How consumers form trust in unfamiliar intermediaries, platforms and new financial services, informed by writing on how trust moves between institutions, platforms and individuals.
How financial innovation develops, how institutions interpret new products and how oversight responds as markets change, from a journalist and anthropologist who covered the credit derivatives market before the financial crisis.
Technology journalist who explains consumer technology to mainstream audiences, focusing on fintech adoption, including the factors that influence whether consumers trust, understand and use new financial products and platforms.
Global strategist and author tracking business model innovation and high-growth markets. He looks beyond payment software to the disruptive gamechangers, cross-industry blueprints, and customer-centric strategies that allow modern financial institutions to completely recode their value and brand positioning.
Financial technology within broader economic and political shifts, connecting fintech with changes in markets and the global economy, informed by a former Editor-in-Chief of The Economist.
Links between fintech and institution-building, market access and the infrastructure needed for trading and payments, informed by experience founding Ethiopia's commodity exchange, building market and payment infrastructure where little existed.
How incumbent banks respond to fintech challengers, new technology and the organisational pressures that affect the pace of change, from an entrepreneur and adviser on innovation inside established organisations.
Fintech within the wider context of digital infrastructure, AI, data and technology used in cities and public systems, drawing on advisory work with governments and corporates across Asia.
Founding editor of WIRED UK with a long view of startups and emerging technology, focusing on wider patterns in technology adoption, company growth and changing business models across financial technology.
FinTech can mean different things to a bank, retailer, investor, professional-services firm or technology company. A strong event brief identifies the part of financial services the audience actually needs to explore.
