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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