were determined to disrupt went through a learning curve and is rapidly balancing itself.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Square , the FinTech payments company headed by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, announced on Thursday (Oct. The company has previously invested in bitcoin “from a product, leadership and legal innovation perspective.”. The company introduced bitcoin trading in 2018 with Cash App, and the following year launched the independent Square Crypto.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

The platform will have a research focus, with information on more than “2,000 cards across 34 market,” analysis of the top 22 players in FinTech, as well as “thought leadership” pieces on “Open Banking, Blockchain and other trends,” the credit card giant said in a press release. Mastercard on Wednesday (Aug.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 17, 2018

Usually, I’m hired by the frustrated digital guy who wants to convince the rest of the leadership team that it’s important. I’ve often been hired to run a workshop or presentation at a bank’s boardroom meeting. appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 20, 2016

I’ve been illustrating my frustration with incumbent banks for some time, saying that they lack technology leadership. Almost a third of my new book talks about the biggest challenge for banks to respond to Fintech, Big Data, Cloud, Blockchain and all those other issues is to have leadership.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 3, 2019

Robinson was a key member of Temenos’s innovation operation, taking a leadership role, among other responsibilities, in managing Temenos’s engagement with the fintech startup ecosystem. Ben Robinson, chief strategy officer of Temenos, has left the company.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 1, 2017

as evidenced by their choice of leadership. Back in December, I picked up on this new Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Ruling to issue national FinTech bank charters. Back in December, I picked up on this new Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Ruling to issue national FinTech bank charters.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

According to Finicity, the move extends its leadership in providing direct data access through the use of APIs to the FinTech category. With our agreement with Brex, we are now extending our approach to FinTechs,” said Finicity CEO and Co-founder Steve Smith. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Yet CUs are also typically local institutions servicing close-knit communities, so taking on a leadership role within the global payments innovation ecosystem may not seem like the most natural fit. ” Leadership Through Collaboration. in markets like Kenya, mobile payments are the norm. . As the U.S.

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Payments Source

MARCH 23, 2021

With former Mastercard executive Dave Glaser becoming the fintech's first president and COO, Dwolla has the leadership necessary to move upmarket. ]].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Australian B2B FinTech Tyro Payments recently listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and saw its share price increase 29 percent above its IPO price on the first day, according to a report by Finder. Cannon-Brookes, who owns about 13 percent of Tyro, tweeted a congratulatory message to the FinTech.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Open-source payments software producer Spreedly is growing its leadership team and has named new heads of human resources, technology and marketing, the company announced on Thursday (July 23). “As We are exceptionally well-positioned to grow our leadership in the payments orchestration market.”. Spreedly, based in Durham, N.C.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

The FinTech startup has already created several financial services products, including cryptocurrency and stock trading, savings wallets, junior accounts and rewards. He will be tasked with developing the board and leadership team. The London-based FinTech was founded in 2015 and has secured more than $580 million in funding on a $5.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

With the deal, WEX is growing its leadership suite inside the travel and business solutions area. WEX, a FinTech provider throughout a broad array of verticals such as fleet, healthcare and travel operates in over 10 nations and in 20 nations via roughly 5,000 associates throughout the globe. said on Tuesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2019

German FinTech company Raisin, an investment and savings marketplace, is looking to expand its business into the U.S., according to a report by Reuters. The company, which is backed by PayPal, wants to attract customers with higher-yielding deposits from its various banking partners.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

By using Visa’s card payment infrastructure and expertise, the company hopes to offer a quality product, according to Terry Angelos , senior vice president and global head of FinTech at Visa. “Our Corporate Card Module now has the global leadership and payment expertise of Visa to put us at the forefront of digital B2B payments.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Which, he noted in 2019, means the future isn’t in holding off FinTech or other payments paths, but in embracing and incorporating them. It’s why they rolled out Accelerate last year to give FinTechs easy onboarding tools to access and integrate Mastercard’s specialized and proprietary payments technology.

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JULY 29, 2020

The veteran FinTech executive will be in charge of the launch and development of firm’s equity brokerage arm and will report directly to Paytm Money President Amit Nayyar. In his last post, Sridhar launched realme PaySa, a FinTech platform on mobile, as CEO of FinShell India.

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Chris Skinner

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Mid-way through #money2020 and in my fourth back-to-back chat about Fintech and leadership and core systems renewal and machine learning and and and … I am suddenly taken back to my roots. My roots are firmly in data.

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