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“Women are actively looking to move into digital roles, and many are already working inside your organisations,” says Caroline Haines, Elected Member @cityoflondon and Chair of the Women Pivoting to Digital Taskforce #FutureOfFinTech

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“The challenge is not the lack of talent, but how we recognise it and invest in it,” says Caroline Haines, Elected Member @cityoflondon and Chair of the Women Pivoting to Digital Taskforce #FutureOfFinTech

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“The question is no longer who already has the perfect technical skillset, but has become who has the capacity to reskill quickly,” says Caroline Haines, Elected Member @cityoflondon and Chair of the Women Pivoting to Digital Taskforce #FutureOfFinTech

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"There are so many transferable skills and the trick is how we mentor to get women over that blocker and, really importantly, to sponsor women much better, to advocate for them," Vicky Soden, Chief Executive Officer, Women in Banking and Finance (WIBF) #FutureOfFinTech

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"Generally, women tend to underestimate the transferability of their skills in a much greater way than men do," says Vicky Soden, Chief Executive Officer, Women in Banking and Finance (WIBF) #FutureOfFinTech

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Good news!

The #PaymentsAwards 2026 deadline has been extended to 17 July 2026.

If you have delivered innovation, growth or impact in payments, now is the time to enter.

🏆 Submit your entry:
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"Diversity isn't a nice to have, it's the key to making those right decisions, the key to spotting those risks early, and the key to challenging that groupthink and translate that into customer impact," says Vicky Soden, Chief Executive Officer, WIBF

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"Diversity is a real business imperative... It has to be built in at the outset," says Vicky Soden, Chief Executive Officer, Women in Banking and Finance

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"How do we start to get women not just being present in an organisation, but how do we start to help them into those positions of power?" asks Vicky Soden, Chief Executive Officer, Women in Banking and Finance

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“The world loyalty needs to be reconsidered. If I’m paying you to open an account, and then you move to another for the same reason, that’s not really loyalty,” says Eleanor Whittaker, Digital Product Manager @NatWest #FutureOfFinTech

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“The future is really about putting the customer first, where they have previously been an afterthought,” says Simon Bennett, Chief Technical Officer @Rackspace_EMEA #FutureOfFinTech

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“The thing that I see changing is the channel by which people want to be served. We need to make sure that we provide all channels to our customers, and not funnel ourselves solely into digital,” says Saira Khan, Head of Innovation & Partnerships, @firstdirect #FutureOfFinTech

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“The big trend of the next ten years for banking isn’t going to be AI, it’s going to be the end of branch banking. I think you’re going to see the end of all-segments banking,” says Conrad Ford, Chief Product & Strategy Officer @AllicaBank #FutureOfFinTech

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Stablecoins are very efficient for cross border payments. It is estimated that around 80% of USD stablecoins are made from outside the US, according to Gilles Chemla, @ImperialBiz #FutureOfFinTech

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We risk loosing monetary sovereignty to the US, we need to have a stablecoin ecosystem and rethink the way we engineer financial policy, says Gilles Chemla, @ImperialBiz #FutureOfFinTech

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The world is changing due to Open Banking and account to account transfers, but you also see tokenisation growing. This will make card payments look outdated, says Gilles Chemla, Professor of Finance @ImperialBiz #FutureofFinTech

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"If you have people that can do it internally, why not? I tend to think about outsourcing as an additional means... I try my best not to outsource the project, because then you create interdependencies," says Janthana Kaenprakhamroy, CEO, @Tapoly #FutureOfFinTech

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"Things are changing rapidly and we have to embrace he situation where we continuously improve, without having to wait two, five, or ten years for something to change," says Mario Marić, Deputy Executive Director, CRM Privredna banka Zagreb, @intesasanpaolo
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"If from day one you maintain trust, customers will stay with you," says Sagar Mandal, Head of Marketing Technology EMEA & APAC, @Ameriprise
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