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Emma Alley Chief Operating Officer at MoneyCorp
Women and men, despite being equally capable, have historically not been treated in that manner. While unfair that it had to be done in this manner, women have proven their strength and resilience, succeeding over the last 100 years in the push for the right to vote, to have equal rights to men, and to stand as equals. Today, this movement is stil...
30 January 2023 /payments /people
Ryta Zasiekina CEO at FYST
As the old saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a first impression, and when it comes to e-commerce, that equates to little more than 50 milliseconds. Alarmingly, a potential customer can be drawn to or turned off by your website or online service at the hint of a glance. Increasingly, it’s becoming ever more difficult to stand out i...
26 January 2023 /startups /identity
Lissele Pratt COO & Co-founder at Capitalixe
Breaking through the glass ceiling in fintech While 30% of the fintech workforce are female, only 17% of senior fintech roles are women. To close the gender gap in fintech, we must first understand the root causes of why this disparity exists. I got my first finance job when I was 18, working in the City of London. At the time, I was one of the onl...
20 September 2022 /people /sustainable
Sarah Carver Head of Digital at Delta Capita
Every financial institution is prioritising digital transformation as an essential part of their strategy. The challenge is which areas to change first. Digital transformation can involve a multitude of projects and outcomes. For example, it can involve incremental improvements improve process automation, form digitisation, data collection, custome...
18 August 2022 /wealth /retail
Terry Monteith SVP of Acquiring and Payments at BlueSnap
The representation of women within the fintech industry has always been inequitable. And although some positive strides have been taken in recent years to bridge the gender gap, there is still a way to go. In the UK, women only make up 30% of the workforce in the sector, and only 12% of fintech founders and co-founders are women. To drive the cha...
06 July 2022 /payments /inclusion
Jamel Derdour CMO at Transact365 / Nucleus365
Written by Sophie Flynn, CFO of Transact365. When it comes to gender equality in the workplace, the financial services sector is regularly in the spotlight. Traditionally male-dominated, progress has been made in recent years to ensure women are encouraged to pursue a career in the financial services, backed by private and public initiatives like ...
06 July 2022 /payments /people
Retired Member
I have recently posted about our conversations with Stephanie Feldt, Chief Compliance Officer & General Counsel at Trading.com and Shelley Schachter-Cahm, Chief Compliance Officer at CEX.io. Today, I’ll tell you more about our chat with Livia Benisty, Global Head of Business AML at Banking Circle. Livia has a wealth of experience in the Finan...
13 June 2022 /regulation /people
Adriana P Trader at Xray Trade
Women in crypto is for sure an interesting topic because for some reason most people think women just arrived in the cryptoverse but it isn’t the case. Hello world! Nowadays more and more women are coming to fields that were not seen before such as gaming and crypto. Statista showed the evolution of gender in the gaming industry from 2006 to 2...
30 March 2021 /crypto /identity
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
BUBBLENOMICS BubbleNomics, it’s new, it’s exciting, it’s a failure? The world has really changed. It has been a year since the COVID-19 Pandemic has infected the globe. Everything has been touched and everyone has been impacted. There is a distinct change in our daily family life, our jobs, and our communities. As of March 2021, globally there has...
16 March 2021 /wholesale /crime
Shemina Jiwani Chief Operating Officer at AscendantFX Capital Inc.
Strategies for retaining and nurturing female talent The COVID-19 pandemic undoubtedly had a disproportionate impact on women in the workforce. For instance, a recent study of six countries (China, Italy, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and the US) found that women were 24% more likely to lose their jobs compared to men. Additionally, December 2020 U...
05 March 2021 /people /covid-19
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