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.
500+ attendees
Fireside
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.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.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.Coffee Break
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.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.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.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.Coffee Break
Fireside
22/06/21
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.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 .Coffee Break
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.Coffee Break
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?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.23/06/21
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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.24/06/21
