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Interview with Claire Cockerton, CEO of Innovate Finance
Innovate Finance is the brand new industry body for the FinTech community in the UK. It is member-driven and aims to accelerate the UK’s position in global financial services by directly supporting the...
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That Was the Year That Was
It’s time once again for our first annual Greater Boston FinTech year in funding review. 2014 saw roughly $194 million invested in private financial technology companies, a substantial jump from...
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Trends in FinTech Recruiting with David Boehmer of Heidrick & Struggles – Part 1
FinTech is hot. It’s attracting entrepreneurs and increasingly large amounts of capital. We all know that finding the right talent – whether CTO, CMO, CEO, head of product, head of sales – is a key to...
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Trends in FinTech Recruiting with David Boehmer of Heidrick & Struggles – Part 2
This is part two of a two part interview with David Boehmer, Regional Managing Partner of the Financial Services Practice for Europe and Africa at Heidrick & Struggles. He is based in London. (Part...
View ArticleIntroducing FinTech Sandbox
FinTech Sandbox is a new non-profit focused on giving early-stage financial services and FinTech entrepreneurs access to financial data for product development and testing. While it is based in Boston,...
View ArticleWho is Marie Quantier?
Few FinTech founders will name-drop Marx, Sartre, Keynes, Plato and Piketty in a single blog post. Mathieu Hamel, co-founder and CEO of Marie Quantier, is one of them. Hamel is on a mission to disrupt...
View ArticleBoston FinTech Meetup May Demo Night
The Boston FinTech Meetup group held a demo night earlier this week, with four companies presenting to a standing room only audience at Workbar in Central Square, Cambridge. Here’s a rundown of the...
View ArticleInsPeer: The First French P2P Insurance Platform
InsPeer is an innovative web-based service enabling users to reduce their auto, motorcycle, and homeowners insurance premiums by raising their deductibles and laying off their increased risk on people...
View ArticleFocus of 2015 3D FinTech Challenge Is On Compliance
The third annual 3D FinTech Challenge will be held from September 16th to November 4th, 2015. The challenge is a seven week acceleration program for promising FinTech startups run by French software...
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CFSI’s Sarah Gordon on Seeding Innovation for Financial Health
Since 2004, the nonprofit Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) has been on a mission to improve the financial health of all Americans. With funding provided by the Ford Foundation (a...
View ArticleCardinal Wind Rebrands as EverVest
The ability to secure financing is critical to the successful deployment of renewable energy projects. In project finance, lending decisions are usually based solely on a specific project’s risks and...
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Discussing Innovation with Brendan Bradley of Eurex
Publicly-traded Deutsche Boerse Group (“DBG”), with headquarters in Frankfurt, is a leading global operators of exchanges, including the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Its services include equities and...
View ArticleQ&A with John Stewart of RBS Solutions
As you undoubtedly know, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is a UK-based banking and financial services company, with its headquarters in Edinburgh. RBS provides a wide range of products and services to...
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L’Union des Plus Belles Fintech Françaises
Formed in June of last year, France Fintech is an association of FinTech startups founded to raise the visibility of the sector and to speak in a coordinated manner to key audiences: regulators,...
View ArticleGreater Boston FinTech Funding – 2015 in Review
There are about 100 FinTech firms that I am aware of in Greater Boston, which by my definition runs from Portland to Providence and as far west as Worcester. Twenty two found funding in 2015. Fifteen...
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Q&A with Jay Reinemann of Propel Venture Partners
Earlier this year, Spanish bank BBVA shut down its in-house venture arm, BBVA Ventures, and placed the portfolio, the cash remaining from the original $100 million allocation, and an additional $150...
View ArticleA Couple of Notes on Greater Boston FinTech in 1st Half 2016
Greater Boston FinTech startups got off to a good start in 2016 on the funding front. Twelve firms raised more than $153 million in the first six months of the year, led by Circle, which raised $60...
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Q&A with Tom Hutton of InsurTech Investors XL Innovate
XL Group is a global insurance company with both insurance and reinsurance operations. Operating primarily under the XL Catlin brand since the 2015 acquisition of Catlin Group Limited, the company...
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Founder Interview: Alexandre Gaillard of InvestGlass
Founded in 2014, InvestGlass is a Swiss-based, white-labeled, client and prospect management platform for private bankers and wealth managers. The platform is designed to facilitate more efficient...
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Interview with Tom Ryan of Anthemis Group
Anthemis Group, founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, is “focused on re-inventing financial services for the 21st century.” It’s an important firm within the FinTech ecosystem, but a little hard...
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