ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT BRINGING DIVERSITY TO FINTECH? DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN FINTECH AND WANT TO LEARN MORE? ARE YOU HIGHLY ORGANISED, HAVE PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE ORGANISING ONLINE EVENTS AND LIKE TO WORK IN A TIGHT TEAM? DO YOU WANT TO BUILD YOUR NETWORK AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE?
Read MoreLast year, Thomson Reuters ranked Singapore as the number one FinTech hub in the globe as a result of a thorough assessment. Several factors explain this impressive success in such a tiny city-nation, including the leadership of women within FinTech.
Read MoreIn 120 seconds we share with you the latest highlights at WIFTN and big achievements or news within FinTech. Among other things, we share the release of 2 new podcast episodes, and two new blog posts.
Read MoreThis blog post looks into the valuable insights brought by the latest Copenhagen FinTech whitepaper - “Taking an Ecosystem Approach”. Creating awareness about gender, diversity and inclusion gaps is the first step - and a very important one - for change, however we need to start focusing on the solutions to be able to bridge those gaps in the financial industry overall. The authors of the whitepaper - Christina Leonhart and Naima Yasin - share their thoughts and more insights about the reasons lying behind writing this work and what they expect to achieve with it.
Read MoreThe fact that FinTech is still scores low on gender diversity and inclusion is nothing new. In this blog post we will deep dive into explaining how unconscious bias plays a big role in maintaining the gender gap in Fintech and solutions to how we can try to overcome this issue.
Read MoreEach week we bring you the latest WIFTN news in under 120 seconds. In this episode, you will find more information about: New podcast with Aleks Gren, new WIFTN article "Towards Digital Financial Inclusion for Women in Africa", and, good news for female Fintech founders, from a KPMG report.
Read MoreThe gender gap in financial inclusion and more specifically, on mobile money is still alarming and women remain continuously and disproportionately excluded from the formal financial sector. Digital financial inclusion has emerged as a practical strategy for helping the marginalized - such as women and girls - move towards the center. In this blog post, we share the findings and implementation plan developed by the Gates Foundation to close the gender gap in digital finance in Africa.
Read MoreGive us 120 seconds and we’ll share the latest news concerning WIFTN (Women in Fintech Network) and highlight some of the great stuff from the Fintech/Finance world.
Read MoreGrowing up in Brazil and moving to Sweden- almost 4 years ago - was a big step for me. Perhaps the scariest and most rewarding of all the things I did in my life so far. Scary, because I left all my family and friends behind to start something new, in a country on the “other side of the world”. Rewarding, because of all the great things I am able to have living in Sweden and all the things I was able to learn and see from the people I met along the way.
Read MoreEpisode 3 with Su Yin Ong from one of the Nordic’s largest banks, Nordea.
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