The Tech of FinTech

FinTech startups have led the way in adopting new technology such as cloud, pushing down perceived regulatory barriers as they go. In response established financial services firms have also been building their own modern architectures. This track will feature presenters from both, examining the tech they've adopted, and the business value that it's delivered.

From this track

Session architecture

Trust Deterministic Execution to Scale and Simplify Your Systems

Tuesday Mar 28 / 10:35AM BST

Make your mission critical business logic deterministic and fast! We discuss both intuitive and not-so-obvious architecture choices that can be made to dramatically scale and simplify systems with these properties.

Speaker image - Frank Yu

Frank Yu

Senior Engineering Manager @Coinbase

Session financial software

FINOS and Open Source in the Financial Services Industry

Tuesday Mar 28 / 11:50AM BST

Finance is not the first industry that comes to mind as a place for collaboration on open source, but over recent years, FINOS, the Fintech Open Source Foundation, has brought together a number of companies and organizations with the goal of creating an opensour

Speaker image - Elspeth Minty

Elspeth Minty

Managing Director @RBC Capital Markets

Session financial software

Future of Web3 in Debt Capital Markets

Tuesday Mar 28 / 01:40PM BST

Most capital markets technology platforms that focus on workflow automation and instrument tokenisation are solely reliant on the Web2 parts of the stack.

Speaker image - Avtar Sehra

Avtar Sehra

Founder CEO @Clinaro

Session

Panel: Tech of FinTech

Tuesday Mar 28 / 02:55PM BST

Join the speakers of this track to discuss how FinTech startups have led the way in adopting new technology such as cloud, pushing down perceived regulatory barriers as they go.

Speaker image - Elspeth Minty

Elspeth Minty

Managing Director @RBC Capital Markets

Speaker image - Frank Yu

Frank Yu

Senior Engineering Manager @Coinbase

Speaker image - Oli Bage

Oli Bage

Head of Architecture, Data & Analytics @LSEG

Speaker image - Avtar Sehra

Avtar Sehra

Founder CEO @Clinaro

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John O'Hara

Father of AMQP, Venture Partner @Fidelity, Founder @Taskize, Director @Adaptive @Finbourne, Past DE @JPM DE

Session

Unconference: Tech of FinTech

Tuesday Mar 28 / 04:10PM BST

What is an unconference? An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. Attendees come together, bringing their challenges and relying on the experience and know-how of their peers for solutions.

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Shane Hastie

Global Delivery Lead @SoftEd, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods @InfoQ

Session financial software

LSEG Cloud Lessons Learned: After Nearly a Decade of Being Cloud-First, What Have We Learned?

Tuesday Mar 28 / 05:25PM BST

After nearly a decade of being cloud-first, what have we learned? LSEG shares organizational, economic and technical tips about the journey to cloud. We will talk in depth about what good looks like for data on cloud, covering the CDMC standard, and where analytics might head in the future.

Speaker image - Oli Bage

Oli Bage

Head of Architecture, Data & Analytics @LSEG

Date

Tuesday Mar 28 / 10:35AM BST

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Track Host

Ian Ellis

Technology Strategy Consultant, Venture Partner, and Angel Investor

Ian Ellis is a Venture Partner at Next47, an independent technology strategy consultant and a lead of the OperAngels industry expert angel syndicate.  He has spent the majority of his career working with some of the world’s most prominent organisations, including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Prudential Financial and Microsoft.

Typically, his work involves understanding key technology trends, aligning them with the technology & business strategies of major organisations and engaging the ecosystem of innovative new companies to find emerging market leaders.

Ian co-founded the OperAngels syndicate of industry experts, focused predominantly on making angel investments in the enterprise tech and cyber security spaces. He is also the Founder of Enterprise Tech London (including the London Enterprise Tech Meetup) and helped build out the Accenture FinTech Innovation Lab in London.

He holds a BA in Economics & Information Studies from University College Dublin and an MSc in Analysis, Design & Management of Information Systems (with distinction) from the London School of Economics.

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