Payments today plays a critical role in innovation in the insurance industry. Bankable was invited for a panel discussion during the London FinTech Week 2016 Banking and Insurance Conference, where the topic was “The Insurance Industry Response to FinTech”. Bankable’s Marketing and Communications Manager, Rashee Pandey, discussed the reasons why InsurTech exists, the innovation trends in the industry including rolling out real-time claim payments on e-wallets, and why collaboration is key. Alongside Rashee were David Roche (Director Financial Services of Pramerica Systems Ireland) and moderator Ian Gilbert (Cheif Revenue Officer at Agreement Express). Watch a snippet of the panel session here.
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Bankable’s Rashee Pandey, talks on shared trust and outsourced innovation between High Growth FinTechs and Banks at a panel at FinTech Evolution 2016
Rashee Pandey, Bankable’s Marketing and Communications Manager, was invited to be on “The Future of FinTech – The Battle Between the Old and the New” panel during FinTech Evolution 2016. Rashee discussed the future of the FinTech ecosystem by painting a collaborative picture. She highlighted Bankable’s partnering in action and alignment with financial institutions. Rashee said, “The Bankable-Deutsche Bank relationship is testament to banks and FinTech delivering outsourced innovation, with minimum upfront capex and new recurrent joint net revenues.” She Rashee’s profile for the event here.
Eric Mouilleron at the launch of The FinTech Book as an author
Our Founder and CEO, Eric Mouilleron, attended the launch of The FinTech Book at The Shard as an author. Eric’s story is highlighted under ‘More Success Stories’ chapter where he shares his Bankable story from inception (page 201). The FinTech Book is the first globally crowd-sourced book on FinTech and is a project undertaken by Susanne Chishti, CEO of FinTech Circle, and Janos Barberis, Founder of FinTechHK. It is the financial technology handbook for investors, entrepreneurs, and visionaries. Read more about the book and get your copy here.
Bankable contributes to The Open Banking Standard, an initiative by HM Treasury
February 9, 2016 – Bankable contributed to The Open Banking Standard, a framework aimed at stimulating financial innovation and competition through the means of APIs as “open, federated and networked solutions” at the request of the HM Treasury, The Open Banking Working Group (OBWG) started operations in September 2015 with the vision of sharing data held by banks using secure, open APIs to improve all financial stakeholders’ banking experiences. Founder and CEO Eric Mouilleron and Legal and HR Manager Elena Fiorio added a FinTech perspective to the standard in the user reference, governance, and regulation & legal side of things. Read more about The Open Banking Standard published on February 9 here.
Bankable wins “Top 10 Global Emerging Star 2015/16” award by KPMG and H2 Ventures
The Bankable team graciously accepted the “Top 10 Global Emerging Stars 2015/16” award during the FinTech 100 Awards Evening hosted by KPMG in their Mayfair offices. The award was a result of Bankable securing a spot in the Leading Global 100 FinTech Innovators List by KPMG and H2 Ventures as an “Emerging Star” – the list highlighted “existing new FinTech companies with bold, disruptive and potentially game-changing ideas”.
Bankable joins Innovate Finance in Davos to represent UK FinTech
As the theme at the World Economic Forum 2016 in Davos is “Master the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” Bankable joins Innovate Finance to represent the UK FinTech ecosystem and showcase payments innovation. Read Innovate Finance’s blog here.
Bankable participates in FinTech Connect Live
Bankable demoed and exhibited its payment solutions on both days of FinTech Connect Live at Wembley Stadium. Avinash Agrawal, Head of Product Strategy and Commercialisation, was also a panelist in the “Convergence Innovation” panel discussing the convergence between insurance, digital payments, peer-to-peer and commerce, and how FinTech companies can work with insurance companies to facilitate real-time claim payments on e-wallets and cards.
Bankable selected for UKTI’s FinTech trade mission to Switzerland
Bankable was selected to participate in UKTI’s FinTech trade mission to Switzerland representing the UK FinTech start-up scene and presenting its payment solutions to leading global financial institutions and enterprises. Innovate Finance describes the importance of such events in their blog here.
Bankable in the global FinTech landscape
The FinTech Landscape infographic has been put together by Choice Loans to map out the companies that are providing alternative financial services by leveraging technology globally. Bankable has been contributing to the ecosystem by being a relevant player in payments since 2010. View the infographic.
Avinash Agrawal discusses “Why Bankable is the global architect of innovative payment solutions”
Our Head of Product Strategy and Commercialisation, Avinash Agrawal, was interviewed for Tech Meetups Startup Stories. Read what Avinash had to say regarding Bankable’s unique value proposition and what went on behind the scenes to create Bankable as we know it today here.