FinTech Bytes

In this episode, Mumuksha Singh, a senior associate in our Corporate team, interviews Felicia Meyerowitz-Singh, Founder and CEO of Akoni.

Akoni helps users manage personal or client accounts and earn increased interest across an array of highly-rated banks via their award-winning, data driven platform. We discuss Open Finance, how FinTech is challenging the future of finance for consumers and the impact Covid-19 has had on investments in this space.

At the time of recording Akoni were predicted to become one of the jumbo software providers to global banks and investment platforms – Akoni has since been acquired by Stubben Edge.

In this episode, Dil-Veer Kang, associate in our Finance Regulatory team, Yasmin Johal, associate in our Finance Regulatory team and Susann Altkemper, Of Counsel in our Finance Regulatory team discuss Central Bank Digital Currencies which are booming across the world, and the UK is at the forefront. This podcast looks at what they are, what they can bring and how the world is developing CBDC innovation.

In this episode, Vanessa Whitman, a Partner & Solicitor Advocate in our Finance Disputes team, interviews Liliana Reasor, CEO and Founder of Suprafin . We discuss how decentralized finance is impacting the future of financial services, how the digital assets space has changed during the pandemic and what the long-term impacts of these developments will be for the FinTech ecosystem.

In the fourth episode, Dil-Veer Kang, associate in our Finance Regulatory team, and Yasmin Johal, associate in our Finance Regulatory team, interview Alan Ainsworth, Head of Policy at the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE), to explore the benefits of open banking and what the OBIE have been doing in this space. This is the second of a two part series exploring open banking.

In this episode, Vanessa Whitman, a Partner & Solicitor Advocate in our Finance Disputes team, and Rachel Harrison, a Senior Associate & Solicitor Advocate in our Finance Disputes team, discuss key lessons they have learned from working on Fintech disputes and focus on the factors that a FinTech should consider when faced with a dispute.

This episode is the first of two parts exploring open banking. In this episode your hosts Dil-Veer Kang and Yasmin Johal interview guest Alan Ainsworth, who is head of policy at the OBIE and explore the benefits of open banking and what the OBIE have been doing in this space.

In this episode, we discuss ‘Operational Resilience’. Your hosts, Yasmin Johal (Yasmin.Johal@cms-cmno.com), an Associate in our Finance Regulatory team, and Daniel Gallagher (Daniel.Gallagher@cms-cmno.com), a Senior Associate in our Technology team look at key practical tips for maintaining operational resilience and these differs between FinTech and banks.