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The UK Space Agency has chosen seven firms to award with funding in the interest of tracking all the crap we’ve left in the sky. You might be reading this on the back of watching Climate Change – ...

A bunch of olfactory obsessives have blasted through their Kickstarter campaign target to start making bottles of fragrance purported to smell like space. Just as Robin Williams once lorded it over ...

TrueLayer and Tandem partnership demostrates the power of collaborative ecosystems

Cross border payments fintech Azimo has opened the doors to its European headquarters in Amsterdam

Wagestream is enabling workers to access their pay in real-time, reducing the need for overdrafts and payday loans

Following its demise former IT workers at Lehman Brothers used the experience they gained at the bank to create a tech start up

Can you describe what an API is in two sentences? If you work in a bank you might have to.

Fintech Bud is cutting support staff as it focuses on engineering open banking software capabilities

Evolution AI is selling technology to banks that can enable a computer to read any text in any document and make decisions based on what it reads

Fintech is not just about investors making money

Tandem Bank names seasoned artificial intelligence expert to drive its journey to personalise banking

Azimo has made its first profit as the fintech moves onto its next phase of growth

Funding Options took a few years to realise that dating sites were the perfect model for a fintech helping small businesses get access to the right loans for them

FutureBricks is offering savers better rates through lending to the SME building industry

Innovate Finance is continuing to expand its network of fintechs with agreements with three regional hubs

Esme Loans has emerged from an RBS innovation initiative and after a controlled launch is ready to scale its business

Investment patterns in the UK fintech sector reveals how the businesses in it are maturing

The founder of digital bank Fidor has turned his attention to fixing the inefficiencies of debt processing at banks through technology and empathy

The ID Co is offering businesses technology that has the potential of getting a mortgage approval in seconds

Toronto residents are grappling with a quandary posed by the plans of Google sister company Sidewalk Labs to build a smart city on its eastern waterfront. It’s always fun to learn about Google’s ...

Don'y forget the tech SMEs amid the noise being made by the unicorns

With London Tech Week held recently various tech sector executives have kindly offered to provide their opinions of this year’s London Tech week. Here are the opinions already published: London ...

Fintech IT heads are the top earners but this will change as the industry matures and needs for different skills

There is life in UK tech beyond the Big Smoke

Diversity in the tech industry is vital if the UK is to prosper, but how do companies build it into their DNA?

Currencycloud offers emerging fintechs make chiild's play of building a payments infrastructure

UK consumers are increasingly opening multiple bank accounts

Call for fintechs to stop designing products for themselves and look outside the London bubble.

London might be one of world’s fintech hubs, but Brits are still wary of new tech for banking

Tandem Bank is using the latest technology to help people manage their finances and half a million have already taken up its offer

Swedish fintech Tink gets its UK expansion going with NatWest deal

Azimo makes Dutch office operational with licence and gaurantees itself the right to operate across EU after Brexit

NatWest owned SME lending platform Esme Loans has lent more than £50m to UK SMEs over two years. Esme cuts the time it takes to apply for a loan to 10 minutes for SMEs, offering SMEs loans of up to ...

The UK's first Fintech Week kicks off with Innovate Finance Global Summit

Tink is a Swedish fintech which realised a complete change of its business model was in order if it were to meet its growth potential

Nationwide Building Society offering fintechs funding and mentoring in a challenge to create apps for the financially vulnerable

The fintech industry in the UK is growing fast but it could face difficulties attracting the right IT talent as a result of the Brexit turnoff

Is fin tech making it too easy for people to mis-buy financial products?

An encounter between seasoned trading executive and archaic gold trading processes ignited Goldex Technologies

Alternative lending platforms targeting the SME sector have managed to get their message across to their customer base

Cross border money transfer fintech Azimo is disrupting the high street

Find out what needs to done to increase diversity in fintech from some of the women shaping the industry

Nationwide Building Society creating business banking platform with 10 X

NatWest fintech loans platform tapping Microsoft data warehouse expertise to support its rapid decision making

Fintech Yoyo is on its upward trajectory as mobile phones take centre stage in people's lives

TrueLayer talks about the deeper causes of fintech skills shortages beyond Brexit uncertainty

Fintechs in London and the UK will face increased challenges finding the right staff as Brexit makes other European hubs even more attractive

Digital challenger bank Fidor is close to splitting from BCPE, with clarity expected next month

A third of UK startups are readying themselves for Brexit by setting up operations on mainland Europe

Fintech Bud is using a diverse range of skills to help banks like HSBC understand and create customer services based on open banking rules

While self driving cars and robotic co-workers take the limelight businesses can benefit from the seemingly more mundane application of machine learning

Cross border payments Fintech identifies migrant workers in UK losing out because of falling pound

HSBC's exploration of open banking functionality with fintech Bud has identified what customers want

Lloyds Bank IT outage he latest to hit UK consumers as banking systems wobble under pressure

Positive discrimination if the lack of investment in fintechs founded by women is to become a thing of the past

Monzo is testing out a business banking proposition with 1000 customers as it plans to be an SME finance management hub

Banks are under pressure to transform digitally but is it fair to set Google as the destination?

