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Recent Posts

• Fintech professional’s tech predictions: 4 – Social media regulation

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 09 Apr 2018

Social media platforms will face increasingly stringent regulations which might limit their scope as governments clamp down on data abuse

• Fintech professional’s tech predictions: 3 –Sharing data risks outweigh benefits

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 05 Apr 2018

Personal data in all its forms is becoming a valuable commodity for businesses, but people will be more cautious as legal and illegal abuse of data continues to hit the headlines

• The first thing a refugee asks when they arrive at a camp is not necessarily for water or food

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 28 Mar 2018

An internet connection is as important as food and water to the displaced

• Fintech professional’s tech predictions: 2 - Smart meter breaches

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 28 Mar 2018

Energy smart meters will increasingly be targets for cyber attacks

• Customers hit by shrapnel in banking’s battle of the cost bases

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 27 Mar 2018

Customers are being caught in the crossfire of the Battle of the Cost Bases being fought by banks on the streets of the UK

• Fintech professional’s tech predictions: 1 – Fake News

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 26 Mar 2018

Fintech professional predicts that tech forms carrying news will need government approval over next few years to fight against fake news

• Innovate Finance Global Summit gets fintech ready for adulthood

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 20 Mar 2018

Fintech is coming of age and faces all the challenges that growing up entails

• Is paying for a bus using cryptocurrency really that shocking?

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 14 Mar 2018

Is it that shocking that people will be paying for buses using cryptocurrency within seven years?

• Catwalk models be afraid there is a 98% chance a robot will take your jobs

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 12 Mar 2018

It is not surprising that telemarketing jobs will be taken by robots but the fact that modelling jobs are 98% likely to be done by robots in 2035 is.

• I promised myself I would use the B–word a bit less in this blog

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 09 Mar 2018

IT apprenticeships fell in the UK last year which is worrying given the IT skills shortage

• The juxtaposition fuelling the challenger bank sector

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 07 Mar 2018

Challenger banks are becoming the innovative digital arms of the traditional banks they set out to disrupt. Job done then?

• Post 2008 early challenger banks are now the challenged

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 28 Feb 2018

Virgin Money was one of the earlier challengers to traditional banks and is now creating a digital bank to keep up with the times

• Traditional banks have ridden the storm and are emerging from the other side smelling of fintech

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 26 Feb 2018

Traditional banks have profited from fintech which was seen as a risk to their businesses

• Masochistic Brexiteers get their wish before it even happens, and we will all suffer

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 22 Feb 2018

The number of EU citizens coming to the UK is falling even before Brexit has happened because it is quite simple not as good a place to live

• UK fintechs preparing for the worst Brexit

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 21 Feb 2018

UK Fintechs are implementing their Brexit plans and it means the UK is losing jobs now could be bypassed for future roles