Stage not age – FinTECH4Life kick starts the conversation
Wednesday 22 May 2019
Over the past 100 years the human population has done a very good job at staying alive. Not only are people living longer, but they are healthier and wealthier than ever before. How is the financial services industry responding to this? Especially when we live in a society that seems obsessed with developing and marketing
- Published in Ageing, Diversity, Fintech, Future trends, Innovation, Start-ups
Designing for the Older Consumer
Wednesday 10 April 2019
A drive to serve those who are less financially capable and more anxious has informed the development of Toucan. We spoke with Founder, Bailey Kursar about creating a service, using Open Banking, where older adults are among the target consumers. What is the inspiration behind Toucan? While the last couple of years have seen the
- Published in Ageing, Diversity, Fintech, Fintech company, Future trends, Innovation
The New Old Age – Time for a Re-think?
Wednesday 10 April 2019
Brad and I had the honor to speak at the recent EmTech Caribbean in Santo Domingo, hosted by MIT Tech Review and Universidad Dominicana O&M. The two-day conference included insights shared by twenty-one speakers on topics around technological advances that will revolutionize the world in the coming years, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, personalized medicine,
- Published in Ageing, Diversity, Employment, Fintech, Future trends, Innovation
Protecting Against the Consequences of Fraud
Wednesday 10 April 2019
We spoke to Mark White, CEO about what inspired him to set up Reassura and how all of us are vulnerable to fraudsters and scammers but how the impact may differ across different age groups. Tell us a bit about Reassura and what you do. Reassura is a personal fraud/scam avoidance service. We help
- Published in Ageing, Diversity, Fintech, Fintech company, Innovation, Profile, Uncategorized
The Future is Aging: Fintech Solutions for a Forgotten Generation
Wednesday 10 April 2019
In the coming years, $30 trillion of wealth will be transferred from the baby boomers to Gen Xers in the United States; the greatest transfer of wealth in our history. However, baby boomers are also spending more than their predecessors during retirement and control about 70 percent of all disposable income in the US. As retirees
- Published in Ageing, Blog, Featured, Fintech, Future trends, Innovation, Uncategorized
Shades of Grey – A Podcast on technology innovation and longevity
Wednesday 23 January 2019
We all get older the minute we were born. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, ten thousand people turn 65 on a daily basis. This year, for the first time ever, Americans aged over 60 will outnumber those under 18. Elsewhere in Japan, more than twenty-eight percent of ultra-aged nation’s population will be 65-plus by
- Published in Ageing, Blog, Fintech, Future, Future trends, Innovation
The future of aging should not be a story of survival – but one of living
Thursday 13 December 2018
We start getting older the day we were born. In the U.S., ten thousand people turn 65 on a daily basis. More than twenty-eight percent of Japan’s population will be 65-plus by 2030. Globally, the number of people age 60 and over is projected to double to more than two billion by 2050 according to