Innovate Finance, an industry body established to promote the interests of the UK’s fintech sector, has launched in London.
Innovate Finance aims to directly support technology-led financial services innovators – whether startups or established industry players, which work to improve every aspect of banking, finance and commerce.
The organisation launches with over 50 founding members (refer to Editor’s Notes below for details).
Supported by the City of London Corporation, as lead sponsor and The Canary Wharf Group plc as a founding sponsor committing funding, office and events space, the body will provide a point of access to industry influencers, clients, technologies, talent, finance and international marketplaces.
Led by CEO Claire Cockerton, with a Board of Directors that includes Nick Hungerford of Nutmeg (read here our recent interview), Justin Fitzpatrick of DueDil, and Alastair Lukies of Monitise Plc, who will serve as Non-Executive Chairman.
The founding member companies are:
1 Aviva
2 Azimo
3 Bankable
4 Barclays
5 Closir
6 Coinfloor
7 Contego
8 Crowdcube
9 Crowdbnk
10 CrowdShed
11 Currency Cloud
12 Derivitec
13 Digital Shadows
14 Duedil
15 Elliptic
16 Essentia Analytics
17 eToro
18 Fleximize
19 GamBond®
20 GoCoin
21 HSBC
22 IBM
23 IWOCA
24 Lending Works
25 LendInvest
26 Lloyds
27 MasterCard
28 Meniga
29 Microexchanges
30 miiCard
31 Money Mover
32 Monitise
33 Nutmeg
34 OnTrees
35 OpenFin
36 Percentile
37 Ratesetter
38 RBS
39 S&P Capital IQ
40 Santander
41 Silicon Valley Bank
42 Swift
43 Syndicate Room
44 Telefónica
45 TradeRiver Finance Ltd
46 TransferGo
47 Transferwise
48 Trillion Fund
49 Urica
50 Utilidex
51 Visa
52 Xcordis
53 Yoyo
FinSMEs
06/08/2014