FinTech Futures: Top five news stories of the week – 12 July 2024
Our pick of the top fintech news stories this week includes Envestnet, Dosh, Innovate Finance and more.
Our pick of the top fintech news stories this week includes Envestnet, Dosh, Innovate Finance and more.
Total investment in fintechs worldwide amounted to $15.9bn in H1 2024, compared to $19.5bn in H2 2023.
IFGS 2024 is taking place in London this week, with fintech regulation and innovation high on the agenda.
The council will be co-chaired by Philip Belamant, Janine Hirt and Charles McManus.
Our pick of the top fintech news stories this week includes Zilo, Ant Group, FirstOntario and more.
The total global investment flowing into fintech reached $51.2 billion in 2023 across 3,973 deals.
According to Innovate Finance data, $27.3bn was injected into the industry globally during H1 2023 through 1,714 deals.
The US saw the highest number of fintech funding in 2022 at $39 billion, followed by UK and India.
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
UK-based fintech firms received $9.1 billion in investment spread across 294 deals in H1 2022.
Cover story: THE FUTURE CALLS – Three predictions for the year ahead.
Nearly half of all fintech investment in Europe was made in UK, Innovate Finance data shows.
Industry body preps to push the sector’s regulatory interests.
2021 starts strong at 153% higher investment than Q4 2020.
Head of industry body to be replaced by COO Janine Hirt.
Manchester is already home to five homegrown ecommerce unicorns.
The industry is undecided over roughly $1 billion dollars.
Innovate Finance, FinTech Scotland and FinTech North are behind the initiative.
FinTech for Schools is out… and about in the UK.
Industry body Innovate Finance serves up the stats.
Welcome to another wave of wondrous wealth. Features Autobooks, Finomial and Rebuildingsociety.
VC investment in the nation’s fintech firms was up 153% at $1.8 billion in 2017.
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Innovate Finance, a UK-based fintech membership association, is seeking start-ups for its latest Pitch360 competition. The contest is open to any start-up in the following sectors: Distributed ledger technology (DLT) Financial inclusion Cybersecurity Cross-border payments Peer-to-peer and alternative funding Regtech Personal finance management and robo-advice Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning Sandboxes The winner will […]
The fintech funding is on fire. Following on from yesterday’s (6 September) action, here’s another round-up. Features ABN Amro, Cloud Lending Solutions, Dataiku, EY and Innovate Finance. Amsterdam-based ABN Amro has made an undisclosed investment in US-based Cloud Lending Solutions (CLS) – the second by the bank’s Digital Impact Fund (DIF) and in line with […]
Bread but with the bluster removed. Following on from yesterday’s concise report, our latest fintech funding round-up keeps it brief. Features Cleo, Skype, ItzCash, Ebix and research from Innovate Finance. The “Siri of personal finance,” Cleo, a virtual money assistant, has received £2 million in funding from Skype’s co-founder Niklas Zennström and venture capital (VC) […]
There is no smoke without fire. The “big smoke”, as London is colloquially known, has been creating a fire of innovation in the financial technology space for years, but there are other UK fintech centres in the Southwest; Cardiff; Manchester/Leeds; and Edinburgh/Glasgow that create their own heat.
What can banks learn from the fintech community when it comes to fostering a culture of innovation against a backdrop of regulation?
Uncertainty over Brexit has created a 33.7% decrease in UK venture capital (VC) investment for fintech firms, according to research by Innovate Finance. Investment was down to $783 million – less than two thirds of 2015 investment of $1.2 billion. Nine of the top 20 UK deals closed post Brexit, with total investment after the […]
Belgium is making overtures to London’s fintech scene as it looks a build a bridge between both communities. Innovate Finance, a UK-based fintech membership association, held talks today (11 January) in London with a delegation from Belgium’s digital finance community led by the Minister of Finance Johan Van Overtveldt. As part of this meeting, Overtveldt […]
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Innovate Finance, a UK-based fintech membership association, has unveiled its first ever start-up competition, Pitch360. Open to applicants from around the world, Pitch360 offers a 360-second (six minute) pitch of a new business and product in front of a live audience of influencers, investors and media professionals as well as access to Innovate Finance’s member […]
Innotribe, Swift’s innovation arm, and membership organisation Innovate Finance have launched a Global FinTech Hubs Federation (GFHF) to help foster innovation. To date, more than 20 countries – including Canada, China, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, and the UK – are participating in the GFHF, with more countries expected to join in the coming months. Lawrence Wintermeyer, […]
It’s hard to believe that it’s been just under two weeks since the UK narrowly voted in favour of Brexit. The pace of breaking news across the political and economic spheres has been brisk. In and amongst what is a great deal of uncertainty about the UK’s future relationship with the European Union, FinTech Futures, […]
Fintech association Innovate Finance has launched UK Fintech 2020, a manifesto that sets out goals for the UK to be a centre for financial services. These include calls for increased investment in fintech, efforts to attract more fintech firms and the creation of more jobs in the sector.
Fintech innovation gets a lot of press, but there is a lack of co-ordination. Innovate Finance’s Claire Cockerton tells David Bannister how her organisation aims to change that