Women In Open Banking
Insight: Fintech needs diversity in the workplace
With around 20,000 women having left the UK’s tech sector last year, SEON’s Amanda Lieu urges the industry to redouble efforts to encourage more women into technology and fintech roles.
Read MoreTSB and FinTech Scotland Innovation Labs programme opens to fintech applications
Nicola Anderson, chief executive officer of FinTech Scotland, said the programme will “discover and accelerate some of the most innovative fintech companies”.
Read MoreFintech Rightfoot secures $15m funding to launch consumer-permissioned data product
Rightfoot’s newly-launched ‘Connect Magic’ product requires only the consent of the customer to securely retrieve up-to-date banking and credit data.
Read MoreTifin makes two exec leadership hires as it scales
Stacy Carter and Bhavna Thakur have been appointed to the senior leadership team hot on the heels of the launch of Tifin.AI.
Read MoreDigital bank N26 hires Carina Kozole as chief risk officer
Since April, Jan Stechele has held the chief risk officer role in an interim capacity, with Kozole appointed as a permanent replacement.
Read MoreFemale founders cite lack of female decisionmakers as major hurdle
A survey by Pink Salt Ventures revealed 97% of female founders believe they are treated differently than their male counterparts.
Read MoreAll-female founded UK businesses receive just 2% of VC funding
The UK Treasury Committee’s chair, Harriet Baldwin MP, said “it shouldn’t come as a surprise to investors that women and those from ethnic minority backgrounds can start successful businesses”.
Read MorePayments platform Thredd hires Ava Kelly as CPO
Kelly, who has worked at Visa and American Express, called the issuer processing space “ripe for disruption”.
Read MoreWomen in Open Banking panel at Canada Expo welcome progress and celebrate diverse leadership styles
Speakers representing Mastercard, CIBC, National Bank of Canada, Symcor and League Data discussed female representation broadly in Canada, and also within the industry.
Read MoreProvenir promotes Carol Hamilton to chief product officer
In her new role at the risk decisioning software provider, Hamilton will assume overall responsibility for Provenir’s full product suite.
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