With the financial services sector becoming increasingly complex, customers’ expectations becoming ever more sophisticated and disruptive technologies changing the landscape of the traditional banking model, what is on the horizon for the sector in this digital age?

This will be the first event in our Digital Threat series of Horizon Brief events. Join us for a panel discussion with the following key speakers:

• Tim Jones: Tim is an expert on financial transactions including payment systems and retail banking. He is a former CEO of NEST Pensions and co-inventor and founder of Tibado Limited, a digital cash venture. Tim is also a former chief executive of retail banking at NatWest Bank, where he led the development of Mondex digital cash. He serves as an independent director at ITG Inc, an NYSE-listed institutional broker dealer.
• Tom Blomfield: Tom is CEO and co-founder of Monzo, a new smartphone-based bank based in London. He previously co-founded Boso.com and GoCardless. In 2013 he was nominated as one of the top five entrepreneurs under 30 by the European Commission. Tom studied Law at Oxford University.
• Steve Pateman: Steve is CEO of Shawbrook Bank, the specialist SME and consumer lender. Steve joined Shawbrook in 2016 from Santander UK, where he was Executive Director and Head of UK Banking, and was responsible for building an SME franchise. Before that he was CEO of Business Banking and Retail Markets at RBS. He is Vice-President – and a Fellow of – the Chartered Banker Institute. 

The panel will be moderated by Andrew Hilton, Director and Co-founder of the CSFI and former World Bank economist