The seminar series will continue to bring to our conversations founders/CEO of successful, disrupting tech companies that bridge the world of finance and technology. We are glad to report that we will host a very diverse group of successful entrepreneurs that will underline the increasing role played by women in this start up space.

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28/10 Venture building disruptive platforms

Dan Cobley    Managing partner, BCI Ventures

The founding team of a startup, with the ambition to disrupt an industry, has three main things to worry about - raising money, looking after business operations and building the product. Working with a venture builder means the first two are largely taken care of, leaving the team to focus on rapidly building a valuable product and taking it to market. This model differs from the standard venture capital one, where investors distribute capital among ideas and teams, hoping that one in 10 might make it big. Venture builders are hands on and offer a central pool of shared services like legal advice, finance expertise, talent acquisition and online marketing. BCI Ventures has built over 40 businesses mainly in technology, financial services, software, education.

Our Conversation with Dan Cobley will take us through how a venture builder select a business, how do they define disruption and will share lesson learnt on launch, growth and exit.

11/11 RegTech, a growing industry. Taina a scaled example of a disrupter

Maria Scott    Founder and CEO, Taina Technology

Sally Dewar CEO, Allen & Overy Consulting

Financial Institutions experience an ever-increasing series of regulatory requirements that need timely compliance. Increased efficiency, reliability and turnaround time of validation are essential. Technology solutions like Tania are providing customers’ back offices with solutions that protect the business from regulatory risk consequences. Our two expert guests will discuss how RegTech is changing the landscape of and the workflows of legal, risk and compliance departments.

25/11 A high impact tech solution for financial and wellbeing benefits for all

Stella Smith    Founder and CEO, Pirkx

Financial inclusion via technology platforms is a fast growing and ever more necessary area of fintech. Pirkx allows self-employed and contract workers getting access to benefits packages that up until now have been available only to employees. Stella Smith, founder of Pirkx will share with us her journey to entrepreneurship, opportunities and challenges in scaling her start up.

09/12 A disruptive technology to innnovate debt capital markets

Torsten Elling    Founder and CEO, Newtrex

Newtrex is a financial technology company aiming to revolutionise the primary bond market. newtrex is a new electronic auction platform for issuing benchmark bond transactions following a transparent, efficient, fast and cheap process. We will discuss with Torsten Elling, founder of newtrex, how his platform is deemed to conitnue to disrupt the traditional way of distributing and trading debt instrumentts.