Retired Member
The UK’s fintech sector is experiencing a period of unprecedented growth. According to figures from Accenture, investment in fintech in the UK and Ireland rose from $264 million in 2013 to $623 million in 2014. These figures are impressive, but the impact this investment is having on innovation and entrepreneurship in the sector is even more inter...
03 August 2015 /startups
When new industries are born they either die quickly, snuffled out by growing pains, or they burst into the scene with furious pace. The more innovative an idea, the harder it can be to find real adoption. First you need to educate, build within rules, which were often not designed for you and lastly wait for punters to catch on/up and adopt. Crow...
31 July 2015 /startups
Alternative Finance is a new phenomenon, and it is taking the world by storm. With over 1,250 crowdfunding platforms worldwide, this new model of collaborative funding is breaking boundaries and defying the status quo as to how issuers source capital. While alternative finance is primarily known for crowdfunding and P2P lending there are entire ass...
29 July 2015 /startups
Did you know that in the first 6 months of 2015, Indian startups have raised $3.5 Bn ? Almost every other day a new startup idea is funded. The sheer numbers, the ideas and innovations will blow your mind away! Interestingly, as I read through the list of funded startups, I recognized that they were all pointed solutions to a specific customer nee...
27 July 2015 /startups
At the Fintech Private Equity and Venture Capital days I've attended in London recently I see pitch after pitch after pitch from aspiring Entrepreneurs but with so much Me-Too competition emerging in the Fintech space investment teams need to be able to quickly establish whether or not they believe a start up is clearly differentiated enough to be...
22 July 2015 /startups
The digital start up culture of the US has long been lauded as the benchmark for the EU to aspire towards creating. However the cultural and financial differences between the EU and US are vast, contributing to the perceptible dominance of the US start-up scene. For instance the EU has not yet been able to create a single Internet company, which i...
16 July 2015 /startups
Duena Blomstrom Knower at Duena Blomstrom Consulting
A while ago on Twitter I confessed the term "FinTechS" irks me. The plural. It's a new phenomenon and maybe we are just using it to be hipsterishly "in" but there is something about it that grates me to no end. Instinctively it seemed derogatory, too broad, condescending and in the middle of the Great Digital Debate we didn't n...
14 July 2015 /retail /startups
The budget yesterday carried one absolute jewel, namely that an ‘Innovative Finance ISA’ will be launched next year in time for April. With the following hallowed words Mr Osborne has transformed crowdfunding: ‘The Government will introduce the innovative finance ISA, for loans arranged via a P2P platform, from 6 April 2016 and has published a pub...
09 July 2015 /startups
Not too long ago, Jeff Bezos sparked a tidal wave of controversy when he spoke of the potential of Amazon's 'Prime Air' drone delivery service. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, for packages below 5 pounds ((about 2 Kg) around 86% of Amazon's current deliveries) and with delivery destinations within 30 minutes - Amazon's drone army wil...
03 July 2015 /startups
Preface: Several tens of Challenger Banks are coming to change the Financial Services landscape in the UK. If you’re a banking consumer that is not in our oh-so-controversial Financial Services industry but are counting the days till all these new Challenger banks in the UK hit the market so you can finally have the experience you deserve when y
30 June 2015 /startups
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