Balancing government red tape and fintech innovation
A brief discussion of the challenges of fostering innovation in an emerging space, such as fintech, when it is seen as part of the highly regulated financial services sector.
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Tag: innovation
ICTP 205: Fintech in Trinidad and Tobago, with Maria Daniel of FinTechTT
Continuing with our Fintech in the Caribbean series, we are focussing on fintech in Trinidad and Tobago, with Maria Daniel, President of the FinTech Association of Trinidad and Tobago. In our conversation, Maria highlights the Association and discusses the state of fintech in Trinidad and Tobago, key challenges that have been hindering fintech development; and where she would like to see fintech in Trinidad and Tobago in the next 2 to 3 years.
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ICTP 202: Tech entrepreneurship in the Caribbean region
We are starting a deep dive into the Caribbean tech start-up and entrepreneurship ecosystem. With Selwyn Cambridge, the Founder and Executive Director of TEN Habitat in Barbados, and Anushka Varsha Sonai, the President of Creative Tech Hub Caribbean in Suriname, we discuss, among other things: the tech entrepreneurship landscape in their respective countries; the biggest challenge that tech entrepreneurs are experiencing; the posture of investors and the ease with which tech entrepreneurs can secure funding.
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4 key steps Caribbean countries need to take to become technology and innovation hubs
Caribbean countries have been stating their intention to become the next Silicon Valley. We outline four key steps that countries should implement, in order to be a technology and innovation hub.
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ICTP 191: Jamaica as the Caribbean innovation hub and the potential impact of Microsoft cloud retail product
In our February 2022 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Bianca Welds and Naphtale Nunes, the panel discusses, Is Jamaica ready to be the innovation hub of the Caribbean, or are we missing some steps? And thereafter, the potential impact of Microsoft cloud retail product to the Caribbean region.
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