AltFi Festival of Finance 2021
The world isn’t going back to normal
The future has never been more exciting or more uncertain, but few can argue that when it comes to finance and banking, the pandemic has accelerated the fintech story by a decade. Join us for the second AltFi Festival of Finance for three action-packed (digital) days. We’ll be exploring the post-pandemic fintech world through open banking, alternative lending, embedded finance, DeFi and much, much more.
3 days
50+ speakers
500+ attendees
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Agenda
Day 1 - 22 Jun 2021
11:00 - 11:30
SESSION
Keynote: Darwin Might Have Had A Point!
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. Fintech and financial services are no exception.
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11:30 - 12:00
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In Conversation With PrimaryBid's CEO Anand Sambasivan
Retail interest in public markets has never been greater, we sit down with PrimaryBid CEO Anand Sambasivan who is leading the charge across Europe to open up access to IPOs and secondary share sales.
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12:00 - 12:40
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What The Pandemic Has Done To Fintech
Most people agree that fintech has been a beneficiary of the pandemic owing to the increasing adoption of digital services as well as growing pressure on incumbents. This session will reflect on just how much has changed in the near 18 months of COVID-19 disruptions.
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12:40 - 13:10
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Breakout Session: Infrastructure Fit For The Future
Financial Institutions need a much more flexible way to manage infrastructure. They want to be able to move fast, scale fast and do so at low cost and low risk. Leveraging cloud is the only real sustainable option if you want to scale dynamically.
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12:40 - 13:10
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Breakout Session: The Open-Banking Era: Compliance, Security And Onboarding
During this event, Zac Cohen, COO at Trulioo will join Nicolas Dinh, Global Head of Operations in Digital Banking at Credit Sesame, and Garient Evans, SVP of Identity Solutions at Trulioo to discuss: the role of identity verification in optimal onboarding experiences; considerations for a data-led economy in an open-banking future; strategies for balancing security, compliance and customer experience.
SPEAKERS
13:10 - 13:20
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Coffee Break
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13:20 - 14:00
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Neo Banks: Coming Of Age
Neo banks have long been the poster child for innovation in financial services led by disruptive start-ups. Now firms have gone through their first crisis, starting to make profits and increasingly dominating digital banking. In this session, we dive into what’s driving the trend.
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14:00 - 14:40
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Deep Dive: Lessons From The Financial Crisis
Memories of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, which largely sparked the fintech movement, are fading. In this session, we look back more than a decade as to what lessons have been learned from the entrepreneurs who first responded to the need for change.
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14:40 - 15:10
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Breakout Session: How Open Banking-Powered Financial Data Aggregation Fuels Unique User Experiences
Join Jason O'Shaughnessy, Head of International Sales at Envestnet | Yodlee, as he highlights how customers are leveraging open banking-enabled financial data aggregation, transaction data enrichment, and intelligence to power their financial app use cases. Discover how cutting-edge companies are improving their user experience and engagement by applying financial data aggregation to micro-investing, payment enablement, wealth management, and accounting.
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14:40 - 15:10
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Breakout Session: Embrace The Power Of The Financial Ecosystem. We’re Better Together.
In today’s tech driven world lenders are lucky that they don’t have to do everything themselves! Establishing an API infrastructure means lenders benefit from the latest and best-in-class solutions, to help them create a compelling lending proposition. In fact, it’s questionable if a lender can effectively compete in this new “open” world without an open API infrastructure. It’s time to create an easily scalable business combined with a more seamless experience for borrowers.
SPEAKERS
15:10 - 15:20
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Coffee Break
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15:20 - 16:00
SESSION
How Far Can Buy Now Pay Later Go?
Buy Now Pay Later has been one of the breakout areas for investment into fintech over the past year. With more players now entering the market, further innovation could prompt a huge onslaught of further innovation.
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16:00 - 16:30
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In Conversation With eToro's CEO Yoni Assia
One of the stand out areas of fintech to benefit during the pandemic has been firms helping retail investors access investment markets. In this session we hear from the CEO of one of the most high profile businesses eToro to ride the trend.
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11:00 - 11:30
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In Conversation With Charles McManus
As banking-as-a-service empowers a new generation of neobanks, we sit down with one of the industry’s architects to learn how Charles McManus, CEO of ClearBank, views the digital banking and fintech landscape in 2021.
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11:30 - 12:00
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After The Storm: Funding The Recovery
As the world was turned upside down with the Covid-19 pandemic, the British Business Bank stepped in to help support businesses up and down the country. We sit down with Marilena Ioannidou, director of the Future Fund and Venture Solutions at the British Business Bank, to hear first-hand how the BBB helped protect millions of businesses from a Covid-19-related collapse.
