64 Results from 2015, /startups
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Injury or subpar performance are risk factors that the professional sports industry spends many millions of pounds/ dollars trying to mitigate. Professional sports teams are starting to use commercially available wearables or their professional versions to monitor not only performance, but the potential for injury, recovery times and lifestyle fac...
08 June 2015 /startups
Banks and financial institutions continue to look at ways to square the circle when it comes to the digital delivery of financial services and enabling a true customer experience in the new digital world. A number of institutions – Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, UBS, Santander, JPMorgan and HSBC to name a few – have carved out dedicated in...
05 June 2015 /retail /startups
“When people come together with a common purpose anything is possible. Entrepreneurs are becoming increasingly empowered and the businesses they’re building have already torn down and transformed entire industries and you under estimate them at your peril.” Last week a crowd of individuals came together to lift a double decker bus off of a trap...
01 June 2015 /wholesale /startups
For anyone starting or joining a startup you need to understand something important. Entrepreneurs, like all creative people, are pure petrol*. Extracting, refining, and transporting petrol is complex, costly, sensitive, time consuming to get right. Even once it’s ready to pump, petrol is delicate and dangerous. Throw it about, it’ll evaporate. Lea...
28 May 2015 /startups
“Banks were once the corner stone of the community but today their industry is being disrupted and disintermediated. Despite spending over £200 Billion on business transformation last year alone their industry is facing a Cultural Shift which will be more damaging than anything else they’re facing.” Over the past two weeks I’ve talked to a numbe...
27 May 2015 /retail /startups
London is often considered to be the world’s ‘fintech hotspot’, with more than three quarters of London’s financial tech community claiming the city is a better incubator than other global tech hubs, such as Silicon Valley. Every day new companies make a debut on London’s fintech scene and almost half of the FinTech50 come from the capital. But as...
27 May 2015 /startups
Ever since FinTech found life outside of Silicon Valley, it was only a matter of time before London established itself as the most desirable location for FinTech growth. The UK capital received $539 million in venture capital investment in 2014, three times the amount raised in 2013 and accounting for over a half of all FinTech investments across ...
14 May 2015 /startups
SMEs are the backbone of the British economy. There are over 5 million of these ventures in the UK right now, and they are in great rip-roaring health. The banking big four handle the majority of SMEs funding needs. 85% of SMEs finance comes from them. That’s a pretty huge stat, and shows the limitation of current choice for SMEs. So what are SMEs...
07 May 2015 /startups
As the elections loom large and the party leaders are, as we speak, on some campaign bus or another, covering large swathes of the British Isles in the desperate bid to win over last minute voters, how are financial services companies feeling about the outcome? With this one likely to be “the most interesting” we’ve seen since the 1974 elections, ...
06 May 2015 /retail /startups
The total number of UK charitable donations made by Direct Debit rose to a record breaking 60 million in 2014, according to data from Bacs Payment Schemes, with values exceeding £1.21 billion, a rise of 4.1%. The study found that a number of charitable sectors benefited from Direct Debit in the last year, with the greatest beneficiaries being th...
21 April 2015 /payments /startups
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