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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.
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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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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.
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15:10 - 15:20
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Coffee Break
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15:20 - 16:00
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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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