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Yes, Virginia, There Are Women Leaders In Fintech

BNY Mellon, has appointed Bridget E. Engle as senior executive vice president and chief information officer reporting directly to CEO Gerald Hassell.

In this position, Engle will lead the company’s Client Technology Solutions group, which provides critical technology platforms and applications. She will be responsible for setting the strategic direction and execution of the firm’s technology…

Top Ten Startups win a slot for the @Innotribe, Startup Challenge in Africa 3rd Edition #ARC2017

Innotribe, SWIFT’s fintech accelerator has the top ten applicats who beat over 100 applications to be part of the third edition of the Startup Challenge in Africa.

The 2017 competition was first announced in February this year. The winner get to travel to the third edition of the  Startup Challenge at the African Regional Conference(ARC) set to be held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from 16-18 May 2017.

Winner of the Media Ecology Association’s first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Dr. Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures and institutions create, share and influence each other’s values. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, technology and media commentator for CNN, digital literacy advocate for Codecademy.com and a renown lecturer on media, technology, culture and economics around the world. His new book "Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity" argues that we have failed to build the distributed economy that digital networks are capable of fostering, and instead doubled down on the industrial age mandate of growth above all. 

Rushkoff: “We are running a 21st century digital economy on a 12th and 13th century printing-press era economic operating system that was developed by the proto-early monarchs of Europe to prevent the rise of the middle class.”

East African fintech startups can now apply to the Innotribe Startup Challenge

Innotribe Startup Challenge for Africa, now its second year is currently accepting applications from East African-based fintech startups. Of all applicants, 12 will be selected to showcase their innovations  at SWIFT’s African Regional Conference (ARC) in Mauritius on May 17-19, 2016. This is definitely of value to selected startups as ARC attracts up to 500 high-level delegates from more than 40…

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Challenge open to Malaysian startups

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20:

Innovative and new financial technology startups will be able to get a chance to present their products and services to the financial industry at large in a global scale with Innotribe Solutions Sdn Bhd’s financial innovation initiative, SWIFT Innotribe 2015 Startup Challenge.

The competition aims to introduce financial technology startups to highly qualified financial service experts, angel investors, venture capitalists, and global leading fintech and financial decision makers.

Semi-finalists of the competition – 15 companies per regional showcase in London, Cape Town, Singapore and New York – get the opportunity to showcase their new concepts and products in front of an audience looking for the best in class and voting for the top five companies at the end of each showcase.

The 20 companies selected automatically secure their place as finalists in the Innotribe Startup Challenge Grand Finale, taking place at Sibos, a financial services event organised by SWIFT taking place in Singapore on Oct 14.

Innotribe and the SWIFT Institute head of markets Fabian Vandenreydt said: “Every year the bar gets higher, with many impressive applications from startups coming from across the globe.

“It is great to see this community using Innotribe as a platform of choice, and allows us to provide them with even greater opportunities to connect with the financial industry. We are eager to see what the 2015 applicants have to offer, and look forward to welcoming more Malaysian startups to our programme.”

Previously in 2013 and 2014, two Malaysian startups, Perfectsen and SoftSpace had successfully made it to the semi-finalist round, securing access to the Singapore showcase and presented their new concepts and products to a panel of influential decision-makers from leading financial institutions.

“The competition seeks innovative financial technology ideas with the most potential to address common challenges and future issues disrupting banks.

“Connecting the startup ecosystem and the financial community, it creates an immediate opportunity for startups to tap on the global fintech investment, which is estimated to reach up to US$8 billion (RM28 billion) in 2018,” said Fabian.

Peter Vander Auwera, co-founder of Innotribe

Peter Vander Auwera describes the State of the Personal Data Economy

Peter Vander Auwera is Co-Founder of Innotribe, the innovation initiative of SWIFT, the world’s largest non-profit financially focused trade organization.  He is a recognized thought leader in the fields of innovation, digital and emerging technology, and finance.  In this first installment from Peter for PD16, he describes where he feels the Personal Data Economy is today, focusing on his work with the Digital ID project (the Digital Asset Grid) in Belgium, and his thoughts on pragmatic models such as Doc Searls VRM Project and how these can move us forward towards innovation with our data.