From the International Day of Friendship to International Asteroid Day, the United Nations’ annual celebration of human life and history aims to bring awareness and offer opportunities for learning and participation across language, health, culture, science, and more. During lockdowns around the world in the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, towns and cities appeared almost deserted overnight; once bustling streets became ghost-towns, before ‘furlough’, ‘social distancing’ and ‘Zoom calls’ were common lexicon. Whereas parts of life seemed to grind to a halt, healthcare was pushed to its limit as hospitals and morgues filled, and communities were put at risk when demand outran supply. No one...
09-Jul-2021 10:00:00 / by Cait Foley posted in News, Fnality, Views, people, pandemic, culture, Health, World, World Population Day, lockdown
25-Jun-2021 10:00:00 / by Arion Hashani posted in Insider, Fnality, Views, people, diversity, inclusion, Mental Health, Wellbeing, culture, Fnamily, Men, Health
Men’s Mental Health Week Blogpost:
18-Jun-2021 15:15:00 / by Francesca Gunn posted in Insider, Fnality, Views, pride, people, diversity, inclusion, Mental Health, Wellbeing, agile, Career, Tshaped, culture, Fnamily
Four years ago, my Fnality (formally known as the ‘USC Project’) journey began. I walked into a little office by St Pauls Cathedral that looked like something between the Apple store (read slick and technologically advanced) and a beach hut (read rustic, laid back and the kind of place you wanted to hang out) and contained a handful of geniuses! I took a seat at my new desk and tried to take it all in; new job, new role, new colleagues, new industry, new city. It quickly dawned on me, I’m no longer living in Devon, working in uniform at a major trauma hospital. I’m now working for a super cool technology research and development company in the heart of London, focused on making significant...
21-May-2021 10:00:00 / by Alessandra Gaudio posted in Insider, Fnality, Views, people, diversity, wfh, Wellbeing, agile, working remotely, culture
Is there a better recipe for disaster than changing career, dive headfirst into a new industry, meet a new team only virtually, leave your home and move to a new city - all while in lockdown in the middle of a pandemic?
12-May-2021 10:30:00 / by Jake Hartley posted in Fnality, Views, Legal, CBDC, DLT, central banks, Governance, BIS
As part of our Fnality Global Payments Insights series, Fnality recently published a paper – Fnality Global Payments & Wholesale CBDC – that explores the proliferation and development of CBDC projects. It examines the pressing issues in wholesale financial markets that have prompted such innovation, and how, in the current absence of viable wholesale CBDC or DLT-based RTGS renewal programmes, Fnality Global Payments can offer novel solutions to the problems these arrangements seek to solve.
27-Apr-2021 13:25:13 / by Angus Fletcher posted in Insider, Fnality, Views, people, agile, fintech, banking
Following 25 years working in post trade banking roles, an opportunity arose to try something different - FinTech.
19-Apr-2021 09:38:11 / by Fnality Press Office posted in Technology, Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology, Fnality, Views, digital assets, blockchainadoption, dFMI, central banks, FnPS
Bank of England publishes an omnibus accounts policy to enable innovative payment systems
26-Mar-2021 14:24:13 / by Abhishek Singh Rajput posted in Insider, Fnality, Views, people, diversity, agile, culture, Fnamily
Who am I?
This must be an important question for anyone who is reading this article, right? I am a Consultant Engineer & have worked with organisations of different scalesand domains like E-Commerce, Media and recently FinTechs. As a consultant, we move around between different clients and each time we are reborn with some fond andnot so fond memories of our experience.Hence you are reading an article from a five-month-old toddler reborn as a Platform Engineer consultant in Fnality.
12-Feb-2021 10:00:00 / by Simone Cortese posted in Insider, Fnality, Views, people, wfh, agile, working remotely, pandemic, Tshaped
Going back one year to February 2020, I would have never imagined what was about to happen. I was – and probably I still am – in love with the City of London. I love its narrow alleys, its old buildings which seem ready to tell a unique story of trade and people from all over the world. Ilove its corners and squares, the coffee shops. Hence, it’s not hard to believe that, at the beginning of March 2020, as the Governmentannounced the first lockdown advice, I feltsomehow in despair. Yes, I knew what wascoming – butI wasn’t emotionally prepared for that!
29-Jan-2021 10:00:00 / by Lauren Hume - Talent Acquisition Manager posted in Insider, Fnality, Views, people, agile, Career, Tshaped
Being T-shaped refers to the wealth of skills and experience someone may have, and is particularly useful in the world of recruitment when looking for strong employees or the most desirable candidates.