Track Overview
Next Gen Banking: It’s not all Blockchains and ICOs
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” This apocryphal quote, attributed to Henry Ford, carries a strong message for all us of interested in the future of banking. Great technologies like Blockchain, smartphones and biometrics must not be limited to just faster banking, but better banking, banking that is re-envisioned from the ground up without the limitations of last generation’s technology holding us back. This track dives into not just the technologies powering the future of banking, but also the shape that future might take.
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Alex Batlin
Founder and CEO @Trustology
ID Crisis! Take Back Control With Self-Sovereign
Tired of passwords? Concerned about who has your most personal data and how it is managed?Personal data is expensive and risky for organisations to store and regulations are only going to become more onerous. What if we could put the control of an identity back in the hands of a user - only...
Sharat Koya
Experiment Tech Lead & Architect @UBS
Disrupting the Banking Experience: Building a Mobile-Only Bank
Starling Bank is a mobile-only challenger bank offering a personal current account. After gaining our banking licence in July 2016 we delivered two fully featured apps (iOS and Android) to the public in less than a year. As a mobile-only bank, our mobile apps are the only way for customers to...
Teresa Ng
Android engineer @Starling Bank
Yann Del Rey
Lead iOS Developer @StarlingBank
Tech in Banking Panel
Join the track speakers and invited guests as they discuss where banking tech is heading and how it's affecting the industry today.
Rob Harrop
CEO @Skipjaq & Co-Founder of SpringSource
Mikhail Kourjanski
PayPal Lead Data Architect, Risk and Compliance Management Platform
Teresa Ng
Android engineer @Starling Bank
Alex Batlin
Founder and CEO @Trustology
Sam Everington
Real-Time Data Analysis and ML for FraudPrevention
PayPal processes about a billion dollars of payment volume daily ($354bn in FY2016); complex decisions are made for each transaction or user action, to manage risk and compliance, while also ensuring good user experience. PayPal users can make payments immediately in 200 countries with the...
Mikhail Kourjanski
PayPal Lead Data Architect, Risk and Compliance Management Platform
Next Gen Banking Open Space
Speakers from this track
Sharat Koya
Experiment Tech Lead & Architect @UBS
Last year Sharat joined the UBS Innovation Lab @Level 39, Europe’s largest FinTech Accelerator. There he helps to run experiments, work with startups and helps research technologies that could have future impacts financial services. He is also undertaking the Oxford University FinTech...
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Teresa Ng
Android engineer @Starling Bank
Teresa is an Android engineer at Starling Bank. She wasn’t always an engineer. Before that she worked in Accounting and frustrated by how manual managing the financial ledgers of a large international corporation was even in the 21st century, she learnt to program and jumped into...
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Yann Del Rey
Lead iOS Developer @StarlingBank
Yann is an iOS developer at Starling Bank. After working in a digital agency building banking apps for Clydesdale and Yorkshire, then being Head of mobile in couple startups, he decided to be part of building the new way of banking.
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Rob Harrop
CEO @Skipjaq & Co-Founder of SpringSource
As CEO at Skipjaq, Rob Harrop leads a team working on the cutting edge of machine-driven performance optimisation. When he’s not thinking about how best to tune the myriad workloads encountered by Skipjaq customers, he’s thinking hard about how to pass the optimization burden on to...
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Mikhail Kourjanski
PayPal Lead Data Architect, Risk and Compliance Management Platform
Mikhail Kourjanski is the Lead Data Architect at PayPal, responsible for the data architecture of the PayPal real-time decisioning platform that handles billions of events per day and maintains dozens of petabytes of data. For fraud prevention function alone, this platform saves more than $500M...
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Track Host
Rob Harrop
CEO @Skipjaq & Co-Founder of SpringSource
As CEO at Skipjaq, Rob Harrop leads a team working on the cutting edge of machine-driven performance optimisation. When he’s not thinking about how best to tune the myriad workloads encountered by Skipjaq customers, he’s thinking hard about how to pass the optimization burden on to...
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