Fintech
-
We expect fintech businesses to take longer than some traditional startups to reach profitability. They prioritise reinvestment in order to scale as their business models often rely on volume in order to achieve profitability. Financial services is a heavily regulated industry with a large legacy technology and transactional infrastructure. Both these challenges need to be…
-
Recruitment into fintech, as a result, is soaring. Where the total amounts of jobs being created in the sector are still small compared to banking, the rate of growth is significant. For context, the sector created 61% more vacancies in 2018 compared to 2017, making it the fastest growing sector in the UK economy. The…
-
Over the past year, insurtech matured significantly as a sector, with insurtech companies attracting larger and larger funding rounds globally. On a global level, there were 13 insurtech deals over $100 million during 2018, including a $375 million raised by Oscar Health Insurance in the US and $200 million raised by PolicyBazaar in India. Insurtech…