Regulation
06 March 2023
Consumer Duty and fintech innovation
Season 3, episode 4 Listen to the full episode here. In July 2022, the FCA published its Consumer Duty. Regulated ...
02 March 2023
Pathways: A New Approach for Women in Entrepreneurship
Last week, the Scottish Government published Pathways: A New Approach for Women in Entrepreneurship. This landmark report was overseen by ...
Sector
02 March 2023
New national hub to turbocharge FinTech growth
The government just launched the national centre for FinTech called the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT), designed to ...
Skills & Talents
01 March 2023
Fintech Scholarship to boost UK industry
A new survey from Quotezone.co.uk has revealed that despite the UK being a global leader in fintech, a whopping 77% ...
Fintech firms
23 February 2023
Inbest and MaPS launch New benefits calculator
In collaboration with Scottish fintech firm Inbest, the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) has introduced a benefits calculator. The tool, ...
Fintech firms
22 February 2023
€9m Investment by Ingka into Scottish fintech DirectID
DirectID, one of the leading fintech in Scotland, that specialises in credit risk assessment, risk analytics and predictive modelling, has ...
20 February 2023
Important changes for fintechs as R&D tax relief regime changes
Blog written by Saifur Rahman, Senior Technical Consultant at Leyton. The UK’s Research and Development (R&D) tax relief regime is ...
Payments & Transactions
17 February 2023
Fintech and payroll, disrupting how people get paid
Season 3, episode 3 Listen to the full episode here. When thinking about payroll generally most people would assume that ...
Skills & Talents
15 February 2023
New government initiative to promote women in STEM
The UK Government is launching a new initiative to encourage women to consider careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics ...
14 February 2023
FinTech and Space ”“ propelling Scotland forward
We all know that two heads are better than one so imagine the power of two of Scotland’s strongest and ...
Climate Finance
03 February 2023
Carbon Markets: How can fintech avoid green washing?
Season 3, episode 2 Listen to the full episode here. The FinTech Scotland Research and Innovation Roadmap highlighted the growing ...
02 February 2023
Open Banking – the UK’s next biggest export?
According to Accenture, there’s $416bn of revenue at stake for fintechs and banks across the world by the end of ...