What do fintechs think of the first year of Open Banking and what do they expect over the next 12 months?

Fintech could be losing billions of pounds in potential revenues as banks hold off IT projects until clearer picture of post Brexit business environment emerges

Swedish fintech Eucaps is about to launch as the Spotify of the share trading sector

How do challenger banks measure success?

Sending a gift to a manager at a potential customer to attract attention seems old fashioned but it could be for a fintech to get visibility

If you had the parliamentary numbers that Jeremy Corbyn has how would you use them to break the Brexit impasse

The UK risks losing its position as a leading fintech hub as a result of the suicidal tendencies of some politicians and group masochism within the population

London experienced a huge drop in tech investment in the year following the Brexit vote.

There is life beyond London. Challenger bank Monzo creates hundreds of tech jobs in South wales

Icelandic fintech Meniga, grew from offering a personal finance tools to a company offering banks digital building blocks, is targeting UK growth.

Dublin is the natural choice for UK fitechs building an EU footing but there are alternatives

TrueLayer is at the core of the fintech sector's drive into the open banking space

ClauseMatch is a London based startup that offers to automate the process that banks go through to prove they comply with industry regulations

Rebuilding Society is a Leeds based fintech trying to offer SMEs access to better loans as well as selling its technology to organisations setting up crowdfuning initiatives

How a serial entrepreneur and a former soldier plotted to take on the car insurance price comparison sites

Finetch Akoni brings corporate treasury capabilities to the SME sector with Google functionality the Holy Grail

India is an opportunity and a threat when it comes to any tech focused sector and the UK government wants to ensure it is a friend in Fintech.

Read how UK insurtech Wrisk was born and raised

Who are the UK companies trying to have a share of the trillions of pounds that will be created by the Blockchain industries

CreditLadder is helping renters build up their credit scores and helping the rental industry get good renters

The fintech industry is maturing to the point that it now has subcategories, find out about some of the companies making hay in the sector.

An insurtech company set up a few years ago has dislodged 130 year old global insurance giant Allianz in BMW deal

The art of 3D printing has suffered a setback in Kuwait, after pressure from hysterical clergymen forced the closure of its local Doob 3D store with accusations of idolatry. The company offers a ...

Today IT trade group techUK announced some of the things it wants the UK post-brexit immigration policy to include. Just yesterday I was talking to the fintech lead at Tech Nation about this very ...

Interesting article on Finextra about the pay packages of top fintech executives. According to research from Morlands Human Capital, cited by Finextra, the average package of a CEO at a fintech ...

The creation of tech startup Trint by a journalist brings home the importance of intimacy with a business problem

Saudi Arabia is selling itself as a fintech hub with an environment for startups to flourish, but are fintechs ready to set up there?

It might not be fake Brexit news but it is outrageous spin.

Fintech is nothing without VC funding and the UK risks losing a significant share

If you’ve ever gone through the process of getting a tech startup off the ground, you’ll be familiar with the nerve-wracking process of pitching a group of stony-faced investors with your idea to ...

When a UK startup had its EU funding put on hold due to Brexit it could not wait, so it turned to crowdfunding and succeeded in getting the funds it needs

This is a guest blogpost by Ted Dunning, chief application architect, MapR Technologies. I am a foreigner to the UK. I am an engineer. These characteristics are what shaped the first impressions I ...

A UK startup has lost its next round of funding as it was about to launch, as a direct result of Brexit

Everywoman has extended the deadline for its FDM everywoman in technology awards to allow more time for nominations – 2016 everywoman Startup Founder of the Year award winner Sophie Deen discusses ...

Got me thinking – just what IS a start-up company? Ok – so there are definitions within even Techtrailblazers itself as competitions are based upon rules, and rules dictate strict definitions, so ...

The office of the future, as viewed through rose-tinted augmented reality glasses. A new film from augmented reality outfit Meta paints a vivid picture of how the office of the future may no longer ...

To Shenzhen, China, where tech entrepreneur Zhao Shuping has had cold water poured on his business after his sharing economy start-up Sharing E Umbrella rented 300,000 umbrellas to damp locals, and ...

With the UK’s formal Brexit notification due on 29 March, heralding two years of uncertainty, the tech sector’s lobbying for consideration in negotiations with the EU is likely to intensify. Two ...

The festive season is behind us for another year, even for those giddy traditionalists who keep their trees up well into January instead of just getting over it. But maybe we can cling onto the ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged on this side of the Atlantic that the version of English used by our American friends does, on occasions, stray from its British roots. Downtime received its ...

A pair of university students from Maryland USA have used the Indiegogo online crowdfunding site as the initial platform to launch HUMANS. The firm itself is dedicated to championing a variety of ...

The deadline to enter the annual NatWest Everywoman awards has been extended to allow more female business owners to put themselves forward. Female entrepreneurs now have until Monday July 11 to ...