The UK is fast becoming one of the world’s leading FinTech centres with innovation and growth in data analytics, payment models, mobile payments and alternative funding mechanisms being just some of them.
This year we saw the government reinforce the growing importance of FinTech with the appointment of a special envoy, Eileen Burbidge (now also chair of Tech City UK), charged with promoting and encouraging investment in London’s booming industry. The public sector is one area of payments that is innovating in this space and where the benefits of FinTech can be leveraged for the benefit of both Government and the citizen.
April 2018
Women-led fintech businesses perform 3 times better than men-led ones, producing equity returns 226% greater than other companies. Venture capital firms and investors are therefore making a poor business decision not investing in women entrepreneurs, and are missing out on opportunities because of unconscious biases. […]
April 2018
How will smart contracts streamline business processes? Digital Leaders North East and Invotra attracted a broad range of businesses to their Blockchain event earlier this year. The audience ranged from those who are already actively exploring blockchain solutions in their business to the majority who […]
April 2018
Blockchain technology has been at the center of media attention, largely because of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, however, not many people actually understand what a blockchain is. To put it simple, blockchains are distributed systems, recording and storing transactions on a decentralised digital ledger. Transaction […]
April 2018
GDPR and Blockchain are certainly two ‘buzz words’ in tech and policy at the moment and an event with either in the title is usually guaranteed to attract an audience. Imagine then when the European Parliament All-Party Group for Innovation holds an event on GDPR […]
March 2018
Recently lots of people have been asking me about blockchain because they don’t seem to understand the basics. So in this blog, I just want to try and explain it in as simple a form as I can. Purists may hate this, Geeks should look […]
March 2018
Welcome back to the next part of the series for digital leaders. After reading up on the introduction to blockchain, you may be thinking: “Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, another way to send and receive money, so what?” Previously, we mentioned that Bitcoin was an application of […]
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