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.
September 2017
As a Fintech firm operating in the less-than-innovative pensions world, Smart Pension was initially considered to be rather extraordinary because we dared to allow busy people to sign up their workforce for a pension via their smart phone or tablet in less than half an […]
July 2017
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine told me I was “doing the FinTech” so well. Besides the fact that it made me chuckle and I appreciated it greatly, it made me realise that outside of my bubble of FinTech friends, not many people […]
July 2017
GovTech is gaining momentum as it is passing from an emergent state and is poised to go global, it could be in a similar position to FinTech 5 years ago, according to a report “GovTech: an Emergent Sector Revolutionising Public Services”. Global government spending on […]
June 2017
Digital Leaders week saw multiple webinars and online events; we have embedded them into this handy catch-up blog. Click on the embedded videos below to watch the webinars, discussing digital transformation across the UK. On Tuesday 20 June we had a webinar presented by Tris Lumley, Director of […]
June 2017
Jacyn Heavens has been announced as the East of England local champion 2017. Jacyn Heavens, 2016’s Great British Retail Entrepreneur of the year, founded Epos Now in 2011 following a frustrating venture into a city centre bar. Today, Epos Now is the UK’s fastest growing […]
May 2017
The South East had a strong turn-out in the 2017 DL100 line-up, with 11 finalists within 9 of the 10 categories. These also included including 3 category winners being Mobile Innovation of the Year, Friend Finder; Digital SME of the Year, UKCloud and Cyber Resilience Innovation of the […]
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