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12:00 - 12:40
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Looking Ahead: Fintech Trends To Watch
A dizzying array of new fronts have opened up in fintech over the past year or two. In this session, we take a look into the future with the help of some seasoned fintech watchers to explore the most exciting trends changing the financial services landscape.
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12:40 - 13:10
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Breakout Session: True Digitisation For FIs: Don’t Automate Your Inefficiencies
To remain competitive, banks, building societies and alternative lenders should prioritise middle and back-end transformation through data-driven and customer-centric partnerships with banks and building societies.
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12:40 - 13:10
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Breakout Session: Scaling Up And Financing Your Business In A Post Brexit /COVID World – Should You Be Wary?
Serial entrepreneur John Davies, who amongst his current roles include Executive Chairman and founder of leading alternative lender Just Cashflow Plc and CEO and founder of global FraudTech specialist Kompli-Global shares his 40 years of business experience. He highlights the key questions FinTech entrepreneurs should be asking themselves both at launch and when their businesses start to gain traction. He also investigates the different funding structures available and the implications they have in the future including why so many Fintech entrepreneurs depart from the business they launched.
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13:10 - 13:20
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Coffee Break
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13:20 - 14:00
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Alternative Lenders & The Post Pandemic Recovery
Alternative lending has played a key role in financing businesses during the pandemic but revenue strategies, as well as credit models, have been completely upended also. In this session, we hear how SME lenders and investors in these loans feel as the world moves into a recovery phase.
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14:00 - 14:30
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Thoughts From A Decade Reporting Fintech
Steve O'Hear has spent more than decade covering fintech. Before we even really called it fintech, infact. Join this session to hear a candid take on the good, the bad and the ugly of financial start ups.
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14:30 - 15:10
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Big Banks' Digital Transformation
What does the large incumbent bank of the future in the context of fintech, digital currencies and increasingly distributed ecosystems look like? In this session, we hear from deep inside the financial banking giants as to how things are shifting.
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15:10 - 15:50
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Embedded Finance: Is It Worth The Hype?
Will every company be a fintech company one day? Embedded Finance is certainly the fintech buzzword of the year in 2021 despite being around for much longer in reality. What is driving the excitement, what might it mean for existing disruptive trends and the end consumer?
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15:50 - 16:30
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What Open Banking Will Do Next
Open banking is quickly moving out of its initial development stage into a period of widespread adoption by a variety of businesses, not just those in financial services. In this session we hear how things have begun to crystalise and what will happen as the trend continues to gather pace.
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11:30 - 12:00
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Lessons From Launching A Fintech In Lockdown
With over 35 years of financial expertise under her belt and now one at the helm of a startup, Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia is well versed in the world of finance and fintech. Tune into this fireside discussion to hear what Jayne-Anne has to say about launching a challenger app in lockdown and how she made the big leap over to the wonderful world of fintech.
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12:00 - 12:40
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The Payments Battleground: Change Is Coming
The payments landscape is heating up. From Open Banking to crypto and QR codes, new forms of digital payment are beginning to compete with the old guard. What's driving the change and what does it mean for incumbents? Join this session to find out.
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12:40 - 13:10
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Breakout Session: How Open Banking Is Driving Payments Innovation
Rafa Plantier and Simon Holland sit down to talk about the partnership between Tink and Wealthify, how payment initiation services can deliver seamless customer experience, and the future of open banking movement.
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13:10 - 13:20
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Coffee Break
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13:20 - 14:00
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The Pandemic Payments Revolution
In this session, we take a deep dive into what's happening during the pandemic with payment methods including open banking and how regulatory change has helped promote a revolution in payments.
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14:00 - 14:30
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Exploring The Opportunities For Open Banking
Open Banking is starting to see strong traction in among banks and other fintechs after a glacial start. In this session we hear what some of the new opportunities it is presenting for consumers and businesses.
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14:30 - 15:00
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Breakout Session: The Future Of Payments: Fast, Easy, And Low Cost
Hear from Plaid Payment Product Manager about open banking payments, and how they will revolutionise the point of sale in Europe.
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15:00 - 15:10
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Coffee Break
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15:10 - 15:50
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Crypto: Table Stakes For Fintech?
Crypto's rise over the past year has converted legions of sceptics. But its volatile reputation and meme driven sentiment also presents a quandary for other fintechs. Should everyone be looking to incorporate crypto? In this session, we hear from those leading the charge combining fintech and crypto.
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