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The 100 Year Start-up: Disruption in Financial Services

· 26 min watch
Matthew Adams By Matthew Adams Co-Founder

Hymans Robertson CTO Barry Smart & endjin's Matthew Adams discuss Hymans shift to FinTech, cloud, and API-driven innovation in actuarial consultancy.

About this talk

Future Decoded 2015

Barry Smart (CTO, Hymans Robertson) and Matthew Adams (Co-Founder, endjin) discuss how Hymans Robertson a market leading actuarial consultancy have realigned their business towards innovation, placing FinTech and the cloud at the heart of their offerings in the emerging API, Data, and App economies.

Most disruptive start-ups aren't building vertically integrated, full-stack solutions. They connect various pieces of the value chain using public APIs across social media, e-commerce, payment providers, supply chain and more, injecting their special sauce along the way to create new propositions. Hymans Robertson are applying this start-up culture to an established, market leading business.

Hymans Robertson was set up in Glasgow in 1921 and is one of the longest established independent firms of consultants and actuaries in the UK, have over 560 staff, including 64 partners, 16 of whom are Members (i.e. share-owning partners) who are all fully involved in the day-to-day management of the Firm.

About the presenter

Matthew Adams

Co-Founder

Matthew Adams

Matthew was CTO of a venture-backed technology start-up in the UK & US for 10 years, and is now the co-founder of endjin, which provides technology strategy, experience and development services to its customers who are seeking to take advantage of Microsoft Azure and the Cloud.

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