SuperTech WM has launched the Open Innovation Lab: Fighting Fraud, bringing together financial services, legal sector organisations, regulators, academics and technology innovators to tackle fraud. The programme focuses on AI-enabled fraud detection, digital identity, customer protection and fraud resilience, helping fintech, lawtech and regtech firms develop solutions to real industry challenges

Five signals from the FCA: how financial innovation is being reshaped in real time.

A closed-door session this week between FinTechs, Financial Services Innovation leads and Colin Payne Head of Innovation at the Financial Conduct Authority offered a clear signal: regulation is no longer catching up with innovation, it’s being built alongside it.

Fighting fraud has become one of the defining challenges facing financial and professional services. Across financial, insurance legal, accountancy and property sectors, organisations handling sensitive data and client money face increasingly sophisticated threats.
At SuperTech, working across these sectors reveals some consistent themes and this article summarises views from our ecosystem members.  

West Midlands based, Fastcheck, the automotive finance technology platform, has gone live with major UK banks and motor finance lenders, to be announced shortly, as it begins a wider rollout to motor retailers across the UK.

SuperTech and Aston University partnership to provide research support and industry engagement for FinTech and BPFS firms.

The partnership will allow 10 doctoral researchers to be available to selected regional businesses. The initiative is part of Aston’s PhD+ scheme.

BNP Paribas Personal Finance, has reinforced its commitment to drive regional financial services innovation by joining forces with Inicio AI, a an alumnus of its UK FinTech Incubator Programme, the Innovation Lab.