Fintech News: Issue 4

30 Mar 2015

While London's fintech ecosystem dominates, start-ups and investors in other cities are starting to make more noise. FN has profiled some of the fintech hotspots in Europe

  • Stockholm: A future building on history

    Folding his 6ft 7in frame into a small office chair at the headquarters of iZettle on Kungsgatan in central Stockholm, Jacob de Geer takes issue with the notion that start-ups have mushroomed in the city overnight.

  • Zurich: Cool reception in the banking hot spot

    A short walk down the Bahnhofstrasse, the arterial road that snakes southward from Zurich’s main train station to the eponymous lake that the city is built around, allows for a brief-but-telling glimpse of the city.

  • Putting Paris on the wider fintech map

    Last spring, Julien Hazan and James Nacass were working on the launch of their Paris-based trading start-up MoneyPush when they began to wonder how many other start-ups in the French capital were, like them, on a quest to reinvent finance.

  • Milan: A slow start in a nation of savers

    Last February, Europe’s fintech crowd gathered in London for Finovate, an annual showcase of some of the best and brightest start-ups in the financial technology sector. Only one out of 72 was from Italy.

  • Tel Aviv: Upstarts challenge status quo

    Israel has a strong reputation as a technology centre but it lacks the large financial institutions of London, New York or Frankfurt. Undaunted, local entrepreneurs are launching companies and trying to create a fintech hub.

  • London: You’ve read about the rest, now read about the best

    There are, undoubtedly, many cities in Europe that are excellent places to start a fintech company. But there can be no dispute: none is better than London.

  • Q&A with Fabian Vandenreydt, Innotribe: Innovation, networking and the need to be unique

    Find a unique selling proposition and import talent…these are just two of the recommendation for cities aiming to compete with London as fintech hub, says Fabian Vandenreydt, head of markets management, Innotribe and the Swift Institute.

  • Landmark deal puts Amsterdam in spotlight for fintech

    A single investment round for one company has catapulted Amsterdam into the spotlight for fintech.

  • Berlin: Who needs banks?

    Berlin fintech start-up Number26 is named after the number of cubes that make up a Rubik’s cube. Only by coincidence does it reside at Unter den Linden 26.

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