Fintech firms
27 May 2020
Paul Forrest joins Blockchain Technology Partners
Scottish fintech Blockchain Technology Partners (BTP), just announced it had appointed Paul Forrest as its first chairman. Paul has been ...
27 May 2020
Mental Health in the workplace under COVID-19
Coronavirus is inevitably something which has affected us all. It has affected how we feel, how we work, and how ...
Fintech firms
20 May 2020
Ex-Paypal CEO joins Money Dashboard
Scottish fintech Money Dashboard has just announced that Renier Lemmens would join the company as Chairman. This is a great news ...
Fintech firms
12 May 2020
How a fintech is helping people to receive affordable loans
The University of Edinburgh and Scottish fintech Inbest are collaborating on a research project that aims to address the challenge of ...
Skills & Talents
11 May 2020
Coronavirus, Autism and Fintech
The Coronavirus crisis has led to the largest move to remote working that anyone has ever seen, with many companies ...
Sector
04 May 2020
Scotland, a thriving fintech sector
As part of the series on “Innovation in finance” the BBC have produced a video exploring the fintech developments in ...
30 April 2020
Time to secure our emails
In February I wrote about the growing awareness of cybercrime targeting the financial services and the industry’s need ”“ and ...
Announcement
28 April 2020
COVID-19 ”“ New update from FinTech Scotland 28/04
As we enter the 6th week of lockdown, FinTech Scotland CEO, Stephen Ingledew, is giving us a two minute update ...
27 April 2020
COVID19 – Scottish Fintechs fight financial vulnerabilities
The past few weeks have been unprecedented, and as we continue to hear the developing views of what’s being described ...
08 April 2020
Research – Why 4 in 10 businesses abandon banking applications?
A research by Scottish fintech Encompass shows that almost 40% of UK businesses have deliberately stopped an application for banking ...
Fintech firms
07 April 2020
Scottish fintech Soar secures major funding boost
Scottish fintech Soar, together with Nivo (a Barclays spin out), has secured £200,000 from the Affordable Credit Challenge. This challenge ...
06 April 2020
Innovation relief is at hand for UK Fintechs
As Coronavirus dominates the agenda, with the Chancellor announcing £330 billion in relief measures to deal with its impact, it’s ...