Helene Panzarino BANKING AND FINTECH INNOVATOR, EDUCATOR AND EVANGELIST
Helene Panzarino is a banking-innovation consultant, educator, and evangelist. As a commercial banker and respected fintech evangelist, she has a deep understanding of the forces, threats, and opportunities reshaping the global financial industry. As an educator, she has developed world-leading programmes that explore those forces and the industry’s most innovative responses to them.
Helene was named on Innovate Finance’s Women in Fintech Power List 2019, recognising her work driving change in the fintech space.
James Haycock, Vice President at Capgemini Invent called her 2020 book Reinventing Banking & Finance: “a must-read for every forward-thinking banking executive”.
Helene’s specialisms are Digital Banking and Alternative Finance for SMEs.
Helene’s work centres around three themes:
Innovation
Helene consults to banks and fintech organisations on innovation and digital transformation.
Evangelism
Helene is Chief Banking and Fintech Evangelist for Vacuumlabs, working with incumbent banks, scale accelerators and venture-capital funds to develop digital-banking propositions.
Education
Helene created the world’s first fintech-focussed Master’s-degree content for UCL and was co-creator of Imperial College’s fintech and digital banking programme for executives.
A twice published author, her recent book, Reinventing Banking and Finance was named the #1 banking book for 2021 by Investopedia.
Recognised as a pioneer and a thought leader, she was chosen by Google/FT an EU Digital Pioneer, Computer Weekly 100 Women in Tech, Innovate Finance Women in Fintech Powerlist, and FinTech Magazine 100 Women in FinTech.
Reinventing Banking & Finance has now been translated into Chinese and is available to purchase in China.
CURRENT NEWS
March 2024
New Consumer Duty
Check out all three episodes 3 of the MoneyLive podcast series in partnership with LIBF and Dave Pickering (Head of Consumer Duty Implementation, Virgin Money). We unpack the complexity of New Consumer Duty, what has been done and still needs to be done, what is the impact vulnerable customers in regards to Consumer Duty, what does the future hold.
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November 2023
MoneyLive Nordic Banking
Another fantastic Nordic Summit with the #MoneyLive team in the #Nordics.
Our panel topic was 'Digital ID and Fraud Prevention' and we covered everything from technology to education to the need for cross-industry stakeholder collaboration. #financialvulnerability and fraud have reached epic proportions and we all need to work together to get it under control.
September 2023
Financial vulnerability with Fintech Futures
I recently recorded a podcast on the topic of financial vulnerability with Fintech Futures. Everyone in financial services needs to take notice of this topic especially as the macroeconomic situation continues to put pressure on household spending. There is training and technology to help, but it needs to move up the priority list.
The FCA New Consumer Duty in the UK highlights the need to prevent further financial harm, and for the financially vulnerable this is especially pertinent. For those leading ESG initiatives, the 'S', when it comes to financial inclusion, can impact the financially vulnerable.
Have a listen and then please, take positive action.
August 2023
Computer Weekly Most Influential Women in Tech 2023
Thrilled to have been chosen for the CW Most Influential Women in Tech longlist for 2023. As someone with one foot in the strategy camp and the other in the tech camp, it's wonderful to see CW recognise the impact and influence of women in this important space
June 2023
Board Member, Financial Services Faculty BoardBoard Member, Financial Services Faculty Board
ICAEWICAEW May 2023
I am delighted to be joining as a Board Member of the ICAEW Financial Services Faculty Board and looking forward to the year ahead.
Helene is a member of the Capgemini Global FS report Executive Steering Committee.
Helene is an active contributor to various outlets including the well-renowned publication Finextra.
Banking on Air - the official Vacuumlabs podcast
‘Banking on Air’ is the official Vacuumlabs podcast covering the challenges, opportunities, perspectives, and opinions that matter to our community. The podcastlooks under the hood of the changing face of tech: the acceleration of all things digital, the impact of regulation (and disruption), the need for collaboration – and the spectrum of businesses competing to be fintech and financial service suppliers around the world.
Dive into Fintech - The LIBF aftershow podcast
Dive into Fintech - The LIBF aftershow podcast explores the biggest topics facing the industry today with insights from leading figures in all things fintech, digital and more.