Fintech Scotland and The Banking Industry

  • 20 April 2021
  • CPD Event
  • 100 PLACE(S) AVAILABLE
EVENT DETAILS

This is a joint event with the Edinburgh, Lothians & Fife District Centre and the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments (CISI).

Scotland is home to a growing number of financial technology (fintech) firms, working in a wide range of areas including payments, business lending, regulation, open banking, and data driven fintech innovation. Helping to drive innovation and collaboration across the sector is FinTech Scotland, which was established in 2018 with the goal of securing Scotland’s place as a top five global fintech sector.

Nicola Anderson was recently appointed as the new CEO of FinTech Scotland and will explain what the organisation does, how it is working with the banking industry and the focus of regulation within the sector.

Speaker

Nicola Anderson
CEO of FinTech Scotland

Nicola Anderson is the CEO of FinTech Scotland, a strategic cluster management organisation that works across the private, public and third sectors, as well as academia to enable economic growth and inclusion in developing digital financial services.

Through her career Nicola has worked across the public and private sectors and her experience has involved leading business and organisational development with an emphasis on innovation, collaboration and customer focused strategies. 

Initially joining FinTech Scotland as Strategic Development Director in 2018, she has worked on a range of collaborative initiatives to develop Scotland’s fintech cluster, including work with the University of Edinburgh in developing the Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence.  In other strategic collaborations Nicola has connected regulatory, legal and cyber expertise with the fintech cluster including strategic engagement with Police Scotland, Scottish Business Resilience Centre, ScotlandIS and UK regulators as well as an advisory role with LawTech Scotland

Before joining FinTech Scotland, Nicola was as part of the FCA’s leadership team in the Retail Banking Sector, where she led and contributed to the development of solutions needed to address industry issues following the financial crisis. This experience included Board and Executive level engagement on a number of retail bank transformational changes and complex regulatory issues, working in collaboration with HM Treasury, the Bank of England and other bodies.

Who should attend?

Members who would like to learn more about usiness lending, regulation, open banking, and data driven fintech innovation.

Members who would like to find out about the work FinTech Scotland are currently doing.

 

DATE & SCHEDULE

Tuesday 20 April 2021

18:00 to 19:00 UK BST

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CPD REQUIREMENT
Attending this event counts towards Chartered Banker Institute members’ annual CPD requirement (1 hour).