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In our latest Fintech & Open Finance Insights newsletter, we highlight the key news that has got us talking and put a spotlight on our SHIFT Open Finance Community member Nova Credit. Industry download: ➡️ Lenvi partners with Credit Canary to enhance arrears risk management ➡️ Yorkshire Building Society partners with Doshi to offer educational programme ➡️ UK start-up Sync Savings to make market debut next month ➡️ HSBC UK follows Nationwide and Lloyds as they join forces with Open Property Data Association ➡️ Finance app Cheddar unveils spending tracker tool ➡️ UK’s SME Finance Taskforce puts Smart Data at centre of action plan ➡️ Mastercard taps Open Banking for streamlined lending 💡 Spotlight: Nova Credit is a credit data and analytics platform that enables lenders to underwrite the thin-file and new-to-country segments. It is an FCA-regulated CRA in the UK that has built direct integrations with Credit Bureaus in 20 markets, with access to 3 billion consumer records to drive responsible lending growth via consumer-permissions access to this data. Click on the link below to read more! 👇 #fintech #openfinance #opendata

🎧 Welcome back to Fintech Diaries, the podcast that brings you closer to the innovators shaping the world of finance and technology. In this month's episode, we’re thrilled to be joined by Emmanuelle Johaadien , the Commercial Director of Sikoia. 💡Sikoia is revolutionising the way businesses manage customer verification by streamlining and automating critical processes such as validating customer data and documents. Join our Fintech Diaries hosts Lydia Coyle and Paniz Mojahedi, MBA for an enlightening discussion with Emmanuelle as we explore innovation, leadership, and the evolving world of financial technology.🚀 Tune in on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts: 📍 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/e4qguu_R 📍 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/e-xUTqvB 📍 Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/eye3tcR6 #FintechDiaries #Podcast #OpenFinance #Innovation

💡 "It’s all about customer experience, speed, and convenience." – Emmanuelle Johaadien, Commercial Director, Sikoia 🎙 Season 2 of Fintech Diaries offers a spotlight into the top Women in Fintech, celebrating each guest speaker’s ground-breaking contributions to the industry 🎙 In our latest episode, hosted by Lydia Coyle and Paniz Mojahedi, MBA, we are joined by the brilliant Emmanuelle Johaadien, Commercial Director of Sikoia. Sikoia is a leading fintech, transforming how businesses handle customer verification by streamlining and automating the process. Their platform rapidly validates customer data and documents, delivering insights at pace. With seamless integration into existing systems or the option to utilise their user-friendly dashboard, Sikoia’s solution is essential for businesses navigating regulations like Consumer Duty, where manual processes can escalate costs and compliance risks. In this episode, we delve into Emmanuelle's inspiring career journey in the fintech space. We also discuss her experiences as a woman in sales and commercial leadership roles, and she shares her valuable insights on the industry’s current landscape and future directions. Emmanuelle offers unique perspectives on how Sikoia is addressing the complex challenges of customer and document verification with a seamless, customer-first approach. 🚀 Watch the trailer below, and stay tuned for the full episode, launching soon! We’re excited to continue celebrating the stories of inspiring female leaders who are shaping the future of industries across the board. #FintechDiaries #WomeninFintech #Leadership

💡Our August Summit was a fantastic opportunity for the team to come together and celebrate the successful completion of a key phase in one of our ongoing projects with a leading UK Building Society. It was great to see the team show their achievements, share industry insights, and pitch ideas to keep our deliverables on track for success. 🏏 After the project wrap-up, we swapped pitches and headed to The Oval for The Hundred. It was a great cricket match, and even better that the cricket fanatics amongst the Woodhurst team were there to commentate on the play. We’re already looking forward to our next Summit and the exciting plans we have in store! #TeamWoodhurst #SummitSuccess #CompanyCulture

👀 Looking for innovative technology solutions to empower your Building Society? 📝 Our latest report ‘Powering the Modern Mutual: The Technology Landscape’ offers insight into the vendor technology landscape, and how choosing the right vendor can help Building Societies align with their member’s growing expectations for digital and on-demand services. 🤝 We connected with over 30 leading technology vendors to understand how their unique offerings can address the specialist needs of Building Societies. 🧠 In our Linkedin series, we offer you an insight into the vendor responses and will be sharing a range of insights from these conversations. ➡ Swipe to learn about how Temenos, Tuum and Unisys seek to support Building Societies. 💡 If you haven’t already, read the report in full here: https://lnkd.in/e8G-CExj #PoweringTheModernMutual #TechnologyVendors

