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Fintech startups: A week in review

Under-the-radar startups Bank Innovation, a banking innovation blog, has uncovered some fintech startups we should be keeping our eye on - a B2B payments system, an investment management tool, a debt collection startup and Ripple - the payment protocol which allows for cross-border payments. Stripe improves their receipts Stripe, the mobile and e-...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

One group to unite them all...Or...?

OK - so yesterday saw the 'standing room only' launch of the new UK-wide industry group Innovate Finance. The industry body, heading by Level 39's own Claire Cockerton was kicked off by the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osbourne (whom some people in the audience got a little too excited about, not naming any names...Duena Blomstrom*) *S...

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Adapt or die: laying the blueprint for Banking 3.0

Where previously regulation had been the driver of spending decisions, the need to innovate is rapidly becoming as important, if not more so. Banks with outdated legacy systems and products must act with agility and find new ways to stay ahead of the pack. The financial services market is set to become saturated by offerings from new entrants and m...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Who is the all time leading football goal scorer?

A few weeks ago Nicole Anderson, CEO of Simulocity invited me to 'Finance for Female Entrepreneurs: Challenges and Opportunities' at Level 39. Lots of women, lots of chat, (wine served before the panel debate *natch*) and eight women on stage! Eight! (I'm surprised the audience didn't come out in hives ;-) Video available here. The women on stage ...

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Steve D'Souza

Steve D'Souza Business Development at Iress

Will the world live as one? Wither IoT...

John Lennon said “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” In the technology news recently, was one item that probably passed you by- Cisco, IBM, GE and AT&T have launched the Industrial Internet Consortium, an open membership group that aims to break down technolo...

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The Art of Battling Giants

How can a small fintech and services firm compete with their larger competitors? This is probably the one question I get asked more often than any other by CEOs of smaller technology and fund administration firms. Considering their global multi-solution competitors with their vast marketing budgets, sales resources and account teams, it seems like...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

It's not do or do not do; it's try and try and try...then do

A while ago I attended a conference (I know, shocker) where someone on stage commented that no bank would ever have been allowed to release 'Square', with the amount of bugs the US payments startup experienced at its launch. Square, as you all know, offers the square-shaped merchant dongle that enables mobile transactions. Now this isn't a discuss...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

If any industry is in need of new thinking, it's banking

I've just checked my blogging stats and it seems like the last time I could, actually, act on my blogging muse was this past January. Oh dear. I apologise folks, but #dayjob. Those webcasts don't moderate themselves, ya know. So, as we come into the middle of the year, I thought I would reflect on a few of my 'I should write a blog about this' mome...

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Startups Don't Get Sold. They Get Bought.

This was originally posted on Swedish Startup Space. In 2008 I was the Head of Fraud Analytics for FraudSciences, an Israeli startup developing fraud prevention solutions for eCommerce. One evening in January of that year, we convened to talk about our annual plans. Our COO, a quiet guy in his 50s, said: “First thing’s first: the PayPal test resul...

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