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 the …
Category: FinTech
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, its mission is to promote entrepreneurship …
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 one in here: http://j.mp/1CvlIiX.) …
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 …
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 roughly $86 million in 2013. But, …
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 next era of …
The Boston FinTech Meetup group held its second demo night Tuesday, with six companies presenting to a standing room only audience at the IBM Innovation Center in Kendall Square. Here’s a rundown of the presenters, in …
Every week seems to bring the announcement of another accelerator for financial technology startups. But I was particularly interested to read that French software company Dassault Systemes will sponsor a FinTech accelerator in London later this year. …
A few years after graduation, former college roommates Greg Ugwi and Justin Zhen found themselves on Wall Street, building financial models for an investment bank and a hedge fund, respectively. They grew certain there had to …
In lieu of a post this morning, I offer you a link to my thoughts on what is needed to move the Boston FinTech community forward, as published in the Boston Business Journal. …