Category: Fintech

Chatsworth shares the talking points from the PAY360 conference; the key trends in the payments space and what’s next for the industry.

The Chancellor’s latest budget received a mixed response from the public and the fintech sector.

Barcelona-based fintech, Neo, appointed Chatsworth to help the team tell its unique FX story to a professional treasury audience, supporting global customer acquisition as the business expands globally.

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) recently published research on the resiliency and growth of the global fintech industry. It reveals both triumphs and tribulations as firms navigate a complex landscape of economic shifts, regulatory nuances, and technological advancements.

Just a week after payments fintech DailyPay announced a £24m investment in Belfast, Ireland’s fintech community came together in Belfast’s historic City Hall for The Fintech Corridor’s first ever Fintech Focus NI event.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of fintech events each year, making it more challenging to prioritise. Team Chatsworth gives you a head start with our list of the top fintechs events in 2024.

With an eye on the upcoming general election next year, this week the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, delivered his Autumn Statement for 2023. The statement set out the economic forecasts published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and the government’s fiscal priorities heading into 2024.

It’s always darkest before the dawn, or so the saying goes. And tech does seem, how can I put this best? To be having “a bit of a moment”.

Efforts to enact a new ‘Smart Data’ bill in the UK are finally underway and could be just the rocket fuel fintechs need to help them reach new heights of innovation and interoperability.

Identifying the threats, developing the strategy, drafting the messaging and mitigating the risks to protect your reputation.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) blasted into the mainstream in 2023, with some declaring its advances as the next big technological revolution with generative tools such as ChatGPT by Microsoft and Bard by Google taking over the internet.

Chatsworth client Neo has made huge strides over the past couple of years and has now cleared more than €10 billion through its corporate multi-currency accounts.

Funding into UK fintech has experienced a well-documented drop over the course of 2023 as cautious investors grapple with high interest rates and an uncertain economic outlook.

Day one of Fintech Week London got off to an ominous start when my black cab driver’s card machine froze, and I had to pay with cash. “Technology is great when it works,” he quipped.

Chatsworth’s Belfast team attended Digital DNA Belfast last week in the iconic St George’s Market. We met up with key influencers in the local tech ecosystem to explore the future of tech in the city and beyond.

In his first Spring Statement since becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt laid out his plans to ensure the UK is “the best place in Europe for companies to locate, invest and grow”.

Just fresh from an excellent update briefing on the Silicon Valley Bank situation, pulled together by Janine Hirt and the team at Innovate Finance and Hogan Lovells

Back in 2020, the Chancellor asked Ron Kalifa OBE to conduct an independent review to identify priority areas to support the UK’s fintech sector.

Describing 2022 as turbulent is a bit of an understatement. Geopolitical tensions boiled over, volatility returned with a vengeance, the great tech layoff left 200,000+ jobless, inflation exploded, investment fell off a cliff – the list goes on. It can’t get any worse, can it?

Business development and marketing teams are planning for the 12 months ahead and a big part of any sales strategy (and budget!) is events.

Hot off the heels of last week’s Sibos conference in Amsterdam, the fintech industry’s attention swiftly shifts to the other side of the pond this week for Money 20/20 USA. Against the backdrop of a particularly challenging and eventful year in finance, what are we likely to see dominating the agenda at this year’s show?

Bill Harris, founding CEO of Nirvana Money and formerly founding CEO of PayPal and Personal Capital, recently wrote an opinion article in the Financial Times on how fintechs have made consumers’ lives unnecessarily complicated.

Just over a year after the UN dubbed climate change a “code red” emergency for humanity, the effects of global warming are being felt acutely across the globe.

Backed by the London Stock Exchange, industry group Fintech Week London (FTWL) has announced a new review of the fintech funding landscape. Here we discuss what this means for the sector moving forwards and how fintech is adapting to inflationary pressures.

R3 was one of a roster of fintechs that contributed to the Kalifa review – a set of recommendations outlined for the UK’s fintech community to grow and flourish in the years ahead. R3’s Managing Director, Charley Cooper, shares the recommendations that R3 put to Ron Kalifa, which helped shape the outcome of the review.