Woodhurst has been traveling around the country, meeting with building society leadership teams as part of our Modern Mutual Roadshow. 🚗 Recently, we had the pleasure of joining Chris Hunter and the Darlington Building Society team for their strategy day—an inspiring session full of forward-thinking ideas. 💡 👉 If you’re curious to learn more about our Modern Mutual Roadshow or how we’re helping shape the future of mutuals, please reach out! #ModernMutual #BuildingSociety

🚀 Modern Mutual Spotlight: Leeds Building Society 🚀 Woodhurst’s Ben Nadel recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Richard Fearon, CEO of Leeds Building Society, to explore Leeds Building Society's impressive modernisation journey and their commitment to making homeownership more accessible. Their conversation delved into key topics shaping the future of mutuals: 💡 The crucial role of supporting colleagues through modernisation, focusing on reskilling rather than replacing. 💡 Balancing the human touch with innovative digital services. 💡 The success of Leeds’ new online mortgage and savings platforms, offering significantly faster service. 💡 How Building Societies can thrive during challenging times, even when other lenders face difficulties. Richard’s insights into the ongoing digital transformation at Leeds Building Society offers a glimpse into the future of the sector. ❓To find out more about Richard’s insights you can read the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/gY-wz3Ri Stay tuned for more Building Society Spotlights. 👀 #BuildingSocieties #ModernMutual #DigitalTransformation

🔍 Looking for innovative technology solutions to empower your Building Society? Our latest report ‘Powering the Modern Mutual: The Technology Landscape’ offers insights into the vendor technology landscape, showing how choosing the right vendor can help Building Societies align with members' growing expectations for digital and on-demand services. 📊 We connected with over 30 leading technology vendors to understand how their unique offerings address the specialist needs of Building Societies.🤝 In our new LinkedIn series, we offer insights into vendor responses. Swipe to see how Sopra Banking Software, Engine by Starling and Tata Consultancy Services support Building Societies. Keep your eyes peeled for more insights from these conversations in the coming weeks. 📖 Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/e8G-CExj #PoweringTheModernMutual #TechnologyVendors

✨ The Woodhurst & Eliq Partnership ✨ In our latest LinkedIn series we will be exploring how our partnership with Eliq enables mortgage lenders to meet different areas of their sustainability strategies. Today, we’ll be highlighting how Eliq enhances the provision of green mortgages. 57% of large lenders offer green mortgages, which offer favourable terms to buyers of energy-efficient properties, or those looking to improve the energy performance of their homes. ❌ The problem: 🏡 Currently, most green mortgage products primarily target newer, already efficient properties, leaving out a vast number of older homes which are the least energy efficient. This is likely due to the difficulty of proving (from the borrowers side) and verifying (from the lenders side) that a home has actually become more efficient, as both rely on complex and sometimes inaccurate Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs). 💡 How does Eliq help solve this problem? Eliq serve as pioneers in green mortgage offerings by enabling lenders to utilise smart meter data to understand the predicted energy efficiency of a home, thus being able to provide green mortgages based on more accurate, real-time home energy efficiency data, instead of EPC ratings. Think of this like car insurance before and after Blackbox technology was introduced. What are the benefits? For customers: ✅ No lag between making home efficiency improvements and receiving a more favourable mortgage rate ✅ Increased affordability and incentive to make home energy efficiency improvements For lenders: ✅ Increased lending that also supports wider sustainability strategy ✅ Enhanced reputation by providing an advanced green product 👀 Stay tuned for our next deep dive into our Eliq partnership! #EliqPartnership #WoodhurstPartnership #GreenFinance #SustainabilityStrategy

🎉 We are delighted to announce a new partnership with Bath Building Society. Richard Ingle, Bath Building Society CEO, shares his vision for the future: “We are on a journey to becoming a highly sustainable, modern Building Society, with modern systems and processes that allow us to deliver real value to our members and customers, while maintaining the human touch." Ben Nadel, Co-Founder of Woodhurst said: “We are thrilled to be working with Bath. Their commitment to modernise and meet the evolving needs of their members, customers, brokers and colleagues is second to none.” Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/edVYp9mc #NewPartnership #BuildingSociety #BathBuildingSociety