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Future of Fintech in Africa 2023: The value of a connected world

Future of Fintech in Africa 2023: The value of a connected world

Dickson Nsofor
03 Aug 2023

This is an excerpt from The Future of Fintech in Africa 2023 report. African fintech has been white-...

How Scotland, the UK's second largest fintech cluster, is reshaping the digital economy

How Scotland, the UK's second largest fintech cluster, is reshaping the digital economy

Nicola Anderson
06 Jul 2023

​​Cluster management body, FinTech Scotland, is advancing the agendas set out in both the UK Fintech...

Forget unicorns, are we entering the age of the centaur?

Forget unicorns, are we entering the age of the centaur?

Sanjib Kalita
07 Jun 2023

The era of unicorns, startups valued at $1 billion or more, is coming to an end. We are now entering...

Disruptive challengers: How fintechs are pivoting for profit

Disruptive challengers: How fintechs are pivoting for profit

Laust Bertelsen
22 May 2023

In response to the 2008 financial crisis, regulation was altered and the financial services market s...

Will the CFIT tackle growth barriers and accelerate the UK fintech sector?

Will the CFIT tackle growth barriers and accelerate the UK fintech sector?

Madhvi Mavadiya
18 Apr 2023

The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT), a UK quango charged with unblocking barrie...

How to prioritise regulation, diversity and collaboration to bolster UK fintech

How to prioritise regulation, diversity and collaboration to bolster UK fintech


18 Apr 2023

Over the course of 2022, the UK FinTech industry showed its resilience as it battled through heavy h...

Competition and innovation: Improving the tech and financial services relationship

Competition and innovation: Improving the tech and financial services relationship

Roberto Napolitano
17 Apr 2023

The collaboration between financial services and tech is incredibly important to drive further innov...

Adapt to survive in 2023: A step change for business models in fintech

Adapt to survive in 2023: A step change for business models in fintech

Pat Patel
27 Oct 2022

The origins of fintech date back to the Global Financial Crisis of 2007 to 2008, when financial ins...

Debt financings for fintech startups: Are they the new venture round?

Debt financings for fintech startups: Are they the new venture round?

Lyle Solomon
06 Sep 2022

In the first seven months of the year, venture capital (VC)-backed businesses in the United States r...