A new project has been announced that will involve the first ever detailed analysis of the fintech ecosystem in the South West of England. The initiative will be a collaboration across organisations from the public and private sector, as well as higher education.
The work will be led and delivered by Whitecap Consulting, the regional strategy consultancy that has conducted similar...
Behind Login, a UK-based competitor research consultancy, has launched a new product called ReleaseTrack to facilitate competitor research within the FinTech and Finance industry.
According the company, the platform gives clients "complete visibility of the competitive landscape and peace of mind when it comes to competitor research." ReleaseTrack merges technology, community and...
Jonathan Beaverstock, Professor of International Management at the University of Bristol, joins FinTech West as Knowledge Exchange Fellow, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, bringing social science expertise to the team supporting Bristol, Bath and the Southwest to become a FinTech superpower.
The fellowship role has been funded to facilitate knowledge exchange...
Bristol-headquartered digital transformation specialist Amdaris has partnered with Stripe , the financial infrastructure platform for businesses, to provide an industry-leading solution for embedded payments and financial services.
The partnership will empower companies to build and scale powerful global payments and financial services more efficiently. Amdaris will provide the...
Bristol-based growth marketing startup HdE AGENCY has been selected by the Australian Trade and Investment Commission, Austrade , to help Australian exporters expand into the UK market.
HdE AGENCY will be using their specialist skills, knowledge and network to help connect ambitious Australian businesses across a variety of tech sectors to the UK market, starting with Fintech....
The representative body of technology-based financial services firms in the Southwest, FinTech West, is announcing ambitious growth plans for 2022.
This year will see the planned Spring launch of the FinTech West accelerator powered by SETSquared for start-up firms in the region. The FinTech West team is also working on an expanded events calendar; international exposure with...
Armen Papazian is a financial economist and the CEO of analytics platform Value XD . This post is an excerpt from his upcoming book due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the near future.
Beyond buzz words and broadly titled global targets and initiatives, the fact is, we are still thinking and crystallising the principles, equations, methodologies, data points, and...
FinTech West has announced a partnership with TISAtech, via its website .
The arrangement is aimed at opening up business development opportunities for South West FinTechs to engage with established financial services organisations.
TISAtech is a global digital platform that connects FinTechs with financial services firms, predominately banks, insurers, retail platforms and...
Bath-based Dancerace has received an investment from Newable Capital, which the fintech company will use to recruit further staff and to improve their working capital operating systems.
It is the first time Newable Capital has invested in fintech and represents an opportunity for Dancerace, which was founded in 1992, to write its "next chapter as a company", according to its CEO....
Marty Reid is the director of Bristol tech hub Engine Shed . This is an extract from a talk given by Marty at the UK FinTech Week: Bristol & Bath Fintech Cluster Showcase , originally published on the Engine Shed website .
Fintech is a truly innovative sector in the West of England, not because of its potential to generate revenue for the financial services sector, but because it...
