Boost for local high streets with gift card partnership
A new partnership aimed at supporting high streets across Scotland has been formed – allowing shoppers to use gift cards in their local stores. Perth-based gift card operator Miconex is…
New financial regulation innovation lab launches AI challenge with industry giants
A new financial regulation innovation lab based in Glasgow has launched a ‘first-of-its-kind’ artificial intelligence challenge with the backing of several industry giants. The Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FRIL), set…
Scottish generative AI fintech partners with Lloyds Banking Group’s life insurance arm
A Scottish fintech will use its pioneering generative AI technology to help drive improvements for the life insurance arm of Lloyds Banking Group. Aveni AI’s platform will help Cavendish Online…
Fintech jobs boost for Scotland as cluster goes from strength to strength
The number of jobs in Scotland’s fintech sector has grown by 24 per cent in the last two years, new figures from FinTech Scotland have shown. As the cluster management…
A sector that is charging ahead across the UK
The UK FinTech Symposium looked at how homegrown innovation is offering opportunities for growth, skills and exports Scotland was the location, but the audience was from across the UK while…
‘We are (fintech) family’
How the sector is shaping financial innovation through UK-wide fintech collaboration ‘The whole is bigger than the sum of the parts’ is a phrase which captures the essence and ethos…
‘If you forget the consumer, what is the point of doing all this?’
The CEO of the newly-established Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology says it’s a matter of ”open banking, not open season” For Ezechi Britton, financial services innovation in the UK…
Driving force for collaboration at the fintech frontier
FinTech Scotland’s CEO Nicola Anderson has translated her leadership role at the regulator to establish the future of compliance in the UK and across the globe. “Sometimes you have to…
How the West Midlands is drawing inspiration from Scotland
With focus on growth in the fintech sector outside of London, regions are building on traditional strengths with tech superclusters SuperTech was formed three years ago to focus on growing…
Supporting companies at every level to help fuel growth
NatWest Group was delighted to host the UK Fintech Symposium at Royal Bank of Scotland’s home in Edinburgh for the second year running. Bringing together such an eclectic and exciting…
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