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An interview with Tom Blomfield, co-founder of Monzo

Chris Skinner

And it gave me this grounding in how money works, how FinTech, financial technology works, and sort of, how money moves around the world…I worked for a dating website for a year, after I left GoCardless, which was amazing fun. What really stands Monzo apart? I spent a year out, which is where I met Jonas, my Co-Founder.

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How can a bank guarantee its future?

Chris Skinner

So it’s interesting how we’ve spent the last five years talking about sandboxes, creativity and design in financial technologies. Take the risk without impacting the bank’s operations. We want things just the way they are: manageable, predictable and boring. The idea is to innovate outside the markets.

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Counterparty payments in seconds is an easy sell

Chris Skinner

The background to this was announced in a press release on 1st February 2017: Ripple’s Distributed Financial Technology fits within NBAD’s existing infrastructure and offers a secure end-to-end payment flow providing transaction immutability and payment integrity.

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3 Strategies Goldman Sachs can use to build a Fintech powerhouse

Lex Sokolin

There are, all of a sudden, a lot of deals being done across financial technology. Let’s use Goldman Sachs as our case study and our frame of mind. I would guesstimate a range of around $100 to $150 million, much of which would go to the core operating team. Wealthtech is one fire, they say now. But I digress.