So the FinTech50 were announced last night. These are the 50 most innovative fintech start-ups, as voted for by a panel that included yours truly.
The process is quite rigorous with the organisers - Julie Lake and Nicky Cotter - bringing together over 700 global contenders for a range of specialist panels to review. The panels comprise those focused upon payments, retail banking, capital markets, insurance and so on. These panels select around 20-30 companies to go forward to a final review, at which point the final 50 are selected.
The results were announced last night at a star-studded (?) affair in the City, so here are the 50 companies that are viewed as the best FinTech leaders 2015:
- Adyen
- Algomi
- BehavioSec
- Blockchain
- BUX
- Byhiras
- Calastone
- Commuter Club
- Credit Benchmark
- Crowdcube
- Currency Cloud
- Cybertill
- Darwinex
- Duedil
- Earthport
- Ebury
- eToro
- ETRONIKA
- Fidor Group
- Five Degrees
- Fund Apps
- Funding Circle
- GoCardless
- Guidants
- Holvi
- insly
- Invoice Sharing
- Ixaris
- Klarna
- Kreditech
- LendInvest
- Mambu
- mBank with efigence
- Merit Software
- Nutmeg
- OpenGamma
- Osper
- Parmenion Capital Partners
- Squirrel
- Stockomendation
- Sybenetix
- Symetrics
- Synerscope
- Tink
- TransferWise
- Traxpay
- Trunomi
- Trustly
- Wora Pay
- Zooz
The selection panel included:
- Alex Batlin, UBS
- Alex MacPherson, Octopus Ventures
- Alex McCracken , Silicon Valley Bank
- Andrew Vorster
- Christian Erlandson, Dun & Bradstreet
- Conny Dorrestijn, Shiraz Partners
- Dave Birch , Consult Hyperion
- Debu Purkayastha, Octopus Ventures
- Eddie Harding, ICON Corporate Finance
- Fearghus Barkley, FinTech50 Research
- Gareth Lodge , Celent
- Ian Morgan , Google
- James Cameron , Accel Partners
- James Le Broq, Ensygnia
- John Chaplin, Ixaris
- Jon Barrett , Silicon Valley Bank
- Julie Lake , The FInTech50 / FinTechCity
- Nasir Zubairi, FinLeap
- Nicky Cotter, The FinTech50 / ICON
- Richard Peers, Microsoft
- Roy Vella, V2 Ltd
- Santiago Tenorio, American Express
- Travers Clarke-Walker, Fiserv
You can find out more and the full report at FinTech City and you can see these companies live in action at Finovate Europe next month (get a 20% discount by entering 'FSClub20' when registering).
Chris M Skinner
Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through his blog, TheFinanser.com, as author of the bestselling book Digital Bank, and Chair of the European networking forum the Financial Services Club. He has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand (as well as one of the best blogs), a FinTech Titan (Next Bank), one of the Fintech Leaders you need to follow (City AM, Deluxe and Jax Finance), as well as one of the Top 40 most influential people in financial technology by the Wall Street Journal's Financial News. To learn more click here...
