International Conference on Financial Technology

Overview

Technology has been rapidly transforming the financial services industry. We are witnessing numerous innovations in areas such as insuretech, digital banking, wealth management, artificial intelligence, and digital payment. The recent Covid 19 pandemic has taught us how digital technologies can help to accelerate growth in the financial services sector.

Leading UK banking, technology and fintech companies will join us at the International Conference on Fintech and Open Banking to highlight the various current technology trends and regulatory challenges experienced by the sector. They will also have an opportunity to discuss and showcase their product offerings.

Topics

Conference topics will include:

• Cyber security
• RegTech solutions for automating compliance
• Improving data privacy and security
• Fraud detection and prevention
• Machine learning and AI
• Digital Currencies
• Next generation payment systems
• Secure data sharing
• Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
• AML
• Open Banking
• Digital identity management

The two-day event will comprise short courses and roundtable discussions to identify themes important for academia and industry collaboration. The fora will also provide a platform for financial sector organisations to interact with technology providers, regulators and academic experts working across areas in finance and technology to identity avenues for future collaboration and capacity building.

Keynote speaker

Alex van Someren (appointed Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security in July 2021)

Alex was previously a venture capital investor and entrepreneur, focusing on investing in early stage ‘deep technology’ startups. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, an Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, and a current member of the Royal Society’s Science, Industry and Translation Committee. During 2019 he was the Visiting Clore Innovation Professor at the Royal College of Art. Alex participated in the development of the BBC Microcomputer & Acorn Electron at Acorn Computer in the 1980s. He subsequently co-founded several technology companies, including ANT Software plc and nCipher plc which achieved AIM and London Stock Exchange listings, respectively. His scientific work is in the broad area of software engineering and computer science.