The UK is fast becoming one of the world’s leading FinTech centres with innovation and growth in data analytics, payment models, mobile payments and alternative funding mechanisms being just some of them.
This year we saw the government reinforce the growing importance of FinTech with the appointment of a special envoy, Eileen Burbidge (now also chair of Tech City UK), charged with promoting and encouraging investment in London’s booming industry. The public sector is one area of payments that is innovating in this space and where the benefits of FinTech can be leveraged for the benefit of both Government and the citizen.
June 2022
Last week I had the pleasure of chairing the Annual Lecture for Wales as part of Digital Leaders week in my role as Chair of Digital Leaders in Wales. This year’s lecture was called ‘How Digital Transformation supports Purpose-Led Financial Services’ and was delivered by […]
June 2022
Nudging. It’s the latest evolution of a trend previously known under the catch-all buzzword Quantified self. Think fitness trackers, smart watches, baby health trackers and plenty of other wearables flooding the consumer market. Thanks to IoT (Internet of Things) and the latest technological advancements, humanity has […]
May 2022
The start of the new financial year has arrived and having money left in the pot at the end of the year is very common. For those in government with some budget remaining, this usually presents an incentive to spend at the last minute. The […]
January 2022
It’s nearly impossible to move at the moment for marketing takes on the metaverse. Completely understandable. A totally malleable, immersive world at people’s fingertips? Think of the potential. It is also still early in its development – so early, that one survey has found that […]
September 2021
The latest IPCC report into climate change is yet another reiteration of the urgency of humanity’s dire need to reduce greenhouse gases emissions and invest in sustainable technologies, processes, and infrastructures. Technologies such as reforesting, rewilding, and direct air capture have showed promise. Governments around […]
September 2021
Public interest in Distributed Ledger Technology—or DLT—rose dramatically in 2017 as a result of the cryptocurrency boom. Although at the time some wrote this off as a brief trend, the last year in particular has seen the promises of this technology become impossible to dismiss. […]
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