The year ahead in digital banking and fintech

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2021 was an exciting and eventful year in the development of digital banking and fintech.

All sorts of new players, products, services and business models emerged while more established firms continued to fundraise and expand. Some digital banking initiatives soared, others fell by the wayside and some pivoted to new propositions entirely.

In the latest webinar from our Centre for Digital Banking and Finance, we'll be joined by members of our expert faculty, who are working at the coal face of these new developments, to discuss what 2022 might hold for the digital banking and fintech sector.

We'll ask them to predict what the next 'big thing' will be in fintech, who they think the winners and losers will be and for their views on what we might see from the incumbent banks and institutions in response.

Finally we'll discuss the big question of whether the continued expansion of the sector, and the funding its attracting, can possibly last or if we may be heading for a significant contraction in the months to come.

Who will be speaking?
Richard Johnson, Associate Director, Centre for Digital Banking and Finance, LIBF
Helene Panzarino, Director, Centre for Digital Banking and Finance, LIBF
Maria Philips, Founder, Bridge RegTech
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Director of Digital Banking, Bank Jago

Richard Johnson, Associate Director, Centre for Digital Banking and Finance, LIBF
Richard is an Associate Director of the Centre for Digital Banking & Finance.

He is a consultant and advisor to a range of financial services and investment businesses on the impacts of digital disruption.

In the past, Richard led Strategy, Propositions and Investor Relations at Monitise, an international mobile banking software business. Previously, Richard held a number of positions at NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland including Head of Strategy for the Retail Bank and Head of Internet and Telephony.

He holds an MSc in Management Science from Imperial College, London and a BA in Mathematics from Oxford University. Richard is an Associate of the Institute of Bankers.


Helene Panzarino, Director, Centre for Digital Banking and Finance, LIBF
Originally a commercial banker, Helene is an Associate Director of the Centre for Digital Banking and Finance at LIBF. She's also an experienced fintech programme director, exited entrepreneur, educator and author.

Her career boasts a number of firsts, such as creating the FinTech Scale Colab Programme for Rainmaking, the Inaugural Programme of Education and Events for Innovate Finance, and the FinTech on the Entrepreneurship Masters' for University College London (UCL).

Her board and advisory roles include the Spanish digital identity scale up, Biid, the UK safeguarding regtech, Kalgera, and the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) payments company, TomatoPay.

Plaudits include being named on the Computer Weekly '100 Women in Tech Award', the Innovate Finance 'Women in FinTech Power' List, and the Fintech Magazine '100 Women in Fintech' list.

Helene has also received a FT/Google Digital Pioneer Award and was part of the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA's) 2020 Data Sprint on SME Lending.

Her latest book, Reinventing Banking & Finance: Frameworks to navigate global fintech innovation (Kogan) was co-written with Alessandro Hatami. When it came out in November 2020, Investopedia named it the number one banking book for 2021.


Maria Philips, Founder, Bridge RegTech
Maria is a respected regulatory technologist, bringing real-life learning and a unique perspective from both financial institutions (BMO, UBS, ING and PTSB) and start-ups (series A&B).

Maria is a multi-disciplinary chief executive officer (CEO) with expertise in delivering strategy, building complex frameworks, and developing and leading high performing teams.

Maria also advises in regtech-fintech partnerships and how to navigate user-buyer needs in the regtech sales cycle.


Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Director of Digital Banking, Bank Jago
Peter is Bank Jago's Director of Digital Banking, responsible for the bank's digital platform end-to-end, as well as its consumer banking activities.

Prior to joining Jago, he served as Digital Banking Head at PT Bank BTPN Tbk., building and launching the first fully digital bank in Indonesia.

He began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he spent nearly 10 years serving clients in Europe, North America, Southeast Asia and Africa, in financial services and IT. Peter subsequently became Chief Operating Officer at VP Bank Vietnam.

He holds a Master Degree in Computer Science from the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree as well as a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics from Pembroke College, Cambridge University. He is also a member of the Gates Cambridge Alumni Association (GCAA).


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