We remember the main topics of the event in Copenhagen last year. Let’s have a look at how it compares with the new agenda!
2017 focus:
- Commerce becomes increasingly connected
- Immediacy is everything
- The ideal authentication process must be invisible
- Data is the oxygen of our financial lives
- The shifting narrative as startups become more open to work with incumbents
- Technologies with connection to financial inclusion to drive wealth and the rise of cashless economy
- An engagement between startups and established players is becoming a trend
- Decentralised technology and its promise to the world
- Crypto bubble and overhype
- Sandbox: to be or not to be
2018 focus:
- Blockchain and its real life application
- Creating a trusted digital identity to improve customer experience (biometrics, blockchain etc)
- Decentralised paradigm of financial world and smart contracts economy
- Crypto market transitioning from the ‘Wild West’ to more regulation
- Open banking as a new opportunity for customers and fintechs
- Innovations pushing regulators to change their strategies: everything should be better, faster, and cheaper.
- Sandbox as a tool to put a jurisdiction on the fintech map and to attract
- New wave of incumbent banks driving innovation forward by increasingly integrating a startup mindset
Connected world and IOT as a part of our lives
Kate Goldfinch, editor at The Fintech Times
