Fintech Magazine - May 2020

In this issue

Welcome to the May edition of FinTech magazine. Personalisation and the drive to provide a more customer-centric banking platform underpinned by innovative technologies is a trend that’s driving financial services development. Our cover company this month, Deem Finance, epitomises this ethos. In less than a year, the business has disrupted the sector through its absolute dedication to innovative, best-in-breed technologies and services that are built with the customer at their core. While many brands may state the importance of the customer to their business, Deem is resolute in its mission: to be disruptive, to combine vision and innovation, and to be more than simply ‘another challenger bank’. We speak with CEO Chris de Bruin, together with several members of Deem’s leadership team. de Bruin tells us that, to achieve this vision means that the company “will never settle for ‘good enough’”.
Building on this theme, Huawei’s Bill Genovese discusses the three core drivers disrupting the industry and creating the next-generation financial services model: technology, business model evolution and the sharing economy. The traditional sector as we know it, he tells us, is shifting from one that is no longer about developing products, but creating a lifestyle.
Our Top 10 this month looks at the top fintech innovation labs - one way in which incumbents and other institutions are adapting to those changes outlined by Genovese.