Derek White: embrace or be disrupted

Derek White is Chief Design & Digital Officer at Barclays, he holds an MBA from Wharton and is a respected leader in Banking and disruptive FinTech. An authority on the evolving Design & Digital needs of customers from early Internet with Wingspan and Juniper, to mobile with Barclays and Pingit, the landmark mobile payments app. Derek is focused on accelerating digitisation, connecting entrepreneurs to disruptive captives in large corporates through and is also responsible for the Barclays Accelerator in London’s Mile End which is now in its second cohort.

The Financial Services industry has been significantly disrupted.
Customers are increasingly moving to digital forms of banking and
Financial Services need to evolve products and services to work with
them. The full extent of what digital can offer goes beyond basic
mobile and banking services. It will provide a new digital feature set
through innovations and improvements in user-experience design through
interactive game-like interfaces – merging boundaries between real and
virtual, advanced digital security, social media and collaboration
tools, innovation in analytics and predictive models and new channel
integration.

Barclays are embracing the disruption by shaping, partnering and
co-creating with the global entrepreneur and innovation ecosystems to
accelerate technologies that our customers want and those that they
don’t yet know they want.