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Stuart Sherman at FinTech North

Stuart Sherman is the founder of IMC, a Toronto-based company that helps organisations and institutions to re-examine how they approach software solutions. In April, Stuart flew in from Toronto to share his expertise and opinions on the topic of machine learning with the FinTech North audience. During his speech, he incorporated audience participation, explained machine […]...
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Presenting Platforms in Minsk

Following his visit to Lithuania and appearance at the 6th ECN Crowdfunding Conference, our founder and Managing Director, Daniel Rajkumar, will be speaking at the CrowdConference in Minsk. Scheduled to take place on the 20th and 21st of this month in the Belarusian capital, the event is the third international conference of its kind. The […]...
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FinTech North September Seminar

Yesterday members of the financial technology industry in the north of England gathered at the soon-to-be-opened Platform in Leeds for a FinTech North Seminar. There were over 120 participants and attendees, all given a warm welcome by co-hosts FinTech North and Leeds City Council. The focus of the event was driving FinTech growth in the […]...
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Daniel Rajkumar to Speak at Crowdfunding Convention

WLCF founder and Managing Director, Daniel Rajkumar, will speak at next month’s 6th ECN Crowdfunding Convention in Lithuania. The event, which will focus on New Technologies for Accessing Finance, is scheduled to take place at the Sapiegos Tech Park in Vilnius on the 19th and 20th October. The European Crowdfunding Network was founded in 2011 with […]...
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Upcoming FinTech North Seminar

FinTech North, in partnership with Leeds City Council, is delighted to announce a breakfast seminar and networking event, FinTech North @ Platform, which will take place in Leeds on the morning of Thursday 28th September. The event will begin at 8:30am with breakfast, and the panel discussion will start half an hour later, scheduled to finish […]...
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Spotlight On: TRINE

Africa has recently been in focus in FinTech. It has been widely reported that the industry is expanding across various regions throughout the continent. A recent Disrupt Africa report cited over 300 FinTech startups active in Africa; April saw Johannesburg host the inaugural FinTech Academy Africa; and the Africa and Middle East Alternative Finance Benchmarking […]...
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LENDonate Launches gofundme Campaign

Last year, we worked with Founder and now CEO Vivienne Hsu to launch LENDonate, a San Francisco based philanthropic platform designed to unite nonprofit organisations with investors. The site completed its first loan in November 2016, and continues to help nonprofits with big goals find the financial investments they need. As Vivienne comments during her […]...
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The Spanish FinTech Landscape

The FinTech industry is growing on a worldwide scale. Some countries are seeing more progress than others, with the United Kingdom, USA, Germany and China widely recognised as four of the sector’s forerunners. On a European level, recent events have created the potential for a change in the FinTech landscape and have a peek at […]...
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The £10 Billion P2P Lending Mark

Independent P2P data and analysis specialists Orca Money recently published a press release in celebration of an impressive industry milestone. Since the launch of the world’s first P2P platform, Zopa, in 2005, a staggering £10 billion has been collectively lent across all 23 platforms in existence. This includes WLCF creation, rebuildingsociety.com. Over the past 12 […]...
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